Margaret Hersey, a master’s student in the secondary teacher education program in the College of Education, has been recognized as a Milken Educator Award winner. An English/language arts teacher at Springfield Honors Academy, Hersey is being recognized for her innovative and creative student-centered teaching practices.
The Isenberg School of Management at UMass Amherst reminds Ware students that they are eligible for the Charles P. McQuaid scholarship, which will cover approximately 70% of in-state tuition and fees. One new scholarship is awarded yearly for incoming students from Ware and its surrounding communities.
Alumnus Marcos A. Reyes-Martinez, a materials research engineer at the National Institute of Standards and Technology, was honored by the U.S. Department of Commerce for Hispanic Heritage Month in October.
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.”
Acclaimed poet, Pulitzer Prize winner, Guggenheim Fellow and 19th Poet Laureate of the United States (2012-14) Natasha Trethewey will deliver the English department's annual Troy Lecture on Thursday, Oct. 3 at 4:30 p.m. in Bowker Auditorium.
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.
“Fielding: Goldenrod, An Exploration of Connections,” curated by Emily Tareila, a 2019 master of fine arts graduate, is the first pop-up exhibition organized by the University Museum of Contemporary Art and the Natural History Collections.
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.
College of Information and Computer Sciences alum Daniel Bernstein, professor Shlomo Zilberstein and professor Neil Immerman were selected to receive the 2019 Influential Paper Award in Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems by the International Foundation for Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems.
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.
