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By SCOTT MERZBACH

AMHERST — Two University of Massachusetts police officers who arrested a student on Commonwealth Avenue near the Mullins Center last November, an action that came under scrutiny by the campus administration for potential use of excessive force and...

By SCOTT MERZBACH

AMHERST — A $20 million donation that is the largest cash gift in the history of the Isenberg School of Management at the University of Massachusetts will go toward attracting and retaining top-tier faculty, supporting research and enhancing...

By SCOTT MERZBACH

AMHERST — Classes running later into the spring at the University of Massachusetts and graduation at the end of May for the first time in 14 years means many students will be staying in Amherst for more warm weather weekends.Since the change in the...

By SCOTT MERZBACH

AMHERST — As regulars at University of Massachusetts women’s basketball games, Gabe Reif and his daughter, Cassie Reif Matoney, are among those who have become well acquainted with the players on a team that this weekend aims to win back-to-back...

By SCOTT MERZBACH AMHERST — Moments after a unanimous vote Thursday morning by the University of Massachusetts board of trustees naming him the chancellor-elect for the flagship campus, Javier Reyes offered his appreciation for being selected in both...

By SCOTT MERZBACH

AMHERST — Javier Reyes, the interim chancellor at the University of Illinois Chicago since July, is being recommended as the next chancellor at the flagship campus for the University of Massachusetts.UMass President Marty Meehan announced Wednesday...

By SCOTT MERZBACH

AMHERST — Javier Reyes, interim chancellor at the University of Illinois-Chicago, and Paul Tikalsky, dean of The College of Engineering, Architecture & Technology at Oklahoma State University, are the finalists to replace Kumble Subbaswamy, who is...

By SCOTT MERZBACH

AMHERST — In becoming a top-tier research institution, the University of Massachusetts Amherst has much to be proud of, says Javier Reyes, who is interested in becoming the university’s next chancellor.“What UMass Amherst has accomplished in the last...

By SCOTT MERZBACH

AMHERST — Should Paul Tikalsky be selected as the next chancellor for the University of Massachusetts Amherst, he would strive to continue the campus’s growing reputation for academic excellence.“You don’t have to rebuild anything,” Tikalsky said...

By SCOTT MERZBACH

AMHERST — John Bracey, a pioneer in Black studies and founding member of the W.E.B Du Bois Department of Afro-American Studies at the University of Massachusetts, died over the weekend at 81, according to the university.Chancellor Kumble R. Subbaswamy...

By SCOTT MERZBACH

AMHERST — Two higher education leaders from the Midwest are finalists to succeed Kumble R. Subbaswamy as chancellor at the flagship campus of the University of Massachusetts In an email to the campus community Wednesday, search committee Chairman...

By SCOTT MERZBACH

AMHERST — The University of Massachusetts is pausing a plan to build a pavilion as a tribute to its workers on the outskirts of campus on the Arthur F. Kinney Center for Renaissance Studies property, responding to outcries from residents who cherish...

By STEVE PFARRER

AMHERST — After nearly 18 years at the helm of the largest art gallery at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, Loretta Yarlow will step down from the University Museum of Contemporary Art (UMCA) at the end of June.Yarlow, who came to the Valley...

By SCOTT MERZBACH

AMHERST — Close to the middle of the University of Massachusetts campus, a large building to feature 623 beds for undergraduate students continues to take shape for the fall semester.But unlike the nearby dormitories, including the towers and low...

By SCOTT MERZBACH

AMHERST — Amherst’s Community Responders for Equity, Safety and Service is still in its infancy, but an evaluation of the unarmed responders program, including the calls it is handling, is expected to soon get underway.The Town Council voted 11-1 this...

By ALEXANDER MACDOUGALL

AMHERST — Daniel Ellsberg, the whistleblower who leaked classified information pertaining to the Vietnam War known as the “Pentagon Papers,” was awarded an honorary degree from University of Massachusetts Amherst in a ceremony held in San Francisco...

By ALEXANDER MACDOUGALL

AMHERST — Two years after the events of Jan. 6, 2021, when supporters of former President Donald Trump forced their way into the U.S. Capitol, the views of what happened that day remain firmly entrenched along partisan lines, according to a new...

By SCOTT MERZBACH

AMHERST — A longtime restaurant operating from Amherst’s oldest building, primarily serving faculty on the University of Massachusetts campus but also open to the public and students, is permanently closed.The University Club and Restaurant, or the...

By ALEXANDER MACDOUGALL

AMHERST — An anti-war group at the University of Massachusetts Amherst called the Dissenters is demanding that the university’s business school sever its ties with the defense and aerospace company Raytheon Technologies.The university, however, says...

By SCOTT MERZBACH

AMHERST — The arrest of a University of Massachusetts student during an altercation with a campus police officer is being reviewed by the campus leadership team after witnesses expressed concern for the person taken into custody, according to a...