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).

Three students attended COP29 in Azerbaijan, thanks to funding from the Rist Institute for Sustainability and Energy.

Letting forests grow would support the full range of native biodiversity while removing carbon from the atmosphere.

The Rist Institute for Sustainability and Energy awarded fellowships to plastics engineering major Abby Mastromonaco, entrepreneurship Ph.D. student William Zhou and Chemistry Asst. Prof. Juan Artes Vivancos.

For more than 20 years, the Lowell Center for Sustainable Production’s Chemicals Science and Policy Initiative has been a leading research and strategy effort focused on driving the transition to safer, more sustainable chemicals, materials, and products.

A new honors seminar that helps students think critically about different sources of energy is inspiring research involving renewables, including projects at UMass Lowell’s Haiti Development Studies Center.