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4/14/2021 Featured Story

Should You Get Vaccinated?

Should You Get Vaccinated?

Starting April 19, anyone 16 years and older living in Massachusetts can get vaccinated against COVID-19. Campus health experts and researchers recommend vaccination for everyone who can safely get the shot -- so that we can protect ourselves and others in our campus community.

4/14/2021 Featured Story
4/8/2021 Featured Story

Public Health Professor Studies Aging, Health Inequities

Public Health Professor Studies Aging, Health Inequities

Public Health Prof. Wenjun Li researches people’s access to resources that support healthy aging, with a focus on how social and environmental factors such as income, race and residential neighborhoods contribute to inequities in health and well-being. He’s also collaborating on research projects involving veterans.

4/8/2021 Featured Story
3/25/2021 Featured Story

Health Sciences Students Volunteer at Lowell Vaccine Clinic

Health Sciences Students Volunteer at Lowell Vaccine Clinic

More than 100 students in the Zuckerberg College of Health Sciences have volunteered to help out at Lowell General Hospital’s COVID-19 vaccination clinic, which gives about 2,000 shots each day. In addition, some nursing students are earning clinical hours while giving vaccinations.

3/25/2021 Featured Story
2/25/2021 Featured Story

Public Health Researcher Makes Home Care Safer for Patients and Aides

Public Health Researcher Makes Home Care Safer for Patients and Aides

The need for home health care services has never been greater, or more challenging, than during COVID-19. Under a major federal grant, Public Health Prof. Emerita Margaret Quinn, lead researcher for the Safe Home Care Project, is using her expertise to address the hazards that home care aides face.

2/25/2021 Featured Story
12/17/2020 Featured Story

TNEC’s Evolving Worker Safety Training Gets $6.6M Boost

TNEC’s Evolving Worker Safety Training Gets $6.6M Boost

Thanks to a five-year, $6.6 million grant from the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, The New England Consortium at UMass Lowell will expand its hazardous materials worker health and safety training under the direction of Research Prof. David Turcotte.

12/17/2020 Featured Story
12/7/2020 Featured Story

Public Health Master’s Program is Growing – and Going Online

Public Health Master’s Program is Growing – and Going Online

The Master’s of Public Health program is growing in size and reputation since it debuted six years ago. Starting in January, the health care management option will be offered completely online.

12/7/2020 Featured Story
11/16/2020 Featured Story

Exercise Science Majors Earn Kudos for Research

Exercise Science Majors Earn Kudos for Research

Four current and former exercise science majors won praise at a conference for their research on a heart rate finger sensor – and honors student Andreas Himariotis carried off the top undergraduate prize.

11/16/2020 Featured Story
10/21/2020 Featured Story

Health Professors Target Improved Care for Black Women with HIV

Health Professors Target Improved Care for Black Women with HIV

Asst. Prof. Serena Rajabiun and two other Zuckerberg College of Health Sciences professors are leading a $3.9 million federal grant to help HIV treatment centers improve care for Black women, who have higher infection rates and worse health outcomes because of poverty, stigma and structural racism.

10/21/2020 Featured Story
9/14/2020 Featured Story

UML Alumni and Volunteers Help ‘Stop the Spread’ of COVID-19

UML Alumni and Volunteers Help ‘Stop the Spread’ of COVID-19

When two alumni now working at Lowell Community Health Center wanted volunteers for their “Stop the Spread” COVID-19 testing campaign this summer, they knew whom to call: their former professors in the Zuckerberg College of Health Sciences.

9/14/2020 Featured Story
6/30/2020 Featured Story

Disinfectants Can Kill the Coronavirus, but Can Also Harm Health

Disinfectants Can Kill the Coronavirus, but Can Also Harm Health

With the coronavirus pandemic persisting, people may be tempted to increase the use of disinfectants to help stem the spread of the virus. But these products contain Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)-registered pesticides that can cause harm, especially if not used as directed.

