UMass Boston News

The Massachusetts Genealogical Council annual seminar and meeting will be held on July 18, 2009 at the LaCava Center at Bentley University in Waltham MA.

He came to Governor Deval Patrick's rescue after the early stumbles of Patrick's administration, when the political capital from his landslide 2006 election was dissipating quickly.

UMass-Boston will host an afternoon of international soccer next Thursday, July 9. The event, set from 12-3 p.m. will start with a noontime tournament featuring Tall Ships crew members and naval cadets from Uruguay, Brazil, Romania and Portugal.

Yesterday in the car, my 5-year-old asked me, "Mommy, what does retarded mean?" As a professional in the field of human services for several years, I've certainly bristled at the brazen way much of our society flippantly uses that word.

Salary checks paid to an employee who had left the school nine months earlier, undue overtime payments for information technology workers, and missing computers are among the problems state Auditor Joseph DeNucci identified at the University of Massachusetts at Boston in a report yesterday.

Dar Williams will headline the scaled-down 2009 Boston Folk Music Festival at UMass Boston on Sept.

Have you been having the sort of week that can be improved only by watching people get mowed down by machine gun fire? The Brattle Theatre has anticipated your needs.

There is a longstanding tradition every Wednesday night at an old warehouse in Holyoke.

Many years ago on the streets of the North End and the old West End, Paul Revere Principal Nick Quaratiello began his working career at 6 years old by barking out prices for his unclea s fruit and vegetable pushcart.

Schools, welfare and taxes. Those are the big concerns some people have about immigrants' impact on public spending.

Pam Juneau raised $2,010 and joined 2,500 others in the two-day 39.3-mile Avon Walk Boston for breast cancer.

Kylee Pait knew after just two weeks of class last fall that Jay Villagomez was one of the best teachers she had during her six years at the North Central Charter Essential School on Oak Hill Road.

Over the years Ellis Island has grown to 27 acres from its original three, yet it still remains a mere dot in New York Harbor.

Gov. Deval Patrick along with the presidents of MIT, UMass, Boston University, and the CEOs and Chairmen of EMC and Cisco Systems came together today to announce the creation of a first class computing center and research program in Holyoke.

The recession is driving home a bitter truth about the 21st-century job market: A tidy, linear path to a secure career is increasingly hard to find.

FORMER 400m hurdler Edwin Moses revealed recently that never in his wildest dreams did he believe he would achieve all he did as an athlete.

Dominique Powell, a Dorchester born and raised University of Massachusetts Boston senior who became passionate about veteran affairs after serving in the U.S. Marine Corps, was the first veteran in UMass history honored with the 2009 John F. Kennedy award for Academic Excellence at the University's 41st commencement ceremony May 29.

By Joseph Porcelli - Tue, 06/09/2009 - 1:33pm. When: Tuesday, June 23, 8:00 am - " 2:30 pm Where: UMass-Boston's Campus Center, 100 Morrissey Boulevard, Boston, MA URL: www.massrecycle.org/greenoffice Register now to attend the unique conference focused on reducing your business costs by greening your office.

Founder and former director of the Center for Women in Politics and Public Policy at the University of Massachusetts, Boston; Adjunct Professor at George Washington University's Trachtenberg School of Public Policy and Public Administration.

The director of a center for women in politics at the University of Massachusetts at Boston apologized yesterday for sending out a mass e-mail in which she appeared to solicit donations for state Representative Ruth B. Balser, a Newton mayoral candidate.