National Science Foundation awards UMassD professor $283,425 for numerical ocean modeling study

The collaborative project will help determine the distribution and fate of water-mass properties, nutrients, and dissolved gases in the ocean.

UMass Dartmouth awards 1,529 undergraduate degrees at Xfinity Center

National Public Radio Legal Correspondent Nina Totenberg awarded honorary degree, urges Class of 2017, “don’t just listen to things you agree with.” Obama-era White House Photographer Pete Souza awarded Chancellor’s Medal for capturing “the essence of the powerful and the powerless and the momentous events that have engulfed them both.”

UMass Dartmouth awards 535 graduate degrees at Xfinity Center

MacArthur Foundation Managing Director Cecilia Conrad awarded honorary degree, urges master’s and doctorate graduates to “shape environments that inspire creativity.” Author LGBT activist Jennifer Finney Boylan awarded Chancellor’s Medal for her “unyielding commitment to recognizing and protecting the core truth of every individual.”

UMassD scientists survey scallops on Banquereau Bank

Examination of scallop population and benthic environment using video survey will produce information on habitat and ecology of the area, which may lead to better understanding of fishing impacts and species interactions.

SMAST Expansion project nearing completion

New campus, located on Clark's Cove in New Bedford, on target to open this fall.

Commencement 2017 honorees announced

NPR Legal Affairs Correspondent Nina Totenberg, Southern Poverty Law Center founder Morris Dees, MacArthur Foundation Managing Director Cecilia Conrad to be awarded honorary degrees. Obama White House Chief Photographer and Dartmouth native Pete Souza, author and LGBT activist Jennifer Finney Boylan to receive Chancellor’s Medals.

Improved long-range weather forecasting goal of Fulbright Scholar’s work

Dr. Amit Tandon will collaborate with scientists from multiple universities in study of Bay of Bengal monsoons.

SMAST announces summer internship opportunities

Interns will conduct a wide range of lab and field work on the Cape for school's Coastal Systems Program

NOAA awards SMAST scientists $1M for fisheries research

New science designed to improve management of scallop and flounder fisheries

What’s behind the increase in halibut in US waters?

SMAST researchers partner with The Nature Conservancy and Division of Marine Fisheries to investigate current management structure of the species in the US and Canada