Sport management alumnus Bill Hubbard, in conjunction with Tokio-Marine HCC, has established an endowed fund with a $1 million gift that will provide financial support to McCormack Department of Sport Management students who participate in internships within the sport and entertainment industry...
Aclarity LLC, a startup water technology company founded by civil engineering Ph.D. student Julie Bliss Mullen and Barrett Mully, a spring MBA graduate of the Isenberg School of Management, was recently awarded $225,000 by the National Science Foundation Small Business Innovation Research grant...
University of Massachusetts Amherst Director of Athletics Ryan Bamford announced the finalization of a $5.58 million gift commitment by Marty Jacobson ’68 to the University of Massachusetts Athletics Department on Wednesday, June 20. In honor of the gift, UMass Amherst will name its football team facility the “Martin Jacobson Football Performance Center.”
After a journey of 20 miles and 450 million years, a 3-ton specimen of pillow lava has found a home on a grassy area just above the Morrill Courtyard steps.
The rock, part of what geologists call the Hawley Formation, was donated by the owners of Ashfield Stone in Shelburne Falls, Jerry Pratt...
Fourteen UMass Amherst students and alumni have been awarded Fulbright grants for 2018-19, reports the university’s Office of National Scholarship Advisement (ONSA).
At Undergraduate Commencement at UMass Amherst, CNN anchor Jake Tapper called on the Class of 2018 to lead the nation out of a dark period, set a moral standard of which they can be proud, and embrace the humanity of others.
The 2018 Barnard Women Poets Prize has been awarded to Karen Skolfield, a lecturer in the UMass Amherst College of Engineering and a 1998 graduate of the MFA for Poets and Writers program. A U.S. Army veteran who lives in Amherst, Skolfield won the prize for “Battle Dress,” her second collection of poems.
The Friends of the Morrill Homestead in Strafford, Vermont—the historic home of Justin Smith Morrill, father of the Land-Grant College Acts and a framer of the 14th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution—invite alumni and students of UMass Amherst and all land grant colleges to a free Land-...
CNN anchor and chief Washington correspondent Jake Tapper and Pearl Harbor veteran Leonard Gardner will be awarded honorary degrees during Undergraduate Commencement at UMass Amherst on Friday, May 11 at 4:30 p.m. at McGuirk Alumni Stadium.
The sixth annual UMassGives, the UMass Amherst’s 48-hour online fundraising event, raised a record $1.5 million from 7,062 gifts. The successful campaign ran from April 26 to midnight on April 27.
