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By MADDIE FABIAN
EASTHAMPTON — In November, a local group of medical professionals and researchers will travel to Ghana to hold a training conference for Ghanaian midwives from rural health centers.The trip is an effort of the Midwifery Exchange in Ghana, a group that...
By SOPHIE HAUCK
AMHERST — The University of Massachusetts Amherst has won bragging rights for having the best campus food in the country for the seventh consecutive time, the Princeton Review determined, based on feedback from college students across the country.The...
By MADDIE FABIAN
AMHERST — Medication used to halt the growth of cancer cells might one day become an effective treatment for Lyme disease, according to a new study led by a University of Massachusetts Amherst team at the New England Regional Center of Vector-Borne...
By JAMES PENTLAND
AMHERST — What if all you needed to generate electricity was thin film material, microscopic fibers and air?Researchers at the University of Massachusetts have proved it can be done, and now they’re showing that many different kinds of materials can...
By Scott Merzbach
AMHERST — The town will get approximately $5.5 million, including $700,000 annually for emergency medical and fire service, under the terms of a new five-year strategic partnership deal announced Wednesday.The deal, which is retroactive to July 1,...
By ALEXANDER MACDOUGALL
AMHERST — Nested within a thickly wooded area behind UMass Amherst’s School of Education, a group of college students stand hunched over the soil in a fenced area, looking for bones.Using small 4½-inch trowels, the students slowly scrape the dirt...
By SCOTT MERZBACH
AMHERST — Even as a number of states have moved to prohibit gender-affirming medical care for transgender minors through legislation and policy changes, a University of Massachusetts economist has co-authored a just-released report showing that...
AMHERST — A provost and senior vice chancellor for academic affairs at the University of Massachusetts since last summer is leaving her position at the end of July to take a similar role at the University of Washington.Tricia Serio, who assumed the...
By SCOTT MERZBACH
AMHERST — Some roads near the University of Massachusetts will be closed and traffic patterns modified as 11,000 students begin leaving the campus for the semester this week, in advance of the undergraduate and graduate commencement Friday...
By SCOTT MERZBACH
AMHERST — Some roads near the University of Massachusetts will be closed and traffic patterns modified as 11,000 students begin leaving the campus for the semester this week, in advance of the undergraduate and graduate commencement Friday...
By SCOTT MERZBACH
AMHERST — State Auditor Diana DiZoglio is seeking a legal review of the potential transition of state employee positions that handle University of Massachusetts advancement and fundraising functions to the private UMass Amherst Foundation.The auditor...
By SCOTT MERZBACH
AMHERST — A pavilion to recognize University of Massachusetts service workers appears to be heading to the Orchard Hill portion of campus.The pavilion, originally planned on the grounds of the Arthur F. Kinney Center for Renaissance Studies at 650...
By SCOTT MERZBACH
AMHERST — Unions representing the Advancement division at the University of Massachusetts are taking their appeal for keeping 100 or more workers from losing their state employment to Gov. Maura Healey, asking her to intervene in the ongoing situation...
By SCOTT MERZBACH
AMHERST — A mandate for students, faculty and staff at the University of Massachusetts to be vaccinated against COVID-19 is ending.“Effective July 1, 2023, the university will no longer require faculty, staff and students to receive a COVID-19...
By SCOTT MERZBACH
AMHERST — A planned shift of the University of Massachusetts Advancement Services’ fundraising, alumni communications and event planning to the private UMass Amherst Foundation is getting underway this week, despite continued opposition to the...
By SCOTT MERZBACH
AMHERST — On Earth Day in 2022, University of Massachusetts Chancellor Kumble Subbaswamy announced an ambitious to goal to make the Amherst campus net-zero for carbon emissions, prioritizing sustainability throughout all of its operations.A year after...
AMHERST — The University of Massachusetts announced this week the death of Anjali Khare, a senior psychology major from Belmont.“We extend our sincere condolences to Anjali’s family and friends,” Dean of Students Evelyn L. Ashley wrote in an email...
By Liesel Nygard
GREENFIELD — After a three-year hiatus during COVID, Extravaganja returns Saturday for its 29th event to take place at the Franklin County Fairgrounds, facilitated by the University of Massachusetts Amherst Cannabis Education Coalition. Tickets for...
A slant on SondheimAMHERST — The 1987 musical “Into the Woods,” with music written by Stephen Sondheim and a plot based on selections from the Brothers Grimm fairy tales, won a number of awards and has had several successful revivals over the year.Now...
By SCOTT MERZBACH
AMHERST — Traffic fatalities were up more than 10% year-over-year nationally in 2021, as the per-mile rate of deaths for Black and Hispanic Americans remains much higher than the per-mile rate of deaths for white Americans. Those of low socioeconomic...
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