Awards

Joel Arce ’26PhD was selected to receive the 2026 Antonia Pantoja Award by the Latino Scholarship Fund of Western Massachusetts. 

Elizabeth Broderick '26 is one of eleven seniors to receive the UMass Amherst Alumni Association's Senior Leadership Awards.

Justin Coles won two major awards at the American Educational Research Association (AERA) annual convention, held in Los Angeles, California.

Festus Cobena Ainoo, a master's student in higher education, received two awards at the 2026 ACPA–College Student Educators International conference.

Faculty members Torrey Trust and Robert W. Maloy, and education doctoral student Chenyang Xu, received an outstanding paper award at the STE National Conference

The College of Education has announced the recipients of the college's Outstanding Teaching Award and Outstanding Staff Award.

UMass Amherst College of Education alumna Charmaine Wijeyesinghe ‘92EdD has received the Suzan Shown Harjo Advocate for Systemic Social Change Award from NCORE.

CASE has named its highest research honor after Professor Mary Lynn Boscardin.

Dr. Katrina Calhoun and Lecturer Miranda Wang-Doyle were recently awarded with UMass’ 2025-26 Mutual Mentoring Grants.

Pat Griffin, Professor Emerita in Social Justice Education at the University of Massachusetts, will be inducted into the 2025 LGBTQ Sports Hall of Fame.

Dr. Maria José Botelho recently ​​earned the 2024-2025 Five College Building Academic Leaders in the Humanities Advanced Track Fellowship. 

UMass alumni Dr. Linda Cook has been named the 2025 recipient of the E. F. Lindquist Award by the American Educational Research Association (AERA). Presented in