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Michael Zink
Michael Zink

UMass Amherst professor Michael Zink, electrical and computer engineering, is principal investigator of a new $399,676 National Science Foundation (NSF) grant to extend the university’s cutting-edge computer cluster to be used by scientists from UMass Amherst, UMass Dartmouth and the University of Rhode Island for important calculations in gravitational wave science, metagenomics, earthquake detection and cancer model

Education, Leadership

 

Yahya Modarres-Sadeghi
Yahya Modarres-Sadeghi

Yahya Modarres-Sadeghi, professor in the Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering, has received a Harvard Radcliffe Institute Fellowship for the 2022-23 academic year. 

Press Release

The University of Massachusetts has received a $330,000 grant from the Richard and Susan Smith Family Foundation to support development of a pilot “early college” program that would provide high school students a free one-year head start on earning a college degree. The planning grant builds on a $70,000 feasibility study for the early college program, also funded by the Smith Family Foundation and conducted by UMass over the past year.

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 meeting at the restaurant.
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.

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