The University of Massachusetts Amherst has announced its Spring 2021 operating plan, inviting additional students to return to campus to advance their studies. The plan prioritizes public health and safety, including expansion of the university’s successful COVID-19 testing program.

Significant gaps remain in the data collection and understanding of LGBTQI+ Americans’ well-being, says a new report from a National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine committee that includes M.V. Lee Badgett, economics and public policy.

UMass Amherst has once again been recognized to be among the nation’s most environmentally responsible higher educational institutions, according to The Princeton Review’s 2021 Guide to Green Colleges.

The reports detail clean energy investment projects through which each state can reduce CO2 emissions by 45% as of 2030 to achieve net zero emissions by 2050 while creating hundreds of thousands of jobs.