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Discover how our community of alumni, faculty, students, parents, and friends are making a lasting difference. Explore their stories and see how you can contribute to the UMass legacy.
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- School of Public Health and Health Sciences
Serving Vulnerable Populations through Community-Partnered Research
School of Public Health and Health Sciences Professor Elizabeth Evans studies and promotes interventions to help people with substance abuse disorders.
- College of Humanities and Fine Arts
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Empowering Students to ‘Question Everything’
UMass Amherst’s Question Everything program engages Springfield and Holyoke high school seniors in philosophy, college preparation, and civic projects, building critical thinking and confidence through a fully…
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- School of Public Health and Health Sciences
Investing in Public Health Leadership
Members of the SPHHS Dean’s Advisory Council talk about the importance of raising the school’s profile and capacity to advance public health in Massachusetts and beyond.
A global pandemic…
- College of Natural Sciences
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Prioritizing Mental Health
Josh ’99 and Liz Moughan ’99 have established a scholarship for PhD candidates in clinical psychology to honor their late son’s journey and advance mental health education.
Ty Moughan was always…
- College of Humanities and Fine Arts
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Fueling Student Access to the Arts
Music has always played a central role in Hilda Greenbaum’s life. Her mother was a conservatory graduate. Her father took weekly opera lessons.
As a teen and young adult, she attended concerts and…
- College of Engineering
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- Marieb College of Nursing
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Innovation Through Collaboration
An innovative collaboration between engineering and nursing at UMass Amherst allows a PhD candidate to draw upon the expertise of nurses to improve robotic medical devices.
Gina Georgadarellis …
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- School of Public Health and Health Sciences
A New Home for the School of Public Health and Health Sciences
The new SPHHS Hub will serve as a central space for learning and innovation that will benefit students and communities both inside and outside the commonwealth.
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Designing a Degree to Drive Social Change
Through the Bachelor’s Degree with Individual Concentration (BDIC) program, Zuzana Zilkova ’05 built the foundation for a global career focused on reducing harm and fostering human connection.
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