Seven Honors College students, representing six different majors, traveled to Ghana during winter break for a study abroad seminar on public health and energy.
The university’s Mock Trial team is off to a great start this year, with a win at a Bryant University tournament and strong showings at two more as they head into regionals in early 2025. Students say it’s fun – and that the skills they learn are great preparation for law school or life.
To improve the fairness and efficiency of elections, a multidisciplinary team at UMass Lowell is developing a mathematical model to optimize poll worker assignment and voting machine allocation to reduce voting wait times, particularly in minority-dominated areas.
With more Americans choosing where to live and work based on politics, Management Prof. Kimberly Merriman examines how companies can attract and retain talent and navigate political tensions in the workplace in a recent MIT Sloan Management Review article.
UMass Lowell’s Model U.N. team won the award for best delegation at a Model U.N. conference in Scotland over spring break. The team also went to the national competition for Model Arab League a week later and brought home several delegate awards.
The “Woman, Life, Freedom” movement in Iran is much more than a struggle over whether women must wear the hijab, said exiled feminist activist, poet and scholar Fatemeh Shams, the 2024 Greeley Scholar for Peace Studies.
NBC News and MSNBC National Political Correspondent Steve Kornacki shared insight into the upcoming presidential election, based on recent midterm elections and polls of voters.
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