Chancellor Marcelo Suárez-Orozco pledged to expand the role UMass Boston plays in the city during a conversation last week with Boston City Council President Kim Janey, who is poised to become the city’s next mayor.

UMass Boston and UMass Law School faculty say that the Biden-Harris Administration can strategically use federal authority to create a durable floor of protections to address the issues that have impacted communities across the country.   

“By targeting the federal programs and federal programs interventions for communities that have had disproportionate harm, that’s using the current law that we already have to try to do better,” Elizabeth McCuskey, a professor at UMass School of Law said. 

AMHERST, Mass. – A University of Massachusetts Amherst COVID-19 vaccine webinar, featuring a panel of scientists and public health experts, will aim to dispel misinformation and fear about the vaccine and explain why its widespread use around the world is crucial to overcoming the deadly pandemic.

AMHERST, Mass. – In the five years following the beginning of the Black Lives Matter (BLM) movement in 2014, census places that have had BLM protests experience a 15-20% decrease in police homicides – approximately 300 fewer deaths – according to new research by University of Massachusetts economist Travis Campbell.

AMHERST, Mass. – Skin microbiome researcher Dr. Kelly Haas, of the University of Massachusetts Amherst’s biology department, recently began a research partnership with Akron, Ohio-based GOJO Industries to study the structure, stability, and resilience of the hand microbiome.

AMHERST, Mass. – The award-winning UMass Dining has done it again – not only did it meet, but it exceeded, the 2020 Real Food Challenge (RFC) with a 29% commitment to budgeting dining on “Real Food.” The UMass RFC is a student-led initiative, in partnership with UMass Dining, that aimed to bring 20% Real Food to campus by the year 2020. In 2013, UMass Amherst was the first to sign and join colleges and universities across the country to build a just and sustainable food system.

AMHERST, Mass. – The Center for First-generation Student Success, an initiative of NASPA – Student Affairs Administrators in Higher Education and The Suder Foundation, has selected the University of Massachusetts Amherst as part of its 2021-22 First-gen Forward cohort.

AMHERST, Mass. – More than one-third of the Corn Belt in the Midwest – nearly 100 million acres – has completely lost its carbon-rich topsoil, according to University of Massachusetts Amherst research that indicates the U.S. Department of Agriculture has significantly underestimated the true magnitude of farmland erosion.

UMass Medical School, in partnership with the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, the City of Worcester, Worcester State University and Saint Vincent Hospital, will play an integral role in a COVID-19 mass vaccination site that will open later this month on the campus of Worcester State. The site is expected to be open on or about February 16.

Six School of Medicine Class of 2021 students took part in early match programs and recently learned where they will serve their residencies. Two pursued military matches and four chose specialties outside of the National Residency Matching Program general match, which takes place on Friday, March 19.