On Campus

A team of researchers from UMass Lowell’s Mechanical Engineering Department recently received a two-year grant of about $500,000 from the Department of Energy to test wind turbine blades.

The River Hawks lost the first game to Boston University by one goal in overtime and pushed past the Terriers for the win in the second game at Agganis Arena.

UMass Lowell faculty help Lawrence High School create a meteorology club; kick off event features NECN meteorologist Danielle Niles ’06.

A new student group hopes to address a familiar crisis facing hard-working UMass Lowell students – paying tuition and fees in the final stages of a college career. In the process, members of the group also hope to show fellow students the importance of giving back to UMass Lowell, even before they graduate.

Scott Waugh '90 may rub shoulders with some of Boston’s most famous athletes, but he still remembers where he discovered the passion for his profession -- as a student at UMass Lowell.

Jamie Gillis, goalie on the women’s soccer team, recently set the NCAA Division II record for consecutive shutout minutes (1,333). She was also named the Northeast-10 Goalkeeper of the Year for the second year in a row.

Fifteen student members of UMass Lowell’s International Relations Club competed in the Model Arab League.

Meg Bond has received the Ethnic Minority Mentorship Award by the Society for Community Research and Action.

An increasing number of students are volunteering at the Lowell Humane Society, cleaning cages, walking dogs, washing dishes and taking on any other tasks that help lighten the load of the staff.

Graduate School of Education Prof. James Carifio won the Thomas F. Donlon Memorial Award for Distinguishing Mentoring from the Northeastern Educational Research Association.

Sponsors hope collection boxes around campus fill with Thanksgiving dinner goodies. 

Asst. Prof. David Lustick’s song “Kiss the Ground” was featured on 92.5 FM, The River, as part of their spotlight on hometown musical artists.

Women’s Works 2009 will take place Thursday, Dec. 3, from 2 to 8 p.m., in the UMass Lowell Inn & Conference Center.

Linda Silka has been a leading advocate for university-community engagement and community-based research.

Swanee Hunt, the Eleanor Roosevelt Lecturer in Public Policy at Harvard’s John F. Kennedy School of Government and former U.S. ambassador to Austria, will give the 2009 Community Fellow Talk on Thursday, Nov. 19.

Lowell offers the perfect setting for scholarly discussion of cities in a global context. 

The UMass Lowell Climate Change Teach-In, a two-part event held Oct. 22 on North and South campuses, brought together a diverse group of speakers to address the impact of climate change.

UMass Lowell hosted the first U.S./Ireland Emerging Technologies Conference.

UMass Lowell’s innovative after-school educational program is quickly becoming one of the state’s leading providers of informal K–12 education in the science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) fields.

At the 30th annual Textile River Regatta Race, the longest single-day regatta of the season in the United States, 510 boats competed in 55 sculling and sweep rowing events, including the UMass Lowell men’s and women’s rowing teams.

More than 700 members of the UMass Lowell community were inoculated against the seasonal flu during on-campus clinics in October.

More than 200 people received a back-stage pass to the Broadway theater industry at the third Power of Possibility Alumni Showcase Talk given by producers Bonnie Comley ’81 and her husband Stewart Lane.

UMass Lowell Underwater Hockey Club combines swimming and hockey at pool's bottom.

UMass Lowell is awarded its fifth Teaching American History grant, winning — along with several school districts in the region —  $1 million over three years.

UMass President Wilson and Chancellor Meehan recently hosted an open forum for students at Allen House.

The University began offering an undergraduate minor in education this fall.