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“It’s a diverse place. It’s a place that says, ‘This is you now, where do you want to be?'"
Alumni Achievements

Menswear designer Joseph Abboud’s French professor at UMass Boston steered him on a path to success.
In the Community

“As part of the UMass Boston hockey program, we’re very involved with outreach in the community.”
Building Our Campus

“What we are doing is unlike anything anywhere in the world. We’re going to bring history alive.”
Life on Campus

“People from all over are coming to play hockey. I’ve met so many people that have shaped my life.”
Global Outreach

“Our mission is to provide services and opportunity to populations who are in need.”
Global Outreach

Professor Padraig O’Malley has served as a facilitator of peace in Ireland, South Africa, and Iraq.
Life on Campus

As a freshman, Attleboro resident Kebba Nasso broke one outdoor and four indoor track records.
Life on Campus

“UMass Boston gave me the structure and guidance to actually set up a business. Now I’m a CEO.”
Alumni Achievements

“This university gave me everything I needed to know about attitude."
Creativity & Innovation

Professor Ed Tronick was one of the first to show babies are affected by their parents' emotions.
Alumni Achievements

The education of “America’s Top Cop” involved acquiring an “appreciation of differences.”
Life on Campus

“Through the CLA First! program, I met my two best friends.”
Life on Campus

“As an athlete, what attracted me to UMass Boston was the athletics. We’re just one big family.”
Life on Campus

“UMass Boston’s focus on community service is going to help as I become a researcher practitioner.”
Global Outreach

UMass Boston Upward Bound students are going back to Guatemala to build a school out of trash.
Alumni Achievements

"I couldn't afford to buy new things. That's when I first thought of becoming a fashion designer."
Global Outreach

“I urge everyone to go on an alternative break trip. The trips offer so many invaluable lessons. “
Creativity & Innovation

Marc Pomplun builds interfaces so physically challenged users can write using their eyes.
Alumni Achievements

“It is as if Boston State College and UMass Boston were especially made for people like me."
Creativity & Innovation

“Being surrounded by other high-tech startups presents exciting possibilities for collaboration.”
In the Community

“UMass Boston’s urban mission is no better fulfilled than when it works with schools.”
Creativity & Innovation

“There’s nowhere in the country I would rather do my work."
Outstanding Faculty

The Web Nurse named Jacqueline Fawcett one of the 20 most influential scholars in nursing.
Building Our Campus

The Integrated Sciences Complex will be a catalyst for cutting-edge research, teaching, and training
Outstanding Faculty

”My data are used by scientists in Europe and in the States to monitor crops and climate changes.”
In the Community

“It is part of our university’s mission to engage in our community.”
Life on Campus

“If you want to go somewhere in the entertainment industry, the professors give you many tools.”
Outstanding Faculty

“They call me an urban oceanographer because I study the ocean water right off Morrissey Boulevard.”
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Students are working on the first major excavation of a 19th-century greenhouse in New England.

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UMass Boston student Greg Meyers took this picture of a Cichorium endivia flower, a genetics research plant, in the greenhouse.

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Pension Action Center

Pension Action Center
May 15, 2012

The Pension Action Center Keeps Up the Fight for Pension Rights

“On April 27, 2012, the Pension Action Center wrote to the Internal Revenue Service to advocate for the pension rights of American workers and retirees. The Pension Action Center’s letter was prompted by a request from the American Society of Pension Professionals and Actuaries (ASPPA) that plans be relieved of their legal obligation to notify [...]...”

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