Senior Teaching Faculty Marc Liberatore received a 2025–2026 UMass Amherst Distinguished Teaching Award, one of the university's highest honors for teaching. He is one of five faculty honorees this year and the fourth CICS faculty member to win the award. Liberatore, who teaches courses from data structures to digital forensics and computer crime law, is known for the belief that “everyone can do computer science.” His research also includes network forensic tools and the weaknesses of practical anonymity systems such as Tor. CICS announcement