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Massachusetts Agricultural College (MAC) opened in the autumn of 1867 with four faculty, 34 students, and a handful of buildings.
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An early football team, season of 1886, wearing MAC’s first formal uniform.
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Early dorm rooms in South College typically included a coal stove, oil lamp, and a small personal library.
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Almost as soon as it was created, the college pond became the scene of the annual rope pull, a boisterous communal event pitting freshmen against sophomores.
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During the year 1912-13 there were five women at MAC. By 1920 there were about 60.
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Around the turn of the twentieth century, the approach to campus was along an elm-lined drive, with the new stone chapel in the distance.
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The Stockbridge House, built in 1728, was part of the old farm the college trustees purchased before opening in 1867. The oldest house in Amherst now serves as the University Club.
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Research work at a lab at the Cranberry Experiment Station.
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The Mullins Center, opened in 1993, is home to UMass basketball and hockey, and serves the Pioneer Valley as a public skating rink, concert hall, and events venue.
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Students view exhibits at the Institute for Holocaust, Genocide, and Memory Studies, which opened in 2011.
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Faculty member Roger Porter, the first director, Robert Lenz, and William MacKnight were instrumental in launching the UMass polymer science program.
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Halftime at Gillette Stadium in Foxborough, the new home of Minuteman football in 2012.
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Southwest Residential Area around the time of its completion in 1966.
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Striking students staged a “run on the banks” to demonstrate a possible method for bringing a halt to the Vietnam War.
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By the 1970s, UMass Amherst had a free transit system with off-campus routes.
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UMass Amherst University Without Walls graduates attend the 2011 Commencement.
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Students in Goodell Library, ca. 1962.
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Studio Arts Building, which opened in 2008, is just one of the new buildings to result from Chancellor Lombardi’s “New Dirt” construction program.
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The fifteenth anniversary of the AIDS Quilt Project was marked in November 2007 at the Student Union Art Gallery.
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The candidates for queen of the Military Ball, 1961.
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The UMass Permaculture Garden (2010) is one of the first student-led permaculture gardens on a public university campus in the nation that supplies food directly to its campus dining services.
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The Integrated Sciences Building, with state-of-the-art classrooms and laboratories, opened in 2009.
