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UMass Dartmouth and the Camões Institute for Cooperation and Language of Portugal have renewed a fellowship agreement. The three year agreement was signed Thursday at the Dartmouth campus, and allows the Camões Institute to offer three teaching fellowships in the UMass Deparmtent of Portuguese Graduate program...

BOSTON (AP) _ Officials at the University of Massachusetts say they're holding off on setting tuition rates for the 2016-2017 academic year until after a new state budget has been finalized. UMass President Marty Meehan said Wednesday that the wait-and-see approach is best because it will let the university push for the strongest possible budget deal for the five-campus system...

A new study shows that UMass Dartmouth generates nearly half-a-billion dollars in statewide annual economic impact. The study released by the Donahue Institute measured the impact of the University's local operating expenditures, major construction projects, and the spending of campus faculty, staff, and students...

UMass Dartmouth is holding graduation exercises throughout the weekend. Nearly 2,000 students will receive their degrees from the University. Spokesman John Hoey says this weekend, the school will award 30 doctorate degrees, the highest amount in the school's history...

Members of the legal, legislative and medical fields gathered at the University of Massachusetts School of Law Friday to participate in a roundtable discussion on the opioid epidemic and legal solutions to the crisis.

History, especially tragic history, is a difficult subject to broach when it hits close to home. In the case of the Boston Marathon Bombing, no other event has hit so close to home in my lifetime. While 9/11 impacted us on a much larger scale, terrorism was in our backyard on April 15, 2013...

A production crew for the upcoming film Patriots Day has submitted a preliminary request to film portions of the movie at UMass Dartmouth. Campus spokesman John Hoey confirms to WBSM News he has received the request from CBS Films. The movie will feature Mark Wahlberg as a Boston Police Detective during the events of the Boston Marathon Bombing in April of 2013...

AMHERST, Mass. (AP) _ Democratic presidential hopeful Bernie Sanders is planning a campaign stop in Massachusetts. The Vermont senator will hold a rally on Monday at the University of Massachusetts in Amherst. Sanders campaign officials say he plans to discuss a range of issues, including eliminating big money from politics, combating climate change and making college affordable...

Over the weekend, a 20-year-old UMass Dartmouth student passed away in his dorm room after apparently overdosing on suspected heroin. A tragic circumstance that shouldn't have taken place. Drugs have no room on any college campus in the United States...

The Bristol County District Attorney's Office has released the identity of the 20-year-old University of Massachusetts Dartmouth student that was found dead in his dorm room over the weekend. The DA's Office says Colin Gear of Stoneham, MA, died of an apparent heroin overdose in his dorm room at Birch Hall on the UMass Dartmouth campus...