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Press Release
Press Release

BOSTON – Five outstanding University of Massachusetts faculty have been awarded the 2022 Manning Prize for Excellence in Teaching for their exemplary dedication to students and the university. The faculty members — one from each UMass campus — will receive $10,000 awards in recognition of their commitment to academic excellence. 

Student Life, Impact
Students from Mill City Consulting, a venture created in their Internship in Entrepreneurship course, share their ideas to attract more students with Cobblestones owner Scott Plath, left, during a meeting at the restaurant.
Students from Mill City Consulting, a venture created in their Internship in Entrepreneurship course, share their ideas to attract more students with Cobblestones owner Scott Plath, left, during a meetin
Impact
Energy engineering Ph.D. students Benard Tabu, center, and Visal Veng accept an $8,000 S.E.E.D. Fund grant for their Green Fertilizer project while Rist Institute for Sustainability & Energy Executive Director Ruairi O'Mahony looks on at Allen House.
Energy engineering Ph.D. students Benard Tabu, center, and Visal Veng accept an $8,000 S.E.E.D.
Student Life, Impact
MG Xiong sits on top of UMass Boston sign

MG Xiong, originally from Anchorage, Alaska, came to Boston because of its higher education offerings, has been named the Class of 2022 John F. Kennedy Award winner, the highest honor bestowed on a graduating senior at UMass Boston.

Education, Leadership
From left to right: Professors Pratima Prasad, Mark Warren and Laurel Wainwright
Professors Pratima Prasad, Mark Warren and Laurel Wainwright

UMass Boston Chancellor Marcelo Suárez-Orozco has announced this year’s winners of the Chancellor's Awards for Distinguished Scholarship, Teaching, and Service.

Press Release, Research

BOSTON – The five-campus University of Massachusetts system research enterprise grew to $752 million in fiscal year 2021, shattering the previous high of $687 million set only a year earlier, according to the system’s latest annual research report.

Education, Student Life

AMHERST, Mass. – At today’s Undergraduate Commencement at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, U.S. Congressman Jim McGovern called on the Class of 2022 to believe in democracy in today’s perilous times. The chairman of the House Rules Committee, who was one of the last people to evacuate the House when the U.S. Capitol was attacked by a violent mob on Jan. 6, 2021, warned that without such a commitment “it’s no longer safe to assume your right to vote will be around the next time you want to use it.”

Press Release

Today, a new effort was launched to rally support for locating the newly-funded federal Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health (ARPA-H) in Massachusetts.

Education, Student Life
Chancellor Jacquie Moloney, Dr. Ashish Jha and Vice Chancellor Julie Chen share the Commencement stage during the morning undergraduate ceremony.
Chancellor Jacquie Moloney, Dr.
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