UMass to receive $2M in funding for new projects
Senator Ed Markey and Representative Jim McGovern will stop at UMass Amherst Thursday to announce funding for campus initiatives during the 50th anniversary of the University Without Walls program. According to a news release from UMass Amherst, as part of the $1.5 trillion spending bill signed by President Biden, Rep. Jim McGovern, Sen. Edward Markey, and Sen. Elizabeth Warren, UMass Amherst will receive $2 million towards the recently established Energy Transition Institute and Manning College of Information and Computer Science.