Associate Provost and Dean of Research Jennifer Hanselman was recently appointed to Gov. Maura Healey’s new DRIVE Acceleration Team to advance research and discovery in Massachusetts.

Nadia Ward delivered the keynote address at the Worcester Regional Chamber of Commerce’s Diverse Professional Roundtable.

Psychology Professor Abbie Goldberg has received the 2025 Social Justice Award for Contributions to Family Science.

Luna Pagan ’27 is one of 50 local artists whose work was selected for display on new dual-stream waste receptacles (“WooBins”) across the city of Worcester.

A paper co-authored by Psychology Professor Abbie Goldberg has received the 2025 Wiley Prize in Family Sciences: The Alexis Walker Award.

The M.S. in Project Management program has been accredited by the Project Management Institute’s Global Accreditation Center, a designation demonstrating a  commitment to academic quality and excellence.

School of Business Assistant Professor Hamidreza Ahady-Dolatsara has received the KNIME Distinguished Educator Award, which recognizes exceptional education experts and their continued support of KNIME and low-code tools in teaching.

A map created by Geography Professor Christopher Williams’ Biogeosciences Research Group has been selected as a finalist in an international competition hosted by ESRI, a world leader in developing geographic information system (GIS) software. “Forests: Our Best Carbon Capture Technology” is a finalist in ESRI’s 2025 storytelling map gallery competition; the finalists are posted in…

Sea Change: An Atlas of Islands in a Rising Ocean, written by Christina Gerhardt, has won the 2025 Ecocritical Book Award of the Association for the Study of Literature and Environment.