AMHERST, Mass. – In its inaugural “Great Campus Food” list, The Princeton Review has named the University of Massachusetts Amherst to the exclusive group in its 2022 edition of The Best 387 Colleges…
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The Provost’s Office has selected four winners for the 2021 Distinguished Community Engagement Awards in the categories of teaching and research., The two awardees for Community Engaged Research are:, Erica Scharrer, Erica Scharrer, , communications Scharrer was selected because of her ten-year collaboration with local middle schools, which has led to over twenty important publications in the field of media studies and to life-…, Carolina Aragon, , landscape architecture and regional planning Carolina Aragon Aragon’s award-winning research and creative practice was selected due to her exploration of questions related to how public art can…, The two awardees for Community Engaged Teaching are:, Laura Ciolkowski, , women, gender, sexuality studies Laura Ciolkowski The review committee noted that Ciolkowski was selected for the Award due to her distinguished leadership on campus and among the five colleges to…, Richard Chu, , history Chu was selected for the Award for Community Engaged Teaching for seeking out and building relationships with five different Asian American communities in Western Massachusetts – Bhutanese…
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The Diversity and Inclusion Office, with support from UMass Medical School student leaders, hosted the first Learners of Color Orientation on Friday, Aug. 27, and Saturday, Aug. 28. Students from the…
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A team of students from the UMass Amherst College of Information and Computer Sciences (CICS), led by doctoral student Ryan McKenna and including graduate students Joie Wu, Arisa Tajima, Brett…
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Students look over the syllabus for their Calculus 3 course with Asst. Teaching Prof. Erica Yankowskas on UML's first day back to in-person learning. Computer engineering majors Cameron Albers and…
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Jacquie Moloney With masked students settled in their Tsongas Center seats and robed UML deans and dignitaries in place on the Convocation stage, Provost Joseph Hartman leaned into the microphone and…
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AMHERST, Mass. – New research from the University of Massachusetts Amherst shows that enrolling 9th graders who are struggling academically in an ethnic studies course greatly improves the likelihood…
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In a victory for the University of Massachusetts as it works to keep its 75,000 students, 24,000 employees and host communities safe throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, a federal judge has denied a…, UMass President Marty Meehan, said. “It also sends a strong message to those higher education institutions across the country that are putting the well-being of their campus communities first as we all begin a new academic year.…
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The journey toward achieving a doctorate degree in any discipline is already paved with obstacles and deterrents. And that’s without factoring in a global pandemic. “It’s an overwhelming sense of…
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2021 UMass Boston graduates. Image by: Bob Durling At long last, the class of 2020 had their moment. Seventeen months after they were sent to learn remotely, and fifteen months after COVID-19…
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