Amherst

A close-up view of a male blue orchard bee, also known as Osmia lignaria. This type of bee, which is native to North America, is known to be one of the world's best pollinators.

Book creates buzz about native bees of North America

Science

When you hear the word “bee,” you probably picture a honeybee. As a new book shows, though, many bees native to North America defy conventionalism and remain relatively unknown on their own continent

Young boy holds Tibet flag at independence protest.

Policy or discrimination? UMass Amherst student prevented from carrying Tibetan flag at graduation.

Education
Aga Ilwicka-Sheppard is a PhD candidate in Jewish Studies at the University of Wroclaw in Poland. She was instrumental in getting the Yiddish Book Center in Amherst, Massachusetts to send 3,000 Yiddish language books to Poland, including novels, dictionar

This Polish grad student wants to help bring Yiddish back to life in Poland

Arts, Culture & Media

Freedom Riders Ride Again

Conflict & Justice
The World

Community Supported Agriculture Grows Up

The World

Growing Food in a Bio-Shelter

Reporter Miriam Landman visits John Reid, who runs a thriving business raising fish and vegetables together in an artificial eco-system in Amherst, Massachusetts.

The World

Peggy in Amherst, N.H., asks, ‘What don’t you know and how will you learn it?’

Global Politics

Guest: Peggy Silva of Amherst, New Hampshire, asked the candidates the ‘Zen-like’ question “What don’t you know and how will you learn it?” at the second presidential debate in Nashville, Tennessee.