Recent graduate and art major Rafaela Astudillo won the BCBS Bluebikes design contest at UMass Boston. This competition included a $5,000 donation to the Art Department from BCBS! www.umb.edu/news/recent-...

Katherine Dafforn, a distinguished professor at UMass Boston and co-founder of the Living Seawalls project, was presented with the Boston Innovation Award at a ceremony hosted by Boston Mayor Michelle Wu and the City of Boston’s Environmental Department. www.umb.edu/news/recent-...

Excited to see a new sign on the Boston Harborwalk by @umassboston.bsky.social with illustrations from Melba Torres Sosa boshw.us/sign/below-t...

A beautiful day for undergraduate commencement here @umassboston.bsky.social! Congratulations to all of the graduates and our Economics majors!

It was a beautiful day yesterday for graduate commencement at @umassboston.bsky.social! Congratulations to all of our M.A. in Applied Economics graduates!

Celebrating @umassboston.bsky.social students always lifts my spirits #academicsky

This year we conferred an estimated 3,950 degrees: 2,740 undergraduate, 1,090 master's, and 122 doctoral degrees. Our graduates represent 117 countries, 48 states, and speak more than 70 languages. Nearly 60% of UMass Boston students are first generation college students www.umb.edu/news/recent-...

Excited to see our very own @umassboston.bsky.social @profcew.bsky.social on this list! www.bostonglobe.com/2025/10/20/m... - thinking about balancing growth with equity. #GlobeSummit2025

This is so good to see!! 51%!! Out of the 1,988 in-state freshmen entering @umassboston.bsky.social this year, 1,014 are receiving free-tuition through the Beacon Pledge, designed for households making $75,000 or less #FreeCollege www.wbur.org/news/2025/10...

Last week, President Meehan, Chancellor Collins, and researchers from across the UMass system joined with a broad coalition of advocates to testify in support of Governor Healey's DRIVE Act. (1/4) @massgovernor.bsky.social @umasschan.bsky.social @umassamherst.bsky.social @umassboston.bsky.social

We’re proud to share that UMass Boston will be represented at the Resilient Africa Summit, a global climate policy event hosted by the Pontifical Academy of Sciences (PAS) and the Pontifical Academy of Social Sciences (PASS), taking place at the CIFOR-ICRAF campus in Nairobi #ResilientAfrica

UMass Boston’s College of Management is expanding its undergraduate programs with five new majors, giving students greater opportunities to gain specialized business expertise and stand out in today’s competitive job market!

Today our university, @umassboston.bsky.social, officially became an R1. My colleagues work very hard. Well-deserved!

@umassboston.bsky.social looking pretty good from up here!

A new platform means a new opportunity to post Beacon. 💙