HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — A new book from Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is stoking the intrigue over the widely chronicled murder that his cousin, Michael Skakel, has been accused of carrying out with a golf club in 1975.
Kennedy argues Skakel is innocent, and his book points a finger at other people he says could have bludgeoned the girl to death.
Jumping 13 spots from its ranking in 2014, the University of Massachusetts ranked 30th worldwide in rankings released Tuesday of universities granted U.S. utility patents in 2015.
The 62 patents awarded to UMass last year represents a 55 percent increase over the 40 awarded in 2014 and is the highest number issued in a calendar year since UMass began its technology transfer program in 1995, according to Abigail Barrow, interim executive director of the university's Office of Technology Commercialization and Ventures. Patents were awarded based on research in areas such as gene silencing, high-technology textiles, polymers and nanotechnology.
