Chemistry Ph.D. student Porvajja Nagarajan was recently recognized as the top female energy engineering student in the United States for her work in advancing clean, sustainable energy.

Eight students completed a mechanical engineering directed study during the spring semester, which included a one-week trip to Sosúa, Dominican Republic, where they installed solar panels for those without reliable electricity.

Students, faculty and entrepreneurs pitched sustainability-focused innovations and climate-tech ideas at UMass Lowell’s inaugural Sustainable Innovation Showcase and Challenge.

The Massachusetts Clean Energy Center (MassCEC) awarded UMass Lowell more than $4.1 million to develop a housing innovation testbed, where innovators can reimagine how to retrofit existing homes and design new housing that is sustainable, affordable and scalable.

For their senior capstone project, four mechanical engineering majors redesigned and installed a more reliable oil skimmer in the North Campus power plant, solving a longstanding maintenance issue while gaining real-world engineering experience.

UMass Lowell has named a newly renovated Ball Hall lecture hall and established a professorship in honor of computing pioneer Edson deCastro ’60, ’78 (H), funded by a gift from his family.

Transfer student Michael Noel has found a home in the Lawrence Lin MakerSpace, where he not only builds his own future as a civil engineer but also inspires his young cousins to imagine theirs.

Researchers from UMass Lowell and Florida Gulf Coast University received nearly $100,000 in seed funding across five collaborative research projects.

Nearly 100 Francis College of Engineering seniors took the Order of the Engineer oath at a ceremony where plastics engineering alumna Charlotte Ward ’13 urged them to lead with integrity.

Jasmina Burek, assistant professor of mechanical and industrial engineering, is studying geothermal energy networks that can heat and cool a mix of residential, commercial and public buildings. It’s part of a statewide collaboration.

Over six months, nine local college students gained invaluable career-connected experiences supporting municipalities across the state with clean energy projects as part of the Clean Energy and Environment Legacy Transition (CELT) Municipal Fellowship Program.

The Office of Naval Research awarded UMass Lowell and Stony Brook a grant totaling $6.3 million to advance technologies in areas such as energy infrastructure and storage to enhance the reliability and accessibility of energy systems on land and at sea.

New Francis College of Engineering Dean Susan Roberts, a chemical engineer with a distinguished career advancing interdisciplinary research and graduate education, is excited to lead the college through a new era of research, innovation and collaboration.

The Center for Wind Energy Science, Technology and Research (WindSTAR) continues to receive support from the National Science Foundation.

Mechanical and Industrial Engineering Assistant Professor Alessandro Sabato has won a $607,855 CAREER Grant from the National Science Foundation to advance his work on an innovative system for monitoring the structural integrity of bridges, dams and wind turbines.

The UMass Lowell WindHawks are competing in the final round of the U.S. Department of Energy’s Collegiate Wind Competition, scheduled for May 12-15 in Boulder, Colorado.

The Shah Academy of Innovation and Leadership is helping select engineering students to develop into future industry leaders through scholarships, mentorship and professional skill-building opportunities.

UMass Lowell students participate in a state clean energy fellowship, gaining hands-on experience supporting decarbonization, workforce development and policy initiatives through the CELT program and Office of Energy Transformation.

Nearly 130 seniors and alumni from the Francis College of Engineering were inducted into the Order of the Engineer, a national association that emphasizes pride and responsibility in the engineering profession.

The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) recently recognized Chemical Engineering Asst. Prof. Stephen T. Lam with an $876,564 Early Career Research Program award to develop reactor monitoring technology to help to achieve and sustain nuclear fusion reaction for generating power.

UMass Lowell researchers, including Chemistry Asst. Prof. Michael Ross, have found that combining noble metal nanoparticles with bismuth created a concave shape with beneficial properties for renewable energy.

Chemical Engineering Asst. Prof. Stephen T. Lam and researchers from MIT and Stony Brook University recently won a three-year, $1 million U.S. Department of Energy grant to improve our understanding of molten salt reactor systems.

The National Science Foundation has recognized Asst. Prof. Xinfang Jin of the Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering with its prestigious faculty early career development CAREER award. Jin is researching ways to greatly increase the production of hydrogen and the long-term storage of energy.

Students in the Radiation Safety and Control course received practical experience assessing, measuring and evaluating simulated radioactive contamination in a controlled environment.

UMass Lowell researchers are gearing up to expand their efforts targeting offshore wind energy as part of ARROW, a collaborative project with UMass Amherst, UMass Dartmouth and other partners that will accelerate research and the deployment and scale-up of domestic offshore wind energy.

Xinfang Jin has been awarded a five-year $648,431.00 U.S. National Science Foundation Faculty Career Development award to strengthen her expertise and position her as a leader in multiphysics modeling with microstructures of heterogeneous materials for energy applications.

Chemistry Asst. Prof. Michael Ross received two Scialog: Negative Emissions Science awards for his greenhouse gas research proposals.

Students represented UMass Lowell in Dubai at COP28, the annual United Nations climate summit.

Energy engineering minor introduces students to renewable energy principles and technologies.

Chemical engineering Assoc. Profs. Dongming Xie and Hsi-Wu Wong were awarded a three-year, $463,000 grant by the National Science Foundation to develop technology that would help reduce waste polyethylene plastic through upcycling.

The U.S. Department of Energy has selected Asst. Prof. Fanglin Che of the Department of Chemical Engineering as one of 93 rising scientists and engineers from across the country to receive its prestigious Early Career Research Program Award.

Funded by a U.S. Department of Energy grant, minority community college students will have an opportunity to learn about nuclear science at UMass Lowell’s Radiation Laboratory.

A team of researchers led by Plastics Engineering Asst. Prof. Aboutaleb (Amir) Ameli was awarded $2.7 million to develop technologies for recovering plastics and natural fibers from mixed, nonrecyclable solid waste that would otherwise go to landfills.

UMass Lowell was the first site selected for National Grid’s geothermal pilot project, which will heat and cool buildings in the area with utility-scale networked geothermal energy.

The Department of Energy has awarded a team of researchers led by Asst. Prof. Subash Sharma and Idaho National Laboratory a $486,000 grant to design and analyze sparging systems for tritium removal from fusion energy liquid breeder blankets.

The National Science Foundation (NSF) recently recognized Mechanical and Industrial Engineering Asst. Prof. Maria L. Carreon with a prestigious faculty early career development grant, called the CAREER award.

A team of university and U.S. Army researchers, led by UML Mechanical and Industrial Engineering Assoc. Prof. Assoc. Prof. Juan Pablo Trelles, has developed a way to extract hydrogen from plastic waste that can be used as clean fuel.

Mechanical Engineering Assoc. Prof. Murat Inalpolat and his team are developing and implementing a continuous, sound-based sensor system for monitoring the structural health and integrity of offshore wind turbine blades.

An international group of experts, co-led by University of Massachusetts Lowell, has developed new criteria to define sustainable chemistry.

Chemistry Asst. Prof. Michael Ross’ lab group found that nanoparticles combining post-transition and noble metals absorb higher energies of light. Their discovery is highlighted in Matter, a scientific journal published by Cell Press.

While the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission this week walked back a report saying the agency would seek to ban household gas stoves due to health concerns over emissions, a UMass Lowell expert on the issue maintained “adequate evidence” of ill-health effects exists to take action.