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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...
By SCOTT MERZBACH
AMHERST — National Soccer Hall of Fame goalkeeper Briana Scurry, a 1993 University of Massachusetts graduate who led UMass to a Final Four that year, will be the keynote speaker at the UMass commencement next month.Considered a trailblazer for African...
By SCOTT MERZBACH
AMHERST — Student activists are calling for the abolition of police at the University of Massachusetts, while directing campus leaders to put more resources toward ensuring that 900 or so students who have yet to obtain housing for this fall — and who...
By SCOTT MERZBACH
AMHERST — As a single mother of five living in the United States for 24 years, Fathima Shaifdeen has long wanted to become a U.S. citizen, but had that opportunity delayed by five years when she returned to Sri Lanka to care for her ailing...
By SCOTT MERZBACH
AMHERST — Incoming University of Massachusetts Chancellor Javier Reyes is aiming to keep the flagship campus — which he said was already excelling under its current leadership — a place students want to attend for its strong academics and an...
By SCOTT MERZBACH
AMHERST — The University of Massachusetts Amherst has unveiled a new seal featuring the spire of the Old Chapel and a new brand mark designed to give the flagship Amherst campus its own identity within the University of Massachusetts system.The...
By SCOTT MERZBACH
AMHERST — Amherst’s legislative delegation at the State House is offering support to unions at the University of Massachusetts fighting a reorganization plan in which about 100 employees who work in Advancement Services would be moved to the private...
By SCOTT MERZBACH
AMHERST — Two University of Massachusetts police officers who arrested a student on Commonwealth Avenue near the Mullins Center last November, an action that came under scrutiny by the campus administration for potential use of excessive force and...
By SCOTT MERZBACH
AMHERST — A $20 million donation that is the largest cash gift in the history of the Isenberg School of Management at the University of Massachusetts will go toward attracting and retaining top-tier faculty, supporting research and enhancing...
By SCOTT MERZBACH
AMHERST — Classes running later into the spring at the University of Massachusetts and graduation at the end of May for the first time in 14 years means many students will be staying in Amherst for more warm weather weekends.Since the change in the...
By SCOTT MERZBACH
AMHERST — As regulars at University of Massachusetts women’s basketball games, Gabe Reif and his daughter, Cassie Reif Matoney, are among those who have become well acquainted with the players on a team that this weekend aims to win back-to-back...
By SCOTT MERZBACH AMHERST — Moments after a unanimous vote Thursday morning by the University of Massachusetts board of trustees naming him the chancellor-elect for the flagship campus, Javier Reyes offered his appreciation for being selected in both...
By SCOTT MERZBACH
AMHERST — Javier Reyes, the interim chancellor at the University of Illinois Chicago since July, is being recommended as the next chancellor at the flagship campus for the University of Massachusetts.UMass President Marty Meehan announced Wednesday...
By SCOTT MERZBACH
AMHERST — Javier Reyes, interim chancellor at the University of Illinois-Chicago, and Paul Tikalsky, dean of The College of Engineering, Architecture & Technology at Oklahoma State University, are the finalists to replace Kumble Subbaswamy, who is...
By SCOTT MERZBACH
AMHERST — In becoming a top-tier research institution, the University of Massachusetts Amherst has much to be proud of, says Javier Reyes, who is interested in becoming the university’s next chancellor.“What UMass Amherst has accomplished in the last...
By SCOTT MERZBACH
AMHERST — Should Paul Tikalsky be selected as the next chancellor for the University of Massachusetts Amherst, he would strive to continue the campus’s growing reputation for academic excellence.“You don’t have to rebuild anything,” Tikalsky said...
By SCOTT MERZBACH
AMHERST — John Bracey, a pioneer in Black studies and founding member of the W.E.B Du Bois Department of Afro-American Studies at the University of Massachusetts, died over the weekend at 81, according to the university.Chancellor Kumble R. Subbaswamy...
By SCOTT MERZBACH
AMHERST — Two higher education leaders from the Midwest are finalists to succeed Kumble R. Subbaswamy as chancellor at the flagship campus of the University of Massachusetts In an email to the campus community Wednesday, search committee Chairman...
By SCOTT MERZBACH
AMHERST — The University of Massachusetts is pausing a plan to build a pavilion as a tribute to its workers on the outskirts of campus on the Arthur F. Kinney Center for Renaissance Studies property, responding to outcries from residents who cherish...
By STEVE PFARRER
AMHERST — After nearly 18 years at the helm of the largest art gallery at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, Loretta Yarlow will step down from the University Museum of Contemporary Art (UMCA) at the end of June.Yarlow, who came to the Valley...
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