UMass Dartmouth News

JOHN SLADEWSKI/The Standard-Times The Ocean Explorium in New Bedford has opened new exhibits with tanks full of interesting and colorful sea life, such as these clown fish.

UMass Dartmouth has canceled a fireworks display planned for Thursday night. The school said a forecast of evening thunderstorms prompted the decision.

The Community Foundation of Southeastern Massachusetts has awarded college scholarships to four 2009 Fairhaven High School graduates.

Last month, Qualcomm co-founder and former chairman and CEO Irwin Jacobs returned to New Bedford, where he was born, to participate in an oceanside chat sponsored by the Massachusetts Technology Transfer Center, the Southern New England Entrepreneurs Forum and MassNetComms.

I am a student at UMass Dartmouth. I am also one of the parents affected by the university's decision to close its child-care center.

Corporate-sponsored day care is being pruned across Massachusetts as companies look to shave costs.

Czech photographer Josef Sudek was relatively unknown to American audiences until 1974, when the George Eastman House in Rochester, N.Y., presented a full-scale retrospective of his work.

Construction / Mechanical Cluster A $300 academic scholarship donated by the UCT Tech Open Scholarship fund is presented to Taylor Bean , an Environmental Technology student, graduating with honors.

The organizational meeting of the Southeastern Massachusetts Council on Sustainability will be held from 3:30 to 6 p.m. on Thursday at the Advanced Technology Manufacturing Center, 151 Martine St.

UMass Dartmouth's Children's Center for Learning was more than child care; it was early childhood education.

The marine energy research center at the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth received confirmation this week that it will receive $1 million from the U.S. Department of Energy.

It was recently announced that the Children's Center for Learning at UMass Dartmouth would be closed at the end of June.

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UMASS Dartmouth archeology students dig on land at the Akin House on Dartmouth Street.

At first, closing the UMass Dartmouth child-care center for budget reasons seemed like an odd choice.

The Workers' Education Program of the Arnold M. Dubin Labor Education Center at UMass Dartmouth honored 200 men and women who successfully participated in Adult Basic Education - ESOL, ABE, Pre-GED, and GED - classes.

Bishop George W. Coleman will ordain two men to the priesthood for service in the Fall River Diocese at an 11 a.m. Mass today in St.

A year after it first opened its doors to the public, the Ocean Explorium will hold its grand opening, which will kick off the ocean science center's seven-days-a-week operating schedule and provide additional exhibits for adults and children.

UMass Dartmouth's Children's Center for Learning - which has provided inexpensive day care for students, faculty and staff, alumni and the community since 1981 - will close June 26.

The Parish Council of St. George Greek Orthodox Church has nominated Dennis and Pamela Maniatis to be recipients of this year's Laity Ministries Award of the Metropolis of Boston.