Visit the Fabric Discovery Center at 110 Canal St., Lowell.

U.S. Rep. Lori Trahan learned about the latest technology used in parachutes and other battlefield innovations while touring the HEROES lab on Feb. 20.

U.S. Rep. Lori Trahan toured UMass Lowell's HEROES Center on Wednesday, checking out the bomb suit technology.

Faculty members from across the university shared their research and were recognized for their achievements at the 2018 Faculty Symposium, held at the UMass Lowell Inn & Conference Center.

A total of 30 undergraduate and graduate students and postdoctoral researchers from colleges across the campus competed during the first Future Pack Design Challenge, held at the new Fabric Discovery Center.

Manning School of Business faculty Scott Latham and Beth Humberd examined four ways that jobs will respond to automation in a research article published in MIT Sloan Management Review.

Marjorie Yang, chair of the $1 billion Hong Kong-based textile company Esquel Group, visited campus and talked to students about sustainability and social responsibility. Her father, Y.L. Yang, earned a master of science in textile chemistry from the Lowell Textile Institute in 1948.

The U.S. Department of Transportation recently awarded a five-year, $14 million grant to a partnership of faculty and student researchers from UMass Lowell and other universities in New England to create a regional Transportation Infrastructure Durability Center.

UMass Lowell researchers are working to give humanoid robots and other autonomous systems the ability to evaluate how well they can perform tasks or why they can’t complete jobs.  

Robotics experts from UMass Lowell, Carnegie Mellon University, Brigham Young University and Tufts University are working together to give humanoid robots and other autonomous systems the ability to assess themselves in terms of how well they can perform a given task.

Sixty academic, government and industry leaders and researchers from across the region came together for “The Internet of Things: Enabling Technologies & Emerging Trends,” a forum hosted by the Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research and Innovation and the Massachusetts Technology Collaborative.

The NERVE Center and Toxics Use Reduction Institute both moved to new homes over winter break, while Facilities Management steamed ahead on renovations at Perry and Pasteur halls and on the construction of University Suites Dining.

E Ink is expanding its partnership with UMass Lowell beyond co-ops and internships, thanks to a $196,000 workforce training grant that the Division of Online and Continuing Education helped the high-tech company obtain from the state and the opening of more innovation labs on campus.

Prof. Partha Chowdhury of the Department of Physics and Applied Physics is conducting research to unravel the internal structure of the atom's nucleus.

Prof. Joey Mead of the Department of Plastics Engineering, a highly regarded teacher and researcher, has been named Distinguished University Professor, the top accolade bestowed on a UMass Lowell faculty member.

UMass Lowell engineers are creating new, cost-effective sensor-laden textiles that can be used to monitor the structural health of vital infrastructures across the country.

UMass Lowell's new Fabric Discovery Center will support research and development of new technologies that will revolutionize the way fabrics are made.

Gov. Charlie Baker was in Lowell to award $11.3 million to the university for what may fuel a new fabrics boom in the city.

The Baker-Polito Administration announced awards totaling $11.3 million to UMass Lowell to fund the creation of future technologies that will revolutionize the way fabrics are made and reinvent the textile industry in Lowell.

Prof. Erno Sajo, in collaboration with researchers from Brigham and Women’s Hospital, has developed a new class of inexpensive nanofilm radiation detectors that can be used in everything from health care to homeland security.

The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) recently awarded a team of nuclear engineers and scientists led by chemical engineering Assoc. Prof. Dean Wang a three-year, $800,000 grant to develop tools to help keep America’s nuclear power plants safe during extended power disruptions.

Thanks to a $1.5 million grant from the Department of Energy, a team of robotics experts is studying ways in which a humanoid robot can help clean up America’s decommissioned nuclear production facilities.

Chemical engineering Asst. Prof. Prakash Rai was awarded a grant by the National Cancer Institute at the National Institutes of Health (NCI/NIH) totaling more than $725,000 to study a combined, nanotechnology-based diagnostic/therapeutic strategy for the targeted treatment of breast cancer.

The university’s Core Research Facilities, a group of open access laboratories, is showing off its state-of-the-art scientific equipment by offering a fictional crime “Lunch and Learn” series of workshops and a short-story contest for undergraduates.

Three teams of UMass Lowell researchers — led by Prof. Holly Yanco and Assoc. Prof. Yu Cao, both from the Department of Computer Science, and Asst. Prof. Seongkyu Yoon from Chemical Engineering — are among the recipients of $834,000 in grants from this year’s UMass President Science & Technology Initiatives Fund.