6/30/2020 Featured Story
5/18/2020 Lowell Sun In The News

Lowell General Surgeon Finds New Normal during Pandemic

Lowell General Surgeon Finds New Normal during Pandemic

Lowell General Hospital chief medical officer Arthur Lauretano, M.D., received a master's in Healthcare Management and Clinical Informatics from UMass Lowell.

5/18/2020 Lowell Sun In The News
5/6/2020 Featured Story

Seniors Adapt Capstones to Online Learning

Seniors Adapt Capstones to Online Learning

With labs closed and all academic programs now online due to COVID-19, seniors are adapting their capstone projects. Some capstones have even taken on new relevance because they address aspects of the pandemic.

5/6/2020 Featured Story
4/30/2020 Featured Story

Faculty Researchers Receive UML Seed Funding for COVID-19 Work

Faculty Researchers Receive UML Seed Funding for COVID-19 Work

Three faculty-led research projects focused on immediate responses to the COVID-19 pandemic received more than $33,000 in seed funding from the university’s Office of Research and Innovation.

4/30/2020 Featured Story
4/29/2020 Featured Story

Public Health Students Volunteer as Contact Tracers

Public Health Students Volunteer as Contact Tracers

Thirty undergraduate and graduate public health students from the Zuckerberg College of Health Sciences have volunteered to work with local boards of health on contact tracing efforts to help contain the coronavirus pandemic.

4/29/2020 Featured Story
4/21/2020 Featured Story

TNEC Offers Free Trainings on COVID-19 Worker Safety

TNEC Offers Free Trainings on COVID-19 Worker Safety

The New England Consortium, a UML-based institute, is offering free trainings on keeping workers safe amid the COVID-19 pandemic, whether they’re front-line health care workers or employees in other essential industries.

4/21/2020 Featured Story
4/14/2020 Featured Story

Student EMTs Answer the Call, Even During Pandemic

Student EMTs Answer the Call, Even During Pandemic

The university has switched to remote operations because of the coronavirus pandemic, but student EMTs are still providing continuous emergency response services for the students and essential staff members who remain on campus.

4/14/2020 Featured Story
3/18/2020 Featured Story

Public Health Professor: COVID-19 Infections in China are Stabilizing

Public Health Professor: COVID-19 Infections in China are Stabilizing

Epidemiologist and Public Health Prof. David Kriebel, who is reviewing data as it becomes available on the outbreak of COVID-19, sees cautiously encouraging trends on the containment of the virus emerging in China.

3/18/2020 Featured Story
1/30/2020 Featured Story

Food for Thought: Experts Chew on Diet Fails

Food for Thought: Experts Chew on Diet Fails

Studies show that fad diets don't keep off weight in the long term. Faculty who are registered dietitians and students majoring in nutritional science share science-based advice to eat healthy for successful weight loss.

1/30/2020 Featured Story
12/16/2019 Featured Story

Listen Up: Amplify Your Message by Using a Microphone

Listen Up: Amplify Your Message by Using a Microphone

College Based Advising, Disability Services, Hospitality & Event Services and the Zuckerberg College of Health Sciences have joined together to launch the “Don’t Drop the Mic, USE a Mic” campaign. The initiative encourages presenters to use microphones at large meetings, classrooms, events and conferences.

12/16/2019 Featured Story
11/1/2019 Featured Story

Healthy H.A.W.K.S. Help Students ‘Escape the Vape’

Healthy H.A.W.K.S. Help Students ‘Escape the Vape’

Students traded in their vape pens for UML gear donated by the university bookstore during “Escape the Vape,” a two-day event hosted by the peer health education student group Healthy H.A.W.K.S.

11/1/2019 Featured Story
10/28/2019 Department News

Economics Professor Awarded Nearly $1 Million for Asthma Research

Economics Professor Awarded Nearly $1 Million for Asthma Research

Research Prof. David Turcotte has won a federal grant of nearly $1 million to do more research on asthma – work that could benefit low-income seniors in Lowell.

10/28/2019 Department News
9/13/2019 Featured Story

University Helps Food Companies Find Recipe for Sustainability

University Helps Food Companies Find Recipe for Sustainability

Food and beverage companies learned about sustainable manufacturing and cleaning processes at a workshop funded by the EPA.

