Faculty
CEE’s Christian Guzman Receives Lilly Fellowship
Guzman will use his fellowship to redevelop a course in groundwater/subsurface hydraulics and deliver groundbreaking engineering themes to upper-level students.
UMass Amherst Appoints CBE’s Wei Fan Provost Professor
This prestigious honor is awarded to tenure-level faculty with the rank of professor who are not already appointed to named or distinguished professorships.
CRF Chooses MIE’s Hari Balasubramanian and BME’s Dmitry Kireev as Family Research Scholars
The Center for Research on Families program mentors UMass faculty through a year-long grant-writing process and creates lasting family-research connections.
Riccio College of Engineering Names MIE’s Meghan Huber and CEE’s Nicholas Tooker as Winners of Its Outstanding Teaching Award
College Outstanding Teaching Awards are presented annually each spring semester and honor excellence in teaching at each UMass Amherst college.
MIE’s Shannon Roberts Completes ELATES Leadership Program
Roberts graduated from Drexel University’s elite Academic Technology, Engineering, and Science Program, a national leadership course for senior faculty.
Kulkarni Inducted into American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering
Membership in the AIMBE College of Fellows among the highest professional distinctions accorded to medical and biological engineers.
Davis Appointed Paros Chair of Atmospheric Research and Hazard Mitigation
Davis has extensive experience in the atmospheric sciences, working to understand and predict the behavior of the atmosphere related to high-impact weather.
Qiangfei Xia Named 2026-2027 Samuel F. Conti Faculty Fellow
The Conti Fellowship recognizes the exceptional quality and significance of a faculty member’s accomplishments in research and creativity at UMass Amherst.
College Names Inaugural Dean's KEEN Faculty Fellows
Fellows will develop cutting-edge resources and pioneering practices that transform their own students, UMass Amherst, and engineering education nationwide
ACI Structural Journal Editorial Board Appoints CEE’s Sergio Breña Its Chair and Editor in Chief
The journal, first published in 1929, focuses on advancing concrete technology and offering networking opportunities for professionals in the concrete industry.
CEE’s John Tobiason Receives Accomplished Mentor Award from Engineers Without Borders
The national award from the Engineers Without Borders honors mentors who guide, motivate, and help transform student members of that organization.
ECE’s Guangyu Xu and Team Report on Pioneering Reconfigurable Silicon Device for Cybersecurity
Dual-gate silicon photodiodes lend themselves to networked edge cryptosystems.