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Banu Subramaniam, professor in the department of women, gender, sexuality studies, won the 2020 Society for Literature, Science & the Arts (SLSA) Michelle Kendrick Memorial Book Prize for the best book in Literature, Science & the Arts for the book “Holy Science: The Biopolitics of Hindu Nationalism.”

The ADVANCE program has announced that three research teams are recipients of ADVANCE Collaborative Research Seed Grants for 2020-21. These competitive grants aim to foster the development of innovative and equitable collaborative research projects among faculty.  Recognizing longstanding gender gaps in the academy, the National Science Foundation (NSF) funds universities to build institutional transformation programs in order to advance gender equity for faculty in science and engineering.

AMHERST, Mass.— The German and Scandinavian Studies program in the department of languages, literatures, and cultures at the �鶹��Ƶ Amherst has been designated a German Center of Excellence by the American Association of Teachers of German (AATG). The German Center of Excellence designation is presented only to, “well-established and growing German program[s] with strong support from the administration, colleagues, alumni, parents, and students.”

AMHERST, Mass. – In a new paper with results that senior author Eric Strieter at the �鶹��Ƶ Amherst calls “incredibly surprising,” he and his chemistry lab group report that they have discovered how an enzyme known as UCH37 regulates a cell’s waste management system.

Strieter says, “It took us eight years to figure it out, and I’m very proud of this work. We had to develop a lot of new methods and tools to understand what this enzyme is doing.”

AMHERST, Mass. – The �鶹��Ƶ Amherst has announced that it will offer a Master of Science degree in  (DACSS) as part of an interdisciplinary academic program taught by over 50 faculty members, which includes cooperation from 13 departments from different schools and colleges across its campus.

As coastal communities face increasing climate-related threats, a new innovative and collaborative ecosystem has launched that aims to become a global hub for testing and scaling up nature-based solutions in the high-energy environment of the Boston Harbor Islands National and State Park.

Dr. Joseph Cooper delivered a powerful message for students, faculty, and staff on UMass Boston’s inaugural Black Lives Matter Day: “It was and is within our human capacity to create and reproduce racism, and it is within our human capacity to end it.”

As he delivered his keynote address, Dr. Cooper, the J. Keith Motley Endowed Chair of Sport Leadership and Administration, called upon the campus community to reflect on the different ways they can exercise their activism and resistance and manifest the best UMass Boston possible.

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Today, the U.S. Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute  a new project, the Genomes from Earth’s Microbiomes, that pulled together the research of more than 200 scientists and researchers to increase the known bacteria and archaea by 44%.

Among those researchers was UMass Dartmouth Dean of Engineering and interim Dean of the School for Marine Science & Technology Jean VanderGheynst.

Sigal Gottlieb, Professor of Mathematics and founding Director of the Center for Scientific Computing and Visualization Research (CSCVR), was  as a Fellow by the Association for Women in Mathematics.

“I am very happy to announce the 2021 list of new AWM fellows. We recognize these individuals for their exceptional dedication to increasing the success and visibility of women in mathematics,” said Ruth Haas, President of the Association for Women in Mathematics.