Today, we celebrated our colleagues at the 2025 Performance Recognition Awards and honored those who have achieved significant service milestones of 15, 20, and 25 years of service at the UMass President’s Office. Proud to lead such a dedicated team!

Last night was a great reminder of what makes the University of Massachusetts so special: our people. (1/4)

The Population-based Urban and Rural Community Health track provides UMass Chan Medical School med students with dedicated instruction in serving underserved communities. Register for the March 3 info session: direc.to/oYtJ #UrbanHealth #RuralHealth #MedSchool #MedEd Baystate Health

Interested in space research? The Lowell Center for Space Science & Technology (LoCSST) at UML offers hands-on projects in astrophysics, satellites, and space tech. Open to current & prospective students—reach for the stars! Learn more: uml.edu/research/locss…

Big congrats to UMass Amherst faculty Lili He, Govindarajan Srimathveeravalli, & VP Nguyen — named Senior Members of the National Academy of Inventors 2026 class for their impactful patented technologies! 🌟 National Academy of Inventors #UMassAmherst #NAI2026 🔗 umass.edu/news/article/t…

Andrea Thamm, a professor in @umasscns’s Department of Physics, has won a 2026 Sloan Research Fellowship—only the 19th @umass professor to win the award in the fellowship's 71-year history. bit.ly/4spQK9a

We’re celebrating UMass Boston alumna & UMass Board of Trustees member, Juana Matias ’09 for being appointed Secretary of the Executive Office of Housing and Livable Communities by Governor Maura Healey Maura Healey. #WomensHistoryMonth #UMassBoston 🔗brnw.ch/21x0st7

Big news from UMass Dartmouth! The campus has launched a Faculty AI Taskforce to guide the responsible integration of AI across teaching and learning — positioning students for success in an AI-driven world. #ArtificialIntelligence #UMassD 🔗 brnw.ch/21x0tFf

Breakthroughs in medicine are made possible through the partnership of dedicated researchers, generous supporters, and institutions committed to advancing discovery. UMass Chan Medical School The Angel Fund (1/4) wbjournal.com/article/umass-…

AI is everywhere, but how can it improve teaching, learning, and research? We invite you to attend UMass Innovates on April 7 at UMass Boston for a conversation on how AI and emerging technologies are transforming higher education. Secure your spot: massachusetts.edu/UMass-Innovates

What if one of the hottest dining experiences in America wasn't a restaurant? It's on campus at UMass Amherst. Featured in the The Wall Street Journal, #UMassAmherst dining continues to set the standard—ranked No. 1 in the country for nine consecutive years. wsj.com/us-news/educat…

A new partnership between UMass Lowell & Middlesex Community College—JUMP—creates a seamless pathway for students to earn bachelor’s degrees in high-demand fields like business, psychology, criminal justice, and English literature. MiddlesexCommCollege brnw.ch/21x12N8

UMass Chan congratulates Fen-Biao Gao, PhD, on being named a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science for advancing our understanding of disease pathogenesis in frontotemporal dementia: direc.to/o3Dj #FTD #AAASfellow AAAS RNA Therapeutics Institute

Congratulations Profs. UMass Ag/Food/Env P. Dhankher, UMass Anthropology Department SBS UMass Amherst J. Kamilar, College of Natural Sciences at UMass Amherst D. Venkataraman, and B.Woolf for being elected as a #AAASFellow by AAAS.org! We are very proud of your extraordinary contributions to science. umass.edu/news/article/f…

Through a partnership with UMass Amherst and Herrell's Ice Cream, food science students are dreaming up brand-new ice cream flavors that are now hitting the menu at Herrell’s Amherst and Northampton locations. Who’s ready for a taste test? Herrell's Ice Cream brnw.ch/21x16Yg

At a time when the future of federal research funding is uncertain, a new report from UMDonahueInstitute Institute makes clear what’s at stake if we fail to act. In my latest article, I highlight key findings from the report on Massachusetts’ R&D ecosystem: linkedin.com/pulse/research…

Om Parkash Dhankher of Stockbridge School of Agriculture and Dhandapani (DV) Venkataraman of @UMassChemistry are two of the four UMass Amherst researchers elected to the American Association for the Advancement of Science's class of 2025 Fellows. AAAS bit.ly/3POZ3Nx

PhD candidate Hannah Rogers’ grant funded-research on food-search behavior may inform the development of future treatments for psychiatric and neurological disorders: direc.to/o87d Rogers is a UMass Amherst alumna. #StudentSpotlight #WhyUMassChan #PhDTwitter NINDS

Meet Ahnyia Sanders, a second-year med student at UMass Chan Medical School, working to close a critical maternal health gap: access to prenatal breastfeeding education. In Worcester, she's supporting Black mothers by creating spaces for connection, community & care. brnw.ch/21x1cWs

🚀 A galaxy far, far away just got a little closer. NASA’s latest view of the Pinwheel Galaxy—captured by Hubble + JAMES WEBB—includes a photo credit to UMass Amherst, showing discovery is supported right here on our campuses. #NASA brnw.ch/21x1ePy