Lowell-based invisaWear’s panic button jewelry, co-founded by UMass Lowell graduates Rajia Abdelaziz and Ray Hamilton, is now partnering with ADT, one of the most well-known national security companies, bringing together ADT’s mobile safety platform and invisaWear’s wearable safety devices. 

UML reached its fundraising goal two years early in 2018 with the single largest gift it has ever received: $5 million donated by alumnus Brian Rist, president and founder of Florida-based Storm Smart Industries, who was already a scholarship contributor.

Alum Noelle Lambert was recently named one of the 10 L’Oreal Paris Women of Worth. L’Oreal donated $10,000 to the Born to Run Foundation. If Lambert wins an online voting program, her foundation will receive $25,000 more from L’Oreal.

While many other colleges and universities are struggling with clusters of COVID-19 outbreaks on and around their campuses, UMass Lowell has only had two positive tests since the beginning of the semester.

A new initiative at UMass Lowell will be providing a window into the history and into the unique cultural traditions that Portuguese-Americans have brought to such communities as Lowell, Lawrence, Gloucester, and Hudson.

Polls written and conducted by UMass Lowell’s Center for Public Opinion this spring gauged the public’s views about COVID-19, the Democratic primary races in key states, and beliefs on a range of political and pop culture topics.

Classes will resume on-site at the University of Massachusetts Lowell this fall.

Gulden Camci-Unal, assistant professor of chemical engineering at UMass Lowell, along with biomedical engineering and biotechnology doctoral candidate Darlin Lantigua, are developing a rapid, at-home COVID-19 test.

PBS NewsHour Weekend's Zachary Green caught up with formerly homeless UMass Lowell graduate Jaime Waldron before her graduation, where she earned her degree in criminal justice.

Twin sisters Elizabeth and Katherine Conole, who graduated from UMass Lowell’s Solomont School of Nursing, are taking care of COVID-19 patients at Lowell General Hospital.

Gov. Charlie Backer joined Lt. Gov. Karyn Polito and UMass Lowell Chancellor Jacquie Moloney for an afternoon visit to UMass Lowell's Fabric Discovery Center, which has received funding through the state Manufacturing Emergency Response Team to conduct testing of locally produced personal protective equipment.

UMass Lowell’s Fabric Discovery Center received $130,781 to buy PPE performance testing equipment. The public university is planning to screen N95 respirators, gowns and face masks and work with manufacturers to fix products that don’t pass the tests.

Lowell General Hospital chief medical officer Arthur Lauretano, M.D., received a master's in Healthcare Management and Clinical Informatics from UMass Lowell.

Joan Marchessault ’00 found a creative way to thank the health-care workers providing hospice care for her 96-year-old mother.

Experts including UMass Lowell Clinical Assistant Prof. Jennifer Nicoloro, who directs the university’s undergraduate medical laboratory science program, speak about social distancing and its effectiveness.

Meredith Ritze, a registered nurse who works in the emergency department at Lowell General Hospital and soon-to-graduate nurse practitioner from UMass Lowell, is thankful for the community support her request has prompted.

This month the City of Lowell and the university announced the Green Community Partnership — an alliance committed to driving down the carbon footprint of the Mill City.

The Center for Advancing Point of Care Technologies, or CAPCaT, a joint operation between UMass Lowell and UMass Medical, is seeking more entrepreneurs to develop new technologies and medical devices designed to help patients with these conditions manage their well-being.

UMass Lowell Research Scientist Christopher Mendillo recounted the successes and challenges of the Lowell Center for Space Science and Technology’s work on PICTURE-C – which will be used to image planets – at the American Astronomical Society’s recent meeting.

Research by Iman Chahine, associate professor of education, in South Africa through a Fulbright Scholar Award is featured.

Under layers and layers of beige paint, UMass Lowell’s Coburn Hall hid a colorful mural of 1930s Lowell for more than three decades.