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Kristen Sethares enjoys interdisciplinary collaboration of teaching in the Honors College

College of Nursing & Health Sciences professor is teaching two Honors classes in addition to nursing PhD courses
UMass Law Assistant Professor Roni Amit (left) and Professor Hillary Farber and law students Isabel Gonzalez and Carolina Eschavarria visited Joint Base Cape Cod to assist migrants.
UMass Law faculty and students head to Joint Base Cape Cod to assist migrants

UMass Law joined local and state agencies in a quick, coordinated response to help those in need

Assistant Director of Legal Career Services, UMass Law
New faculty and staff join UMass Law with strong teaching and professional development experience

UMass Law welcomes new assistant director of legal career services and two legal skills professors
Dr. Kevin Stokesbury
SouthCoast Man of the Year

Professor Kevin Stokesbury named 2018 SouthCoast Man of the Year for his contributions to the fishing industry.
Richard Stein, left, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, and Vanni Bucci published a method to predict the success of probiotics for the treatment of autoimmune diseases and cancer.
Bacteria for a healthier gut

Vanni Bucci researches probiotics for the treatment of autoimmune diseases and cancer.
Prof. Stokesbury demonstrates the new SMAST East digitizing lab to students.
Stokesbury awarded $302,091 NOAA grant

For sea scallop research using his underwater, high-resolution drop-camera array
Dr. Lance Fiondella, right, and student - College of Engineering senior design capstone project in May of this year.
Fiondella wins $452,454 NSF grant

Prestigious CAREER Award recognizes academic role models in research and education.
Jen Fugate
Professor Jennifer Fugate consults with Malcolm Gladwell on his latest book.

Gladwell reached out to Fugate because of her research and her expertise in not only emotion and facial perception, but also because of her expertise in FACS, a tool for measuring facial expressions.
Elisabeth Buck
English Professor Elisabeth Buck publishes her first book

Professor Buck's book covers the process of academic writing and publication, as well as the push from more open access and multimodality.

Maolin Guo
Dr. Maolin Guo: enabling protein imaging in live cells

Dr. Guo is engineering a tool to study protein in cells in order to identify disease-causing genetic mutations.
Shakhnoza Kayumova
Dr. Shakhnoza Kayumova: teaching the language of science

A $778,770 grant from the National Science Foundation supports Dr. Kayumova's research into the best ways to teach English-language learners the language of science.
John Buck
Dr. John Buck: exploring underwater acoustics

Dr. John Buck has received a grant from the U.S. Office of Naval Research to execute a 5-year project on underwater sounds.