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Lab Spinning Research on Spider Silk

Lab Spinning Research on Spider Silk | In The News

8/29/2018
Boston Globe

Associate Professor Jessica Garb will use NSF grant to figure out how Darwin’s bark spider produces its silk and what makes it so tough.
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High School Students Get Research Experience at UMass Lowell

High School Students Get Research Experience at UMass Lowell | Featured Story

8/24/2018
The Massachusetts Life Sciences Center sponsored nine high school students to do research for eight weeks on campus under its High School Apprenticeship Challenge program.
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Everything is New Again at Dandeneau Hall

Everything is New Again at Dandeneau Hall | Featured Story

8/23/2018
The Mechanical Engineering and Computer Science departments have moved to a remodeled (and renamed) Dandeneau Hall – one of Facilities Management’s several major renovation projects this summer.
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Middle School Teachers Learn About Computer Science

Middle School Teachers Learn About Computer Science | Featured Story

8/21/2018
Prof. Fred Martin of the Department of Computer Science recently hosted “CS Connections,” a four-day summer workshop for middle school teachers who want to learn about computer science.
In The News
Collecting Data while Collecting a Paycheck

Collecting Data while Collecting a Paycheck | In The News

8/18/2018
Lowell Sun

Sophia Manukian is one of nine high school-age interns conducting biological research at UMass Lowell this summer under the Massachusetts Life Sciences Center (MSLC) high school apprenticeship challenge.
In The News
UMass Lowell Professor Recognized for Innovation

UMass Lowell Professor Recognized for Innovation | In The News

7/18/2018
Lowell Sun

UMass Lowell physics professor Archana Kamal was recently named to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's list of 35 Innovators Under 35.
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Biology Professor Aims to Untangle Secret of Spider Web’s Super Toughness

Biology Professor Aims to Untangle Secret of Spider Web’s Super Toughness | Featured Story

7/11/2018
Assoc. Prof. Jessica Garb is studying the molecular composition, biomechanical properties and evolution of a type of silk produced by Darwin’s bark spider.
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Researchers to Develop Self-Evaluating Robots

Researchers to Develop Self-Evaluating Robots | Featured Story

5/23/2018
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.
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‘Invitation to Innovation’ Celebrates Student Ingenuity, Imagination

‘Invitation to Innovation’ Celebrates Student Ingenuity, Imagination | Featured Story

5/11/2018
Invitation to Innovation, which was held May 4 at the Tsongas Center, was attended by more than 2,000 schoolchildren, educators and community and corporate partners.
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Students Win NSF Graduate Research Fellowships

Students Win NSF Graduate Research Fellowships | Featured Story

5/5/2018
Mechanical engineering senior Deborah Fowler and chemical engineering senior Erin Shaughnessey have each won a 2018 Graduate Research Fellowship Program award from the National Science Foundation.
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Nobel Prize Winner Sheds Light on the Future of LEDs

Nobel Prize Winner Sheds Light on the Future of LEDs | Featured Story

4/20/2018
Nobel laureate Shuji Nakamura was on campus recently to deliver this year’s Tripathy Endowed Memorial Lecture and to receive an honorary doctorate from UMass Lowell.
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Long-lost Satellite Carrying UML-built Instrument Rediscovered

Long-lost Satellite Carrying UML-built Instrument Rediscovered | Featured Story

3/26/2018
NASA was able to re-establish radio contact with the IMAGE satellite, which was launched in 2000 and operated for nearly six years before ground controllers suddenly lost its signal in December 2005.
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‘Alexa, What’s the Future of IoT?’

‘Alexa, What’s the Future of IoT?’ | Featured Story

3/21/2018
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.
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New Support for Students Pursuing Health-related Careers

New Support for Students Pursuing Health-related Careers | Featured Story

3/21/2018
To help students pursue advanced health degrees, the university has increased and centralized advising support and program coordination.
Department News
New Tool, Developed at UML, Expected to Speed Up Diagnoses of Tuberculosis

New Tool, Developed at UML, Expected to Speed Up Diagnoses of Tuberculosis | Department News

3/21/2018
UMass Lowell public health and computer science researchers are launching the pilot of a new tool in Peru that aims to speed up the diagnosis of people afflicted with tuberculosis.
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iRobot Engineers to Students: Don’t Be Afraid to Fail

iRobot Engineers to Students: Don’t Be Afraid to Fail | Featured Story

2/28/2018
A group of engineers from iRobot, including alumni Eva Moscat and Anne (Faber) Gambino, shared how they overcame academic adversity during a panel discussion with STEM students dubbed “#PermissionToFail.”
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Biology Professor Studies Human Birth Defects of the Head and Face

