Homecoming 2019 will be celebrated Oct. 24-26 at UMass, with several activities planned for students, alumni, faculty and staff around the theme “Proud & Loud.”

Sharmin Hossain, who earned her Ph.D. in nutrition from the School of Public Health and Health Sciences (SPHHS) in 2018, recently participated in the National Institute on Aging’s Butler-Williams Scholars Program for emerging researchers.

Retired U.S. Air Force Colonel, NASA astronaut and UMass Amherst alumna Catherine “Cady” Coleman unveiled four new Space Exploration stamps in Dublin, Ireland. Celebrating the 50th anniversary of the first moon landing and U.S. astronauts of Irish ancestry, Coleman is one of four astronauts featured on the stamps, along with Neil Armstrong, Michael Collins and Eileen Collins.

UMass alumnus Paul Manning ’77 and his wife, Diane Manning, have committed $1 million through their family foundation to establish the Manning Innovation Program. The program provides three years of support in advancing a robust and sustainable pipeline of applied and translational research projects from UMass Amherst. It will allow the university’s College of Natural Sciences (CNS) to support bold, promising researchers, providing resources for them to innovate in new directions and to develop real-world applications for their discoveries.