As a graduate student at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, Ryan Harb helped lead the charge to develop a sustainable, low-maintenance garden to supply a dining hall with fruits, nuts, vegetables, and greens. Now, about two years later, Harb and ... »
A two-alarm fire displaced residents and caused about $1 million worth of damage to an apartment building in Boston's Back Bay early this morning, said the Boston Fire Department. »
Campus police at the University of Massachusetts Amherst are looking to identify a handful of people allegedly involved in the disturbance after the New England Patriots' Super Bowl loss on Feb. 5, in addition to those already arrested. »
The bank has a tentative deal to sell its 37-floor skyscraper in Boston’s Financial District for about $600 million. »
US investigators subpoenaed six years of records from Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center to look into whether the hospital overbilled Medicare for short-stay hospital admissions. »
Police in riot gear fired non-lethal weapons to disperse hundreds of students who swarmed onto a plaza on the University of Massachusetts Amherst campus after the New York Giants defeated the New England Patriots in the Super Bowl last night, college o... »
Interested in a yacht that will allow you to cruise the briny deep, soak up rays on the deck with an umbrella drink -- and pump 3,000 gallons of water a minute at the same time? »
An apartment fire in Allston this morning displaced seven residents, mostly Boston University students, and left one critically injured, according to a Boston Fire Department official. »
A teen who was skiing with the Nipmuc Regional High School ski team fell from a chair lift yesterday at Ward Hill in Shrewsbury and later died at the University of Massachusetts Medical Center in Worcester, according to the Worcester County District At... »
"MIDDLE SCHOOLS ARE the great disaster of the education system," says Robert Gaudet, senior policy analyst at the Donahue Institute at the University of Massachusetts. As education leaders in Boston and other urban districts struggle to raise achieveme... »
Amy Schalet was born in America but raised in the Netherlands. When she returned to the US for college in the early nineties, she noticed some big differences between her two countries. "One was that the teen pregnancy rates were still very high here,'... »
The University of Massachusetts acknowledged today that it discarded original records from the closed-door search for its new president, a process which was previously found to have violated the state's open meeting law. »
Billy Joel had intended to release an autobiography this year but decided against it when he thought it would be falsely marketed as a salacious tell-all. But last night he told plenty to a packed house at Durgin Hall on the University of Massachusetts... »
By Chad Finn, Globe Staff The University of Massachusetts will have a new head football coach when it becomes an... »
As goodbyes go, it didn't reach quite the dramatic crescendo of Bogart and Bergman. The University of Massachusetts was playing its final game in the Football Championship Subdivision. The Mid-American Conference-bound Minutemen also were taking the fi... »
