AMHERST, Mass. – A plan for an enterprise that would monitor and provide failure warning systems for earthen structures has won the $45,000 phase of the Technology Innovation Challenge, a competition for the best entrepreneurial technology business plan run by the College of Engineering, the Isenberg School of Management, and the College of Natural Sciences and Mathematics at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. The challenge, a competition for students, recent alumni and faculty advisors on campus, is primarily sponsored by Wolf, Greenfield & Sacks, a Boston-based law firm specializing in intellectual property.

Alumnus Edward P. Marram to receive a Distinguished Achievement Award

AMHERST, Mass. – The University of Massachusetts Amherst will award four honorary degrees during its undergraduate and graduate commencement ceremonies May 25-26.

AMHERST, Mass. – Five University of Massachusetts Amherst alumni, including National Public Radio correspondent Audie Cornish and Boston Herald sports writer Steve Buckley, will speak at a panel discussion on Tuesday, April 24, from 5 to 7 p.m. at the Blue Wall Eatery in the Campus Center.

BOSTON – The University of Massachusetts Amherst Alumni Association presented its annual Distinguished Alumni Awards today at noon in the Great Hall of the Massachusetts State House in Boston.