Sean Simonini, who is double-majoring in biology and political science, wants to help find treatments and a cure for amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, or ALS, a fatal neurodegenerative disease. He won a $7,500 Goldwater Scholarship to support that work.

UMass Lowell students were accepted into the Boston University Early Medical School Selection Program, an early assurance program that grants provisional acceptance into BU's Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine.

Three students attended COP29 in Azerbaijan, thanks to funding from the Rist Institute for Sustainability and Energy.