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A student at University of Massachusetts in Amherst who is working on ways to improve drinking water quality was chosen as one of four students in New England and 32 nationwide to receive an EPA STAR fellowship ...

Department of Polymer Science and Engineering, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, 120 Governors Drive, Amherst, Massachusetts 01003 Received July 12, 2008 Abstract: Antimicrobial polynorbornenes composed of ...

AMHERST, Mass Mel Gibson and company have set up shop in Western Massachusetts. Filming "Edge of Darkness" has been underway in Amherst.

The Amherst College Women's and Gender Studies Department is seeking applications for a rank-open position in Gender and Media in the Global South.

Nader maintained his long-shot campaign persona as a populist gadfly, criticizing Friday's financial bailout package, which was backed by Barack Obama and John McCain, calling it a bag of "freebies and goodies ...

By DIANE LEDERMAN dlederman@repub.com NORTHAMPTON - As the Northwestern District Attorney's office continues to investigate a school bus accident in North Amherst Tuesday in which a 2-year-old boy was killed, a ...

New England Environmental Inc. will hold a groundbreaking ceremony for its new headquarters on Research Drive Monday at 10 a.m. The nearly 10,000-square-foot building, approved by the Planning Board in August, ...

University of Massachusetts at Amherst provost Charlena Seymour has announced she'll resign at the end of the school year.

This is a 6:17 p.m. update of a story posted at 10:46 this morning. By FRED CONTRADA fcontrada@repub.com AMHERST - A 2-year-old toddler was struck and killed by a school bus near the intersection of Summer ...

AMHERST, Mass. - A 2-year-old boy has been struck and killed by a school bus while waiting at a stop with an older sibling and parent in Amherst.

This is a 1:28 p.m. update of a story posted at 10:46 this morning. By FRED CONTRADA fcontrada@repub.com AMHERST - A toddler was struck and killed by a school bus near the intersection of Summer Street and ...

A child was struck and killed by a school bus at the intersection of Montague Road and Summer Street at about 8 a.m. on Tuesday, according to police.

By DIANE LEDERMAN dlederman@repub.com AMHERST - Police said today that they recovered the body of a 37-year-old Southampton man at the top of Bare Mountain Saturday.

Department of Polymer Science and Engineering, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Massachusetts 01003 tew@mail.pse.umass.edu Received June 10, 2008 Abstract: Novel triangular macrocycle isomers were ...

UWIRE-09/23/2008-U. Massachusetts: Column: Congress and the economic crisis 2008 Massachusetts Daily Collegian via UWIRE By Scott Harris, Massachusetts Daily Collegian AMHERST, Mass.

By DIANE LEDERMAN dlederman@repub.com AMHERST - Town officials are scheduled to meet with Lincoln Avenue neighborhood residents next month to discuss tactics for making the area safer.

University of Massachusetts officials have quashed efforts by an Amherst campus chaplain to offer two college credits to any student willing to campaign in New Hampshire this fall for Democrat Barack Obama.

Dr. Paul Powers, management psychologist and author, will tell people how to get ready for retirement Tuesday at 7 p.m. at the Abbot Public Library.

Accusations that Amherst officials have violated the Open Meeting and Conflict of Interest laws have been routine in recent years, with occasional findings that the law has been broken.

By STEPHANIE BARRY sbarry@repub.com SPRINGFIELD - Four years after the death of a man led authorities to a stash of steroids in an Amherst apartment, a Western Massachusetts resident has announced that he will ...