Campus Community Accomplishments
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Professor Anna Dempsey (Art) published the chapter "Challenging Hollywood: Director Ava DuVernay and Political Social Activism" in Women in Hollywood's Dream Factory: Tales of Inequality, Abuse and Resistance. The chapter analyzes DuVernay's incredible rise through Hollywood.
Professor Eric Mitnick (Law) published an op-ed in the Providence Journal titled "Punishing lawyers is not government free speech". The piece examines the Trump Administration's actions against lawyers and law firms engaged in litigation with the federal government.
Professor Ken Manning (Political Science) was interviewed about President Trump's focus on the Safeguard American Voter Eligibility (SAVE America) Act and the implications for other pending legislation.
Assistant Teaching Professor Basil H. Aboul-Enein (Health & Society) and Associate Professor Dilshod Achilov (Political Science) recently co-published "A scoping review of gender-based violence interventions conducted in Afghanistan" in the International Journal for Equity in Health. The article aims to identify and critically appraise gender-based violence and violence against women & girls prevention and response interventions implemented in Afghanistan and assess their contribution to advancing gender and health equity.
Assistant Teaching Professor Josh Botvin (English & Communication) co-edited Writing Centers and AI: Generating Early Conversations. The volume explores how the proliferation of AI has forever changed higher education and includes a chapter by Assistant Professor Ashley Beardsley (English & Communication) titled "What Is Our Writing Center's Stance on AI? Using Tutor Training to Develop Guidelines and Learn about GenAI".
Assistant Professor Sean Lyness (Law) published "The (Limited) American Right to Roam" in the Iowa Law Review. The paper argues that while American property law is rooted in exclusion, it has also developed a countervailing right of access and passage.
UMass Dartmouth has been recognized as a gold-ranked 2026–2027 Military Friendly® School, a distinction that highlights the university's strong commitment to supporting veterans, active-duty service members, and their families.
Commonwealth Professor Liudong Xing (Electrical & Computer Engineering) was the recipient of the IEEE Communications Society IoT, Ad Hoc and Sensor Networks Technical Committee Technical Recognition Award for her outstanding contributions to the modeling, analysis, and design of reliable and resilient wireless sensor networks and IoT systems.
Professor Sheila Macrine (Education) presented the paper "Embodied Intelligence from Carbon to Silicon and Beyond" at the 2026 Cambridge University Embodied Intelligence Conference.
The UMass Dartmouth Cyber Games team recently won first place in the regional competition of the 2026 NCAE Cyber Games. The team, comprised of 10 undergraduate, master's, and doctoral students, beat out 11 other teams in the Northeast 2 division and earned the highest overall score of all 140 teams across the U.S.
Lindsay Graff (Fisheries Oceanography Doctoral Candidate) was recently one of just two scientists in the U.S. to receive a project grant from the Save Our Seas Foundation, a global organization focused primarily on sharks and rays.