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Building Our Campus

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

Rendering of the Integrated Sciences Complex (ISC)
Alumni Achievements

The education of â€œAmericaâ€™s Top Copâ€ involved acquiring an â€œappreciation of differences.â€

Alumnus William Bratton, the only person to lead both the NYPD and LAPD, speaks at a podium.
Global Outreach

â€œOur mission is to provide services and opportunity to populations who are in need.â€

A UMass Boston student volunteers at a free clinic through Kenya Heart and Sole, one of the schoolâ€™s global initiatives.
Creativity & Innovation

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

Professor and author Ed Tronick with one of his books
Global Outreach

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

A group of UMass Boston-based Upward Bound students traveled to Guatemala to build a school out of recycled materials.
Creativity & Innovation

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

Marc Pomplun, in UMass Bostonâ€™s Visual Attention Laboratory, demonstrates how the EyeLink-2k system works.
Alumni Achievements

â€œThis university gave me everything I needed to know about attitude."

Gina McCarthy is a pioneer in climate change, global warming and clean air who caught the attention of President Obama.
Global Outreach

Professor Padraig Oâ€™Malley has served as a facilitator of peace in Ireland, South Africa, and Iraq.

Padraig O'Malley sits next to African peace activist Leymah Roberta Gbowee before her address.
Alumni Achievements

â€œIt is as if Boston State College and UMass Boston were especially made for people like me."

Robert Haynes, former president of the Massachusetts AFL-CIO, speaks from a podium.
Life on Campus

â€œPeople from all over are coming to play hockey. Iâ€™ve met so many people that have shaped my life.â€

Jimmy Ennis has successfully handled a hockey puck, jobs on and off campus, and an internship at Tufts Medical Center.
Alumni Achievements

Menswear designer Joseph Abboudâ€™s French professor at UMass Boston steered him on a path to success.

Two-time Menswear Designer of the Year Joseph Abboud speaks about his time as a student at UMass Boston.
In the Community

â€œUMass Bostonâ€™s urban mission is no better fulfilled than when it works with schools.â€

Lisa Gonsalves, director of Teach Next Year, is surrounded by teachers participating at Dorchester Academy.
Life on Campus

â€œAs an athlete, what attracted me to UMass Boston was the athletics. Weâ€™re just one big family.â€

Shannon Thompson is seen here playing volleyball for the Beacons.
Creativity & Innovation

â€œBeing surrounded by other high-tech startups presents exciting possibilities for collaboration.â€

Richard Anderson, right, shows Governor Deval Patrick the server room in the Venture Development Center.
Alumni Achievements

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

Amsale Aberra
Life on Campus

â€œUMass Boston gave me the structure and guidance to actually set up a business. Now Iâ€™m a CEO.â€

Michael Emeryâ€™s startup surfboard company received assistance through the universityâ€™s Entrepreneurship Center.
Life on Campus

â€œUMass Bostonâ€™s focus on community service is going to help as I become a researcher practitioner.â€

Shaun Glaze chats with a friend in the Campus Center.
Life on Campus

â€œThrough the CLA First! program, I met my two best friends.â€

Raha Talebinejad studies for an exam in the CLA First! office. CLA First! is a cohort program for freshmen.
In the Community

â€œAs part of the UMass Boston hockey program, weâ€™re very involved with outreach in the community.â€

UMass Boston hockey captain Jimmy Ennis reads to children at UMass Bostonâ€™s Early Learning Center.
Outstanding Faculty

â€œThey call me an urban oceanographer because I study the ocean water right off Morrissey Boulevard.â€

Bob Chen speaks with his colleagues as three sensor buoys are readied for the spring.
Creativity & Innovation

â€œThereâ€™s nowhere in the country I would rather do my work."

Author and teacher Jean Rhodes stands outside the elevators in Healey Library.
Outstanding Faculty

â€My data are used by scientists in Europe and in the States to monitor crops and climate changes.â€

Crystal Schaaf takes a break from using data from NASAâ€™s newest weather satellite for climate models and weather models.
Life on Campus

â€œItâ€™s a diverse place. Itâ€™s a place that says, â€˜This is you now, where do you want to be?'"

You can see one of the reasons Brianna Reyes gives to answer the question,
In the Community

â€œIt is part of our universityâ€™s mission to engage in our community.â€

Franklin Park, Boston's oldest park.
Boston

Students are working on the first major excavation of a 19th-century greenhouse in New England.

UMass Boston students study archaeology at Gore Place, the estate of former Massachusetts Governor Christopher Gore.
Life on Campus

â€œIf you want to go somewhere in the entertainment industry, the professors give you many tools.â€

Music major and theater minor Miguel Fana shares a laugh with two other winners of WUMBâ€™s Talent Quest competition.
Life on Campus

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

Freshman Kebba Nasso has broken UMass Boston indoor track records in the 200, 400, 4x400 meter relay, and triple jump.
Building Our Campus

â€œWhat we are doing is unlike anything anywhere in the world. Weâ€™re going to bring history alive.â€

Rendering of the Edward M. Kennedy Institute for the United States Senate (EMK)
Outstanding Faculty

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

Jacqueline Fawcett meets with two nursing students.
Global Outreach

â€œI urge everyone to go on an alternative break trip. The trips offer so many invaluable lessons. â€œ

UMass Boston students helped build a water system and conducted a dental hygiene workshop in Peru during their spring br

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Nicole West and Janeal Hoyte, smiling graduates Send Us Your Pics!

New UMass Boston alumni Nicole West and Janeal Hoyte celebrate on commencement day. Hoyte submitted the photo.

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A closeup of a blue ceramic piece.

Fiske Center

Fiske Center
Jun 01, 2012

Experimenting with some 3D imaging at Hass Woods

“Check out this 3D model of 2 of the units inside the Sarah Boston cellar feature! This is only a test; we are still learning the program and fine tuning our photography techniques. We hope to complete a similar model … Continue reading →...”

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