UMass News Round-Up

UMass Professor Named To Science Educators Hall Of Fame

AMHERST, Mass. - Professor Emeritus Morton Sternheim has been named to the Massachusetts Hall of Fame for Science Educators. Sternheim, a physicist, joins approximately 60 other Bay State educators to be inducted since the inception of the Hall of Fame in 1992. He is the founder of the Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) Institute at UMass. He has also been very influential in the Partnerships Advancing the Learning of Mathematics, Science, and Technology (PALMS) initiative, a cooperative program of the Massachusetts Department of Education and the National Science Foundation. "So many teachers have benefited through the various institutes that Mort has conducted. His interest and kindness to all his students is well known and he has done much to bridge the gap between the University and other teaching levels in our state," said Hall of Fame officials.

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