BOSTON - Heather Makrez Allen, Ph.D., UMass Lowell’s executive director of alumni and donor relations, has been awarded the 2024 Roy J. Zuckerberg Endowed Leadership Award in recognition of her extraordinary contributions to women’s leadership programming at the university.

BOSTON – Five exceptional University of Massachusetts faculty today were awarded the 2024 Manning Prize for Excellence in Teaching, an annual $10,000 stipend given to one faculty member from each campus in recognition of exemplary teaching and commitment to students and their campus community.