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By SCOTT MERZBACH

AMHERST — In demanding that University of Massachusetts leadership condemn Israel’s recent military actions in the Middle East and cut campus ties with companies that support the defense industry, several hundred students Wednesday afternoon were...

By SCOTT MERZBACH

AMHERST — A reward of up to $5,000 is being offered by the People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals for information that will lead to the arrest and conviction of a person who allegedly damaged an animal rights display on the University of...

By MADDIE FABIAN

Editor’s note: This is the third of four articles from the Western Massachusetts Solar Forum series taking place in September.AMHERST — At Joe Czajkowski Farm in Hadley, not only does the broccoli field produce fresh vegetables, but rows of solar...

By DOMENIC POLI

Experts say that if you encounter a bear it is important to immediately make yourself look big, talk very calmly and slowly back away.But after that, if you saw the carnivoran mammal in Massachusetts, you can go to bit.ly/3raabc8 to report the...

By MADDIE FABIAN

Editor’s note: This is the second of four articles from the Western Massachusetts Solar Forum series taking place in September.AMHERST — At the site of the old Mount Tom Station coal-fired power plant stands around 17,000 solar panels generating...

By SCOTT MERZBACH

AMHERST — Three years of monitoring and tracking moon patterns, and finding just the right place to photograph Earth’s satellite rising behind the University of Massachusetts, paid off for a Northampton resident, who recently captured the super blue...

By MADDIE FABIAN

AMHERST — Moving triplets into three separate dorms all in one day is no easy task, but the Lawn family did just that on Thursday, when first-year students were welcomed to the University of Massachusetts on a sunny and breezy move-in day.“We’re...

By SCOTT MERZBACH

AMHERST — Former University of Massachusetts Chancellor Robert Holub, who led the Amherst campus between 2008 and 2012 during a period of economic uncertainty, died Sunday in Ohio, according to an email sent to the campus community from current...

By MADDIE FABIAN

AMHERST — It’s fitting that new University of Massachusetts Amherst Chancellor Javier Reyes, a “Star Wars” fan, invoked a quote from one of the iconic franchise’s main characters to conclude remarks at the end of his first Community Breakfast Tuesday...

By MADDIE FABIAN

EASTHAMPTON — In November, a local group of medical professionals and researchers will travel to Ghana to hold a training conference for Ghanaian midwives from rural health centers.The trip is an effort of the Midwifery Exchange in Ghana, a group that...

By SOPHIE HAUCK

AMHERST — The University of Massachusetts Amherst has won bragging rights for having the best campus food in the country for the seventh consecutive time, the Princeton Review determined, based on feedback from college students across the country.The...

By MADDIE FABIAN

AMHERST — Medication used to halt the growth of cancer cells might one day become an effective treatment for Lyme disease, according to a new study led by a University of Massachusetts Amherst team at the New England Regional Center of Vector-Borne...

By JAMES PENTLAND

AMHERST — What if all you needed to generate electricity was thin film material, microscopic fibers and air?Researchers at the University of Massachusetts have proved it can be done, and now they’re showing that many different kinds of materials can...

By Scott Merzbach

AMHERST — The town will get approximately $5.5 million, including $700,000 annually for emergency medical and fire service, under the terms of a new five-year strategic partnership deal announced Wednesday.The deal, which is retroactive to July 1,...

By ALEXANDER MACDOUGALL

AMHERST — Nested within a thickly wooded area behind UMass Amherst’s School of Education, a group of college students stand hunched over the soil in a fenced area, looking for bones.Using small 4½-inch trowels, the students slowly scrape the dirt...

By SCOTT MERZBACH

AMHERST — Even as a number of states have moved to prohibit gender-affirming medical care for transgender minors through legislation and policy changes, a University of Massachusetts economist has co-authored a just-released report showing that...

AMHERST — A provost and senior vice chancellor for academic affairs at the University of Massachusetts since last summer is leaving her position at the end of July to take a similar role at the University of Washington.Tricia Serio, who assumed the...

By SCOTT MERZBACH

AMHERST — Some roads near the University of Massachusetts will be closed and traffic patterns modified as 11,000 students begin leaving the campus for the semester this week, in advance of the undergraduate and graduate commencement Friday...

By SCOTT MERZBACH

AMHERST — Some roads near the University of Massachusetts will be closed and traffic patterns modified as 11,000 students begin leaving the campus for the semester this week, in advance of the undergraduate and graduate commencement Friday...

By SCOTT MERZBACH

AMHERST — State Auditor Diana DiZoglio is seeking a legal review of the potential transition of state employee positions that handle University of Massachusetts advancement and fundraising functions to the private UMass Amherst Foundation.The auditor...