Salute to Seniors

After losing her left leg in a moped accident in 2016, Noelle Lambert inspired so many with her triumphant return to the UML women’s lacrosse team last year. Lambert discovered two things during her comeback: She couldn’t do it alone, and prosthetics for athletic use are very expensive, ranging from $5,000 to $50,000. So Lambert created the Born to Run Foundation, a nonprofit dedicated to providing child amputees with the specialty prosthetics that will allow them to run again. Read more

Inspiration struck during a course called “Starting a New Venture” with Assoc. Prof. Yi Yang in the Manning School of Business. Joel Dabady and classmate Keegan LaPierre, a junior, needed to create a feasibility statement for a proposed company. Looking at an external hard drive that LaPierre had taped to his laptop, the students suddenly imagined a laptop case with a built-in external battery. And with that, their company Laptech was born. Read more

It didn’t take long for Kierra Walsh to realize she liked the idea of the DifferenceMaker program. “It was at freshman orientation,” says the biology major. She formed a team that came up with an idea for UML Green Roofs, which would help the university meet its carbon neutrality goal while offering green space and a tranquil place for students to hang out. Read more

Simthyrearch Dy dreams of working for NASA someday. He’s gotten a taste of what that might be like as the student program manager for SPACE HAUC (pronounced “Space Hawk”), UMass Lowell’s first student-built satellite, which is scheduled for launch into orbit later this year. Read more

When a first-year student posted on Snapchat and Facebook that he wanted to start a ski and snowboard club at UMass Lowell, history major Harry Rider jumped in with both ski boots. “I’ve been skiing since I was 6 years old. It’s always been the thing I’ve loved doing most,” says Rider, who served as a captain of the Lowell High School ski team for three years before coming to UML. Read more

To experience the demands of working on a team with other health professionals, undergraduates in the Zuckerberg College of Health Sciences participate in Interprofessional Education (IPE). Under this program, students from different disciplines work together to develop patient care plans, using real-world cases and simulations. As members of the IPE Student Advisory Council that provides feedback to faculty on IPE, clinical laboratory science majors Nicholas Shepherd and Alexandra McKinney received many requests from fellow students who wanted to get more involved. Read more

Craig Kelly knows eNABLE Lowell is in good hands. Not only does he applaud the incoming management team, but he’s been working to ensure that eNABLE Lowell continues to be able to help children with disabilities. In his freshman year, Kelly, a mechanical engineering major, was one of the founders of the student-run, all-volunteer campus chapter of eNABLE, an international organization that makes low-cost, 3-D printed prosthetics for children free of charge. Read more

After co-founding the Management Society and helping it grow over the past three years, Kelly Bradford isn’t just handing the reins to new student leaders – she’s giving them a road map for success. Bradford, an Honors College student, created an organizational guide for her Honors project to help future Management Society members with operations and continuity. Read more

Samantha O’Wril, an electrical and computer engineering major from Lowell, takes great satisfaction in telling people about the wealth of opportunities available at the Francis College of Engineering. And she’s had plenty of practice. O’Wril is president of the Francis College of Engineering Student Ambassadors program, which she helped get off the ground in the fall of 2017. Read more