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  Featured Story

  Bugging Out: Donation of Specimen Collection Boosts Study of Insects
  Bugging Out: Donation of Specimen Collection Boosts Study of Insects

  5/19/2022
  Biological Sciences Asst. Prof. Christina Kwapich is the curator of a new collection of 15,000 insect specimens that she uses to teach entomology.
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  Featured Story

  Take a Bow: String Project Turns 20
  Take a Bow: String Project Turns 20

  5/17/2022
  More than 20 years after it began, the UMass Lowell String Project is bringing accessible, high-quality music education on violin, viola and cello to Lowell-area schoolchildren – and giving UML music students teaching experience. 
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  Department News

  Reunions Bring Alumni Back to Campus
  Reunions Bring Alumni Back to Campus

  5/16/2022
  More than 300 alumni came from near and far for the university’s annual Golden Alumni Reunion and a special 50th Anniversary of Civil Engineering celebration.
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  Featured Story

  For Class of 2022, ‘Normal’ Never Felt So Extraordinary
  For Class of 2022, ‘Normal’ Never Felt So Extraordinary

  5/14/2022
  UMass Lowell’s first fully in-person Commencement in three years marked a return to normalcy for the Class of 2022 — the largest in school history — and also the end of an era for Chancellor Jacquie Moloney.
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  Featured Story

  Business Students Give Restaurants Something to Chew On
  Business Students Give Restaurants Something to Chew On

  5/12/2022
  Mill City Consulting, a student-run venture created last fall in the Internship in Entrepreneurship course, helped two Lowell restaurants as they continue to recover from the pandemic.
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  Featured Story

  ‘Chancellor Chen’ Greeted with Cheers from UML Community
  ‘Chancellor Chen’ Greeted with Cheers from UML Community

  5/10/2022
  After 25 years of empowering UMass Lowell students and communities through education and innovation, Julie Chen was unanimously approved as the university’s next chancellor — a move that received sweeping praise from students, faculty, staff and alumni.
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  Featured Story

  UML’s Entrepreneurial Muscle Puts Squeeze on Digital Divide
  UML’s Entrepreneurial Muscle Puts Squeeze on Digital Divide

  5/4/2022
  UMass Lowell’s Innovation Hub in Haverhill hosted the Digital Equity Challenge, where entrepreneurs and nonprofits pitched their ideas and projects for increasing digital access and literacy in Essex County.
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  Featured Story

  Electrical Engineering Professor Wins $500K NSF CAREER Award
  Electrical Engineering Professor Wins $500K NSF CAREER Award

  4/30/2022
  Asst. Prof. Yuzhang Lin was recently awarded a five-year, $500,000 faculty early-career development grant by the National Science Foundation to conduct a study that will help better predict and visualize power distribution capacity and consumers’ power demand in real time.