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UMass Dartmouth receives a large charitable donation to support it's annual Fourth of July celebration. Bristol County Savings Bank has donated $25,000 which will be used to operate the Freedom Festival on the Dartmouth campus on Friday, July 3...

Give back. That was the message graduating students at University of Massachusetts Law School received during their Commencement ceremony

It's commencement weekend at UMass Dartmouth. Nearly 2,000 undergraduate and graduate students will receive degrees this weekend. U.S. Senator Edward Markey was one of the speakers, and drew applause when he talked about his plan to reduce the high cost of getting an education...

A former congressman and current chancellor of the University of Massachusetts-Lowell is taking over the entire five-campus UMass system.

Nearly 6,000 people have been declared dead as a result of a weekend earthquake in Nepal, with many more missing. UMass Dartmouth students with direct ties to the country are in the planning stages to assist in the ongoing relief efforts...

State Representative Antonio Cabral has included funding for fisheries research at a local institution in the next fiscal year's proposed state budget. The $450,000 included in the budget proposal would be allocated for the University of Massachusetts' School of Marine Science and Technology...

It's being touted as one of the largest job fairs to come to the area. The New Bedford Area Chamber of Commerce, in partnership with UMass Dartmouth and BCC, is hosting the Southcoast Jobs Fair Wednesday at the Tripp Athletic Center on the UMass Dartmouth campus...

Payers were spoken, poems were read, and thoughts were shared during a candlelight vigil at UMass Dartmouth Tuesday evening.

University of Massachusetts trustees have named a 21-member search committee to find a new president for the five-campus system.

University of Massachusetts president Robert Caret is leaving to become the chancellor of the University System of Maryland. The announcement was made on Wednesday by James Shea, chairman of the USM Board of Regents. Caret will begin his new post on July 1, 2015...