The University of Massachusetts-Amherst was founded in 1863 in Amherst, Massachusetts, about 90-miles from Boston. UMASS Amherst is ranked as one of the top 200 universities in the world.

Joe Biden’s imprint on the federal judiciary goes far beyond his naming of the first Black woman justice to the Supreme Court. Text message-based programming and the drug varenicline were the ...

AMHERST — UMass Chancellor Javier Reyes is seeking a new public-private partnership that could bring to the University of Massachusetts campus affordable, mixed-use ...

along with more wild bird deaths in Boston and on the University of Massachusetts Amherst campus, according to the Massachusetts Department of Public Health. State health officials say the H5N1 ...

A University of Massachusetts Amherst-Ernest Pharmaceuticals team of scientists has made "exciting," patient-friendly advances in developing a non-toxic bacterial therapy, BacID, to deliver cancer ...

according to National Weather Service data reported Wednesday by the University of Massachusetts Amherst. In 2024, Central and Western Massachusetts tied 2012 for the warmest year on record.

Don Brown, who was fired as UMass Amherst’s head football coach in ... said state funding accounts for about 27 percent of the university system’s total budget. UMass is the state’s third ...

Rewards and financial incentives are successful methods to help people quit smoking, according to a new Cochrane review co-led by a University of Massachusetts Amherst public health and health ...

UMass President Marty Meehan has said students at the state university system will likely see tuition hikes in the coming year. Meehan, a former congressman who has led UMass schools since 2015 ...

Amherst College is a small, private liberal arts college based in Amherst, Massachusetts. It is highly selective, and frequently ranks well among liberal arts colleges in the US. It was founded in ...

Education: University of Massachusetts at Amherst, BA in journalism; University of Maryland at College Park, master's in journalism Dan Lamothe joined The Washington Post in 2014 to cover the U.S ...

University of Massachusetts--Amherst is a public institution where all of the graduate-level, online nursing classes are recorded and archived so that students can access lecture material at their ...