News

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

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

HFA and Team Positive Presence teamed up to share uplifting news, highlight student stories, and bring positivity to the South College community.

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.

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.

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

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

Senior Anna Broyard and sophomore Rachel Martin were recognized as this year’s Five College Prose and Poetry Prize winners.

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