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Research to Protect Language Diversity | Evan Owens ’25 Conducts Linguistics Research
Evan Owens

Evan Owens ’25 conducts linguistics research to uncover the inner workings of languages and studies biases people may hold against certain languages or ways of speaking.

April 18, 2025
Carolyn Davies Selected for 2025-26 Lilly Fellowship for Teaching Excellence
Carolyn Davies

Davies will be using her fellowship year to further enhance her pedagogy and work on redesigning her 241 Methods of Inquiry course to make it even more impactful for students. 

April 18, 2025
Mohammad Atari Receives APS Rising Star
Mohammad Atari

The APS Rising Star designation is presented to outstanding APS Members in the earliest stages of their research career post-PhD.

April 18, 2025
Neurodiversity and Disability Studies Summit
student presents research poster

On April 5th, the Developmental Disabilities and Human Services specialization and the Boltwood Project hosted the second annual Neurodiversity and Disability Studies Summit.

April 17, 2025
Americans want to bridge the gaps that divide us, but don’t know how

Linda Tropp, professor of psychology, writes that most Americans want to bridge the gaps that divide us, but don’t know how to do this. Tropp, who contributed to the new report, “The Connection Opportunity: Insights for Bringing Americans Together Across Difference,” writes, “In order to close this connection gap, we need to stop thinking about bridging our divides as a political issue and start thinking about it as a human one.”

April 17, 2025
Winter 2025 Newsletter — Catch up with the latest faculty, student, and alumni news!
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• The Links Between Executive Function, Negative Affect, and Sensation Seeking During Adolescent Substance Use Development
• AI Moral Stereotyping — The Context of Moral Psychology
• The ViTAL Lab Examines Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Young Adult Mental Health
• 2024 Distinguished Alumni Award: Gale Sinatra

February 28, 2025
Digital Equity and Inclusion Week - Spotlight: Sophia Deligiannidis
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The PROPEL (Promoting Research Opportunities for Equity in Learning) mission is to ensure equitable access to academic and research opportunities for all undergraduate students at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. Sophia Deligiannidis, a Psychology and Economics undergraduate student, working on behalf of PROPEL is researching how those with disabilities are impacted by the typical research recruitment environment, and how to avoid any discrimination within the new process that PROPEL is innovating.

February 18, 2025
Nilanjana Dasgupta’s First Book, ‘Change the Wallpaper: Transforming Cultural Patterns to Build More Just Communities,’ Now Available
Nilanjana Dasgupta standing in garden

Offering a science-driven approach to achieving social change, a newly-published debut book by Nilanjana (Buju) Dasgupta, provost professor of psychological and brain sciences in the College of Natural Sciences, argues that small changes to the “wallpaper” – the local cultures around us – are far more effective in producing structural change locally than seeking change through bias awareness training, symbolic acts or relying solely on good intentions.

February 12, 2025
What the U.S. Presidential Election Results Tell Us

Nilanjana Dasgupta writes that the results of the November election show that Americans of different income levels and social classes don’t understand each other. “If we want to change our country for the better, we need to step out of our bubbles and walk into new local spaces where we mix with people who are different from us,” she says. Dasgupta’s just-published book, “Change the Wallpaper: Transforming Cultural Patterns to Build More Just Communities,” addresses this in more detail.

February 12, 2025

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