Health New England, a Massachusetts-based non-profit health plan, has awarded a $50,000 grant to Associate Professor of School Psychology, Dr. Sarah Fefer.

Dr. Andrea D. Domingue, an alumna of the Social Justice Education Ph.D. program and current Assistant Dean of Students for Diversity and Inclusion at Davidson College, and Dr. Genia Bettencourt, Postdoctoral Research Associate for the Center for Student Success Research, were both recognized by the American College Personnel Association Foundation. Congratulations Andrea and Genia!

Center for Latin American, Caribbean, and Latino Studies (CLACLS) hosted its Summer 2019 Pre-Dissertation Grant Award Panel where several College of Education recipients presented their findings and participated in a Q & A.

As part of the UMass Amherst Department of Anthropology's 50th anniversary conference, “Engaging Anthropology," Language, Literacy, and Culture (LLC) students Rosa Alejandra Medina Riveros and Emma Britton with faculty members, Dr. Maria José Botelho and Dr. Theresa Austin, presented the panel, "Insights from entanglements in classroom research to journal publication - Learning & Living Ethnographic Lessons on criticality, reflexivity, and positionality."