Biology Professor Studies Human Birth Defects of the Head and Face | Featured Story

1/25/2018
Biology Asst. Prof. Jennifer L. Fish is spearheading a project to understand the molecular mechanisms responsible in patients who have genetic mutations that lead to craniofacial deformities.
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Professor’s Research Could Help Prevent Sudden Cardiac Death of Young Athletes

Professor’s Research Could Help Prevent Sudden Cardiac Death of Young Athletes | Featured Story

12/12/2017
An interdisciplinary team of researchers led by biology Assoc. Prof. Jeffrey Moore is studying a genetic disorder that causes the walls of the heart to thicken and become stiff.
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Physics Professor Probes the Structure of the Atom’s Heart

Physics Professor Probes the Structure of the Atom’s Heart | Featured Story

11/26/2017
Prof. Partha Chowdhury of the Department of Physics and Applied Physics is conducting research to unravel the internal structure of the atom's nucleus.
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Educators Gather at UML on a Mission to Increase K–12 Computer Science Literacy

Educators Gather at UML on a Mission to Increase K–12 Computer Science Literacy | Featured Story

11/7/2017
The future of numerous industries – from health care to energy – depends on skilled computer science professionals. That’s the message that educators heard at a recent conference focused on strengthening computer science education in grades K–12.
Department News
UMass Lowell Now a Member of University Corporation for Atmospheric Research

UMass Lowell Now a Member of University Corporation for Atmospheric Research | Department News

11/7/2017
UMass Lowell is now a member of UCAR, University Corporation for Atmospheric Research.
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Math Professor Shines Light on the Life and Works of John Napier

Math Professor Shines Light on the Life and Works of John Napier | Featured Story

11/1/2017
Math Prof. Enrique González-Velasco co-authored a book on the contributions of the influential mathematician John Napier, who is credited with inventing logarithms.
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Student Researchers Win Tech Hackathons at MIT

Student Researchers Win Tech Hackathons at MIT | Featured Story

10/24/2017
Two UMass Lowell graduate students were part of the teams that recently won top prizes at two “hackathons” organized by MIT, the U.S. Department of Defense MD5 program and the Naval Postgraduate School.
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Biologist Looks Beyond the Bones for Clues to Evolution

Biologist Looks Beyond the Bones for Clues to Evolution | Featured Story

9/12/2017
Biologist Nicolai Konow studies the structure and movements of backboned animals, including fish, bats, birds and axolotls, to understand how they evolved and how they fit into the ecosystem. A recent study looks at fish that eat coral.
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Computer Science Prof Helps Middle Schoolers Develop Apps for Social Good

Computer Science Prof Helps Middle Schoolers Develop Apps for Social Good | Featured Story

9/5/2017
Nearly 60 schoolchildren in Everett and Medford learned programming skills this summer at a camp conducted by computer science Prof. Fred Martin and graduate student Chike Abuah.
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Science Prof Wins $340K NSF Grant for Climate Simulation

Science Prof Wins $340K NSF Grant for Climate Simulation | Featured Story

9/5/2017
UMass Lowell Climate Change Initiative Director Juliette Rooney-Varga received a three-year, $340,000 grant from the National Science Foundation to study whether college students who are exposed to the World Climate Simulation are more likely to become engaged with sustainability issues on campus.
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UML Researchers to Conduct Experiments during Solar Eclipse

UML Researchers to Conduct Experiments during Solar Eclipse | Featured Story

8/3/2017
UMass Lowell researchers will take advantage of the rare opportunity presented by the total solar eclipse on Aug. 21 to study how the moon’s shadow might affect Earth’s upper atmosphere.
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Researcher Uses Sea Anemone Venom to Fight Cancer Cells

Researcher Uses Sea Anemone Venom to Fight Cancer Cells | Featured Story

8/1/2017
A visiting student researcher from Spain is trying to find out if the venom from the sea anemone can be used to fight cancer cells in humans.
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Preparations Underway for Upcoming Solar Eclipse

