Careers

Extra Credit
A photographer taking a close-up shot of a purple lilac bloom.
Glimpse

How it’s made

A peek behind the scenes of our spring issue

Spring 2025
Cynthia Shepard Perry seated and looking off to her left

In Memoriam

Honoring a conservationist, a beloved nursing professor, and more

Spring 2025
Elizabeth Chilton smiling while talking to a constituent

Connections

Class Notes and more

Spring 2025
a top down view of UMass basketball players in the 90s under a basketball hoop
Watch

Catching ‘Lightning in a Bottle’

Capturing the ‘rock stars and gods’ of ’90s UMass basketball

Spring 2025
Looking at rocks
Glimpse

What I did last summer: time travel

Cecilia Demolli ’26 shares her experience learning archaeology in Tuscany

Extra Credit
Annette Vadnais poses next to a Lego creation made to look like the W. E. B. DuBois library. She wears a purple sweatshirt and has purple hair.

Purple hair—and she does care

Annette Vadnais ’99 brings fun and color to the library

Spring 2025
Victoria Dawson sitting in front of a pool with swimmers in the water behind her.

Home court advantage

Victoria Dawson ’16 levels the playing field

Spring 2025
Black and white portrait of Chabelli Hernandez seated in front of gray background

Learning has no age

Chabelli Hernandez ’26 shares her message of tenacity as a nontraditional student

Extra Credit
A hand holding an old photo of a student sitting on the stairs outside of the UMass Amherst Fine Arts Center.
Glimpse

A photographer and a scholar

Visiting—and revisiting—the photographs of Arthur Mange

Extra Credit
Cady Coleman on the International Space Station with her son’s stuffed tiger, a view of Earth through the window behind her.
Wow

Above the Glass Ceiling

Astronaut Cady Coleman ’91PhD Blazes Her Own Trail

Fall 2024
An Illustration of four types of snails in an old textbook style

In Memoriam

Honoring researchers, activists, innovators, and more

Fall 2024
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Connections

Class Notes and more