The University of Massachusetts Boston, also known as UMass Boston, is an urban public research university and the second-largest campus in the five-campus University of Massachusetts system.

The University of Massachusetts Amherst, located in Amherst, is the flagship and largest school in the UMass system.

It is unique in the UMass system in that it consists of two major campuses for classes, one for residential living, and another for graduate studies.

It is unique in the UMass system in that it is the only school to contain a hospital

UMass Boston ’ s is known for its growing and diverse student body of more than 11, 000 undergraduates and nearly 4, 000 graduate students, making it the second largest campus in the system.

Located in the heart of Central Massachusetts on a campus it shares with clinical partner UMass Memorial Health Care, the region ’ s premier health care delivery system and largest employer, UMass Medical consistently ranks among the top ten percent in the U. S. News & World Report ’ s annual ranking of best medical schools.

The University of Massachusetts Lowell ( also known as UMass Lowell or UML ) is a public university in Lowell, Massachusetts, United States, and part of the University of Massachusetts system.

The UMass Lowell Doctorate of Physical Therapy program is the only DPT program in the University of Massachusetts, and Massachusetts State University system.

It became a UMass campus in 1991 when Southeastern Massachusetts University was merged into the University of Massachusetts system.

SMU was merged into the UMass system and adopted its present name in 1991.

The University of Massachusetts Medical School ( UMMS ) is one of five campuses of the University of Massachusetts ( UMass ) system.

In 1998 the UMMS system of hospitals and clinics merged with Memorial Health Care to form UMass Memorial Health Care, the largest health-care provider in Central Massachusetts and clinical partner of UMMS.

UMass Memorial is a $ 1. 2 billion health-care system consisting of acute-care hospitals, ambulatory clinics and a network of primary care physicians and specialists throughout central Massachusetts.

The HyReminder system, developed by the Worcester Polytechnic Institute and UMass Medical School, continually tracks healthcare workers for hygiene compliance ( e. g. sanitizing hands and wearing masks ), reminding them to perform hygiene when appropriate to prevent the spread of infectious disease.

In 1990, the position of President of the entire UMass system was added to his responsibilities.

UMass Boston was mentioned in Martin Scorsese's 2006 crime drama, The Departed.

He had an NCAA freshman record 105 total rejections during his first year at UMass, and was named the Atlantic 10's Freshman of the Year.

UMass ' visit to the Final Four was later officially nullified by the NCAA because Camby had been found to have accepted $ 28, 000 from two sports agents.

Camby was inducted into the UMass Athletic Hall of Fame on September 10, 2010.

The American site was first at Sam Houston State University under George Greenwade, in 1995 it moved to UMass Boston where it was run by Karl Berry.

In the early ' 70s, she was admitted to a special graduate program in education at UMass.

Ranked as the 19th best university in the world in the Times of London's 2011 World Reputation Rankings, UMass was established in 1863 and consists of the flagship campus in Amherst, along with campuses in Boston, Dartmouth, Lowell and Worcester.

UMass Lowell specifically was ranked 170th on the Tier 1 National University Ranking of the Best Colleges of 2013 by the U. S. News & World Report.

It was their only loss during an eight-game college tour, where the Globetrotters had defeated Michigan State ( 97-83 ), UMass ( 77-68 ) and defending national champion Syracuse ( 83-70 ).

His candidacy for the UMass position was supported by Republican Governor William Weld.

Jack Wilson, Vice President for Academic and Student Affairs, who had come to UMass from the post of J. Erik Jonsson Distinguished Professor at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute to create UMassOnline, was tapped to be the interim President.

Mann was brought up in Amherst, Massachusetts, where his father was a professor of mathematics at the University of Massachusetts ( UMass ).

Pitino was a freshman at the same time future NBA legend Julius Erving spent his junior ( and final ) year at UMass, although the two never played on the same team because freshmen were ineligible to play varsity basketball at the time.

It was founded in 1969 by the Five College Astronomy Department ( University of Massachusetts Amherst ( UMass ), Amherst College, Hampshire College, Mount Holyoke College and Smith College ).

After UMass Amherst devoted its time, energy, and funding to the Large Millimeter Telescope ( LMT ) from approximately 2005, FCRAO was described as being the then –" current platform ", with the LMT referred to as its " future platform ".

Radio at UMass Lowell was started in 1952 by a student named Ed Bonacci.

Michael was a freshman pitcher for the Le Moyne College Dolphins in 2007, but when his younger brother Matthew was accepted as a freshman at UMass in both their baseball and hockey programs ( as an infielder and a goalie ), sophomore Michael transferred to UMass also.

In the same report, UMass Lowell ranked 94th in the Top Public National Universities Ranking, and second among public universities in Massachusetts.

Catapulted by the success of UMMS licenses and patents ( including intellectual property related to RNAi gene-silencing technology and drug and vaccine development ), UMass ranked eighth in the nation in generating income from the licensing of faculty-derived discoveries and products and generated $ 70, 553, 428 in technology-transfer income in FY 2009, executing 50 technology licenses and options and creating one start-up company ( according to the fiscal year 2009 report released by the Association of University Technology Managers ).

UMass Boston works to promote social justice around the world.

UMass Lowell is a comprehensive University with a national reputation in science, engineering, Management and technology, and committed to educating students for lifelong success in a diverse world and conducting research and outreach activities that sustain the economic, environmental and social health of the region.

UMass Dartmouth Law School opened its doors in September 2010, accepting all current SNESL students with a C or better average as transfer students, and achieved ( provisional ) ABA accreditation in June 2012.

* Bayside Exposition Center ( sold to UMass Boston in 2010 for redevelopment )

* A Bit of Cosmic Background, by Robert Kusner, UMass Math Dept Newsletter 2007.

The cancellation of two days of classes in order to create security for the debate resulted in a protest by UMB students, faculty, and staff members at the UMass President's office in downtown Boston.

UMass Boston is fully accredited by the New England Association of Schools and Colleges.

UMass Boston, known by their nickname: the Beacons, has teams competing in the ECAC, the Little East Conference, and ECAC East Ice Hockey.

UMass Boston's undergraduates are represented by the Undergraduate Student Government, which consists of the Undergraduate Student Senate, the executive office of the USG President, and the office of the USG Chief Justice.

UMass Boston's graduate students are represented by the Graduate Student Assembly.

UMass Boston's graduate student employees ( teaching assistants, research assistants, and administrative assistants ) are represented by the Graduate Employee Organization / UAW Local 1596 — UMass Boston Chapter.

The city of Lowell is primarily policed and protected by the Lowell Police Department, secondarily by the Massachusetts State Police, the UMass Lowell Police, and the National Park Service.

( SMU ) UMass Dartmouth offers a wide array of programs in accounting, finance, management information systems, operations management and marketing, all of which are accredited by the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business ( AACSB ) International.

However, his previous trips to the tournament's last weekend, with Memphis ( 2008 ) and UMass ( 1996 ), have been vacated by the NCAA.

The broadcast week includes programming produced by UMass Lowell students and by community hosts who represent the ethnically and linguistically diverse community of Lowell.

Its flagship hospital ( UMass Memorial Medical Center ) straddles two campuses along Route 9 in Worcester, Massachusetts and is designated by the American College of Surgeons as a Level I Trauma Center.

* Sponsored efforts by Prof. Lyle Craker, Medicinal Plant Program, UMass Amherst Department of Plant and Soil Sciences, to obtain a license from the Drug Enforcement Administration for a marijuana production facility.