9/13/2019 Featured Story
8/19/2019 Featured Story

Study Finds Home Health Workers Often Face Verbal Abuse

Study Finds Home Health Workers Often Face Verbal Abuse

Work environment graduate student Nicole Karlsson was the lead author on a published study that showed that about one in four home care workers reported at least one incident of verbal abuse by clients or their relatives during the preceding 12 months.

8/19/2019 Featured Story
8/7/2019 Featured Story

Opioids and Work: A Critical Connection

Opioids and Work: A Critical Connection

Most people addicted to opioids are working – and job conditions can either contribute to addiction or help to prevent it and encourage recovery. The university was selected as one of four sites nationwide for a pilot training program on the critical connections between work, mental health and addiction.

8/7/2019 Featured Story
7/9/2019 Press Release

Research Tackles Head Injuries in Youth Football

Research Tackles Head Injuries in Youth Football

An athletic training method shown to reduce head injuries in high school football will be rolled out in Hawaii next week through an $800,000 grant to the UMass Lowell researcher who designed the system.

7/9/2019 Press Release
5/17/2019 Eagle-Tribune In The News

Grad Working to Improve Senior Life

Grad Working to Improve Senior Life

Nutritional Science student Liam Fouhy is part of a group partnering with Lawrence’s Council on Aging. Fouhy will pursue his MPH at UMass Lowell.

5/17/2019 Eagle-Tribune In The News
5/15/2019 Featured Story

Faculty Experts Brief Legislators on Climate Change

Faculty Experts Brief Legislators on Climate Change

The university’s Climate Change Initiative hosted members of the state’s House Committee on Global Warming and Climate Change for a roundtable discussion on climate science and policy at which faculty members shared scientific research and expertise to help inform policy decisions.

5/15/2019 Featured Story
5/3/2019 Featured Story

ROTC Cadets Get Nutrition, Exercise Help from Health Sciences Students

ROTC Cadets Get Nutrition, Exercise Help from Health Sciences Students

UMass Lowell Air Force ROTC Commander Jesse Jaramillo partnered with Zuckerberg College of Health Sciences faculty to deliver nutrition and exercise science education, counseling and training for cadets.

5/3/2019 Featured Story
2/4/2019 Featured Story

Reusable Bags are Green, but are They Clean?

Reusable Bags are Green, but are They Clean?

A team of public health students from the Zuckerberg College of Health Sciences, who are working at the Toxics Use Reduction Institute (TURI) on their capstone project, found safer cleaning solutions for reusable bags.

2/4/2019 Featured Story
12/3/2018 Featured Story

Turcotte’s Asthma Research Helps Children and Seniors in Lowell

Turcotte’s Asthma Research Helps Children and Seniors in Lowell

For almost two decades, Research Prof. David Turcotte’s “Healthy Homes” project has improved the lives of low-income children and seniors with asthma. His focus on environmental justice also includes research on wind turbines, community health and healthy workplaces.

12/3/2018 Featured Story
11/9/2018 Featured Story

Creatures on Campus Tame Student Stress

Creatures on Campus Tame Student Stress

Public Health Department Chair Nicole Champagne brings Ben, the university's first therapy dog, to campus twice a week and the Wellness Center recently brought baby animals to campus, all to reduce student stress.

11/9/2018 Featured Story
10/26/2018 Featured Story

‘I’m a Human Being, Not a Target’

‘I’m a Human Being, Not a Target’

“Confronting Gun Violence Against Kids” was the theme of the College of Education’s 23rd Panasuk Symposium on Educational Research, Policy & Practice, which featured Peter Cunningham, former assistant secretary for communications and outreach for the U.S. Department of Education.

10/26/2018 Featured Story
10/16/2018 Featured Story

For Genetic Counselors, Career Growth's in Their DNA

For Genetic Counselors, Career Growth's in Their DNA

At a recent career seminar, students from a variety of majors heard from three experienced genetic counselors about the various career options in the profession, as well as the challenges and rewards of their jobs.

