UMass Lowell will play a key role in a 10-year Department of War initiative aimed at modernizing textile manufacturing in the United States to support the defense industry.

As technology allows scientists to generate huge datasets that increasingly require artificial intelligence to analyze, the complementary technology to share their work is lagging. Two associate professors have won a nearly $500,000 NSF grant to lead a team that will co-design a national framework for sharing data and collaborating on scientific discoveries.

As youth-led “Cockroach Janta Party” protests spread across India this summer, two professors in the School of Criminology and Justice Studies have been awarded a pair of university seed grants to study Gen Z protests in Kenya, India and other countries.

Over the past four years, the National Science Foundation has recognized 12 UMass Lowell faculty researchers as some of the nation’s best junior, tenure-track scholars by awarding them prestigious Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) grants.

The National Science Foundation awarded a Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) grant worth nearly $500,000 to Miner School of Computer and Information Sciences Asst. Prof. Hadi Amiri.

Assistant Professor of Computer Science Samantha Reig, a researcher with AI-CARING, a National Science Foundation-funded initiative exploring how artificial intelligence can be used to help support older adults, is focused on figuring out how emerging technologies can fill gaps in day-to-day life without going beyond what’s needed.

Biomedical and Nutritional Sciences Professor Shannon Kelleher is collaborating on a $4.1 million NIH-funded study investigating the genetic causes of lactation disorders, with the goal of improving diagnosis and treatment for breastfeeding mothers.

Electrical and Computer Engineering Professor Hualiang Zhang is part of an international research team that has won National Science Foundation funding to develop faster wireless communications in the terahertz range of the electromagnetic spectrum.

Five years ago, education Ph.D. student Lugyi No organized schools in his native Myanmar for the children of civilians fleeing military attacks. Now, he has won a fellowship to aid his research into those community schools, even as the civil war continues.

Two UMass Lowell doctoral students were among 12 researchers selected for the InnovAGE fellowship, in which they received entrepreneurship training and mentorship to help bring their AI-powered innovations for rehabilitation and dementia detection closer to market.

Nuclear Engineering Professor Sukesh Aghara, who is leading Massachusetts’ advanced nuclear and fusion energy roadmap, explains how emerging nuclear technologies could fit into the commonwealth’s long-term energy strategy and create opportunities for UMass Lowell students and researchers.

As America marks its 250th anniversary, History Professor Abby Chandler discusses the Revolution’s lasting lessons and why the nation’s origin story is more complex than many people realize.

Miner School of Computer and Information Sciences faculty are advancing the field of cyberscience through research, while students gain career-connected experiences.

Mathematics Professor James Propp is the first faculty member at UMass Lowell to win a coveted fellowship at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University. He will spend a year researching how order emerges from random “tilings” of a plane.

Assistant Professor Teresa Lee of the Department of Biological Sciences has won a $1.1 million CAREER grant from the National Science Foundation to support her epigenetics research.

This year’s Manning Prize for Excellence in Teaching honors Education Teaching Professor Sumudu Lewis, who directs the university’s UTeach program, an education minor that prepares students majoring in science, technology, engineering and math for teaching careers.

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.

Three recent alumni have won grants from the Fulbright U.S. Student Program to do research and teach abroad. They are the first UMass Lowell graduates to win the prestigious awards since 1979.

Professor Shannon Kelleher of the Department of Biomedical and Nutritional Sciences is working to uncover the biological reasons that affect milk supply to help mothers breastfeed.