Lowell high School alumni
Campus Welcomes Largest Incoming Class Ever

UMass Lowell welcomed 2,352 new undergraduate students to campus this fall.
honors house
Residence Life Helps Students Connect

This summer, UMass Lowell experienced the greatest demand for on-campus housing in its history.


Jayant Kumar
Proposal Receives $125,000 in Research Funding

A proposal to develop a new materials science research facility using the University's high-energy ion accelerator has been chosen by the UMass President for funding.
Mathew Barlow
Researchers Eye Global Warming

A new study suggests that global warming is raising surface temperatures in the Indian Ocean, which in turn is causing a dramatic decrease in rainfall over eastern and southern Africa.


Management students help M2D2
'Business Scans' Provide Research for New Medical Devices

College of Management students provide valuable research on medical device ideas to M2D2.
Continuing Studies graduation
First Round of Employees Complete Customized Certificate Program

The Division of Continuing Studies is helping transform the work force at Procter & Gamble/Gillette's South Boston plant through customized Engineering Technology certificate programs.


Loung Ung
Loung Ung Named Community Fellow at Honors Fundraiser

When campus community members gather to honor seven retirees at the annual Honors Fellows fundraising gala at Allen House Oct. 16, they will also honor the program’s first community fellow.
BioManufacturing Pilot Plant Dedication Ceremony
Corporate Sponsors Donate $600,000 to Get Ideas to Market

UMass Lowell opened a fully automated BioManufacturing Pilot Plant that will help Massachusetts companies bring new biopharmaceuticals closer to commercial production.


Veronika Platzer
Women’s Rowing May Become Varsity Sport

Veronika Platzer has been named head coach of the River Hawks women’s rowing program and director of the Bellegarde Boathouse.
Yestramski, Whalen and Dalton
Enrollment is Up and Recycling Initiative is Under Way

Chancellor Marty Meehan recognized faculty and staff for their achievements over the past year at open meetings on campus.


Ben Holmstrom
Key Games Will Be vs. BC, Michigan State

Returning players and brisk ticket sales combine as harbingers of successful season.
Youth orchestra plays
Four Projects Win University Funding

Four faculty-led projects were awarded UMass Lowell Public Service Grants for this year.


Joel Tickner
Pollution Prevention Roundtable Gives Awards

The Toxics Use Reduction Act and Joel Tickner were honored at the National Pollution Prevention Roundtable.
Craig Mello
Mello to Discuss Gene Silencing Using RNA Interference

This year’s Konarka Sukant K. Tripathy Endowed Memorial Lecture will be held Oct. 16 at 3:30 p.m. at Alumni Hall on the North Campus.


Don Lampron
Reorganization Stems from Committee Recommendations

Don Lampron has been named director of Maintenance and Trades in the Facilities Department, an organizational change recommended by a Facilities Review Advisory Committee established last fall.
Stuart Mandell and Chancellor Meehan at COM 50th
Donations Honor 50th Anniversary of Management Education

UMass Lowell celebrated 50 years of management education and at the same time raised $1 million to expand learning facilities, student scholarships and other educational needs.


David Whalen
Whalen, Yestramski Head Advancement, Operational Services

David Whalen joined the University as vice chancellor for Advancement on Sept. 9 and Joanne Yestramski will become vice chancellor for administration, finance, facilities and technology on Sept. 22.
Honors Logo
Community Fellow Also Honored

The University community will gather at the Honors Fellows Fundraiser to recognize and celebrate retired faculty and staff who have made significant contributions to the legacy of undergraduate scholarship.


Asteroid 951 Gaspra
Space Rock Measures Several Miles Wide

An asteroid circling the Sun between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter and measuring 2½ to 5½ miles across was named Umasslowell by the International Astronomical Union.
William Mass
Globalization Scholars Highlight Forums

William Mass has been awarded funds from the Sloan Foundation Industry Studies Program to support the fall CIC-RESD seminar series.


Dr. Jamie Washington at Convocation
Class of 2012 Inducted

More than 1,400 students attended Convocation 2008, the third in UMass Lowell history.
Chad Montrie
Most Successful Campus

UMass President Jack Wilson announced the winners of the 2008 Creative Economy grants, and UMass Lowell leads the system with four.


Marty Meehan and Nicole Gordon
240 Move In to Nashua Digs

A new living arrangement for 240 UMass Lowell students offers the appeal of hotel living while recreating the campus residence hall experience. It is “UMass Lowell at the Radisson.”
Bodo Reinisch
Project Aims to Study Earth’s Radiation Belt

Researchers at UMass Lowell’s Center for Atmospheric Research have received a $4.8 million grant from Stanford University to minimize the threat of Earth’s radiation belts.


Biosensing probe
Grants from New Program Will Support Research, Education

UML grants to fund research and new faculty.

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