Thanks to a $1.95 million grant from the Air Force Office of Scientific Research, Markos Katsoulakis and Luc Rey-Bellet, both professors in the mathematics and statistics department at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, and 

Animal science, economics, and legal studies are just a few of the interests of the five University of Massachusetts Amherst students selected to receive the first Abraham Bohn Scholarships for Children of Veterans.

AMHERST, Mass. – Kalpen Trivedi, the vice provost for global affairs and director of the International Programs Office at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, has been named Senior International Officer of the Year by the Institute of International Education (IIE). Trivedi was honored during a virtual ceremony today attended by Chancellor Kumble Subbaswamy and Provost John McCarthy.

EAST WAREHAM, Mass. – A $7.75 million project to expand and modernize the UMass Amherst Cranberry Station, an important research facility for the commonwealth’s cranberry industry, was celebrated today with a construction celebration event at the station in East Wareham, Mass. While the coronavirus pandemic delayed the start of construction, work is now under way on the facility with a targeted completion date of August 2022.

AMHERST, Mass. – The University of Massachusetts Amherst honored its deep roots in the performing and fine arts today at a ceremony celebrating the renaming of the Fine Arts Center building and its main stage. The building has been named the Randolph W. Bromery Center for the Arts in honor of the university’s first Black chancellor. The Bromery Center’s 1,800-seat concert hall, meanwhile, was renamed in honor of Frederick C. Tillis, a celebrated composer, poet, music educator, and arts administrator at the university, who died in 2020.

The days are getting shorter, but a busy stretch of campus is staying well-lit at night, thanks to the installation of new solar-powered streetlights.

Lawrence Madoff, MD, has received the 2021 D.A. Henderson Award for Outstanding Contributions to Public Health. Established by the Infectious Diseases Society of America in 2017, the award recognizes a lifetime of achievement in public health in honor of Dr. Henderson, who led the successful eradication of smallpox.

On Thursday, Oct. 14, at the UMass Chan Medical School virtual event, Quinsigamond Community College President Luis Pedraja, PhD, brought Hispanic Heritage Month to a close with his talk, “The Other Pandemic: Systemic Racism and the Latinx Community.” Dr. Pedraja said the lack of access to quality health care, education and resources has long been a barrier to the well-being of Hispanic-Americans, prior to the COVID-19 pandemic.