10/16/2018 Featured Story
9/26/2018 Featured Story

Professors Tackle Opioid Epidemic with Hands-on Research

Professors Tackle Opioid Epidemic with Hands-on Research

Assoc. Prof. Wilson Palacios is researching new approaches to prevent opioid overdoses and the spread of disease in Lowell. Meanwhile, Asst. Prof. Angela Wangari Walter is identifying barriers to prevention, treatment and recovery for fishing industry workers in New England.

9/26/2018 Featured Story
6/20/2018 Featured Story

Toss the Toxics: Prof. Lauded at State House

Toss the Toxics: Prof. Lauded at State House

The Toxics Use Reduction Institute recently recognized Asst. Prof. Boce Zang as an Academic Champion of Toxics Use Reduction at the State House. He was one of 12 honorees that are working to reduce toxic chemical use across the Commonwealth.

6/20/2018 Featured Story
5/7/2018 Featured Story

Dietetics Grad Students Serve Up Taste of the Tropics

Dietetics Grad Students Serve Up Taste of the Tropics

Graduate students in the Master’s in Public Health with a focus on dietetics spent the semester interning on campus with University Dining Services, learning about everything from food prep and safety to knife skills and food waste composting.

5/7/2018 Featured Story
5/4/2018 Department News

Big Data Project Receives $10K IDEA Grant

Big Data Project Receives $10K IDEA Grant

An interdisciplinary team led by Manning School Assoc. Prof. Asil Oztekin and Zuckerberg College Assoc. Prof. Margaret Knight received a $10,000 IDEA grant from the Office of the Provost to collaborate with the Lowell Community Health Center and use Big Data analytics to model health outcomes for risk groups.

5/4/2018 Department News
4/30/2018 Department News

Margaret Quinn Recognized for Safe Home Care Research

Margaret Quinn Recognized for Safe Home Care Research

The American Industrial Hygiene Association named Margaret Quinn as the recipient of the Alice Hamilton Award, which is presented to an outstanding woman who has made a lasting achievement in the field of occupational and environmental hygiene.

4/30/2018 Department News
4/24/2018 Featured Story

‘Exercise is Medicine’ Supports Students’ Well-being

‘Exercise is Medicine’ Supports Students’ Well-being

A collaboration between Campus Recreation, the Wellness Center and the Exercise Physiology department, the Exercise is Medicine program teaches students how exercise can improve their overall well-being by providing them with 16 personal training sessions – free of charge.

4/24/2018 Featured Story
4/17/2018 Featured Story

UML Leads the Way in Preventing Sexual Assault

UML Leads the Way in Preventing Sexual Assault

UML is working hard to educate students in sexual violence prevention in the classroom, on playing fields, in student clubs and through residence life. Faculty are also doing cutting-edge research in the field.

4/17/2018 Featured Story
3/21/2018 Department News

New Tool, Developed at UML, Expected to Speed Up Diagnoses of Tuberculosis

New Tool, Developed at UML, Expected to Speed Up Diagnoses of Tuberculosis

UMass Lowell public health and computer science researchers are launching the pilot of a new tool in Peru that aims to speed up the diagnosis of people afflicted with tuberculosis.

3/21/2018 Department News
3/5/2018 Fox News In The News

Cleaning Products Tied to Lung Function Decline in Women Says New Study

Cleaning Products Tied to Lung Function Decline in Women Says New Study

“There’s an idea that clean equals good and healthy, but this should broaden our idea of what cleaning work is and what the chemical hazards are in particular,” said Margaret Quinn of UMass Lowell.

3/5/2018 Fox News In The News
1/12/2018 Featured Story

Researchers Discover Safer Solution for Paint Stripping Products

Researchers Discover Safer Solution for Paint Stripping Products

UMass Lowell researchers have developed a paint-stripping solvent that they say provides a safer alternative to the toxic, potentially deadly products available for purchase at local hardware stores.

