* 1974-First classes at UMass Boston's Harbor Campus.

UMass Boston's faculty of more than 900 consists of roughly half tenure-stream and half non-tenure track (" adjunct ") professors.

UMass Boston's independent, student run and financed newspaper is The Mass Media.

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

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

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.

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.

The campus, also known as UMass Dartmouth, " UMassD ", or " UMD ", has an overall student body of 9, 155 students, including undergraduate, graduate students, and ( PCE ) continuing education students.

UMass Dartmouth is host to one of the nation's most extensive undergraduate and graduate programs in Portuguese language and literary studies, offering both a BA and an MA in Portuguese Studies, as well as a new Ph. D. program in Luso-Afro-Brazilian Studies and Theory.

On one of the tables he was waiting, Farrelly struck up a conversation with a writing professor from UMass Amherst, who encouraged Farrelly to apply to graduate school.

A 1984 graduate of UMass Boston, Jovita Fontanez was the first Hispanic woman to serve as head of the Boston Election Commission and the first Hispanic woman to be a member of the Electoral College of Massachusetts.

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.

On June 2, 2006, Barack Obama addressed his commencement speech at UMass Boston to the graduating students.

Intercollegiate athletics, intramurals, and recreation for the students, staff, and faculty are the primary programs of the UMass Boston Department of Athletics.

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

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 Lowell has a total of 16, 330 students as of fall 2012.

With more than 1100 faculty members and more than 16, 000 students, it is the largest university in the Merrimack Valley, the third-largest state institution behind UMass Amherst and UMass Boston.

UMass Lowell has a radiation laboratory with a research reactor and Van De Graff accelerator that provides students with real-world experience in particle physics, nuclear engineering and health physics.

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.

Through that program, 11 UMass faculty went to Sapporo and 52 Japanese faculty and students received advanced training in Amherst.

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

Much of the controversy surrounded the lack of student input in making these changes, prompting open meetings to be held where students, alumni and staff of UMass Lowell could discuss the changes.

There are eight colleges at UMass Boston: the College of Liberal Arts, College of Science and Mathematics, College of Management, College of Nursing and Health Sciences, College of Public and Community Service, College of Education and Human Development, John W. McCormack Graduate School of Policy Studies and Global Studies, and University College.

Marine Operations recently developed the U-Sea Fund Grant for UMass Boston Faculty who are interested in developing a classroom component around our ocean environment.

They are UMass Amherst, Amherst, Mount Holyoke, Smith, and Hampshire.

( 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.

In addition to the UMass Dartmouth main campus is, satellite campuses are located throughout the SouthCoast.

Approximate travel times to or from Park Street station are as follows: northbound to Harvard station, 11 minutes ; Alewife station, 20 minutes ; southbound to JFK / UMass, 8 minutes ; Ashmont station, 17 minutes ; Braintree station, 28 minutes.

One of the fastest-growing academic health centers in the country, UMMS is located in Worcester, Massachusetts ; other UMass sites are located in Amherst, Boston, Dartmouth and Lowell.

In addition to its education, research and public-service missions, the hospital and clinical components of UMMS are part of UMass Memorial Health Care ( UMMHC ).

On December 1, 1982, the station was renamed as JFK / UMass, although most station signs are subtitled as Columbia.

A NPR member, WFCR's studios are currently located at Hampshire House on the UMass campus, but the station will be moving most of its operations to Springfield in 2013.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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 ).

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

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.