BOSTON – Eight University of Massachusetts students have been awarded $5,000 scholarships from the James J. Karam Scholarship Fund, in recognition of their academic achievements and campus involvement.

The scholarship awards were celebrated at a private Thursday night dinner hosted in the students’ honor.

AMHERST, Mass. – Maple syrup production, one of New England’s cultural icons and a key economic component of the region, will shift northward during the next century due to rising temperatures that will drastically change the tapping season and reduce the quality of the sap, a new study says. The report, from researchers at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, the U.S.

AMHERST, Mass. – A newly identified genus and species of worm-like, freshwater clam, commonly known as a shipworm, eats rock and expels sand as scat while it burrows like an ecosystem engineer in the Abatan River in the Philippines.

A UMass Dartmouth scientist contributed to research recently published in Nature Climate Change, indicating that many east coast fishing communities face risks due to changing ocean temperatures that are altering the location of fish populations.

LOWELL, Mass. – UMass Lowell has been recognized as a national leader in preparing students who are the first in their families to attend college for success on campus and beyond. 

The Center for First-Generation Student Success has named UMass Lowell a First Forward Institution, inducting the university into an inaugural group of colleges and universities across the country dedicated to this mission.

Chair and Professor of Engineering Greg Sun is a member of a multi-university research group selected by the U.S. Department of Defense to receive $7.5 million in funding to develop high quality SiGeSn alloys for lighter, faster, and more energy efficient infrared imaging devices as the next generation infrared imaging technology.

AMHERST, Mass. – Scientists from the University of Massachusetts Amherst, Vanderbilt University and Clark University have shed new light on the genomic foundation of the polar bear’s ecological adaption by pinpointing rapid changes in the bear’s gene copy numbers in response to a diet shifting from vegetation to meat.

Seeing an opportunity to improve quality of care during her clinical residency at Worcester's Edward M. Kennedy Community Health Center, where many seeking care speak little or no English, newly minted family nurse practitioner Jamie Kerr, DNP, created a training session for nurse practitioners to learn how to work more effectively with medical interpreters as part of the health care delivery team.

The largest class in University of Massachusetts history graduated this commencement season. Some 18,000 turned their tassels. Nearly 12,000 will make their careers in this state.