Director of Workplace Learning and Development Lee Ann Alden was recognized by the state with the Eugene H. Rooney Jr. Public Service Award, one of the top awards given to state employees, for her outstanding work in human resource development.

Faculty and student researchers examined what the state must do to incorporate renewable energy sources into the electrical grid to reduce carbon emissions in “The State of Grid Energy Storage in Massachusetts,” a report commissioned by the Associated Industries of Massachusetts.

College Based Advising, Disability Services, Hospitality & Event Services and the Zuckerberg College of Health Sciences have joined together to launch the “Don’t Drop the Mic, USE a Mic” campaign. The initiative encourages presenters to use microphones at large meetings, classrooms, events and conferences.

UMass Lowell has opened a state-of-the-art lyophilization facility that will help drive innovation and discovery in biopharmaceutical manufacturing in New England and beyond.

The commonwealth of Massachusetts recognized UMass Lowell for its sustainability efforts across campus with a 2019 Leading by Example award, which Chancellor Jacquie Moloney accepted at a State House ceremony.

Chemistry Prof. Yuyu Sun and Assoc. Prof. Nancy Goodyear of Biomedical and Nutritional Sciences are using N-halamine – a biocide with proven germ-killing property – to reduce the occupational burden of exposure by protecting the hospital staff from harmful microorganisms that can cause various infections. 

Manning School of Business students (and siblings) Brit and Easmond Tsewole spent much of their young lives overseas because of their parents’ work for the U.S. State Department. Now, they are settled into the campus where their parents, Ann and Roosevelt Tsewole, met 25 years ago.

Eight groups of physical therapy students partnered with local schools and senior centers to promote health and wellness.

They went, they conquered, they left. And in their dust were some top Boston universities. Ambulatory Innovation emerged atop the heap at the annual Beantown Throwdown pitch competition.

A new exhibit on the history of Greek immigration to Lowell, created by history students working with University Prof. Robert Forrant, celebrates what was once the largest Greek community outside of New York and Chicago. The exhibit is on display at University Crossing.

Alum Ellen Keane ’09, head of access and technical services for the UML Library, tried out for “Jeopardy!” on a whim. She was invited to Los Angeles in September to appear on the venerable game show.

When he came to America to teach German and study, Christoph Strobel became fascinated with Native American history. His upcoming book will provide a sweeping view of how Native Americans in New England changed and adapted from precolonial to modern times.

UML’s College of Education is working with the state and local school districts to recruit future teachers who represent the Merrimack Valley’s diversity. Lawrence High School students visited the campus recently to learn more about careers in education – and campus life.

Relying on a “sound process” of careful research and patience, finance students from the Manning School of Business once again came out on top in the Student Managed Fund challenge, an annual investment competition sponsored by the UMass Foundation.

UMass Lowell has opened a new center for cybersecurity education, research and workforce development called the Cyber Range that will help students prepare for careers in the high-demand field.

One year after Oprah Winfrey visited campus and helped raise $3 million for student scholarships, 60 undergraduate students have received awards totaling $300,000. The university will soon launch the Oprah Scholarship Society.

UML faculty members were recognized for achievements in research, teaching and service at the annual Faculty Symposium, which featured 60 “lightning talks” on current research and conversations on better teaching at the UMass Lowell Inn & Conference Center.

Launched 10 years ago as a pilot program with 28 plastics engineering students, the Professional Cooperative Education program has grown to provide co-op work experiences at 566 companies to 2,665 students from 16 majors and concentrations. This year, 450 students are participating in the program.

Five new inductees joined the UMass Lowell Military Alumni Veterans Hall of Fame on Nov. 1, each bringing an array of service to the nation, with 115 years in uniform among them.

Artist Jonathan Monaghan paints a portrait of an increasingly angst-filled, technologically driven future.

William Moylan, who led the Sound Recording Technology Program from its inception, is UML's 12th University Professor.

The National Science Foundation recently recognized Asst. Prof. Hsi-Wu Wong of the Department of Chemical Engineering with a prestigious faculty early career development grant, called the “CAREER” award. This highly competitive annual program selects the nation’s best young university faculty-scholars “who most effectively integrate research and education within the context of the mission of their organization.”

