"On behalf of the 75,000 students, 18,000 faculty and staff, half million-plus alumni of the University of Massachusetts, we extend our gratitude to the Massachusetts Congressional delegation for its support of the American Rescue Plan Act. The funding it provides to our campuses and students will be critical in our efforts to sustain our mission of teaching, research and service, which will help drive the post-pandemic economic recovery of the Commonwealth.

The entire University of Massachusetts community mourns the loss of Joseph D. Duffey, the distinguished former UMass Amherst chancellor and UMass president who fought for excellence in public higher education and for peace and justice in our society.

A year ago, when Zuckerberg College of Health Sciences researcher Margaret Quinn began work on a $2.48 million federal grant to make home health care safer for caregivers and patients alike, she had no idea she’d be doing it amid the worst pandemic in a century.

First-year business students Sarah Curley and Khadija Mir have become good friends since meeting last year during the UML Launch! Summer Program. They take several of the same classes, they study together whenever they can, and they both joined the Joy Tong Women in Business student organization.

Now they look forward to actually meeting face to face someday.

When transfer student Michael Hines began as an exercise physiology major at UMass Lowell, he had already taken two-plus years of college business classes and worked for several years.

The exercise physiology major was designed to prepare students, through a rigorous science curriculum, to go on for their doctorates in physical therapy or other clinical graduate degrees, such as chiropractic or physician assistant.

Dan Muise ’16 didn’t know what he wanted to study when he arrived at UMass Lowell. 

He was still narrowing it down when he graduated from the university and the Honors College with two bachelor’s degrees: one in political science and a second in economics. 

Two faculty members from the Department of Mathematical Sciences, Asst. Profs. Min Hyung Cho and Nilabja Guha, have won grants totaling nearly $340,000 from the National Science Foundation (NSF) for research that could advance a range of other disciplines, from high-resolution imaging to economics and finance.

Study.com has ranked UMass Dartmouth’s accounting program, offered at the Charlton College of Business, #21 among 50 on their list of "2021 Best Degrees in Accounting." Hundreds of universities across the country were considered. Study.com selected UMass Dartmouth based on academic and career resources, the quality of education, faculty, and more.

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.