1/12/2018 Featured Story
11/17/2017 Featured Story

Students Show They Care with Teddy Bears

Students Show They Care with Teddy Bears

Students are collecting new teddy bears and other stuffed animals to give to children in Lowell and hurricane-ravaged areas for the holidays. The Student Alumni Ambassadors are collecting in Fox Hall and also taking online donations of money.

11/17/2017 Featured Story
10/5/2017 Featured Story

Alum Shares Front Line Disaster Response Experience

Alum Shares Front Line Disaster Response Experience

Maura Walsh '80, health care administration alumna and former leader of a 15-hospital health care system in Texas, returned to campus recently to share her experience managing a command center during and after Hurricane Ike.

10/5/2017 Featured Story
9/18/2017 Featured Story

Faculty Teaching Methods Raise the Grade

Faculty Teaching Methods Raise the Grade

Faculty Teaching Circle Fellows integrate innovative teaching methods in classes to help students succeed.

9/18/2017 Featured Story
9/12/2017 Featured Story

Biologist Looks Beyond the Bones for Clues to Evolution

Biologist Looks Beyond the Bones for Clues to Evolution

Biologist Nicolai Konow studies the structure and movements of backboned animals, including fish, bats, birds and axolotls, to understand how they evolved and how they fit into the ecosystem. A recent study looks at fish that eat coral.

9/12/2017 Featured Story
7/31/2017 Featured Story

Students Teach Healthy Eating

Students Teach Healthy Eating

Students studying dietetics gain valuable work experience during their summer community internships.

7/31/2017 Featured Story
7/7/2017 Featured Story

Public Health Prof Wins $2.1M Grant for Parkinson's Research

Public Health Prof Wins $2.1M Grant for Parkinson's Research

The National Institutes of Health awarded Asst. Prof. of Public Health Natalia Palacios a $2.1 million, five-year grant to study the relationship between gut bacteria and the risk of Parkinson’s disease.

7/7/2017 Featured Story
5/18/2017 Press Release

UMass Lowell Unveils Zuckerberg College of Health Sciences

UMass Lowell Unveils Zuckerberg College of Health Sciences

UMass Lowell officially dedicated its College of Health Sciences to alumnus Roy Zuckerberg in recognition of his support for the university and its students.

5/18/2017 Press Release
2/16/2017 Featured Story

Students Dig Up Dirt at Campus Bike Shop

Students Dig Up Dirt at Campus Bike Shop

Students working in the TURI Lab helped the campus bike shop adopt cleaning products that are safer for the environment and workers.

2/16/2017 Featured Story
1/4/2017 Featured Story

Students Find Collaborative Care is the Best Care

Students Find Collaborative Care is the Best Care

A new “Interdisciplinary Experiential Learning” course gives students from five different majors — nursing, medical laboratory science, nutritional sciences, exercise physiology and public health — experience working in teams at Summit ElderCare in Lowell.

1/4/2017 Featured Story
11/10/2016 Featured Story

University Assesses Health Needs in Greater Lowell

University Assesses Health Needs in Greater Lowell

Prof. David Turcotte and a team of students carried out a community health needs assessment for Lowell and surrounding towns—and made some surprising findings.

11/10/2016 Featured Story
11/10/2016 Featured Story

Students Help Boy’s Hoop Dream Come True

Students Help Boy’s Hoop Dream Come True

Students from the eNABLE Lowell group fitted 8-year-old Liam Haggerty with a custom-made artificial hand at the South Campus basketball court.

11/10/2016 Featured Story
11/7/2016 Featured Story

Improving Health Starts Here

Improving Health Starts Here

From improving rehabilitation for stroke survivors to reducing inflammation through diet in older adults, faculty members in the College of Health Sciences are conducting studies that have the potential to make a powerful impact on people’s lives.

11/7/2016 Featured Story
10/7/2016 Featured Story

University Researchers Partner with City on Opioid Addiction

University Researchers Partner with City on Opioid Addiction

University researchers helped the Lowell Police Department win two major grants totaling nearly $1.3 million over three years to study factors contributing to opioid addiction and come up with solutions.