Students who develop socially and emotionally also learn better, says researcher Juliette Berg. She shared her work and strategies for improving school climate and student attitudes at the College of Education’s annual Panasuk Symposium.

Cheering on the men’s hockey team at the Tsongas Center is one of the things that brings the UMass Lowell community together. For many international students, attending their first-ever hockey game is like a rite of passage as River Hawks.

Students traded in their vape pens for UML gear donated by the university bookstore during “Escape the Vape,” a two-day event hosted by the peer health education student group Healthy H.A.W.K.S.

Assoc. Prof. of Education Iman Chahine has received a Fulbright U.S. Scholar Award to do research in ethno-mathematics. She will spend nine months in South Africa training teachers and evaluating math lessons and materials she developed, based on Zulu and Ndebele arts and culture.

The UMass Lowell Labor Education Program explored how students can prepare for the future of work at “The Gig Economy, Automation and You,” a panel discussion featuring Assoc. Prof. of Management Scott Latham and Thomas Kochan, co-director of the MIT Sloan Institute for Work and Employment Research.

Americans are more divided than ever – so divided that they no longer believe in the same facts. Assoc. Prof. Morgan Marietta, a political psychologist and constitutional scholar, has been studying the trend and has written a book on “dueling fact perceptions” that’s getting noticed by the media and political commentators.

A new career exploration class helps first- and second-year students in the College of Fine Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences decide on a major – or confirm their choice.

The River Hawk Scholars Academy is piloting a new mentorship program that matches 20 first-generation college students with local employees from Salesforce, the cloud computing and customer relationship management software giant.

U.S. Rep. Lori Trahan discussed bipartisan legislation, the importance of research at UMass Lowell and ways to boost the innovation economy in a conversation with Chancellor Jacquie Moloney that was part of the Moses Greeley Parker Lecture series.

Art historian, Assoc. Prof Marie Frank, talks about UML's first 125 years, what's changed and what has remained the same.

Love of the Game, a student-run community outreach program that began as a DifferenceMaker project, is now in its fifth year of hosting sports clinics on campus for people with developmental disabilities.

A research team led by Asst. Prof. Gulden Camci-Unal of the Department of Chemical Engineering is developing new “breathable” biomaterials that can repair heart muscle damaged by disease or heart attack.

The Philosophy and Film series at the Luna Theater downtown brings students and community members together to watch popular movies and then discuss them with a philosophy professor. The free movies are shown monthly during the academic year.

Starting college or graduate school in a new country is challenging. The Office of Multicultural Affairs is helping international students to acclimate with new orientation programs and English conversation workshops.

Students and alumni looking for jobs, internships and co-op positions can now do so through Handshake, a comprehensive recruiting system that the Career & Co-op Center has implemented to replace CareerLINK.

College of Fine Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences students Jacqui Gallant, Sarah Galevi and John Fedirko competed as the Rowdy River Rovers in the fourth annual Lowell Kinetic Sculpture Race, a festive community event that merges the “STEAM” fields of science, technology, engineering, art and mathematics.

Professional musicians and educators, including plenty of alums, have come together in Alan William's Take it to the Bridge program to offer real-world music experiences to students who wish to make a life in music.

Students who need some quick help with résumé reviews, cover letter writing and interview tips can now drop by the Career & Co-op Center and meet one-on-one with a Career Peer, a student who is specially trained to assist with the job-seeking process.

Increasingly, student art is enlivening buildings across the UML campus. Recently, Andrew Fournier '19 saw his "River" installed int he Pulichino Tong Business Center,

Under a new partnership, 20 high school graduates from Washington, D.C., are studying at UMass Lowell this fall with merit scholarships. It’s part of the university’s mission to support students from all backgrounds in getting a great college education.

Food and beverage companies learned about sustainable manufacturing and cleaning processes at a workshop funded by the EPA.

Students will get a chance to embark on a visual tour of our solar system and beyond when a new astronomical observatory opens on South Campus this fall.

