2022-2023 Fellows – Public Interest Technology Initiative

PIT@UMass Faculty Fellowship - 2022

The PIT Faculty Fellows program was launched in the spring of 2022 with the goal of advancing course development and socially responsible interdisciplinary research at UMass Amherst.

After a competitive process resulting in 11 inaugural PIT Fellows from 5 schools, PIT@UMass worked with each of them to develop or re-tool the 9 PIT-related courses.

These Fellows and their related courses were:

Sanjiv Gupta, College of Social and Behavioral Sciences | Public Sociology (Sociology 497)

Jennifer Lundquist (with and Jonathan Wynn), College of Social and Behavioral Sciences | Media, Technology & Sociology (SOC 352)

Siobhan Mei (with Michelle Trim), Manning College of Information and Computer Sciences | Socially Responsible Computing (CICS 29X), co-located with Teaching Socially Responsible Computing (CICS 69X)

Sarah Patterson, College of Humanities and Fine Arts | Studies in Textuality and New Media (English 302)

Bogdan Prokopovych, Isenberg School of Management | Social Entrepreneurship (MGMT 462)

Matt Rattigan, Manning College of Information and Computer Sciences | Predictive Analytics with Python (CICS 397A)

Neena Thota, Manning College of Information and Computer Sciences | Software Entrepreneurship (COMPSCI 420)

Michelle Trim (with Siobhan Mei), Manning College of Information and Computer Sciences | Socially Responsible Computing (CICS 29X), co-located with Teaching Socially Responsible Computing (CICS 69X)

Ruth-Ellen Verock, Education | Leadership in Diverse Communities (Education 393B)

Lucy Want, College of Social and Behavioral Sciences | Health Economics (ResEc397c) — Lucy Wang, College of Social and Behavioral Sciences | Health Economics (ResEc397c)

Jonathan Wynn (with Jennifer Lundquist), College of Social and Behavioral Sciences | Media, Technology & Sociology (SOC 352)

These Fellows participated in a half-day summer intensive in June (taught by Brian Baldi from the Center for Teaching and Learning), a July lunch, an August “report out”, and will be attending a reception in November to present the Fellows and their work to campus.

The Fellows program has been successful in adding PIT content to UMass Amherst courses, providing potential components for certificates and concentrates, and building community within UMass Amherst.

QUESTIONS?

Please email pit@umass.edu.