The College of Natural Sciences & Mathematics is now officially the College of Natural Sciences (CNS). For more information, please go to http://www.cns.umass.edu.
Faculty Honors
The excellence of the faculty of the College of Natural Sciences and Mathematics is reflected in the numerous honors and awards they have received.
NSM faculty have received national medals and fellowships, including the President's National Medal of Science and MacArthur and Guggenheim fellowships; election to national academies and professional societies, including the National Academy of Science and National Academy of Engineering; and NSF CAREER Awards.
NSF CAREER Awards (Faculty Early Career Development)
- 2008 Magdalena Bezanilla, Biology; YanLei Diao, Computer Science; Ryan Hayward, Polymer Science & Engineering; Rui Wang, Computer Science
- 2007 Gerome Miklau, Computer Science
- 2006 Erik Learned-Miller, Computer Science; Deepak Ganesan, Computer Science; Oliver Brock, Computer Science
- 2005 Mark Corner, Computer Science; Gregory Tew, Polymer Science & Engineering
- 2004 Emery Berger, Computer Science
- 2003 Bryan Coughlin, Polymer Science & Engineering; Todd Emrick, Polymer Science & Engineering; Alfred Crosby, Polymer Science & Engineering; Sankaran Thyumanavan, Chemistry
- 2002 Dhandapani Venkataraman, Chemistry; Frank Sottile, Mathematics & Statistics; Micah Adler, Computer Science; Brian Levine, Computer Science
- 2001 Jeff Podos, Biology; Michele Cooke, Geosciences; Panos Kevrekidis, Mathematics & Statistics
- 2000 Prashant Shenoy, Computer Science
- 1999 Ricardo Metz, Chemistry; Beth Brainerd, Biology
- 1998 Scott Auerbach, Chemistry; James Watkins, Polymer Science & Engineering; Narayanan Menon, Physics
- 1997 Ramesh Sitaraman, Computer Science; Vincent Rotello, Chemistry
- 1996 Sam Gido, Polymer Science & Engineering; Schlomo Zilberstien, Computer Science