An article co-authored by Asst. Prof. of Management Elizabeth Altman on how companies can turn their products and services into multisided platforms was included in Harvard Business Review’s “10 Must Reads 2019” and “10 Must Reads on Business Model Innovation.”

For seven years, the Cool Science contest has asked children to communicate climate science through art, with the winning works displayed on Lowell buses. A $3 million National Science Foundation grant will expand Cool Science in Massachusetts and add two metropolitan areas in the Midwest.

When liberal arts alum Erin Reynolds ’18, coordinator of creative services and entertainment for the Lowell Spinners minor league baseball team, needed a video production intern this summer, she turned to her former classmate, senior graphic design major Sara May.

The Office of Sustainability held its first Sustainable Move-In event on campus, collecting 62 large trash bags of plastic foam and enough cardboard to fill four large dumpsters.

Rover the River Hawk, an Industrial Capstone Senior Design project that Engineering students are building to clean debris from the city’s canals, received a Green Design award from the Lowell Sustainability Council and a Certificate of Special Congressional Recognition from U.S. Rep. Lori Trahan.

The university welcomed its largest incoming class ever – nearly 3,400 first-year and new transfer students – at a Convocation ceremony that also kicked off UML’s yearlong 125th anniversary celebration. 

The four-day summer program gave first-year, full-time computer science students a chance to live on campus, meet classmates and build skills to help them succeed.

Pavel Romaniko, visiting assistant professor in the Art & Design department, has been busy lately.  In addition to welcoming a baby son, he also welcomed a $15,000 fellowship from the Mass Cultural Council. 

Facilities Management worked on close to 100 projects across campus this summer, including the renovated second and third floors at Olsen Hall, the new Cumnock Courtyard and the overhaul of Coburn Hall.

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UMass Lowell is introducing its first two Technology Enhanced Active Learning (TEAL) classrooms at Olsen Hall this fall, becoming one of the first universities in the region to implement Sony Vision Exchange technology.

The university’s waste reduction efforts ranked fifth in the 2019 Sustainable Campus Index, up five spots from the previous year. The university’s Urban Agriculture Program was also highlighted in the index, which is published by the Association for the Advancement of Sustainability in Higher Education (AASHE).

New students should find Blackboard, the university’s online learning management system, easy to navigate. But the top tip from the online learning pros is still, “Read your messages.”

KettlePizza, a company co-founded a decade ago by industrial technology alum Al Contarino ’92, was chosen to represent Massachusetts at the 2019 “Made in America” product showcase at the White House.

A total of 35 first-year engineering majors participated in this year’s UML Launch and RAMP summer programs, which were designed to prepare the students for the rigors of college life. 

After River Hawk shortstop Courtney Cashman led all of NCAA Div. I softball with a .508 batting average as a junior, the criminal justice major from Danvers spent the summer interning with the Massachusetts State Police.

Former UML hockey player Ludwig Marek ’98, now a managing director at the world’s largest asset manager, BlackRock, shared career advice with current River Hawk players during a visit to the Manning School of Business.

Nearly 20 community college students are taking one of three STEM classes on campus this summer – for free.

Work environment graduate student Nicole Karlsson was the lead author on a published study that showed that about one in four home care workers reported at least one incident of verbal abuse by clients or their relatives during the preceding 12 months.

When criminal justice students intern for credit, they get real-world experience and a broader perspective on the careers available to them. And some internships lead to great jobs.

Each Thursday in June for five hours a day, members of nine DifferenceMaker teams refined, rebooted and reimagined the projects that earned them spots in summer boot camp.

Asst. Prof. of Management Jose Godinez is collaborating with a university in his native Guatemala to launch a master’s program in corporate compliance. He is also working with the school to conduct a survey on business-related corruption and bribery in Latin America.

Most people addicted to opioids are working – and job conditions can either contribute to addiction or help to prevent it and encourage recovery. The university was selected as one of four sites nationwide for a pilot training program on the critical connections between work, mental health and addiction.

The UMass Lowell Climate Change Initiative, in conjunction with the National Association of Geoscience Teachers and the College of Education, hosted a professional development workshop for two dozen area K-12 teachers on incorporating climate change education into the classroom.

