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CICS professor and director of the UMass Cybersecurity Institute Brian Levine was appointed Distinguished Professor by the UMass Board of Trustees on June 7.

The UMass Board of Trustees approved the appointments of tenure to four Manning College of Information and Computer Sciences faculty members.

New research from UMass Amherst shows that programming robots to create their own teams and wait for their teammates results in faster task completion.

The Integrated Concentration in Science (iCons) program has announced Shiven Patel ’26 as one of this year’s recipients of the Crowley-Nowick Award.

UMass has joined the newly announced NSF's SafeInsights, a five-year, $90 million research and development infrastructure for inclusive education research.

Assistant Professors Hui Guan and Negin Rahimi have each received National Science Foundation (NSF) CAREER awards in the 2023–2024 academic year

Anna Green, Brendan O’Connor, and Don Towsley will serve as team leads on three of the ten proposals supported by 2024 Interdisciplinary Research Grants.

UMass Amherst has been awarded $12 million over five years by the U.S. National Science Foundation to develop the field of computational decarbonization

A study identifying how to develop robot guide dogs with insights from guide dog users and trainers won a Best Paper Award at CHI 2024.

NCWIT will recognize CICS Stuart Rice Honorary Chair and Research Professor Francine Berman as the recipient of the prestigious 2024 Pioneer in Tech Award.