The UMass Board of Trustees awarded tenure to a number of UMass Amherst faculty at their April 12, 2023 meeting:

Receiving appointments as tenured professors were:

• Yolanda Covington-Ward, W.E.B. Du Bois Afro-American Studies
• Steve Granick, polymer science
• Patrick Mason, economics
• Matthew William Thomson, marketing
• Charmaine Nelson, history of art and architecture

Receiving appointments as tenured associate professors were:

• Scott D. Niekum, computer science
• Daniel Lopez-Cevallos, health promotion and policy
• Hao Zhang, computer science