Assoc. Prof. Maureen Stanton’s new book, “Body Leaping Backward: Memoir of a Delinquent Girlhood,” chronicles her struggles as a teenager to find herself and her place. In the classroom, she helps students tell their own stories.

The Global Entrepreneurship Exchange (GE2) program reached the 1,000-student milestone as 75 students and faculty from 12 countries visited campus for two weeks of multicultural collaboration designed to teach the fundamentals of launching a business.

Eleven students who comprised the Documentary Image photography class finished off last semester with a trip to the Azores.

Summer camps at the Lowell National Historical Park allow children to explore history, science and more while having fun. The camps are run by the Tsongas Industrial History Center, a partnership between the park and UML’s College of Education.

The UMass Lowell Center for Lowell History digitized a collection of more than 60 photos, videos and documents from the university’s hang gliding club, which was active on campus from 1974 to 1996. The collection was loaned by the club’s co-founder, Bill Blood.

Reactor system fundamentals and technology and advanced reactor designs were just some of the topics discussed at this year’s Intercontinental Nuclear Institute (INI), an annual summer fellowship program organized by UMass Lowell and the Czech Technical University in Prague.

Julie Chen was presented with the Doctor of Science for distinction in engineering from Northern Ireland’s Queen’s University Belfast on June 29. 

A team of UMass Lowell researchers, led by Asst. Prof. Natalie Steinel of the Department of Biological Sciences, are studying fish with tapeworm parasites with the goal of improving our knowledge of the human immune system.

Jim Nehring, an associate professor of education, won the Manning Prize for Teaching Excellence at UMass Lowell this year. Nehring is a strong advocate for public education that couples academic rigor with inquiry-based, student-centered learning.

To help understand how killer electrons are generated and, consequently, how they can be mitigated, the Air Force Research Laboratory has awarded a three-year contract to a team of UMass Lowell researchers led by Physics Prof. Paul Song to support the Air Force’s DSX mission to the Earth’s radiation belts.

Students donated more than 14,000 pounds of clothing, bedding, food and personal items during this spring’s Sustainable Move Out Donation Drive, which benefitted a half-dozen nonprofit organizations across the community.

Four Manning School of Business finance students – Bony Ganugapanta, Greg Montemurro, Thavady Pech and Katie Sanchez – took part in the CQA Institute’s two-week Advanced Investment Management course at Wilkes University in Wilkes-Barre, Pa.

The Manning School of Business and the Jack M. Wilson Center for Entrepreneurship hosted the first-ever Biotech East, a weeklong course for Ph.D. students and postdocs in health, science and medical programs interested in discovering the commercial side of science.

“Be true to yourself” and “prioritize” emerged as key themes at the fourth annual Women’s Leadership Conference. Some speakers and sessions also encouraged women to work at tech firms.

A team of UMass Lowell researchers led by Chemical Engineering Asst. Prof. Gulden Camci-Unal has developed an innovative way of using powdered eggshells for engineering bone tissue that could lead to improved results for bone repair and healing. 

The need to promote entrepreneurship among risk-averse millennials is a challenge facing colleges and universities across the country, according to Amy Nelson, CEO of Venture for America, speaking at the Deshpande Symposium.  

Ten students from the Manning School of Business participated in the Salesforce TrailheaDX developer conference and career fair in San Francisco, where they also got an inside look at the CRM giant’s new global headquarters.

At the third Voices of Hunger conference, UML and other colleges in southern New England shared strategies for serving students struggling with hunger, housing, transportation and other needs.

Distant echoes from Bob Dylan’s 1975 Costello Gymnasium performance surface in the final mix of the newly released 14-disc CD box set, “The Rolling Thunder Revue: The 1975 Live Recordings.” Martin Scorsese’s documentary/concert film of the tour lands on Netflix and in select theaters soon.

Distance runner Paul Hogan, a civil engineering major from Burlington, capped his stellar college career by becoming the first UML track athlete to earn All-American status by placing 11th in the 10,000 meter run at the NCAA Division I Outdoor Track and Field Championships in Austin, Texas.

