In Popular Culture
UMass Boston was mentioned in Martin Scorsese's 2006 crime drama, The Departed. The exterior of the campus can also be viewed in a scene from the beginning of the film. A character says that the university is in South Boston, and Mark Wahlberg's character ridicules him for the obvious comment. However, this is a common error. UMass Boston is on Dorchester's Columbia Point, and very close to the South Boston line.
Towards the end of the "The Maiden Heist" film, Umass Boston is featured supposedly as an art museum in Copenhagen which is exhibiting the painting that the characters were trying to steal.
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