Working Her Magic
Long after classes have ended for the day, there is often a light shining in the window of Chemistry Assoc. Teaching Prof.
Khalilah Reddie’s office. “Dr. Reddie spends more time on the UMass Lowell campus than any other professor,” says David Long, who graduated in 2021 with a degree in biological sciences. In recognition of that dedication, she was recently awarded the Manning Prize for Excellence in Teaching. The annual prize was established by Robert ’84, ’11 (H) and Donna ’85, ’91, ‘11 (H) Manning to honor outstanding faculty members from each of the five UMass campuses “As a minority professor on campus, I thought about what I could do to motivate students who felt insecure about their aspirations of joining the health profession,” says Reddie, who created the Medical Profession Admission Gap Initiative and Collaboration (
MAGIC) program to help prepare students from underrepresented groups for medical school.