On Wednesday, May 27, from 2:30-4 p.m., the Graduate School will host a webinar on “imposter syndrome” featuring Valerie Young, internationally-known expert, author and UMass alumna.
Impostor syndrome describes the belief that accomplishments (good grades, degrees, tenure, promotions, awards) are largely a function of timing, luck, connections or other external factors. Left unchecked, this fear of being “found out” can undermine academic progress and professional success.
Robert S. Cox, head of Special Collections and University Archives (SCUA) at the UMass Amherst Libraries for the past 16 years, died May 11 after an extended illness. He was 61 years old.
The UMass Chamber Choir, directed by Tony Thornton, has been selected as a National Finalist for this year’s American Prize in Choral Performance in the College and University Division. Thornton also conducts the Illuminati Vocal Arts Ensemble, based in Amherst, which was selected as a Finalist in the Community Division.
Viviana Chiu-Sik Wu, of the School of Public Policy faculty, has received a research grant from the Generosity Commission to study the “philanthropic gap” across the US, with a particular focus on how nonprofits that serve disadvantaged communities are affected. Wu is the project’s principal investigator.
The majority of US states do not have laws that provide adequate healthcare price transparency, according to a new study co-authored by Caterina DiBiase, a 2020 graduate of the School of Public Policy, for the Pioneer Institute.
Isenberg hospitality and tourism management associate professor Melissa Baker was named a “Favorite Business Professor of the Class of 2020” by the business school ranking and analysis website Poets & Quants in May.
The Office of Faculty Development (OFD) and the Associate Provost for Equity and Inclusion are working with partners across campus to coordinate the “Supporting Faculty Resilience Series” (SFRS), a collaborative series of optional summer programming to support faculty resilience in research and writing. The series, running May 26 through June 26, has over 40 programs available with additional programming being planned.
UMass Amherst’s impact in fighting COVID-19 extends to a program backed by the university in Afghanistan. Two graduates from the first cohort of the Biomedical Technology (BMET) associate degree program at Kabul University of Medical Sciences (KUMS) in Afghanistan have been recognized for their efforts to design and construct a low-cost ventilator using locally available materials. Afghanistan has a lack of ventilators address the COVID-19 pandemic.
AMHERST, Mass. – A new study reported this week by evolutionary ecologist Lynn Adler at the University of Massachusetts Amherst and Rebecca Irwin of North Carolina State University, with others, suggests that flower strips – rows of pollinator-friendly flowers planted with crops – offer benefits for common Eastern bumblebee (Bombus impatiens) colony reproduction, but some plants do increase pathogen infection risk.
Graduate students in Jennifer Bender’s Introduction to Environmental Innovation Clinic class have won protection in Massachusetts for the sand lance, a previously unregulated fish. Because of its slender shape, several species of sand lances are referred to as "sand eels," even though they are not related to eels.