NEWTON, Mass. – The University of Massachusetts Amherst and Digital Ready, a Boston-based non-profit, have launched a groundbreaking new living learning lab to give talented, young Black and Latinx students from Boston Public Schools a no-cost head start to a STEM degree from UMass.

The College of Humanities and Fine Arts (HFA) has announced its 2021 College Outstanding Teaching Award recipients, Milan Dragicevich and Pari Riahi. Dragicevich, professor in the department of theater, and Riahi, assistant professor in the department of architecture, are celebrated for exceptional teaching, mentoring, curriculum development efforts and for their impact on students' lives.

AMHERST, Mass. – By ensuring ethnic diversity in a largescale genetic study, an international team of researchers, including a University of Massachusetts Amherst genetic epidemiologist, has identified more regions of the genome linked to type 2 diabetes-related traits.

AMHERST, Mass. – University of Massachusetts Amherst physicist Andrea Pocar is among the international team of scientists recently awarded the European Physical Society’s Giuseppe and Vanna Cocconi Prize.

In partnership with PSI and Cascade Designs, Inc., the University of Massachusetts Amherst is sharing this news release on a new technology project funded by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) to develop a new atmospheric water extraction (AWE) device that can capture clean drinking water from air.

AMHERST, Mass. – As meat-eating continues to increase around the world, food scientists are focusing on ways to create healthier, better-tasting and more sustainable plant-based protein products that mimic meat, fish, milk, cheese and eggs.

As a counseling psychologist, Assistant Professor of Counseling and School Psychology Kerrie Wilkins-Yel knows first-hand how systemic barriers exact a considerable toll on people’s mental health, resulting in decreased motivation, drive, and ability to thrive personally, professionally, and academically.  

Wilkins-Yel has recently been awarded the National Science Foundation CAREER grant for her research titled, “Advancing STEM Persistence among Graduate Women of Color through an Examination of Institutional Contributors and Deterrents to Mental Health”.

The only comprehensive publication on the elected leadership of women of color in Massachusetts demonstrates a growing trend of women of color being elected to seats and in municipalities where women of color have not historically held positions of elected leadership alongside persistent gaps in representation across the Commonwealth.

Maurice Roberson, a veteran and active student government leader, will receive the top undergraduate honor—the John F. Kennedy Award—when he graduates from UMass Boston in May with a bachelor's degree in Africana Studies, and minors in Human Rights and Philosophy and Law.

Anthony C. Martin, who will graduate with a master of science in Critical Ethnic and Community Studies (CECS), has been named the graduate commencement speaker for 2021, the highest university honor for a graduate student.