As Krishna Kumar finishes his first academic year as the second Gluckstern Professorship in Physics, he reflects that he is glad to be back “to a vibrant physics department” that lured him back to…
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The University of Massachusetts Boston recently selected Quito Swan to be the new director of the William Monroe Trotter Institute for the Study of Black Culture . Swan, who joined UMass Boston…, You started with a BA in computer science. What made you want to switch to African diaspora history?, I love technology, but always had a passion for history. So I went to Howard University, which has an illustrious career and tradition of producing cutting-edge research on the African diaspora. I…, What was your research focus?, I started by looking at the African diaspora in Latin America and the Caribbean. My first dissertation was on social and cultural movements in Bermuda. Later, I learned of a Bermudian environmental…, What else are you excited to do as director of the Trotter Institute?, I'm trying to make a space where we can build our archival communities in the current time. A black Bostonian project that involves all history: helping organizations archive their papers, digitizing…, What would be the kind of message that you would want to send to students who have never heard of this space before?, That they’re part of a broader community. That they can find support, and that there's another on-campus institution that can bring Africana alive beyond just content. I'm still trying to think of…
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A meteorite striking the university’s data center. That’s the kind of disaster for which the link this for IT landing page Information Technology office had a contingency plan. But a global…, ‘Herculean Effort’, By the time Provost Hartman-Joseph Joseph Hartman announced on March 11 that classes would be moving online, preparations were already well underway in the IT department, which manages everything…, Virtual Environment, Another critical component of online learning is vLabs, technology the university introduced in 2013 that allows students to run university-owned software via a virtual desktop on any internet-…
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AMHERST, Mass. – In a new investigation into how applying common privacy algorithms can cause inequities for minority populations and other groups, a team led by Gerome Miklau at the University of…
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Michelle Jurkovich , an assistant professor of political science and affiliated faculty at the McCormack Graduate School of Policy and Global Studies , has recently been named one of twelve Kluge…
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The Office of Faculty Development has awarded Mutual Mentoring Grants to ten teams and four individual faculty for 2020-21. 2020-21 Mutual Mentoring Team Grant Recipients: Bio Learn Mentoring Group…, Kari Loomis, , lecturer, biology A group of biology faculty members expanding their existing learning community by creating focused mentoring groups and offering professional development in STEM education. …, Lisa Chasan-Taber, , professor and chair, biostatistics and epidemiology A mentoring network to support, advance, and retain early-career faculty in biostatistics and epidemiology through a roundtable discussion…, Maryclare Griffin, , assistant professor, mathematics and statistics A support network addressing the unique career challenges junior tenure track women face in mathematics and statistics, including multiple seminars…, Deborah McCutchen, , senior lecturer, associate director for Junior Year Writing (JYW) Program, Haivan Hoang, , associate professor, English, associate director of the Junior Year Writing Program A professional development team aiming to improve members’ respective multimodal junior-year writing courses by…, Mari Castañeda, , incoming dean of Commonwealth Honors College and professor, communication , Jennifer Lundquist, , associate dean of research and faculty development and professor, sociology A group of women full professors from ten disciplinary areas and four colleges meeting monthly for support and advice as…, Jamie Rowen, , associate professor, legal studies and political science Monthly mentoring meetings devoted to topics such as understanding promotion/tenure, developing a support network, excelling at research,…, Caryn Brause, , associate professor, architecture , Carey Clouse, , associate professor, architecture and landscape architecture and regional planning (LARP) The LEAP group will meet to support, strategize, and steer shifting career trajectories, helping individual…, Rachel Green, , assistant professor, comparative literature and Israel/Palestine studies A support group for academic mothers addressing the competing demands of scholarly productivity and home life through a…, Shuang Zhou, , assistant professor, physics A writing group composed of faculty in “soft matter” field with a focus on improving the quality and quantity of grant proposals of all members through open planning,…, Jonathan Hulting-Cohen, , assistant professor, music and dance, saxophone Building professional and musical relationships among faculty in the woodwind area through musical collaboration, round-table discussions, and…, Karen Kurczynski, , associate professor, modern and contemporary art College of Humanities and Fine Arts, history of art and architecture Organizing a faculty seminar with contemporary art historians at Brandeis…, Stephen Paparo, , associate professor, music education, choral conductor College of Humanities and Fine Arts, music and dance Working with professional coach Katie Linder to develop a five-year strategic plan for…, Jonathan Wynn, , associate professor, undergraduate program director, incoming chair College of Social and Behavior Sciences, Sociology Hosting mentoring and scholarship conversations and retreats for current and…, Caroline Yang, , assistant professor, English College of Humanities and Fine Arts, English Establishing a mutual mentorship with Esther Kim Lee of Duke University with the goal of co-editing an anthology on the…
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The UMass ADVANCE team has announced the selection of four new teams for mutual mentoring grants, funded up to $6000 a year, over the 2020-21 year. “We were delighted to receive so many superb…, Manasa Kandula, , physics and , Caitlyn Butler, , civil and environmental engineering; team members include , Anne Gershonen, , biochemistry and molecular biology, , Sarah Perry, , chemical engineering, , Maria Santore, , polymer sciences and engineering, and , Jessica Schiffman, , chemical engineering. The Center for Evolutionary Materials3 Group allows early career scholars, particularly women and underrepresented minorities in STEM disciplines, to build strong networks…, Reika Katsumata, , polymer sciences and engineering, and includes , Laura Bradley, , polymer sciences and engineering; , Alfred Crosby, , polymer sciences and engineering; , Jennifer Green, , polymer sciences and engineering; , Duncan Irschick, , biology; and , David Waldman, , polymer sciences and engineering. A group of College of Natural Science lecturers plans to gather information and develop best practices to ensure that lecturers are engaged in departmental…, Amy Springer, , biochemistry and molecular biology and includes , Laura Francis, , biology, , Alex Shreyer, , ecological conservation, and , Heath Hatch, , physics. The Publish, Not Perish: Mutual Mentoring for Productive Authors in Plant Biology Group focuses on promoting a culture of publishing research findings efficiently and effectively, by…, Dong Wang, , biochemistry and molecular biology, and includes , Ana Caicedo, , biology, , Alice Cheung, , biochemistry and molecular biology, , Michelle Facette, , biology, , Jeeyon Jeong, , biology (Amherst College), and , Mafu Sibongile, , biochemistry and molecular biology.
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The UMass Amherst community is invited to celebrate the 50th Anniversary of Earth Day virtually. Students, faculty, staff and alumni are encouraged to share the ways they embrace the theme of…
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The UMass Amherst Libraries have started a MinuteFund campaign to support the UMass Amherst Student Care and Emergency Response Fund (SCERF). Even though financial aid covers most tuition expenses,…
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UMass Amherst Libraries, members of the All-Campus Makerspace, Institute for Applied Life Sciences (IALS) and multiple faculty and students from Engineering and the Life Sciences began working…
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