Faculty Accomplishments

Maciuba, A. (2024) Confluence, Solo Exhibition. September 5—October 16, 2024, Oresman Gallery, Smith College, Brown Fine Arts Center.

Maciuba, A. (2023) Tributary, Solo Exhibition at the Lawrence Arts Center

WAVE / SURGE / SPIKE, an exhibition by Amanda Maciuba, Jessica Tam & Jen Morris will be open at A.P.E. Ltd. Gallery in Northampton, MA. November 10 – December 4, 2021. Reception: Fri, Nov. 12, 5-8PM and Zoom Panel Discussion: Thurs, Nov. 18, 7:30PM with the artists and moderator Amy Brady.

Has been named Associate Editor of POLIS: The Journal for Ancient Greek and Roman Thought.

Was a Hispanic Heritage Month speaker at San Bernadino Valley College. Matos offered a virtual reading from their book, La familia: And other secret ingredients to Latinx student success.

Was invited to be a Wesleyan University College of Education Colloquium speaker to read from her book La familia: And other secret ingredients to Latinx student success on April 14, 2021.

Was elected to the South Hadley School Committee in the local election on April 13, 2021.

Was invited to speak at the UMass Amherst College of Education with Carmen Yulín Cruz on "Transformation through Collaboration: Two Communities Collaborate to Learn from Each Other" about the Mount Holyoke College STEM program in San Juan, Puerto Rico on March 31, 2021. 

Presented research on facilitating dialogues on race in college courses at the POD Network Conference, November 13-17, 2019. Pittsburgh, PA.

Forced by the pandemic to conduct his geological fieldwork closer to campus, Mark McMenamin discovered a new Jurassic dinosaur (Amherst) and a new pterosaur (South Hadley).