UMass Lowell students and researchers are programming one of only four robots in the world that NASA hopes will allow us to one day live on Mars.

Internationally respected robotics researcher and UMass Lowell computer science faculty member Holly Yanco will share her understanding of how the use of robots – from Mars rovers to assistive technology – is changing how humans relate to each other at the 2016 Distinguished University Professor Lecture. 

A team of researchers from UMass Lowell and the Medical College of Wisconsin has been awarded two grants by the U.S. National Institutes of Health totaling nearly $930,000 to develop ways to predict and mitigate injuries resulting from radiation exposure.

Physics Prof. Christopher J. “Kim” Lister, who is co-director of UMass Lowell’s Radiation Laboratory, was invited by Nature to give his expert opinion on the recent confirmation of the elusive pear-shaped nuclei made by an international team of physicists working at the CERN lab in Geneva, Switzerland.

Thirteen young teens from the Boys and Girls Club of Greater Lowell recently toured North Campus as part of a college-readiness program that helps them better prepare for the transition from high school to college.

Chemistry Prof. Rudolf Faust has developed a new, more environmentally friendly process for making highly reactive polyisobutylenes (HRPIBs), which are used in engine lubricants and fuel additives.

UMass Lowell is hosting 23 engineering sophomores and juniors from King Abdulaziz University in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, as part of the University’s Nuclear Energy Education and Training (NEET) program.

Prof. Nelson Eby, together with researchers from Los Alamos National Laboratory and the University of Oxford in the U.K. as well as a mineralogist from Roxbury, Conn., are analyzing trinitite samples from a geological perspective.

Each year, undergraduate and graduate students from our six colleges and schools gather to present their research in oral and poster presentations to their peers, faculty and guests.

A total of about 400 seventh- and eighth-grade students from Lowell Public Schools toured the campus as part of the University's STEM outreach effort.  

Physics Profs. Partha Chowdhury and Christopher “Kim” Lister are among the researchers engaged in studying fleeting rare isotopes and determining their properties.

Plastics Engineering Assoc. Prof. Ramaswamy Nagarajan is one of the University’s leading researchers on sustainability and renewable materials, having devoted more than decade of his career developing products and processes that minimize the use and generation of hazardous substances.

Researchers from UMass Lowell and their counterparts from the U.S. Army’s Natick Soldier Research, Development and Engineering Center will be working together as part of a new research and development initiative called HEROES (Harnessing Emerging Research Opportunities to Empower Soldiers).

Robots ran obstacle courses, climbed through a honeycomb of compartments, tested their vision and soaked themselves in simulated rainstorms. Those were just a few of the demonstrations today at the opening of the most advanced robotics testing facility in the nation, the New England Robotics Validation and Experimentation Center, located at UMass Lowell.

The Department of Physics and Applied Physics is now offering master’s degree and Ph.D. programs in radiological sciences with a medical physics option.

The U.S. Department of Energy’s Advanced Research Projects Agency for Energy (ARPA-E) has awarded a team of researchers from UMass Lowell, UMass Boston and the University of Wisconsin a three-year, $3 million grant to develop a metal catalyst for converting sunlight, carbon dioxide (CO2) and water into hydrocarbon fuel.

Hosted by UMass Lowell’s Office of Commercial Ventures and Intellectual Property, the Nov. 27 meeting of the Middlesex 3 Coalition was billed as “Enabling Life Sciences Innovation Beyond Cambridge.”

An integral part of UMass Lowell’s newly inaugurated $80 million Emerging Technologies and Innovation Center on North Campus is a “clean room” facility, where the air inside is continuously circulated, filtered and monitored to make sure that the number of microscopic particles present doesn’t exceed the maximum allowable limit.

In a recent podcast produced by the Museum of Science in Boston, electrical engineering Assoc. Prof. Joel Therrien talked about the importance of studying how nano-sized particles affect human health and the environment.

A team of researchers at UMass Lowell are now able to replicate photosynthesis in the laboratory, with the goal of someday storing solar energy on a commercial scale.

An interdisciplinary team of researchers from UMass Lowell and the State University of New York, Binghamton, has been awarded a three-year grant worth nearly $460,000 by the National Science Foundation to synthesize lead-free nanosolder materials and develop innovative nanosoldering techniques for joining electronic components measuring only billionths of a meter in size.

