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Associate Professor Ivon Arroyo and Research Professor Beverly Woolf have received a seed grant from the UMass Amherst Institute of Diversity Sciences.

Assistant Professor Hui Guan and collaborator have been awarded an ADVANCE seed grant for “Accelerating Fragment-Based Quantum Chemistry via Machine Learning.”

Helia Hashemi is one of nine early-career researchers to receive the 2021-2022 Bloomberg Data Science PhD Fellowship.

Professor David Jensen has been selected to for the college’s 2022 Outstanding Teaching Award, his second time receiving such an honor.

Associate Professor Brendan O’Connor has been announced as a Spring 2022 ADVANCE Faculty Peer Mentor Award recipient.

An interdisciplinary research team has received an NSF grant to create chatbots that can help understand the impact of COVID-19 on small-town communities.

Doctoral students Nigel Fernandez and Aritra Ghosh, and faculty Andrew Lan, recently won a grand prize in the NCES Automated Scoring Challenge.

Graduate student Aishwarya Sahai was selected to mentor a team of students during the NYU Abu Dhabi International Hackathon for Social Good.

A $1.5M National Science Foundation federal grant will provide $10,000 per year to help lower educational barriers for underrepresented college students.

Assistant Professor Tauhidur Rahman and doctoral candidate Manasa Kalanadhabhatta  receive a project grant from UMass President’s Office