AMHERST, Mass. – Though climate change is becoming one of the greatest threats to the Earth’s already stressed ecosystems, it may not be the most severe threat today for all species, say authors of a new report on the effects of deforestation on two lemur species in Madagascar.

Well, looks like the secret is out. College Gazette celebrated UMass Dartmouth for consistently demonstrating excellence in learning opportunities for students. However, no one at UMassD was surprised. It’s hard to walk across campus and not notice the incredible discovery, research, and student activities taking place.

The Massachusetts Office of Business Development, through the Regional Economic Development Organization (REDO) program has awarded the UMass Dartmouth-based SouthCoast Development Partnership with $50,000 to promote economic development in the Blue Economy throughout the southeastern region through collaborative workforce and industry development programming. The REDO program facilitates regional projects that grow businesses and the Massachusetts economy by attracting new employers and fostering existing businesses.

The Ferreira-Mendes Portuguese-American Archives continued its 10th anniversary celebrations with a legislative meet and greet reception on Monday, 16 December 2019. At the event, local Massachusetts legislators paid tribute to the former Faculty Director, Dr. Gloria de Sá, upon her retirement while also being introduced to the new Faculty Director, Dr. Paula Celeste Gomes.

The UMass Dartmouth Center for Marketing Research (CMR) recently held its bi-annual Client Dinner. The purpose of the dinner was to deliver semester-long research projects to clients. Student teams worked with UMass Dartmouth Charlton College of Business, UMass Dartmouth Print Shop, Metro South Chamber of Commerce, Poyant Signs, New Bedford Credit Union, and conducted a study on the 2019 Inc. 500.

Each student team sat at a private table with their client and shared the findings of these customized studies. Clients expressed their surprise and satisfaction.

As the university’s director of workplace learning and development, Lee Ann Alden is usually the one handing out awards and certificates to employees for a job well done.

This time, it's Alden's turn to be recognized.

Alden received one of the state's top honors for public employees, the Eugene H. Rooney Jr. Public Service Award, for her outstanding work in human resource development at UMass Lowell.

BOSTON — Moody’s Investors Service, S&P Global Ratings, and Fitch Ratings have all announced that the University of Massachusetts has retained its strong bond ratings as it continues to finance a capital plan focused on renovation and construction of facilities that are critical to student success on the Amherst, Boston, Dartmouth, Lowell, and Medical School campuses.

A study by UMass Medical School integrative medicine expert Paula Gardiner, MD, MPH, finds that patients with chronic pain and depression who participated in medical group visits in which they learned mindfulness techniques were able to reduce their use of pain medications and made fewer emergency room visits.

AMHERST, Mass. – A new analysis of the changing character of runoff, river discharge and other hydrological cycle elements across the North Slope of Alaska reveals significant increases in the proportion of subsurface runoff and cold season discharge, changes the authors say are “consistent with warming and thawing permafrost.”

LOWELL, Mass. – A UMass Lowell education professor has received a Fulbright Scholar Award to further her efforts to teach students at home and abroad about the intersection of math and South African culture.