Edison Santana is a UMass-Amherst graduate all the way, having obtained a bachelor's in psychology in 1982, a master's in education in 1988 and doctorate in philosophy in 1994. He chose UMass-Amherst because of the counseling psychology program in the School of Education at the time he enrolled.

60 in 60

27 December 2008
Author Jeff VanderMeer is dosing his brain with literature, hardcore heavy duty stuff, and blogging about the experience. Every day for sixty days he is reading a classic book on the Penguin hit list for philosophy and blogging the experience and seeing how his brain changes. It's an interesting experiment, one that thousands of graduate students have repeated in the past as they cram for comprehensive or reading list exams, only VanderMeer's experiement is for personal experience and curious