UMass Amherst News

NEW @ 1 :40 P.M. Friends of 32-year-old Justin Wong - who Murfreesboro authorities say killed himself Nov.

A terrorist connected to the 1976 bombings of the Newburyport Superior Court House and Seabrook post office has been asked to speak at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, spurring an angry Gov.

The League of Women voters is holding a forum with the candidates vying to succeed Sen.

Deval Patrick is taking on University of Massachusetts officials who now say they must allow a convicted terror bomber to speak on campus because of "academic freedom" - even after angry cops thought the event had been stopped.

All but one of the Democratic and Republican candidates vying to succeed Senator Ted Kennedy appeared together in Western Mass.

Sarah Boesveld From Monday's Globe and Mail Published on Sunday, Nov. 08, 2009 7:33PM EST Last updated on Sunday, Nov.

Volunteers and students at UMass Amherst helped pick up cigarette butts around campus Sunday.

A University of Massachusetts Amherst student was rushed the hospital after being hit by a car on-campus while walking back to her dorm from the sports fields.

Police said a woman was sexually assaulted inside the main library at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst on Tuesday.

Xlibris, the leading print-on-demand self-publishing services provider, today announces the release of History of the Pennsylvania Grape Industry, an engaging new book authored by Carl William Haeseler, Ph.D, Professor Emeritus of Pomology and Viticulture .

Source: James Crotty, " The Bonus-Driven 'Rainmaker' Financial Firm ." Nancy Folbre is an economics professor at the University of Massachusetts Amherst.

Oren Persing and Sarah Levy met in their synagogue's youth group, NFTY, while in high school in Boston.

History is not on Russell Donovan's side. The retired General Electric technician is a candidate for mayor in a city that loves its incumbents.

UNITED NATIONS, Oct 27 - Gender equality contributes to economic growth, but economic growth does not always contribute to gender equality, says the United Nations World Survey on the Role of Women in Development launched Tuesday, a message well timed in the context of the current financial crisis.

Robert S. Cox knew that bringing Raymond Luc Levasseur to the University of Massachusetts campus would be controversial.

As a result of growing concern for obesity on college campuses, a number of Massachusetts schools, including UMass-Amherst, have recently begun to encourage healthier dining.

Abstract Background: An effective cancer therapeutic must selectively target tumours with minimal systemic toxicity.

COLLEGE PARK - Fall foliage may be burning red, orange and yellow these days, but the University of Maryland, College Park is turning green.

Voters will have a choice of three longtime residents for two seats on the Police Commission in the Nov.

Single shot of gene therapy could make kids with congenital blindness see A single jab of genes that produce light-sensitive pigments can make children with congenital blindness see, according to a new study.