Fresh Beets, the brainchild of adjunct music instructor Savanah Marshall ’13, ’16, served up a summer of music, street food and community education in downtown Lowell’s Kerouac Park.

Campus Pride has named UMass Amherst to their 2021 list of Best of the Best Colleges and Universities for LGBTQ Students in the United States. UMass is one of 30 schools and colleges to be named to the list, all scoring a perfect five out of five stars on the Campus Pride Index.

Growing up in Minnesota with his four siblings, MD/PhD candidate Nick Peterson understood the important role a physician can play during key moments in their patients’ lives. When his father was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis in 2006, Peterson learned the importance of understanding the mechanisms of disease. It’s why he’s earning a dual degree.

AMHERST, MA.  – Researchers at the University of Massachusetts Amherst are leading an initiative to advance scalable manufacturing processes that enable commercial fabrication of highly refractive metalenses, which could allow these high-performing optical wafers to be widely used i

A recent analysis of President Joe Biden’s “Build Back Better” economic package conducted by UMass Amherst economists Lenore Palladino and Chirag Lala has been cited by the White House in promotion of the proposal.

BOSTON (Sept. 2, 2021) – The University of Massachusetts and Chapman University today announced the transfer of control of Brandman University to UMass. This newly finalized affiliation officially launches UMass Global, a nonprofit affiliate of UMass that will deliver expanded online education opportunities to adult learners across the nation and around the globe.

In a victory for the University of Massachusetts as it works to keep its 75,000 students, 24,000 employees and host communities safe throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, a federal judge has denied a request to halt the university’s student COVID-19 vaccination requirement. U.S. District Judge Denise J. Casper issued the ruling this afternoon following a Thursday hearing in the U.S.

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Two studies from the lab of Daryl Bosco, PhD, associate professor of neurology, offer new insights into the biochemical and molecular mechanisms that cause amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS). Understanding which cellular processes are disrupted in motor neurons in ALS and how the disruption occurs will allow scientists to identify and develop potential treatments for common defects that cross the more than two dozen unique gene mutations that lead to ALS.

The Vaccine Corps is expanding thanks to students in the School of Medicine and Graduate School of Nursing at UMass Medical School. On Tuesday, Aug. 10, a group of second-year medical students and nursing students trained the 162 new students in the School of Medicine Class of 2025 administer intramuscular injections, the type needed to deliver the COVID-19 vaccine.