Stephen J. Cavanagh, dean of the College of Nursing, has been elected to the nominating committee for the American Association of Colleges of Nursing (AACN). AACN establishes standards for nursing education and works to assist its 823 member schools of nursing in implement those standards....
The Office of Equity and Inclusion is accepting applications for the 2019-20 Campus Climate Improvement Grants until March 15. Undergraduates, graduate students, faculty and staff are encouraged to submit their creative ideas for fostering connection on campus in the upcoming academic year....
The Isenberg School of Management has appointed Nefertiti Walker, professor of sport managerment, to the newly created position of associate dean for an Inclusive Organization.
In 2017, Walker was appointed the school’s director of diversity and inclusion. Since beginning her new role in...
Christos Dimitrakopoulos, professor of chemical engineering, is among 66 academic inventors named by the National Academy of Inventors (NAI) to the inaugural class of NAI Senior Members. This inaugural class represents 37 NAI member institutions, including research universities and governmental and...
The campus will conduct a test of the UMass Amherst Alerts Emergency Notification System (ENS) on Tuesday, Feb. 26 after 2:20 p.m., according to Jeff Hescock, executive director of Environmental Health and Safety and Emergency Management.
This test is part of the university’s continuing...
Josephus Olufemi “Femi” Richards, professor emeritus of Afro-American studies, died on Sunday, Feb. 3.
Born on March 17, 1942 in Freetown, Sierra Leone, he moved to the U.S. in 1967.
Before moving to the U.S., he received his bachelor’s degree from Ahmadu Bello University in...
Eric Poehler, associate professor of classics, has received a $245,000 grant from the Getty Foundation to complete a three-year project titled the Pompeii Artistic Landscape Project (PALP), an online resource designed to contextualize detailed descriptions of Pompeii's artwork within its well-...
Laura Bradley, assistant professor of polymer science and engineering, recently was awarded a five-year, $500,000 Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Program grant by the National Science Foundation (NSF) that will support her research on producing soft materials with ordered and oriented...
Developmental psychologist Kirby Deater-Deckard, psychological and brain sciences, is a co-investigator on a recently renewed five-year, $3.7 million grant from the NIH’s National Institute on Drug Abuse to support a research team studying the environmental and neurobiological risk factors...
UMass Center for Data Science professor Benjamin Marlin has received a three-year, $250,000 National Science Foundation grant from its Computer and Information Science and Engineering Community Research Infrastructure program to develop mResearch, a platform for reproducible and extensible research...