The U.S. Army Research Office has awarded Prof. James Whitten a grant worth $345,000 over a period of three years to perform research on the photoluminescence of metal oxide nanoparticles measuring billionths of a meter.

Electrical and computer engineering Assoc. Prof. Alkim Akyurtlu recently received a three-year grant totaling about $650,000 from the Air Force Office of Scientific Research to study homogeneous negative refractive index metamaterials.

UMass Lowell’s mission to enhance the student experience by providing a global perspective will be highlighted when Queen’s University Belfast — in partnership with UMass Lowell and Dublin City University — hosts the Advanced Materials, Polymer Processing and Manufacturing Conference in Belfast, Northern Ireland, on Sept. 25 and 26.

Profs. Pradeep Kurup and Ramaswamy Nagarajan are conducting pioneering research to develop an electronic “tongue” for detecting and analyzing heavy metals in the soil and groundwater. 

Chemical engineering Assoc. Prof. Sanjeev K. Manohar is developing a sensor that would help keep the military's food supply safe and secure.

Electrical engineering Prof. Martin Margala, together with his former graduate student Vikas Kaushal and collaborators from the Universidad de Salamanca in Spain and North Carolina State University, are moving one step closer to developing even smaller, faster and super energy-efficient mobile electronic devices with their work on “ballistic deflection transistors,” or BDTs.

At the center of the University’s efforts is the brand-new, $80 million state-of-the-art Emerging Technologies and Innovation Center (ETIC), which is scheduled to have its grand public opening Oct. 11.

UMass Lowell recently hired Gary Delehanty to serve as facilities manager for ETIC, the Emerging Technologies and Innovation Center, set to open this fall on North Campus. Delehanty, who has 25 years of experience maintaining and operating clean rooms and other research labs, says taking care of ETIC is a dream job.

UMass Lowell joined more than 550 leading science organizations and institutions across the country in the largest celebration of science and engineering in America held in April in Washington D.C.

A team of UMass Lowell researchers led by Asst. Prof. Bridgette Budhlall recently received a three-year $505,373 grant from Raytheon to develop stimuli-responsive polymers.

Physics Prof. Erno Sajo recently received a three-year $450,000 faculty research and development grant from the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission o support UMass Lowell’s longstanding academic programs in nuclear engineering and radiological sciences.

Prof. Robert Malloy is one of 10 individuals inducted into the Plastics Hall of Fame during the National Plastics Exposition banquet on April 1 in Orlando, Fla.

UMass Lowell will join more than 800 leading science organizations and institutions across the country in the largest celebration of science and engineering in America: the USA Science & Engineering Festival, which will be held April 28 and 29 at the Walter E. Washington Convention Center in Washington D.C.

Electrical Engineering Assoc. Prof. Joel Therrien, along with Profs. Susan Braunhut of Biology and Kenneth Marx of Chemistry, has developed a “nanocanary,” a living-cell-based biosensor capable of continuously monitoring the physiological state of the live cells contained within it.

More than a dozen legislators and House Speaker Robert DeLeo toured UMass Lowell labs, the Emerging Technologies and Innovation Center and the M2D2 incubator to see how our research and development connects with industry.

UMass Lowell has acquired a brand-new Zeiss focused ion-beam scanning electron microscope to enhance the University’s research capabilities in the areas of nano materials and biological sciences.

UMass Lowell’s leadership in nanotechnology was evident as it hosted the fifth annual International Symposium on Nanotechnology Occupational Environmental and Health from Aug. 9 to 12 in Boston.

Two Ph.D. candidates — Abhishek Kumar in Physics and Jisun Im in Chemistry — have been awarded the 2011 Tripathy Memorial Endowed Graduate Fellowship in recognition of their academic accomplishments and multidisciplinary research.

UMass President-elect Robert Caret had a first-hand tour of the UMass Lowell campus during a half-day visit on May 18.

Prof. Emeritus Bodo Reinisch of the Environmental, Earth and Atmospheric Sciences Department has been chosen by the International Union of Radio Science to receive the Appleton Prize for “outstanding contributions to studies in ionospheric physics.” 

Dozens of local Boy Scouts recently visited UMass Lowell to work on a merit badge in nuclear science.

The state boosted a UMass Lowell nanotech R&D collaboration with Shenkar College in Israel March 10 when Housing and Economic Development Secretary Greg Bialecki inked an agreement with Shenkar President Yuli Tamir.

