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On Friday morning, the University of Massachusetts will inaugurate a new chancellor at UMass Amherst, Dr. Javier Reyes. By every measure, Dr. Reyes is the right person to lead UMass Amherst in its next phase.

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Gov. Maura Healey and Boston Mayor Michelle Wu will lead a delegation to the Vatican next month, where they will speak to an international climate resilience conference presided over by Pope Francis.

Pope Francis will preside over the Vatican summit. In a statement, Healey called the invitation to attend “an immense honor.”

“This is a global social issue and one intimately related to the dignity of human life. The Bishops of the United States have expressed very well this social meaning of our concern about climate change, which goes beyond a merely ecological approach, because ‘our care for one another and our care for the earth are intimately bound together,’” Pope Francis wrote in his invitations.

Gov. Maura Healey and Boston Mayor Michelle Wu will lead a delegation next month to the Vatican, where they will speak to an international climate resilience conference presided over by Pope Francis.

Chancellor Marcelo Suárez-Orozco talks about the "need to teach [students] about climate and the science of climate." Some years ago there were initiatives to teach environmental courses.

An earthquake Friday morning centered in New Jersey was felt by people in Massachusetts and along the East Coast, including New York City.

Marcelo Suárez-Orozco will be officially installed as the ninth permanent chancellor of UMass Boston this Friday (April 5) in a ceremony that will be held, in part, on a newly built campus Quad. Hailed as the new “centerpiece” of the Dorchester Bay campus, the walking paths and green space have replaced what was once the university’s hulking red-brick Science Center and a

Boston Mayor Michelle Wu delivered her State of the City speech at MGM Music Hall on Tuesday night.