UMass Amherst News

TheAngryindian speaks on Oklahoma, Afro-Indios and the worsening state of the planets limited resources.

AMHERST, Mass. - David Mednicoff, assistant professor of public policy and director of Middle Eastern Studies at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, has been awarded a $1.01 million grant to be principal investigator for interdisciplinary research on legal development and practices in Qatar and the United Arab Emirates.

Since 2010, conservatives have used a 2010 paper in the American Economic Review by Carmen Reinhart and Kenneth Rogoff to claim spending cuts should be made to preserve the economic and fiscal futures of America.

Our theory is that the U.S. will remain the most credible example of how to grow in a time of debt, buoyed by the strength of the consumer, as we wait for the handoff of central bank stimulus to the U.S. industrial base in the form of capital expenditure growth.

Emily Dickinson's home, in Amherst, Mass., offers beautiful grounds and a peek into the life of one of America's greatest writers.

University of Massachusetts student trustees are pushing for the Senate to join the House and Gov.

All interviews by Alex Smith of Radio Ecoshock. Clips of Julie Brigham-Grette from You tube at University of Massachusetts, Amherst, presented by www.frontierscientists.com, University of Alaska, Fairbanks.

It's late on Friday afternoon and a small crowd has gathered at Mary's Carrot Cake on Union Street.

Researchers have engineered a strain of electricity-producing bacteria that can grow using hydrogen gas as its sole electron donor and carbon dioxide as its sole source of carbon.

"In this report - A Toxic Flood: Why We Need Stronger Regulations to Protect Public Health from Industrial Water Pollution, 2009 Toxics Release Inventory data and the Risk-Screening Environmental Indicators model are used to identify the entities most responsible for the total hazard from industrial water pollution in the United States.

An ice-free Arctic, the disappearance of tundra and forests up to the edge of the newly open ocean is how the north will look as the natural world reacts to the new climate caused by carbon dioxide reaching 400 parts per million in the atmosphere, according to analysis of new lake sediments.

Mr. and Mrs. Michael J. Slowinski of Colrain announce the engagement of their daughter, Angela Marie, to John Brian Schatz, son of Mr.

By Wilberne Persaud, Financial Gleaner Columnist Hawks, falcons, eagles - raptors - are majestic creatures, even the smallest of them.

The second annual Gender Symposium, "Gender in the 21st Century: Putting Theory into Practice," is set for May 18 from 9 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. in the Orfalea College of Business, building 3, at Cal Poly in San Luis Obispo.

The growing number of SAT optional schools is leaving students confused about the importance of standardized admissions tests.

May 16 - The Ohio Valley Electric Corporation, Ferro Corporation, American Electric Power, the U.S. Department of Defense and the Southern Company top the list of the most hazardous polluters of U.S. surface water, according to a report released today by the national consumer advocacy organization Food & Water Watch and the Political Economy ... (more)

YEAR AFTER YEAR, more than 50 percent of the federal discretionary budget goes to the Pentagon, while only one-third of the non-defense discretionary budget is invested in struggling states and communities-a contrast at the heart of this year's congressional budget battles.

On May 27, 1957, Richard was born to Virginia Quitadamo and the late Ralph Quitadamo.

On June 28, Town Administrator Bernie Kubiak will walk out of the front doors of 8 Conway St.

University of Massachusetts President Robert L. Caret ranks 59th when it comes to highest salaries earned by the nation's public university leaders.