UMass Amherst ranks No. 65 nationally and 159th worldwide according to the 2019-20 evaluation of higher education institutions by the Center for World University Rankings (CWUR).

The rankings place UMass Amherst among the top 0.8 percent of universities worldwide in a survey that assessed more than 20,000 universities. The methodology, according to CWUR, focuses on quality of education, alumni employment, quality of faculty and research performance. Equal emphasis is placed on the learning environment and research.

Julie Bowditch, advancement officer for community fundraising at UMass Medical School and UMass Memorial Medical Center, has been named one of the Worcester Business Journal’s 40 Under Forty Class of 2019.

Eighth grader Nate wants to talk about planets. But his teacher, a freshman in UMass Boston’s Honors College, is trying to get through a class activity about social awareness. She tells him that maybe they can talk about planets once this activity is over. A short time later, another Honors College freshman teaching the class notices that Nate isn’t participating.

“Hey, Nate, do you have any thoughts about this?” the second freshman asks.

“I do not get this. I don’t get this. I don’t know what’s happening,” Nate says.

Two UMass Boston PhD candidates are among the 69 students who will have fellowships in Washington, D.C., in 2020 through the John A. Knauss Marine Policy Fellowship program. Sean McNally and Brianna Shaughnessy will find out in the fall if they’ve been paired with a host in the legislative or executive office.

Amherst, Mass. – Kalpen Trivedi, associate provost and director of the International Programs Office at the University of Massachusetts Amherst has been awarded a Presidential Fellowship by the Association of International Education Administration (AIEA).

The University of Massachusetts School of Law at UMass Dartmouth begins its academic year today with 113 new students, a 21.5 percent increase over last year, bringing total enrollment of the Commonwealth’s only public law school to 279 students.

For the second year in a row, UMass Law applications grew by more than 20 percent, far exceeding the national average of minus 1.5 percent this year and plus 8.6 percent in 2018. Only nine of the 200-plus law schools in the United States experienced a 20 percent increase in applications this year.