Academics

Dr. Hannah Pollin-Galay named Pen Tishkach Chair and Director of the Institute for Holocaust, Genocide, and Memory Studies at UMass Amherst.

HFA celebrates Opportunity Scholars Skylar Broadway Burnett and Hector Martinez, among the first to complete the full arc of the program. 

Evan Owens conducts linguistics research to uncover the workings of languages and studies biases people may hold against certain languages or ways of speaking.

Lindsay Forauer ‘25 marries linguistics and theater research to inform her work as a dialect coach.

Four REPS students earned honors in UMass Amherst’s debut at the prestigious regional Russian Language Olympiada at Harvard. 

Students in Professor Charmaine A. Nelson’s course created illustrated children’s books about slavery in the U.S. and Canada.

We met with students from the History of Art and Architecture program as they explored artworks to include in their student-curated exhibit.

An interdisciplinary panel of judges has selected six winners of the Why Do I Learn Languages Essay Contest.

This fall, first-year student Lily Avina had the wonderful opportunity to participate in the UMass Global Launch program.

Abigail Chabitnoy was recently featured in a Massachusetts Daily Collegian article written by English major Kalana Amarasekara.

Associate Professor Malcolm Sen explores how contemporary Irish writers are pointedly addressing the climate crisis in new Irish Times essay.

This year, UMass Amherst’s Master of Arts in Teaching Latin and Classical Humanities (M.A.T) program is celebrating 50 years of operation.