- Urban Harbors Institute Hosts Conference to Address Issues Facing Nation’s Working WaterfrontsThe NWWN is dedicated to supporting, preserving, and enhancing the nation’s working waterfronts.
- Mayor Wu Appoints UMass Boston Professor as Chair of Boston Human Rights CommissionBoston Mayor Michelle Wu has named Professor of Latin American and Iberian Studies Reyes Coll-Tellechea as chairwoman of the city’s Human Rights Commission, which aims to advance equity, understanding, and respect for all.
- UMass President and Chancellors sign on to national non-partisan student voter commitmentALL IN Campus Democracy Challenge’s goal is 100 percent student voter registration and participation in all elections
- UMass Boston’s Mauricio Gastón Institute for Latino Community Development Awarded $100K Cummings GrantUMass Boston’s Mauricio Gastón Institute for Latino Community Development and Public Policy is one of 140 local nonprofits to receive grants through Cummings Foundation’s $25 Million Grant Program.
- Roxbury High School Students to Study Urban Planning at UMass BostonUMass Boston’s Department of Urban Planning and Community Development and Pre-Collegiate Program, in collaboration with the Boston Planning and Development Agency, Boston Public Schools, and Madison Park Technical Vocational High School, are launching a new summer immersion program.
- Chemistry PhD Student Receives Research Award from Department of EnergyThe SCGSR award is given to outstanding U.S. graduate students to pursue part of their graduate thesis research at a Department of Energy laboratory/facility.
- UMass Boston Receives $1.6 million in Funding for New Biophysical Core FacilityThe new Core Facility will be a part of the UMass Boston core facilities, which bring cutting-edge instrumentation, methodologies, and expertise to the research community.
- Stephanie Walker Appointed New Dean of LibrariesStephanie Walker has been appointed as the new Dean of University Libraries at UMass Boston effective August 22, 2022.
- UMass Boston Lacrosse Player Named Recipient Of Yeardley Reynolds Love Unsung Hero AwardSenior Gil Del Valle has been named the recipient of the prestigious Yeardley Reynolds Love Unsung Hero Award, which recognizes the accomplishments of student-athletes who help their teams achieve success in ways that may not be measured in goals, save or ground balls.
- New UMass Boston Report Details Latest Climate Risk Projections for the Greater Boston AreaIn a five-year update to research on likely climate changes in the Boston area, researchers from the University of Massachusetts Boston today released findings from the Greater Boston Research Advisory Group Report (GBRAG), entitled Climate Change Impacts and Projections for the Greater Boston Area.
- Boston Mayor Michelle Wu Encourages UMass Boston Grads to Think About What Is PossibleBoston Mayor Michelle Wu called on the Class of 2022 to embrace the radicalness of possibility in her keynote address at UMass Boston’s undergraduate commencement at the Boston Convention and Exhibition Center Friday morning.
- Class of 2022 Doctoral Students and Honorary Degree Recipients Celebrated at Hooding CeremonyUMass Boston celebrated the Class of 2022 doctoral students and honorary degree recipients yesterday to kick off two days of commencement events.
- Graduates Look Back on Their UMass Boston ExperiencesUMass Boston conferred degrees to 4,013 Class of 2022 undergraduate and graduate students at commencement ceremonies this week. We asked our graduates about their time on campus and what they’re excited for.
- Chancellor’s Awards for Distinguished Scholarship, Teaching, and Service AnnouncedEach year the university celebrates the excellence of its faculty by recognizing the accomplishments of members who have demonstrated exceptional contributions in one of the three primary areas of faculty responsibility by presenting them with these awards.
- Award-Winning Science Journalist, Researcher Named Graduate Commencement SpeakerCourtney Humphries, a PhD student who will be awarded her doctorate at the UMass Boston commencement, has been selected as the graduate ceremony speaker.
- Transgender Activist MG Xiong Named JFK Award WinnerMG Xiong, originally from Anchorage, Alaska, came to Boston because of its higher education offerings, has been named the Class of 2022 John F. Kennedy Award winner, the highest honor bestowed on a graduating senior at UMass Boston.
- New Study by UMass Boston Professor Looks at How Bird Flu SpreadsNichola Hill, who studies how viruses jump to new species, is the lead author of a study released this week in the journal PLOS Pathogens, which uses historical data to look at how bird flu transmits among different groups of birds, and which birds are super spreaders of the virus.
- $1.2 Million Grant Launches New Interdisciplinary Education Program at UMass BostonA new interdisciplinary program at UMass Boston prepares future educators for social-emotional learning while addressing personnel shortages in education.
- Five Students, Alumni Named to Fulbright US Student ProgramThe highly competitive scholarship opportunity provides funding for American students to conduct research or teach English in more than 140 countries overseas.
- New Dean Appointed to Lead Manning College of Nursing and Health SciencesUMass Boston has appointed Bo Fernhall, PhD, from the University of Illinois Chicago (UIC), to head the recently renamed Manning College of Nursing and Health Sciences and serve as professor of Exercise Health Science, effective August 15, 2022.
- A Year of Public Affairs: The Importance of Public Service at the McCormack SchoolFor our academic mission at the John W. McCormack School of Policy and Global Studies, public engagement describes the myriad of ways in which the activity and benefits of higher education and research can be shared with the public through a public service mandate.
- McCormack Alumnus Dr. Christopher Graham’s Local-to-Global worldview in Shaping Student Success and Continued Commitment to Public ServiceA Local-to-Global worldview in Shaping Student Success and Continued Commitment to Public Service at The McCormack Graduate School.