From grazing sheep to battery-powered lawn mowers, Grounds Operations Manager Erik Shaw is coming up with innovative ways to maintain the campus grounds – and help boost the university’s sustainability efforts.

Sleep disruption can lead to depression, cardiovascular disease and accidents on the job or at home. To combat these issues, Asst. Prof. Yuan Zhang of the Solomont School of Nursing is partnering on a $1.7 million four-year National Institute of Aging grant to study strategies that help older night shift workers sleep soundly.

A team of researchers from UMass Lowell, the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and China Agricultural University in Beijing has developed a new, sustainable way of converting wet biological waste into diesel-compatible fuel, using heat and water.

With the unemployment rate at near-record lows, many members of the Class of 2019 went right to work from Commencement.

The rising cost of textbooks is hurting students’ wallets – and their academic success. Campus leaders, faculty, the university libraries, the bookstore and students are working together to lower costs.

Six decades after dropping out of South Boston High School, 78-year-old Gerry Devlin earned a bachelor’s degree in criminal justice from UMass Lowell.

UMass Lowell and Middlesex Community College share a common mission: making a world-class education available to all students so that they can achieve their potential. New initiatives are bringing the two schools closer than ever – and creating a model to help all transfer students succeed.

The university honored its largest graduating class ever – more than 4,500 students – at graduate and undergraduate Commencement exercises held over two days at the Tsongas Center at UMass Lowell.

UMass Lowell, a pioneer in online and continuing education, earns high rankings for its excellent professors and up-to-the-minute programs. Now it’s integrating its online and on-campus graduate programs in a new Division of Graduate, Online and Professional Studies.

The university’s Climate Change Initiative hosted members of the state’s House Committee on Global Warming and Climate Change for a roundtable discussion on climate science and policy at which faculty members shared scientific research and expertise to help inform policy decisions.

At UMass Lowell’s Center for Gerontology Research and Partnerships’ forum, speakers shared their latest research on aging workers in the workplace, age-friendly initiatives and asthma in older adults.

UMass Lowell is no stranger to the Mai family, with four Mai sisters on campus now and their father, a double River Hawk whose journey from Cambodia to freedom was nothing short of harrowing. Theirs is an immigrant story for our times.

One year after the sudden closure of their school, Mount Ida College, transfer students Nicole Morales-Taveras, Chantay Sewell and Jessica D’Esposito are graduating from UMass Lowell with bachelor’s degrees in criminal justice.

More than 280 students finished the academic year by presenting their work at the annual Student Research & Community Engagement Symposium. Many of the students’ research projects aimed to solve or engage real-world problems, from public health to violent crime.

They started companies. Created clubs. Formed foundations. Members of UMass Lowell’s Class of 2019 have once again proven that River Hawks don’t wait until they graduate to do great things.

Education, psychology and art faculty worked with community groups to collect folktales from four Southeast Asian countries and turn them into a book that can be used in the Lowell schools.

The Legal Studies Program helps prepare undergraduates in any major for law school success.

UMass Lowell Air Force ROTC Commander Jesse Jaramillo partnered with Zuckerberg College of Health Sciences faculty to deliver nutrition and exercise science education, counseling and training for cadets.

A game modified to make baseball more inclusive, created by a DifferenceMaker team on a winning streak, topped 10 student teams to take home the $6,000 Rist Campuswide DifferenceMaker award at the seventh annual Idea Challenge competition.

Rows of kale, Swiss chard and collard greens are growing on the new Green Roof vegetable garden at University Crossing, a collaboration between Mill City Grows and UML’s Urban Agriculture Program, Student Government Association and Office of Sustainability.

The university celebrated a $50 million renovation of Perry Hall, which is home to academics, research and industry partnerships in fields including biomedical, chemical and environmental engineering, as well as biomanufacturing and clean energy.

Three professors and two doctoral students from the Manning School of Business joined cadets and soldiers from the Massachusetts National Guard’s 101st Engineer Battalion for “Operation River Hawk” at Fort Devens.

