Interface Newsletter

Faculty Explore Enriching Teaching With Technology

Dozens of UMass Lowell faculty members participated in technology workshops over semester break, learning the latest on how to enrich teaching and research with such tools as iPads and clickers.

Shareit Provides Secure File Transfer and Collaboration

Need to share documents with an internal or external colleague in regards to projects? Want to electronically send large documents to business associates up to 10GB in size? Read about the new UMass Lowell "UShareit" Secure File Transfer and Collaboration initiative.

Exploring Computer Networks of the Future

Researchers from UMass Lowell and UMass Amherst are collaborating with more than 80 academic and corporate teams to build, integrate and operate prototypes of a groundbreaking suite of next-generation network research infrastructures called Global Environment for Network Innovations.

Tips for Keeping Your Mobile Devices Safe

Mobile devices are great, but they are easy to lose and easy for someone to steal. A few simple steps can prevent disastrous losses.

Meet Steve Hall

When the University created the position of director of IT service delivery operations last fall, it knew it needed someone with solid technical skills, lots of experience and a passion for the job. In Steve Hall, UMass Lowell found all that — and an Emmy winner, too.

IT Brings Cloud Computing to Campus

Starting in 2008, UMass Lowell's Enterprise Systems group in IT purchased VMware's vSphere virtualization product. The changes to IT, the data center and campus applications were seismic. In short, this technology is a game-changer.

New Software Strengthens Email Security

To avoid the havoc that malicious attacker could wreak on Umass Lowell's email infrastructure, IT purchased ProofPoint Enterprise Protection for email security. ProofPoint is a new system that provides the industry’s most comprehensive threat classification and email threat management solution against phishing, virus, spam and other email borne malware.

Your Server Could be Headed for Trouble

Unless your server is under the watchful eye of the UMass Lowell IT security folks, its contents are vulnerable to loss, corruption and infection. Register your server with the campus Information Technology (IT) department or you could be asking for trouble. With a capital T.

Tips for Securing Your iPad

IT has the top 10 tips for securing your iPad. Begin by always using a password. Upon first use you are asked to enter in a 4-digit pin. Do it!

UMass Lowell Classrooms Get ‘Smart’

To increase student success, UMass Lowell equipped 100 percent of its classrooms with technology that helps faculty explain complex topics to students.

UMass Lowell Shares in $7.5M to Develop Future Mobile Internet

Asst. Prof. Guanling Chen of Computer Science will be working with researchers at Rutgers and other institutions as part of a three-year National Science Foundation-funded project to build a more trustworthy and robust mobile Internet.

Student Email Migrating to Windows Live@edu

Researchers Receive $1.3M for Cyber Security

Five professors at UMass Lowell’s Center for Network and Information Security have received more than $1.3 million in grants from the National Science Foundation this academic year.

UMass Lowell Gets Smart

Federal stimulus funding has allowed UMass Lowell to more than double its number of smart classrooms.