“Alec,” an 18-month-old male Labrador Retriever, will be the newest officer for the UMass Police Department (UMPD) after he finishes an eight-week training session with the Massachusetts State Police Academy that begins at the end of October.

Coming off the first Frozen Four appearance in program history, defending national runner-up Massachusetts hockey opens up the 2019-20 season Friday, Oct. 11 at the Mullins Center against Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI). The Minutemen will raise a pair of banners prior to the 7 p.m. faceoff commemorating the team's major accomplishments from last season - winning the Hockey East regular season championship and their appearance in the national championship game. Fans are encouraged to be at their seats 15 minutes prior to the scheduled faceoff to witness the banner-raising ceremony.

2019 Doris Duke Award recipient Terri Lyne Carrington will perform her Grammy Award-winning album “Money Jungle: Provocative in Blue” on Thursday, Oct. 24 at 7:30 p.m. in Bowker Auditorium in Stockbridge Hall.

In this excerpt from an interview held in April of 2019, Daniel Ellsberg describes the contents of his vast archive that spans the late 1940s to the 2010s, now held at the W. E. B. Du Bois Library Special Collections and University Archives. Watch the video.