The UMass Amherst Libraries are pleased to announce the winners of the 2021 Undergraduate Sustainability Award. 

AMHERST Mass. – Scientists have long sought to invent materials that can respond to the external world in predictable, self-regulating ways.

AMHERST, Mass. – Distinguished Professor of Economics Léonce Ndikumana, considered by many to be one of the best-known and most widely respected African macroeconomists of his generation, has been named a 2021 Andrew Carnegie Fellow by the Carnegie Corporation of New York. Ndikumana is the first University of Massachusetts Amherst faculty member to receive the honor.

AMHERST, Mass. – University of Massachusetts Amherst Chancellor Kumble R. Subbaswamy has been elected as a new member of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences. He joins a distinguished roster of esteemed figures in the arts and sciences, business, philanthropy and public affairs honored by the prestigious academy for their leadership and dedication to excellence.

Gov. Charlie Baker and Lt. Gov.

Apic Bio, a gene therapy company developing treatment options for patients with rare genetic diseases and co-founded by UMass Medical School’s Robert H. Brown Jr., DPhil, MD, announced that the FDA has cleared its investigational new drug (IND) application for APB-102, a gene therapy candidate designed to treat a common cause of familial amyotrophic lateral sclerosis.

UMass Medical School will invest David McManus, MD, and Brian Lewis, PhD, into endowed chairs. The University of Massachusetts Board of Trustees voted at its April meeting to approve naming Dr. McManus, chair and professor of medicine, to the Richard M. Haidack Professorship in Medicine, and Dr. Lewis, professor of molecular, cell & cancer biology, to the George F. Booth Chair in the Basic Sciences.

A conversation that started on Twitter between a UMass Medical School researcher and a State University of New York medical student has led to a year-long mentorship, published research and an award from the Dermatology Foundation.

Massachusetts residents ages 16 and older are eligible to receive a COVID-19 vaccine as of Monday, April 19, which Gov. Charlie Baker calls a significant milestone in the commonwealth’s mission to vaccinate residents and bring the pandemic to a close.