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- The National Science foundation recently awarded UMass Lowell and its partners a five year, $12 million grant to support research on nanotechnology manufacturing.
- The University’s Center for Family, Work and Community brings the resources of the campus to the community in more than 15 on-going projects that include Gear Up, Project Splash and the Healthy Homes Demonstration Project.
- Each year, the Tsongas Industrial History Center attracts more than 65,000 visitors to its exhibits on water power, the immigrant experience and textile production. The Center is operated jointly by UMass Lowell and the National Park Service.
- The Massachusetts Technology Collaborative recently presented a $5 Million matching award to the Nanomanufacturing Center of Excellence at UMass Lowell.
- UMass Lowell’s Discovery series entertains more than 65,000 children and families with performances by acrobats, jugglers, musicians and more.
- In its first 10 years of activity, the University’s Toxics Use Reduction Institute worked with Massachusetts companies to reduce the use of toxic chemicals by 42 percent.
- More than a half dozen UML alumni were involved in designing, building and overseeing the recent massive Route 3 expansion project.
- Every ball used in the 2004 World Series was certified by UMass Lowell’s Baseball Research Center. The Bat Lab is the official certification center for equipment used by Major League Baseball, the National Collegiate Athletic Association and the National Federation of High Schools.
- Faculty, staff and students annually contribute dozens of stories and poems to “The Offering,” the University’s annual literary magazine.
- UMass Lowell’s Jack and Stella Kerouac Center for American Studies hosts the Kerouac Writer-in-Residence program and the bi-annual Kerouac Festival that draws scholars from around the world.
- Konarka Technologies, founded by a UMass Lowell professor, makes lightweight, flexible photovoltaic cells on thin sheets of plastic that generate electricity from artificial and natural light.
- Researchers at UMass Lowell have developed biodegradable hollow nanospheres that allow drugs to be absorbed directly through the skin.
- UML’s pep band was called by the Boston Herald “the best in Hockey East.”
- UMass Lowell researchers identified a link between exposure to toxic chemicals and childhood cases of leukemia.
- Fully certified student EMTs provide care to the University 24/7. Their average response time is under four minutes.
- Students from all majors participate in the 50 campus music ensembles.
- UMass Lowell scientists have invented a way to encapsulate drugs in a newly created polymer that actually works faster and better than the drug by itself.
- The Olympic-size swimming pool at Costello Gym has open hours throughout the week.
- Sound Recording Technology’s newest classroom – it has a surround sound system with two-channel audio-playback and SLS loud speakers -- is acoustically perfect.
- Twenty ice hockey players were on the Fall ’04 Dean’s List; ten of them earning a grade point average of 3.5 or better. The Lowell campus was ranked second among the teams of Hockey East for its academic record.