Three projects proposed by faculty members from the School of Public Health and Health Sciences, College of Nursing and the College of Education have been awarded Public Service Endowment Grants (PSEG) from a special campus fund designed to boost outreach, extend the campus resources into the...
Ezra Markowitz, assistant professor of environmental conservation, has been elected president-elect of the Society for Environmental, Population and Conservation Psychology (SEPCP), Division 34 of the American Psychological Association.
SEPCP members “apply psychological knowledge and...
Paul Dubin, 77, of Northampton, a retired part-time research professor of chemistry, died May 23.
Born in New York City, he graduated from the Bronx High School of Science and City College of New York and received his Ph.D. from Rutgers University. In the early 1970s he was a post-doctoral...
Anne Mochon, 74, of Amherst, professor emerita of art history, died April 28.
After spending time in Germany as a Fulbright Scholar and receiving a Ph.D. from Yale University, she joined the UMass Amherst art department in 1971, where she taught until retiring in 2002.
In 1980 she organized...
Gabriela Weaver is stepping down as vice provost for faculty development and director of the Institute for Teaching Excellence and Faculty Development (TEFD) to focus more time on research in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) education.
The change was announced June 7 by...
The next 10 years will be critical for the future of Antarctica, and choices made will have long-lasting consequences, says an international group of award-winning Antarctic research scientists, including UMass Amherst geoscientist Rob DeConto, in a paper published in the journal Nature.
Ashwin Ramasubramaniam, associate professor of mechanical and industrial engineering, is leading a joint U.S. and Israeli team of researchers looking for inexpensive, large-scale methods of fabrication of electronic and optical devices within single sheets of two-dimensional (2D) materials. The...
The Greenwall Foundation, which promotes bioethics research, has awarded Elizabeth Evans, assistant professor of health promotion and policy at the School of Public Health and Health Sciences, a two-year, $128,164 grant to support her research, “Exploring shared decision-making as an ethical...
Twenty-five summer scholars will join seven international faculty members on the UMass Amherst campus for a Summer Institute for College and University Teachers funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities.
Elizabeth Bertone-Johnson, professor of epidemiology, is the editor of a new book titled “Cursed? Biologic and Cultural Aspects of the Menstrual Cycle and Menstruation.” This collection of essays and original research articles offers a comprehensive perspective of the importance of...
