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Neena Thota has been announced as a recipient of the Spring 2025 ADVANCE Faculty Peer Mentoring Award.

Towsley, Distinguished Professor in the Manning College of Information and Computer Sciences (CICS), has been elected as a 2024 AAAS Fellow.

UMass Amherst, the birthplace of reinforcement learning, hosted the first conference dedicated to the field in 2024.

Provost and Senior Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs Fouad Abd-El-Khalick has appointed a search advisory committee to aid in the selection of the next dean.

Event brought together researchers from MITRE and the UMass Amherst Rescue Lab to develop open-source tools to fight the exploitation of children online.

The Northeast Robotics Colloquium (NERC) is a research meeting, networking event, job fair, and showcase for the robotics community in the northeastern US.

The Manning College of Information and Computer Sciences announces the appointment of four new tenure-track and teaching faculty in 2024.

CICS faculty members Neena Thota and Michelle Trim have been selected for the 2024-25 UMass Amherst Chancellor's Leadership Fellows cohort.

The UMass Board of Trustees approved the appointments of tenure to four Manning College of Information and Computer Sciences faculty members.

Associate Chair of Faculty Development & Associate Professor Alexandra Meliou has been announced as a Spring 2024 ADVANCE Faculty Peer Mentor Award recipient.

Professor Ramesh Sitaraman was inducted to the newest class of AAAS Fellows, among the most prestigious honors bestowed by the scientific community.

UMass Amherst is hosting a series of interdisciplinary lectures on the rapidly advancing field of financial technology called Fintech for the Common Good.