Alicia Timme-Laragy, professor of environmental health sciences in the School of Public Health and Health Sciences, received the 2025 Stephen B. Harris Mid-Career Scientist Award from the Society of Toxicology (SOT) Reproductive and Developmental Toxicology Specialty Section (RDTSS). The award recognizes an active member of the RDTSS for outstanding research and scientific contribution completed since graduate and/or postdoctoral training.
“I am honored to receive this award and deeply appreciate it,” Timme-Laragy says. “This recognition reflects the innovative and high caliber research conducted by our UMass students and postdoctoral trainees that I have had the privilege to mentor.”
Among her many accomplishments, Timme-Laragy is the principal investigator of a five-year, $2.44 million grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to research how embryonic exposure to certain common pollutants may put people at risk for diabetes and other metabolic health conditions later in life.