The university marked two major milestones at its Earth Day celebration: the completion of its $23.1 million Accelerated Energy Program and its latest STARS Gold rating, which moves UML into the top 10 nationally.

Nearly 200 high school students along with dozens of UMass Lowell students, faculty and staff and the public attended the recent “Moonshot” symposium organized by UMass Lowell and the JFK Library Foundation to commemorate this year’s 50th anniversary of NASA’s Apollo 11 lunar landing mission.

Immigrants bring a wealth of different languages to the United States. When schools value those languages, children learn better – and everyone benefits, Prof. Michel DeGraff told educators at the College of Education’s spring symposium.

Junior business administration major Nathan Klosowski, a coordinator and supervisor in the Office of Transportation Services, beat out a crowded field to win the university’s Student Employee of the Year award.

Prof. Katherine Tucker was a co-author, with researchers at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, on a study published in the March issue of the medical journal JAMA that found that the more eggs an individual consumes, the greater the risk for heart disease, stroke and overall mortality.

Only 18 in 100 rapes and sexual assaults on teenage girls and women reported to police result in an arrest, and fewer go to court. Three criminal justice professors found that decisions to close cases are largely based on prosecutors’ judgments about victim behavior, credibility and cooperation.

Six of the 12 projects to receive a share of the $50,000 Sustainability Encouragement & Enrichment Development (S.E.E.D.) Fund this year were led by students, the most in the fund’s three-year history.

Ten undergraduate students from a range of majors have been invited to present their research at the inaugural America East Research Symposium at Binghamton University in New York.

UMass Lowell recognized Kronos and Raytheon for their commitment to the success of the university with its first Preferred Partners honors.

As UML students, three young women worked together on U.S. Rep. Lori Trahan’s congressional campaign. Now that they’ve graduated, they’re working for her full time – alongside four other UMass Lowell alumni.

For four years, History Prof. Robert Forrant and Assistant Prof. Ingrid Hess of Art & Design have quietly charted the history of immigration in Lowell. With the help of a team of UML students , they have built a unique website to help teachers and students understand the waves of immigrants calling the city their new home.

The university’s new and improved Parking Spaces app shows real-time parking availability at all three of the campus parking garages and at the Riverside lots on North Campus.

The number of student organizations in the Manning School of Business has grown from five to 14 in the past three years, as the school has put an emphasis on student engagement.

When Harry Rider graduates from UMass Lowell this spring, he will be the fourth generation in his family to do so, starting when his great-grandmother earned her teaching certificate at Lowell Normal School.

Asst. Prof. Archana Kamal of the Department of Physics and Applied Physics has won two grants from the U.S. Department of Energy to expand her research into the emerging field of quantum information science.

Multiple groups of nursing students educated teens in Dracut, Billerica and Tewksbury about the health risks of vaping.

The university has been recertified as a HEARTSafe Campus by the National Collegiate Emergency Medical Services Foundation, while UMass Lowell EMS received the Striving for Excellence award.

Lauren Spencer, social media supervisor for the New England Patriots, shared tips on personal branding and insights on jobs in digital media with Professional Communications students in the Manning School of Business.

The National Science Foundation (NSF) has awarded a three-year, $873,000 grant to a research project led by Prof. Daniel Obrist to study mercury pollution in forests.

Anna Dugan '13 returned to the Art & Design department recently to design in chalk and encourage current students to use all of their skills in the world beyond the university.

Alum Nicole Falotico ’11 was one of five Tesla employees who recruited UML students for summer internships and co-op positions via a video conference presentation at Saab ETIC’s Perry Atrium.

Rocker Melissa Etheridge took notice of drummer Maddie May Scott's Flight of Fire and hand-picked them to join the all-star lineup playing her seven-night spring cruise from Tampa to Grand Cayman, March 31-April 7.

As a young woman in Burma, Ardeth Thawnghmung became a “pig broker,” helping neighbors get their pigs butchered in exchange for money and meat. Now the chairwoman of the Political Science Department, Prof. Thawnghmung studies how people in her native country cope with poverty.

