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- Marieb College of Nursing
The Elaine Marieb Center's First Postdoctoral Fellow: Colin Plover, PhD, MSN, MPH, MSEd, RN
The Elaine Marieb Center for Nursing and Engineering Innovation welcomes its first postdoc, Colin Plover, PhD, MSN, MPH, MSEd, RN. Dr. Plover’s work applies his training in nursing, public health, research,…
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- Manning College of Information & Computer Sciences
UMass Public Interest Technology Consortium Receives $200,000 Award at White House Event
The White House Office of Science and Technology Policy has announced that Public Interest Technology New England (PIT-NE), a consortium co-founded by UMass Amherst that consists of 80 members from 20 New…
- Manning College of Information & Computer Sciences
- College of Engineering
UMass Researchers Awarded $12M to Shrink Society’s Carbon Footprint with AI & Other Computer Science Tools
University of Massachusetts Amherst has been awarded $12 million over five years by the U.S. National Science Foundation to develop the field of computational decarbonization, or CoDec.
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- Isenberg School of Management
Isenberg Finance Professor Models Excellence in Teaching and Research
Mila Getmansky Sherman is constantly engaged in high-level research. She publishes in top journals including the Journal of Finance, the Journal of Financial Economics, and the Journal of Portfolio…
- Isenberg School of Management
Diversity and Inclusion in Business Course Launches in Isenberg
This year, the Isenberg School of Management became one of the first undergraduate business programs to require students to take a diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) course.
The course—called…
- Graduate School
Thakshala Tissera wins Three Minute Thesis Campus Final
Thakshala Tissera, a doctoral student in the Department of English, has been named the winner of the 2024 Three Minute Thesis competition. Organized by the Graduate School, the Three Minute Thesis (3MT)…
- Graduate School
Breaking Down Linguistic Barriers Through Research
Though she didn’t understand the complex social forces at play as a child, Claudia Matachana, a UMass Amherst PhD student in Hispanic linguistics, realized early on that other people make assumptions about one…
- Commonwealth Honors College
Scholarship Opens the World to Students
Professor Emerita of Landscape Architecture Annaliese Bischoff has seen both sides of higher education. As an undergraduate, she attended Brown University, where she felt well supported as she explored…
- Commonwealth Honors College
From Nigeria to UMass: Lilian Chukwurah ’12 Makes A Difference Practicing Immigration Law
Recently I had the opportunity to interview UMass Amherst alum and immigration lawyer Lilian Chukwurah. Lilian graduated from UMass and Commonwealth Honors College with a major in legal…