The Digital Life Project directed by Duncan Irschick, biology, has partnered with the marine science nonprofit ANGARI Foundation and underwater camera pioneer Casey Sapp for a research expedition to Bimini, The Bahamas, to create an accurate 3D model of a great hammerhead shark to share with scientists, educators and storytellers.

The University of Massachusetts Amherst is a launch partner for The Collective Think Tank, a global consortium of some of today’s greatest academic minds and industry leaders focused on gender parity and improving diversity. A first of its kind, this group will share data, insights and information to promote more opportunity for women to succeed in sports.

John Gibbons, food science, this month begins the search for Fungal Domestication Syndrome, supported by a five-year, $729,900 National Science Foundation (NSF) faculty early development (CAREER) grant.

Corine Tachtiris, assistant professor of comparative literature, was elected to the board of the American Literary Translators Association (ALTA) for a three-year term. ALTA is a non-profit, inde­pendent, arts membership association dedi­cated to supporting the work of literary translators and advancing the art of literary translation.