University of Massachusetts alumnus Paul Manning '77 and his wife Diane Manning, have committed $1 million through their family foundation to establish the Manning Innovation Program. The program provides three years of support in advancing a robust and sustainable pipeline of applied and translational research projects from UMass Amherst.
UMass Dartmouth junior All-American Jordan Entwistle (Northboro, Mass./Algonquin Regional) capped an incredible individual season by capturing the 2019 individual national championship in the men's javelin Thursday evening at the NCAA Division III Outdoor Track & Field Championships hosted by the SPIRE Institute and the University of Mount Union.
UMass Boston's baseball team is headed back to the Division III College World Series. After beating the New England College Pilgrims 5-4 on Friday, the Beacons bounced back from a Game Two loss on Saturday to beat the Pilgrims 6-2 in the final game in the best-of-three series.
"Each game could have gone either way," Head Coach Brendan Eygabroat said after the final out. "We got some really clutch hits. Our seniors led us. ...We were able to hand the ball off to Bob and that's usually game over."
A team of researchers from UMass Lowell, the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and China Agricultural University in Beijing has developed a new, sustainable way of converting wet biological waste into diesel-compatible fuel, using heat and water.
The process, called hydrothermal liquefaction (HTL), converts wet, solid biowaste – such as animal manure from farms, food scraps from restaurants and food-processing plants, and algae from wastewater treatment facilities – into liquid fuel that can be blended with regular diesel.
Thirteen years ago, Elisa Ogawa couldn't speak, read, or write English. But she arrived in Dorchester with a passion.
Ogawa, then 15, had traveled from Japan to live with her aunt, with the dream of playing basketball in the U.S.
The University of Massachusetts Boston and its extended community mourn the loss of former Chancellor Sherry H. Penney, who passed away in Florida last week. Dr. Penney was known for her exceptional leadership, both as chancellor and as founder of the highly successful Center for Collaborative Leadership.
The population of Greater Boston is shifting in unprecedented ways, with impacts on communities across the region, according to a new reports series co-authored and published today by Boston Indicators, the research center at the Boston Foundation, the UMass Donahue Institute and the four free-standing social research institutes at the University of Massachusetts Boston dedicated to the major communities of color.
LOWELL, Mass. - The largest and most diverse class - 4,534 strong - graduated from UMass Lowell at Commencement ceremonies on Friday, May 17 and May 18.
The Office of Business Development & Innovation at UMass Medical School announced the first grant awards from a new fund established to support innovative scientific advances at the medical school.
The BRIDGE Fund is guided by an external advisory board of industry leaders and will invest up to $1 million annually in projects by UMass Medical School researchers whose work shows promise for commercialization and translation to a clinical application.
UMass Law held its 2019 Commencement ceremony at 10 a.m. in the Main Auditorium on campus where 48 law degrees were conferred.
“Remember that lady justice is usually represented wearing a blindfold and carrying scales. True justice is blind to differences of race, gender, and power. True justice works for what is right, as you know from your many hours of pro bono service in local communities, “said Chancellor Robert E. Johnson.