UMass Boston News

At Fontbonne Academy 's 55 th Commencement Ceremony on Thursday, May 24, the 72 graduates were prompted to be courageous by a member of the Class of 1962 and challenged by their classmates to make an impact on the world.

Right front tire of the 2001 gray Ford van got caught on the shoulder of the road, causing the vehicle to go off the road NANTUCKET - Several South Shore residents were among 15 passengers injured when a UMass van went off the road and rolled over during a field trip Monday.

Kazi Nazrul Islam's poetry inculcates the triumph of humanity, while his music soothes the senses with its embrace of eternal love.

Cape Cod Community College Educational Foundation held its annual Evening of Excellence Ceremony on Wednesday, May 23, awarding $238,000 in scholarships to 150 students.

Nantucket police and firefighters were at 5 p.m. at the scene of a rollover motor-vehicle accident on Polpis Road with reports of 14 injuries, one of them life-threatening. According to public-safety radio traffic from the scene near Moors End Farm, 14 injuries were reported, the majority of them non-life-threatening, and Nantucket Cottage Hospital ... (more)

THOMAS FERGUSON, thomas.ferguson at umb.edu , Ferguson is professor of political science at the University of Massachusetts, Boston and a senior fellow of the Roosevelt Institute .

When Susan E. Milmoe began living with her Radcliffe graduate school roommate-a woman whom everyone called "Peggy" back then-Milmoe was unaware that she wrote poetry.

The lush gardens that inspired Impressionist Claude Monet 's paintings have inspired the newest exhibition at The New York Botanical Garden.

Boston drivers are advised that the annual Avon Walk for Breast Cancer and other events being held this weekend may delay traffic and will result in additional pedestrian traffic on local streets.

Nearly 200 Milton residents gathered to share their history-both from the distant and recent past-at the Mass.

Cape poet, playwright and screenwriter Jacqueline Murray Loring is giving local vets the opportunity to share their personal stories in her new book "Surviving the Peace after War." "I want to know what happened to them when they came home and what their lives have been like," she said.

Salem State students who began their college careers at Northern Essex Community College or North Shore Community College will soon be able to receive their associate's degrees while still working toward a bachelor's degree through a new reverse transfer program.

Increasingly, higher education institutions are looking to enhance technology offerings and expand IT support that fits within their budgets and headcount.

The bike-renting program known as Hubway will be expanding into Dorchester late this summer, with stations planned at the JFK/UMass MBTA stop, UMass Boston, and the South Bay Shopping Plaza.

For the first time, Harford County will host an official Smithsonian exhibit when Journey Stories, a look at how and why Americans have traveled since the country's inception, opens at the Abingdon library branch Saturday.

India-born professor Kamal Bawa has donated the entire prize money of one million Norwegian Kronor from the world's first major international sustainability award to the Indian organisation he founded in 1996.

NORTHBRIDGE, Mass. - James R. Marzec was elected to the Board of Selectmen in 2006 and re-elected to a second term in 2009.

Last weekend at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge, Mass., all of the hard work Nantucket High School sophomore James Roggeveen has been doing for his science fair project paid off when he won a second place award and a full, four-year scholarship to UMass Boston at the Massachusetts State Science and Engineering fair.

At the Jeremiah E. Burke High School, daily attendance is 90 percent this year and the school has partnerships with UMass Boston and City Year, a civic-focused nonprofit.

The University of Massachusetts system has selected Competitive Energy Services , a national energy consulting company, as the service provider to help manage its energy needs for its five campuses around the state.