The newly appointed “Green Team” is gearing up to develop a comprehensive, campus-wide recycling initiative.

Nearly 200 people had a firsthand look at the exciting research work that UML faculty and students are conducting in nanotechnology during the second annual Nanomanufacturing Summit on April 17.

Thanks to data provided by Dr. Ivan Galkin, Boeing and NASA now have a new tool for predicting plasma densities in the ionosphere. This, in turn, will help mission controllers decide whether it’s safe for astronauts to venture outside the Space Station.

Botball and Botfest highlight the skills and creativity of students, working in teams, in the areas of robotics and computer programming and engineering.

Daniel Lutz, director of university bands, recently received the Paul Smith Hall of Fame Award from the Massachusetts Instrumental and Choral Conductors Association.

With three months to go in the fiscal year, the University has already raised $3.4 million in cash, more than in any other year.

Seventy UMass Lowell undergraduate and graduate students in plastics engineering recently received financial support from 26 endowed scholarship funds for the academic year 2008–09.