10/7/2016 Featured Story
9/30/2016 Featured Story

CPH-NEW Secures $6.3 Million Worker Health Grant

CPH-NEW Secures $6.3 Million Worker Health Grant

The National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health awarded the Center for the Promotion of Health in the New England Workplace a five-year $6,357,027 grant.

9/30/2016 Featured Story
8/19/2016 Boston Magazine In The News

‘Safety Net’ Profession Prevents Epidemics, Diseases

‘Safety Net’ Profession Prevents Epidemics, Diseases

Increases in chronic diseases, obesity rates, virus threats and an aging baby-boom population are fueling the need for more public health professionals.

8/19/2016 Boston Magazine In The News
5/24/2016 Featured Story

Peace and Conflict Graduate Networks Job with Startup

Peace and Conflict Graduate Networks Job with Startup

Before he graduated, Peace and Conflict Studies student Kevin Copson lined up a job with a start-up that supports Weave open-source software, created by university researchers.

5/24/2016 Featured Story
5/24/2016 Featured Story

Turning Students into Public Health Professionals

Turning Students into Public Health Professionals

Public health students created campuswide campaigns to raise awareness about global health issues.

5/24/2016 Featured Story
4/22/2016 Featured Story

Center for Community Research and Engagement Helps Local Agencies

Center for Community Research and Engagement Helps Local Agencies

The Center for Community Research and Engagement helps local agencies, links faculty research with community needs and provides graduate students with research experience.

4/22/2016 Featured Story
4/7/2016 Featured Story

Earth Day Festivities Grow in Scope, Ambition

Earth Day Festivities Grow in Scope, Ambition

Thanks to Prof. John Wooding's creative economy grant, the university is partnering with more than two dozen community groups for the monthlong Lowell Earth Day Celebration 2016.

4/7/2016 Featured Story
2/2/2016 Department News

New Research Links Stress at Work to Unhealthy Lifestyles

New Research Links Stress at Work to Unhealthy Lifestyles

Stress at work is linked to unhealthy lifestyle habits such as smoking, obesity and lack of exercise, according to two research studies conducted by the Center for the Promotion of Health in the New England Workplace (CPH-NEW).

2/2/2016 Department News
1/29/2016 Featured Story

The New England Consortium Lands $7.6M Grant

The New England Consortium Lands $7.6M Grant

The National Institute for Environmental Health Sciences has awarded The New England Consortium a $7.6 million grant to protect the health and safety of workers responding to hazardous-materials and climate-change crises.

1/29/2016 Featured Story
1/29/2016 Featured Story

The New England Consortium Lands $7.6M Grant

The New England Consortium Lands $7.6M Grant

The National Institute for Environmental Health Sciences has awarded The New England Consortium a $7.6 million grant to protect the health and safety of workers responding to hazardous-materials and climate-change crises.

1/29/2016 Featured Story
1/13/2016 Featured Story

What Lies Ahead for 2016?

What Lies Ahead for 2016?

1/13/2016 Featured Story
1/11/2016 Featured Story

New Grad Degrees Focus on Arts, Management, Data Analysis

New Grad Degrees Focus on Arts, Management, Data Analysis

New graduate degrees combine specialized knowledge in humanities and sciences with business management, data analysis and leadership skills.

1/11/2016 Featured Story
1/6/2016 Featured Story

$2M Grant Trains Public Health Grad Students

$2M Grant Trains Public Health Grad Students

The National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health awarded UMass Lowell a $2M grant that supports graduate students in their public health and occupational health and safety studies.

1/6/2016 Featured Story
6/25/2015 Department News

Improving the Health and Productivity of Massachusetts Employees

Improving the Health and Productivity of Massachusetts Employees

UMass Lowell's CPH-NEW and UMass Medical School were awarded a $500,000 two-year grant to measure the effectiveness of a new state worksite wellness program.

6/25/2015 Department News
4/15/2015 Featured Story

Health and Safety Expert Earns Prestigious Award

Health and Safety Expert Earns Prestigious Award

Prof. Emeritus Michael Ellenbecker of Work Environment has been honored for going above and beyond in contributing to the improvement of the public’s welfare.

4/15/2015 Featured Story

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