SPHHS Teams Receive Mutual Mentoring Team Grants

Community

The Office of Faculty Development (OFD) has announced the awarding of 14 grants to faculty and librarians leading mutual mentoring projects in 2025-26, including two teams featuring SPHHS faculty members.

The Mutual Mentoring Grant Program aims to help faculty and librarians to develop and deepen their mentoring networks and community, and to grow as researchers, teachers and leaders in their fields. This year’s cohort involves faculty members from a variety of career stages and from all parts of campus, including nine colleges and schools.

The projects take on a wide range of challenges, including research and networking for faculty of color, parenting, improving faculty clinical competency, mentoring junior faculty, translational research and public engagement, developing interdisciplinary and cross-institutional relationships, and many others.

“We are thrilled to deliver this year’s grants to an impressive, passionate and dedicated group of people,” says Associate Provost for Faculty Development Angela de Oliveira. “OFD is excited to empower these individuals and teams, both for their own professional development and for the positive impact they will make on campus. Mutual mentoring is a powerful way to build community as faculty and librarians move through their careers.”

Oliveira adds that, in the upcoming academic year, OFD will be celebrating 20 years of mutual mentoring on campus. “With projects like these, I’m confident that mutual mentoring will continue to shape the life of the campus and the lives of our faculty for years to come,” she says.

The two teams which include SPHHS faculty are:

Latina Professors Mutual Mentoring for Success at UMass Amherst

Team: Aida Villanueva Montalvo (sociology), Mari Castañeda (Commonwealth Honors College), Sarah Gonzalez-Nahm (nutrition), Verónica Martín Ruiz (marketing)

Creating an Interdisciplinary Network for the Study of Hispanic/Latinx Communities and Their Health Needs

Team: Meghan Armstrong-Abrami (languages, literatures & cultures), Patricia Gubitosi (languages, literatures & cultures), Airín Martínez (health policy and management), Daniel López-Cevallos (community health education)

For the complete list of awardees – including eight team grant recipients and six micro grant recipients, visit the Mutual Mentoring Grants Projects webpage. 

Announcement posted in Community for Faculty , Staff , and Current students