In an effort to give back to their community while creating career opportunities in the legal professions, Hispanic members of the New Bedford Police Department have begun a scholarship at UMass Law. On September 24, Banessa Gonzalez, a third-year UMass Law student, became the inaugural recipient of the Hispanic Police Officers of New Bedford Scholarship.

AMHERST, Mass. – A University of Massachusetts Amherst interdisciplinary research team has received a $3.1 million grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to measure the impact of a diet rich in fruits and vegetables on the breast cancer risk of lactating women.

Jenia Tevelev, professor in the department of mathematics and statistics, has received a Fulbright U.S. Scholar Program award to Chile. Tevelev will conduct research and lecture at Universidad Católica de Chile in Santiago as part of a project called “New Frontiers of Algebraic Geometry.”

The UMass Dartmouth Observatory and the Astronomical Society of Southern New England (ASSNE) are pleased to invite the university community and the public to their free fall night-sky observation sessions at the campus observatory. Viewing will take place through the observatory's 16-inch telescope and other telescopes operated by ASSNE members.

For fall 2019, the Observatory is scheduled to hold observation sessions on:

Under the warm sun of the last official day of summer, thousands of people, many wearing team colors, converged on the UMass Medical School campus in Worcester on Sunday, Sept. 22, for the 2019 UMass Cancer Walk and Run.

Their collective effort, and the generosity of sponsors, helped organizers meet their goal of raising $750,000 to support adult and pediatric cancer research and care, and to fund clinical trials of new cancer therapies.

A team of UMass Amherst researchers has received a three-year, $460,000 National Science Foundation Research Coordination Network grant for a project aimed to help better understand the interplay between policy design and human behavior.

AMHERST, Mass. – Ocean Vuong, an assistant professor in the Masters of Fine Arts Program for Poets and Writers at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, today was named a 2019 MacArthur Fellow in the Fiction and Non-Fiction Writing category.

Vuong, a poet and novelist, is the author of the current best-seller "On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous," his first novel. The book was also recently long-listed for the 2019 National Book Award for Fiction.

BOSTON – In August 2019, the five-campus University of Massachusetts system endorsed the 10 principles of the Age-Friendly University, as defined by Age-Friendly University (AFU) Global Network at Dublin City University, joining an international effort intended to highlight the role of higher education in responding to the challenges and opportunities associated with an aging population.

Congressman Stephen Lynch visited UMass Boston on Tuesday, kicking off the McCormack Graduate School’s “Your Congress” series with a wide-ranging discussion with students, faculty, and staff on issues from health care and diversity to student debt and climate change.

Your Congress aims to bring each member of the Massachusetts delegation to campus on a rotating basis, providing opportunities to hear from those who represent us in Washington, according to McCormack Dean David Cash. 

The university recently welcomed over 150 new faculty to campus this year. To begin their time on campus, new faculty participated in a week of onboarding activities, beginning with the new faculty orientation, hosted by the Office of Faculty Development.