Sports news web site bleacherreport.com’s Geoffrey Tanner named the Minuteman Marching Band among the six best college athletics bands in the nation.

After a record $54 million rise from 2008, research spending hit an all-time high of $489.1 million at the University of Massachusetts last year, according to an announcement from UMass yesterday.

UMass has earned a spot on the President’s Higher Education Community Service Honor Roll.

The campus will be conducting a test of the UMass Amherst Alerts emergency notification system today between the hours of 5 p.m. and 7 p.m.

Vying for votes in today's election, candidates for president and student trustee of the Student Government Association debated last night in the Student Union Ballroom at the University of Massachusetts.

Students continue to struggle with rising debt. A new plan from the Obama administration could offer relief to student borrowers but this proposal faces stiff opposition from banking lobbies.

Students taking a class in the department of Plant, Soil and Insect Sciences are planning to create a Campus Shared Agriculture (CSA) program at the University of Massachusetts Extension Farm in South Deerfield.

The Everywoman’s Center, the Women of Color Leadership Network and the GSS Graduate Women’s Network hosted an event Monday celebrating International Women’s Day.

The county’s district attorney’s office did not comment on a sexual assault case recently mishandled by campus administrators, but an official there said Friday that most instances of sexual assault require the victim’s consent and willingness to testify in court for the case to move toward prosecution.

Amherst law enforcement officials are hopeful that a shorter spring schedule this academic year will lead to a reduction in instances of drinking and partying-related incidents.