UMass Amherst News

Pawel Althamer is considered as one of the most innovative artists of his generation.

Alliance for Taxpayer Access, New England University Presidents Back Bill for Public Access , press release, November 23, 2009.

Sarah Weatherbee spent much of yesterday cooking "supertraditional'' fare - turkey, stuffing, Brussels sprouts, broccoli, squash, cranberry sauce, cheesecake - for an untraditional guest: someone she had never met before.

Particle beams are once again zooming around the world's most powerful particle accelerator, the Large Hadron Collider , at the CERN laboratory near Geneva, Switzerland, where a team of University of Massachusetts Amherst physicists run experiments to collect data on fundamental atomic particles.

Join the Abraham Lincoln Bicentennial Commission and leaders from various sectors of society - from civic life and media to academia and civil rights - for an important town hall meeting entitled, "Unfinished Work: Race, Civility and Equality of Opportunity." The town hall will feature a keynote speech by Dr.

For patients with pacemakers, headphones might pose as a significant health risk, reveals a new study.

PEOPLE with pacemakers know to keep magnets and electronic devices, such as cellphones, away from the implant to avoid interference.

Nancy Folbre is an economics professor at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst.

Massachusetts, which fashions itself the nation's leader in thanking veterans with government benefits, went further last week week, increasing cash bonuses for repeated tours of duty, taking the controversial step of permitting faxed and e-mailed votes from overseas, and trying to hook up more returning veterans with business opportunities.

Most academics write with careful detachment. But in her new book, When Gay People Get Married: What Happens When Societies Legalize Same-Sex Marriage, MV Lee Badgett opens on an unusually personal note, recounting her own decision to marry.

"They're loading it with people to get favorable votes," said UMass trustee Larry Doyle, an appointee of former Gov.

The October 20 survey was depressing and unsurprising news. Approximately 1,820 Brits out of 2,000 - that's 91 percent - told Lightspeed Research that they would never pay for news online.

Experiments at the Pioneer Valley Life Sciences Institute at Baystate Medical Center in Springfield, Mass., reported in a recent British Journal of Cancer , confirm that University of Massachusetts Amherst chemical engineer Neil Forbesa delivery and trigger system has for the first time successfully placed TRAIL, a cancer-fighting protein, directly ...

After highly publicized protests on the UMass-Amherst campus, some school officials have spoken out on the criticism.

With the upcoming appearance this week by convicted terrorist Ray Luc Levasseur at the University of Massachusetts raising protests from police, the governor, the state Senate and UMass officials, Levasseur himself said Tuesday he was more worried about the hostile environment police were generating to his appearance.

Convicted terrorist Ray Luc Levasseur is scheduled to give a talk at the University of Massachusetts Amherst Thursday, an appearance that has drawn outrage from legislators, the governor and even school officials -- and has led to an on-again, off-again soap opera for the school, the Republican reports.

A talk by a former member of the United Freedom Front, a radical group involved in domestic terrorism in the 1970s and 1980s, has drawn both protesters and the media to the quiet campus of the University of Massachusett tonight.

A convicted domestic terrorist whose scheduled speech at the University of Massachusetts was canceled has been re-invited to campus by a faculty group against the objections of school administration and Gov.

A convicted terrorist's on-again-off-again speech at UMASS Amherst is on again -- with a twist.

Five University of Massachusetts professors, including one from UMass Lowell, will receive the 2009 President's Public Service Award.