Coming off the first Frozen Four appearance in program history, defending national runner-up Massachusetts hockey opens up the 2019-20 season Friday, Oct. 11 at the Mullins Center against Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI). The Minutemen will raise a pair of banners prior to the 7 p.m. faceoff commemorating the team's major accomplishments from last season - winning the Hockey East regular season championship and their appearance in the national championship game.
Nursing advocacy organization RegisteredNursing.org analyzed 440 online RN-BSN programs in the United States this summer and determined that UMass Boston’s Online RN-BS Program is the 11th best in the country and the top program in Massachusetts. Nursing programs were assessed on several factors which
Statement from UMass President Marty Meehan on the passing of former Trustee MarDee Xifaras
How do you pronounce “Worcester” and “Gloucester”?
A dozen new international students laughed as they watched a video that demonstrated that most Americans don’t know how to say the names of several Massachusetts cities.
This article originally appeared in the New England Board of Higher Education Journal.
“It is an interesting biological fact that all of us have, in our veins the exact same percentage of salt in our blood that exists in the ocean, and, therefore, we have salt in our blood, in our sweat, in our tears. We are tied to the ocean.” —President John F. Kennedy, Sept. 14, 1962, Newport, R.I.
Nearly 40 years into the HIV epidemic, the Centers for Disease Control finds there are still about 40,000 new infections a year. Three-quarters of new infections are discovered in people of color and two-thirds are in sexual minority (gay and bisexual) men. Professor of Psychology David Pantalone has made it his life’s work to be part of the public health response to the virus.
Only five to seven percent of applicants are accepted into the American Psychological Association’s Minority Fellowship Program, which covers the remaining tuition for the accepted student’s schooling. Yet in 2019, two students in UMass Boston’s Clinical Psychology Doctoral Program received this honor.
For years, science and engineering educators, social scientists, industry leaders and policymakers in Massachusetts have struggled to expand and diversify the STEM workforce, each coming at the problem from different disciplinary and institutional perspectives, says professor of psychology Nilanjana “Buju” Dasgupta, director of the campus’s Institute of Diversity Sciences (IDS).
AMHERST, Mass. – In two highly anticipated reports about the economic impacts of MGM Springfield, University of Massachusetts Amherst researchers found that the resort-casino’s construction was felt in every corner of the Commonwealth, and its development has been part of the strengthening housing and real estate markets of Greater Springfield.
VA Central Western Massachusetts Healthcare System and UMass Medical School will build a new, community-based outpatient clinic (CBOC) for veterans, projected to open in 2021, on the campus of UMass Medical School in Worcester. The CBOC will occupy 53,000 square feet on the first two levels of a new, four-story clinical building, which will total 100,000 square feet.