News

• Big Man on Campus
Ahmed Abdelal, who has been provost at Northeastern University in Boston since 2002, will head north to UMass Lowell to take the reigns of academics.

• UMass Lowell Names New Provost
UMass Lowell has tapped Northeastern University provost Ahmed Abdelal, who is credited with helping raise the college's quality and reputation over the last five-plus years, as its next provost.

• Celebration to Raise Profile and Money
Early next month, UMass Lowell will play host to its first inauguration in more than 25 years, celebrating Chancellor Marty Meehan's transition from Congress to academia.

• New Place, Same Pace
He's not in Congress anymore, but Martin Meehan says his schedule sure makes him feel like he still is.

• Meehan Making the Grade at UML
Chancellor Marty Meehan has put his high-energy personality to work with great success in his first six month at the helm of UML.

• Meehan: UML Must Embrace Its Niche Role
Despite gloomy economic forecasts, Marty Meehan said UMass Lowell, much like the state, must embrace its niche in the economy.

• Partnerships Pushed

Chancellor Marty Meehan wants his colleagues to start thinking more like entrepreneurs. And he's hoping a collaboration between two Lowell businesses at the edge of the university's North Campus will lead to closer partnerships between UMass Lowell and the city's business community.

• Boathouse Gets $1M Toward Renovation
On Nov. 2, the University of Massachusetts Lowell officially received $1 million from the state to renovate the Bellegarde Boathouse in Lowell.

• Breast Cancer Study
UMass Lowell Chancellor Marty Meehan said that $250,000 in state money will establish research that hopefully will provide answers between the possible links of breast cancer and environmental exposures.

• Meehan: UML Set to Grow

Building new facilities. Building new collaborations with community colleges and local businesses. All of it is essential to the university spearheading economic development in the region. That was UMass Lowell Chancellor Marty Meehan's message as he shared his vision with the Merrimack Valley Economic Development Council.

• To-do list
Prior to the start of the school year, Chancellor Marty Meehan outlines his plans and ambitions for his alma mater.

• Losing a friend
This week, the gay and lesbian community loses one of its most determined and vocal champions in Congress as Marty Meehan leaves to become chancellor of UMass Lowell.

• Meehan era begins
Marty Meehan officially took over the reins of his alma mater yesterday, ending a career in Congress that began in 1992.

• Odd career beckons
One of the more depressing facts of Capitol life is that close to half of each Congress’s departing members now stay in town for far richer careers as lobbyists.

• Maverick comes home
U.S. Rep. Marty Meehan, D-Mass., is voluntarily leaving the House on July 1 to become chancellor of his alma mater, the University of Massachusetts Lowell. In his 14 years in Congress, Marty Meehan made both history and a lot of enemies.

• Life after Congress
Colleagues and friends have showered Meehan, D-Mass., with good wishes, tributes and farewell dinners as he prepares to take over as chancellor at the University of Massachusetts at Lowell next week.

• Bush bids farewell
A week before leaving Congress, Marty Meehan put aside his differences with President Bush yesterday in a visit to the Oval Office featuring warm goodbyes and even a little candy.

• Praise for Meehan
Accolades from a wide variety of national, business and campus leaders accompanied the announcement of Congressman Marty Meehan's selection as UML Chancellor.

• Iraq discussion
The situation in Iraq has gotten “much worse” in the last four years, with less water, fewer hours of electricity and more violence, U.S. Rep. Marty Meehan told a standing-room-only crowd recently in Prof. Fred Lewis’s political science class.

• Global warming meeting
Governor-Elect Deval Patrick and U.S. Rep. Marty Meehan addressed the climate crisis at the standing-room-only session in Durgin Hall.