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Kristin Mattocks, PhD, MPH, professor of population & quantitative health sciences and associate dean for veterans affairs at UMass Chan Medical School, has joined the editorial board of , the journal of the Jacobs Institute of Women’s Health. The institute is based at Milken Institute School of Public Health at the George Washington University.

The UMass Chan Medical School Diversity and Inclusion Office has invited two dynamic women to accompany the Medical School in centering Black lives as part of its commitment to diversity, equity and inclusion during and beyond Black History Month.

AMHERST, Mass. – New research on the gender gap in faculty in finance programs, shows a significant gap, with only 16% of the finance faculty at top business schools being women.

Michael Sakamoto, performing arts curator and director of the Asian and Asian American Arts and Culture Program for the Fine Arts Center has been awarded a $15,000 fellowship in choreography from the Mass Cultural Council.

The  has awarded seven pilot grants to faculty and research collaborators to accelerate the translation of basic discoveries into practical, cost-effective solutions that improve human health.

Katya Makeyeva, a native of Kazakhstan, moved to the United States after high school to further her education in science.

“For as long as I can remember, I always wanted to be a genetic engineer,” said Makeyeva, a PhD student in the Morningside Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences. “The reason I’m so fascinated by the field is because I always wanted to target the root of human disease instead of treating symptoms.”

Makeyeva studied biology at St. Norbert College in Wisconsin.

Elinor Karlsson, PhD, offers insights into various applications of modern comparative genomics in a  The paper is part of a special feature in PNAS on the , a global effort to map the genomes of all plants, animals, fungi and other microbial life on Earth.

UMass Chan Medical School alum Christine Cassel, MD’76, has made her mark as a clinical, education and policy leader, and now as a benefactor to her alma mater. The Christine K. Cassel MD’76 Faculty Scholar Award has been established with a gift of $200,000, which will endow an annual award recognizing an assistant or associate professor for accomplishments related to medical ethics, human rights and social justice.

UMass alumni Dan and Diane M. Casey Riccio, PhD, have pledged $15 million to UMass Chan Medical School to further expedite and support advances in neuroscience research. The gift includes $10 million for what will be named the Riccio ALS Accelerator Initiative and $5 million to expand and endow the Riccio Fund for Neuroscience, providing seed money for research collaborations.

The Boston Teachers College Scholarship Fund recently surpassed its $1 million goal.