Awards and Recognitions

Joe Pater, Department of Linguistics Professor and Co-Director of the Computational Phonology Laboratory at UMass Amherst, named 2025 Spotlight Scholar.

Linguist Brian Dillon receives NSF grant to investigate how AI and humans differ in interpreting meaning during language comprehension.

Only UMass Amherst student awarded fellowship in 2025 cohort

Charles Walker-Hoover received a Certificate of Leadership from the NAACP Youth and College Division.

Professor of Linguistics Brian Dillon has been awarded a 2025 Conti Fellowship to pursue research on language processing and AI.

David Fleming has received an Open Education Initiative Grant to expand the Gifts of Speech open educational resource (OER).

Professor Washington will be hosted at Kokugakuin University in Tokyo for the Spring semester 2026.

English major Hannah Gould has been awarded the Chancellor’s Gerald F. Scanlon Student Employee of the Year Award.

Professor Marla Miller has been awarded the St. Botolph Foundation’s 2025 Distinguished Artist Award in historical nonfiction literature.

HFA honors Professors Hogue, Worthy, and Sierra Becerra with the 2024–25 College Outstanding Teaching Award.

David Korins ’99 and Stephen P. Driscoll ’73, ’75 will be honored at the 2025 UMass Amherst Commencement ceremony for their creative and civic leadership.

Young will be inducted into the 245-year-old Academy at a ceremony in Cambridge, Mass. on October 11.