News

• Students Offer Help to Humane Society
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.

• Departing Professor’s Achievements Celebrated
Linda Silka has been a leading advocate for university-community engagement and community-based research.

• American Studies Conference Explores Lowell
Lowell offers the perfect setting for scholarly discussion of cities in a global context. 

• DesignLab Gets Rave Reviews
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.

• Art as Healer
Twenty community groups have created an exhibit to illustrate how art can be used to heal “brokenness” in families, hearts and communities.

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

• Lt. Gov. Kicks Off STEM Roundtable Talks
Lt. Gov. Tim Murray, newly appointed chairman of Gov. Deval Patrick’s Science, Technology, Engineering and Math Education Coordinating Council, holds a “STEM Roundtable” on the campus.

• Big Book Project Reaches a Milestone
On Sept. 11, parent-engineers from Pages for Peace met with UMass Lowell engineering faculty, students and alumni for the formal hand-off of the robotic page-turner.

• Arts Magnet Students ‘Mesmerized’ by STARTS Performance
UMass Lowell's Center for Arts and Ideas' Student & Teacher Arts (STARTS) program brought Boston band ,Cordis, to Lowell's Arts Magnet School.

• Campus Shares $471,000 Grant
Center for Family, Work and Community earns part of five-campus grant to fund student community engagement program.

• Arts Revival at UMass Lowell

• Celebrating the Word

• Scroll Exhibit Wins National Award