Susan Roberts, an accomplished biochemical engineer and academic leader with ties to the Greater Lowell region, has been selected to lead UMass Lowell’s Francis College of Engineering.

Five peregrine falcon chicks hatched at UMass Lowell in May were deemed healthy and thriving by Massachusetts wildlife officials who visited campus last week. The biologists checked in on the birds in their nest box atop the university’s Fox Hall to fit them with ID bands that enroll them in monitoring and protection programs.

The Association for the Advancement of Sustainability in Higher Education (AASHE) recently named UMass Lowell a platinum campus, the highest possible rating a college or university can earn for its sustainability performance through AASHE’s Sustainability Tracking, Assessment and Rating System (STARS).

More than 4,440 members of UMass Lowell’s Class of 2025 this weekend took home degrees, as the university awarded 4,451 bachelor’s, master’s and doctoral degrees to the graduates in three ceremonies on Friday, May 16 and Saturday, May 17 at the Tsongas Center in Lowell.

The MassRobotics Jumpstart Fellowship Program provides opportunities for high school girls in Massachusetts to learn about careers in robotics. The program, which originated in Boston in 2021, expanded to UMass Lowell in 2024 with support from the Massachusetts Tech Collaborative.

Six area residents are participating in Bioversity’s inaugural life sciences workforce training cohort at UMass Lowell.

To bring care directly to Lowell children, Lowell Public Schools, UMass Lowell’s Zuckerberg College of Health Sciences and the Lowell Community Health Center joined forces to launch a Mobile Health Unit. The “clinic on wheels” travels to Lowell community schools, providing K-12 students with access to services such as checkups, sick visits and vaccinations.

UMass Lowell achieved remarkable success during its eighth annual Days of Giving celebration, raising more than $900,000 from 3,200 donors to support scholarships, career resources, athletics, food and housing insecurity programs, first-generation students and more.

A multichannel camera designed by UMass Lowell hitched a ride on a NASA mission Saturday, May 3, successfully lifting off from Wanaka Airport in New Zealand.

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UMass Lowell, BJ’s Wholesale Club, EatWell Meal Kits and the Greater Lowell Health Alliance are joining forces to provide healthy meal kits along with nutrition education to study participants.

UMass Lowell students have a new place to flex their skills and imagination, thanks to Brooks Automation Inc., which has committed to create a new makerspace at the university. 

M2D2 $200K Challenge names 2025 contest winners. Company developing noninvasive device to measure brain pressure awarded top prize.

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UMass Lowell is the top public research university in the state for students seeking a strong return on their investment after graduation, according to a 2025 Georgetown University study.

The University of Massachusetts Lowell and Florida Gulf Coast University will establish joint education, research and career-connected opportunities to benefit students, faculty and other stakeholders at both institutions, under an agreement announced Monday, March 17.

UMass Lowell’s NanoFabrication Core recently acquired two PlasmaLab ICP systems from Oxford Instruments, reflecting the decades-long relationship between the university and the manufacturing and research company, that will advance the capabilities of the lab, expanding its audience and customer base.

UMass Lowell is now listed as a Carnegie Research 1 (R1) university, a prestigious designation used to identify the nation’s top research institutions.

Charismatic fado singer Katia Guerreiro, honored by the governments of Portugal and France for her virtuosity in the genre, will make her UMass Lowell debut in concert next month.

 A new partnership announced this week between the UMass Lowell Applied Research Corp. and Hanscom Air Force Base seeks to speed the creation and transfer of technology, supporting Hanscom’s unique and vital acquisition mission. The Partnership Intermediary Agreement is the 16th of its kind in the Air Force and first in New England.

Fourteen of UMass Lowell’s online graduate and professional programs are once again ranked among the top in the nation according to the 2025 U.S. News & World Report ranking released this month.

Poll surveyed 3,200 likely voters across the country before the 2024 presidential election.