Bringing research to the public

Michael Knodler (pictured above), 2019 PEP Fellow, PEP Leadership Team member, and Director for the UMass Amherst Transportation Center (UMTC), presenting at the state-of-the-art aviation research and training center officially opened at Westover Municipal Airport in Chicopee on April 26, 2022.

We have a role in making the world a better place. Public Engagement Project (PEP) is a community of scholars that promotes research and expertise for the common good across public domains. We support and train scholars in public engagement through our workshops and fellowship program.

Spotlight

Jamie Rowen (2020 PEP Fellow) regularly contributes across public engagement mediums to political commentary on constitutional limits, executive orders, and more.

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The PEP community actively engages in today’s debates and conversations about the state of the world to make it a better place.

Rebecca Spencer
2017 PEP Fellow
Rebecca Spencer
Dr. Spencer emphasizes the dangers of inaccurate decision-making as a result of too few hours of sleep. She states that “the more days in a row that you go through the sleep restriction, the more it amplifies the deficits in reaction time or the deficits in decision making and the deficits in memory.”
Rebecca Spencer
Amanda Paluch
2023 PEP Fellow
Amanda Paluch
Dr. Paluch has her research quoted in an article about cognitive decline and physical activity. Her previous research shows that older adults had a lower risk of dying from multiple causes if they got roughly 6,000 steps per day.
Amanda Paluch
Stephen Sireci
2016 PEP Fellow
Stephen G. Sireci
Dr. Sireci was recently featured on WHMP radio to talk about the field of educational measurements and what types of tests make sense for specific outcomes.
Stephen G. Sireci

In appreciation of their generous support, the UMass Public Engagement Project would like to thank the Office of the Provost, University Relations, and the Colleges of Natural Sciences, Social and Behavioral Sciences, Humanities and Fine Arts, Engineering, Public Health and Health Sciences, and Education. The UMass Public Engagement Project also recognizes and appreciates in-kind contributions and collaborations with the Center for Research on Families and the Institute for Social Science Research.