UMass Amherst News

The Schoodic Education Research Center is set to kick off its summer programming on the first official day of summer June 21, with a Summer Solstice celebration and opening of a major art installation by renowned east coast painter George Wardlaw.

WASHINGTON, June 19 Nearly a dozen long-lost, rarely seen Soviet films and scores of screenplays that were never produced about the persecution of Jews during World War II have been revived to offer decades-old evidence of a side of the Holocaust few people recognize today.

In the cover story for the journal Genetics this month, neurobiologist Dan Chase and colleagues at the University of Massachusetts Amherst describe a new experimental technique they developed that will allow scientists to study the function of individual proteins in individual cell types in a living organism.

Growing up in Manhattan, Sadie Dupuis realized early that she wanted to be more than just another "earnest-singing, pretty-voiced frontwoman."

The dean of the College of Humanities and Social Sciences has signed his letter of resignation, according to university officials.

U.S. Rep. Joseph Courtney was in Connecticut on Monday to try to muster the momentum that last summer forced a one-year extension of the 3.4 percent rate on federally subsidized Stafford student loans.

Topic: Expert available to offer commentary on the Supreme Court's same-sex marriage decisions, with a focus on social & economic implications Expert: M.V. Lee Badgett, expert on same-sex marriage policy issues and professor of economics and director of the Center for Public Policy and Administration at the University of Massachusetts Amherst; key ... (more)

My room mate Rachel Levine and I have spent 4 years tirelessly working to make the most out of our experiences at UMass Amherst.

After failing for years to win legislative support, Gov. Deval Patrick announced in November that he would allow the children of illegal immigrants in Massachusetts to pay in-state tuition at state colleges and universities.

The University of Massachusetts-Amherst is receiving a $95 million state grant to help the school build and equip a new life sciences research facility.

For over 87 years, the Minneapolis Urban League has led the charge to serve the community and all those who call it home by serving families, helping people find jobs, homes and create their own pathways to opportunity.

They may have a case, according to new research that suggests it was men's interest in mating with younger females that gave evolutionary rise to menopause by sidelining older women from reproduction.

Findings also suggest that a low dose of the thyroid hormone thyroxin to the pregnant mothers appears to alleviate some of the effects of alcohol exposure on their offspring.

The invention of the smartphone has provided users with the ability to retrieve information at anytime, anywhere.

Simon Elliott, Mel Devoney, Alexis Foley and Daniel Kamlarz, clockwise from top left, have attended the summer program at the Center for Environmental Civics.

On Wednesday, June 5th, I had the opportunity to host a meeting with UMass officials and local farm owners, along with environmental and sustainability advocates, to discuss the University of Massachusetts's plans of transforming the site of the former UMass Suburban Experiment Station on Beaver Street into a Center for Urban Sustainability.

American Electric Power, Duke Energy and Southern Company are the biggest emitters of greenhouse gases in the US, according to the Greenhouse 100 index, a new ranking of US polluters developed by researchers at the Political Economy Research Institute at the University of Massachusetts Amherst.

Former U.S. Senator Scott Brown is currently leading the field of potential candidates in the Massachusetts gubernatorial race to take place next year, according to a new UMass-Amherst poll.

Gabriel Gomez, left, and Edward Markey, candidates for U.S. Senate in Massachusetts.

The Mohave Generating Station, a 1,580 MW coal-burning power station near Laughlin, Nevada was dismantled in 2009.