Housing and Economic Development Secretary Greg Bialecki announced support for a collaborative research project between UMass Lowell’s Nanomanufacturing Center of Excellence and Shenkar College of Engineering and Design in Israel. Researchers at both institutions will investigate fabrication processes for materials with potential to reduce costs for maintaining and servicing aircraft.

Physics Asst. Prof. Daniel Wasserman has been recognized by the National Science Foundation with a prestigious faculty early career development award.

The National Science Foundation recently recognized electrical and computer engineering Asst. Prof. Xingwei Wang with a prestigious faculty early career development award.

The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission recently awarded UMass Lowell $400,000 to help fund graduate fellowships in health physics and nuclear engineering for the next four years.

UMass Lowell joined more than 800 of the nation’s leading science organizations and institutions in exhibiting at the first USA Science & Engineering Festival, held in Washington, D.C., in late October.

Imagine an astronaut that can work tirelessly 24 hours a day, seven days a week -- without needing food, drink or oxygen. That’s the vision behind Robonaut 2, the world’s first human-like robotic astronaut set to be launched into space.

MIT chemistry Prof. Timothy Swager will speak about “Chemistry and the Applications of Carbon Nanotubes” at the Konarka Tripathy Endowed Memorial Lecture Oct. 28.

UMass Lowell, in partnership with the Massachusetts Technology Collaborative’s John Adams Innovation Institute, recently hosted “Destination Nano,” a two-day conference and workshop held at the UMass Lowell Inn & Conference Center.

UMass Lowell, together with Merrimack College and the MIT Enterprise Forum, are co-sponsoring the second annual Auto-ID & Sensing Solutions Seminar & Expo Oct. 13.

Co-sponsored by UMass Lowell and the Massachusetts Technology Collaborative’s John Adams Innovation Institute, the conference and workshops will feature the latest information on sensors, nanomaterials, environmental health and safety, nanomedicine and energy.

Two chemical engineering undergraduate students — Mark Lalli and Neha Manohar — gave oral presentations of their research at the national meeting of the American Chemical Society held in August in Boston.

Chemical Engineering Asst. Prof. Zhiyong Gu recently received a 3M Nontenured Faculty Grant for his research.

Physics Prof. Robert Giles has been named University Professor for 2010-13. 

On April 20, the Plastics Engineering Department, in collaboration with the Society of Plastics Engineers Medical Plastics Division and the Eastern New England SPE Section, organized the Plastics for Medical Devices Conference at the UMass Lowell Inn & Conference Center.

More than 100 people had a firsthand look at the exciting research that UMass Lowell faculty and students are conducting in nanomanufacturing and nanotechnology during the Nano Summit April 1.

The fourth annual Nano Summit will showcase cutting-edge research in nanotechnology.

Prof. Xuejun Lu and his team are developing a new generation of night-vision devices that not only offer high sensitivity but also smaller size and simpler, more economical manufacturing process.

For the first time, UMass Lowell will host the Massachusetts Regional Science Bowl, to be held on the North Campus on Feb. 27.

The Rubber Division of the American Chemical Society has awarded its 2010 Chemistry of Thermoplastic Elastomers Award to Chemistry Prof. Rudolf Faust.

Asst. Profs. Joel Therrien and Daniel Schmidt have received a three-year $340,000 grant from the National Science Foundation to produce new cantilevers for use in high-speed Atomic Force Microscopy.

Prof. Nelson Eby recently spent a week in Bogota, Colombia, to help the country establish a Neutron Activation Analysis Laboratory for use in criminal investigations.

The Nanoscale Science and Engineering Research Center for High-rate Nanomanufacturing has received a $12.25 million renewal grant from the National Science Foundation.

Julie Chen, professor of mechanical engineering, has agreed to serve as interim vice provost for research.

UMass Lowell is part of a consortium, led by Idaho State University, that has been awarded a three-year, $1.5 million grant from the Department of Energy.

UMass Lowell will host a National Science Foundation summer institute short course on nanotechnology from June 15 to 18.

Jagdeep Singh, a doctoral candidate in the Chemistry Department’s polymer science program, has been awarded the 2009 Tripathy Memorial Endowed Graduate Fellowship.

Recent UMass Lowell developments and breakthrough research were showcased at the Nanomanufacturing Summit in April.

The April 16 summit shows how UMass Lowell is leading the next industrial revolution, one based on expanding knowledge of the nanoscale.

Dr. John Moulder of the Center for Medical Countermeasures Against Radiological Terrorism at the Medical College of Wisconsin recently spoke to UMass Lowell faculty and students.