To read UMass President Robert L. Caret ’ s official biography, please visit the University of Massachusetts web site.

He led UMass to numerous # 1 rankings and the 1996 NCAA Final Four.

In 2012, the Union Dutchmen defeated UMass Lowell Riverhawks to advance to the Frozen Four.

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.

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.

The UMass system was ranked 56th in the world in 2010 by the Times World University Rankings.

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 ).

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.

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.

Located in southeastern Massachusetts, UMass Dartmouth started in 1895 as the New Bedford Textile School, the Bradford Durfee Textile School and later Southeastern Massachusetts University.

* 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.

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 ).

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.

Camby played three seasons for the UMass Minutemen.

On April 29, 1996, Camby announced that he would forgo his senior year at UMass and enter the NBA Draft.

Camby tutored South Hadley students while at UMass, and has been active in charities throughout his career.

In late October 2009, it was reported that the deal had been perfected, with UMass Lowell committing to $ 5 million in repairs to the facility.

During the era that Catamounts had a football team, Centennial Field had stands on both sides of the gridiron and UVM's game with UMass in 1966 had a record crowd of 10, 000 fans.

Vermont that season featured Little All-American halfback Bobby Mitchell and UMass had future NFL QB Greg Landry.