U.S. Rep. Lori Trahan learned about the latest technology used in parachutes and other battlefield innovations while touring the HEROES lab on Feb. 20.

A team of researchers from the Chemistry Department has found a way to safely, cleanly and efficiently produce hydrogen gas that can be used to power the next generation of electric vehicles.

Yusef Salaam, a member of the “Central Park Five” who spent years imprisoned for a crime he didn’t commit, talked with students about the pressure to plead guilty even when you are innocent. He came to campus for a panel discussion on the notorious case of Kalief Browder.

Yusef Salaam, a member of the “Central Park Five” who spent years imprisoned for a crime he didn’t commit, talked with students about the pressure to plead guilty even when you are innocent. He came to campus for a panel discussion on the notorious case of Kalief Browder.

Students majoring in geoscience, civil engineering, environmental science and meteorology got hazmat-certified to broaden their skills, giving them an advantage in the job market.

Asst. Prof. Miko Wilford has won a five-year, $498,000 National Science Foundation CAREER grant to study an urgent issue for the justice system: Why innocent suspects plead guilty.

Thirteen business, engineering and health science students spent a week in Houston helping Hurricane Harvey flood victims rebuild as part of the Organizational Behavior in Action directed study course led by Olga Tines, an assistant teaching professor in the Manning School of Business.

In sickness and in health, UML couple Craig and Darcie Nuttall discovered they’re made for each other.

On an intensive, two-week study abroad trip to India, 13 undergraduate and graduate students learned about global entrepreneurship and innovation with the Manning School of Business’ Global Entrepreneurship Exchange program.

The National Science Foundation has awarded nearly $1 million in grant to a team of researchers led by Prof. Yan Luo to develop a secure and compliant cyberinfrastructure for translational research.

A team of public health students from the Zuckerberg College of Health Sciences, who are working at the Toxics Use Reduction Institute (TURI) on their capstone project, found safer cleaning solutions for reusable bags.

The university’s new Money Management Mentors program gives students a way to discuss their personal finances in a confidential, one-on-one setting with trained peers, with the goal to increase retention and decrease student loans.

In its first time in the U.S., the 404 International Festival of Art & Technology is at UMass Lowell University Gallery and other sites across campus, through March 5.

UMass Lowell students have earned more than $24 million over the past five years through the Professional Cooperative Education program, helping them pay for college while gaining valuable real-world work experience. 

The U.S. Mint’s release of a new state quarter featuring Lowell National Historical Park represents a quiet triumph for UML’s Ellen Anstey, who has devoted a decade to promoting, researching and critiquing designs for the coin.

Jackie Kho, a sophomore biology major in the Kennedy College of Sciences, tried out for the U.S. men’s national volleyball team in Anaheim, Calif., over winter break.

Manning School of Business student Steffen Johnson, an Army veteran who served in Afghanistan, plans to open Anawan Brewing Company in his hometown of Rehoboth this fall.

Facilities Management completed a $50 million renovation of Perry Hall over winter break and continued to make progress on several other major projects across campus.

Tyler Iorizzo has won international recognition for his contribution in developing an imaging device that could lead to improved diagnosis and treatment of certain skin cancers.

The Manning School of Business hosted more than 800 students from nine area high schools for a DECA regional conference at the Campus Recreation Center and University Suites.

Are America’s public schools failing their students? For the most part, they’re not, says education historian and Asst. Prof. Jack Schneider – despite political rhetoric to the contrary.

A team of first-year students rooted at UMass Lowell captured top honors and $5,000 in prize money at the first Hack Haverhill 24-hour hackathon competition, topping 14 other teams from colleges, high schools and the professional world.

Jonathan Lemire, White House correspondent for the Associated Press and the son of Susan Lemire, the university’s coordinator of advisory services and is a member of the curriculum committee for the Learning in Retirement Association, spoke at UMass Lowell recently.

The Manning School of Business hosted its first Fulbright Visiting Scholar, Tu Tran, associate professor of finance and head of the Department of Finance and Banking at Vietnam National University.

Assistant Teaching Prof. Kyle Coffey shares his tips on how to stay motivated to exercise for the long term.