"The President’s Public Service Awards were established in 1998 as a means of recognizing the public service contributions of UMass faculty members. To date, a total of 46 faculty members from the five UMass campuses have been selected to receive the award. The current winners’ portraits will hang in the President’s Office Board Room throughout the year." (Read the entire press release here.)
To date, eight out of the forty-six recipients of the President's Public Service Awards have been from UMass Dartmouth. Those outstanding professors are:
- Dr. Nora Barnes, Center for Business Research
- Dr. Clyde Barrow, Center For Policy Analysis
- Dr. Lester Cory, SHARE
- Thomas Puryear, Art History
- Dr. Frank Sousa, Center for Portuguese Studies
- Dr. Kevin Stokesbury, SMAST
- Dr. Richard Upchurch, Computer and Information Science
- Dr. Robert Waxler, English


