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.

At today’s Undergraduate Commencement at UMass Amherst, Governor Charlie Baker reflected on the journey of his own family and encouraged the Class of 2019 to choose well and embrace challenges.

Lumme, an Amherst-based company led by two recent UMass Amherst doctoral recipients, is among 20 startup companies chosen for The University Innovation and Entrepreneurship Showcase on April 10 in Washington, D.C. The company, founded by Akshaya Shanmugam, chief executive officer; and Abhinav Parate, chief technology officer, is developing an addiction treatment platform that targets smoking, alcohol, diet and other harmful behaviors.