Fashion, live piano, and interactive collage transformed The Eric Carle Museum after hours as UMass student models reimagined picture book art through movement, design, and performance.
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Amherst declares state of emergency after Olympia Drive fire displaces 232 residents
Amherst’s town manager declares state of emergency after Olympia Drive fire displaces about 232 residents, mostly UMass students, and depletes town’s water supply.
PETA calls for closure of UMass monkey lab after former employee sentenced for child sexual abuse material
Following a federal child pornography conviction of a former UMass Amherst lab worker, PETA renewed demands to shut down the university’s marmoset lab, citing links between animal abuse and human violence.
Amherst man sentenced to five years for possessing and distributing child pornography
Bradley Driscoll, 27, of Amherst, was sentenced to five years in prison after pleading guilty to distributing and possessing child pornography. The case was prosecuted under the DOJ’s Project Safe Childhood initiative.
Fire displaces two dozen residents from Amherst apartment building on South Pleasant Street
Roughly 24 residents, largely students, were displaced Sunday after a fire spread through the upper floors of a South Pleasant Street mixed-use residential/commercial building.