Preparations Underway for Upcoming Solar Eclipse | Featured Story

7/18/2017
On Monday, Aug. 21, a total eclipse of the sun will be visible in the United States along a narrow track that stretches from Salem, Ore., to Charleston, S.C. Check out tips for viewing the partial eclipse that will happen in New England.
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UML-led Team Finds Source of Arctic Mercury

UML-led Team Finds Source of Arctic Mercury | Featured Story

7/13/2017
Prof. Daniel Obrist recently led an international group of researchers to conduct a long-term study of the origin of mercury pollution in the Arctic tundra.
In The News
The Arctic is Full of Mercury, and Scientists Think They Know How it’s Getting There

The Arctic is Full of Mercury, and Scientists Think They Know How it’s Getting There | In The News

7/12/2017
Washington Post

A research team led by Prof. Daniel Obrist, chairman of UMass Lowell's Department of Environmental, Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, found that airborne mercury is gathering in the Arctic tundra, where it gets deposited in the soil and ultimately runs off into waters.
Department News
New Kennedy College of Sciences Initiatives Foster Collaboration

New Kennedy College of Sciences Initiatives Foster Collaboration | Department News

6/6/2017
This year, the Kennedy College of Sciences has initiated the Distinguished Guest Lecture Series, New Faculty Research Symposium and Conversation Starter for faculty, staff and students.
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Climate Researchers Win Grant to Study Northeast Rainfall

Climate Researchers Win Grant to Study Northeast Rainfall | Featured Story

6/1/2017
Assoc. Prof. Mathew Barlow of the Department of Environmental, Earth and Atmospheric Sciences is conducting research to try to understand what causes extreme rainfall events in the Northeast.
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New Research Center to Study Biomechanics of Aging

New Research Center to Study Biomechanics of Aging | Featured Story

5/31/2017
A new UMass systemwide research center, launched with a $25,000 grant by the UMass President’s Science & Technology Initiatives Fund, will study the science of how bone and muscle systems work under different conditions.
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Student Work in the Spotlight at Innovation Showcase

Student Work in the Spotlight at Innovation Showcase | Featured Story

5/18/2017
The university’s first-ever Invitation to Innovation (i2i) event drew a crowd of more than 1,000 to see student projects, research and products coming out of the university’s labs and classrooms.
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Faculty Researchers Awarded $75K to Help Commercialize New Technologies

Faculty Researchers Awarded $75K to Help Commercialize New Technologies | Featured Story

5/18/2017
The UMass President’s Office recently awarded a total of $75,000 to three teams of UMass Lowell faculty researchers to develop new technologies aimed at detecting cancer, improving the cost and quality of plastic products and creating highly stable battery power supplies.
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Scientists, Astronauts and Space Experts Set Sights on Mars

Scientists, Astronauts and Space Experts Set Sights on Mars | Featured Story

5/8/2017
NASA is charting a bold course that could have humans exploring the Martian surface by the early 2030s. Experts discussed the prospect at a two-day symposium at UMass Lowell.
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State Awards $130K to Professors for Clean Energy Research

State Awards $130K to Professors for Clean Energy Research | Featured Story

4/26/2017
Physics Asst. Prof. Wei Guo and mechanical engineering Assoc. Prof. Fuqiang Liu are among seven early-stage researchers recently awarded funding through the Massachusetts Clean Energy Center (MassCEC) Catalyst Program to develop promising products and technologies in the fields of clean energy and clean water.
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Physics Professor Co-invents New Low-cost Nanofilm Radiation Detector

Physics Professor Co-invents New Low-cost Nanofilm Radiation Detector | Featured Story

4/14/2017
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.
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University’s Climate Change Experts Brief Lawmakers

University’s Climate Change Experts Brief Lawmakers | Featured Story

4/5/2017
Assoc. Prof. Juliette Rooney-Varga and members of the university’s Climate Change Initiative led a legislative briefing at the State House on “Meeting the Climate and Energy Challenge,” introducing their interactive simulation to policymakers.
In The News
As Trump Retreats, Citizens Step Up on Climate

As Trump Retreats, Citizens Step Up on Climate | In The News

3/30/2017
Boston Globe

Juliette Rooney-Varga, director of the Climate Change Initiative at UMass Lowell, stood before a packed room in the State House and guided lawmakers, staffers, and other attendees through an exercise in climate-change policy making.
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Faculty, Students Bring Astronomy Roadshow to Haiti Schoolchildren

Faculty, Students Bring Astronomy Roadshow to Haiti Schoolchildren | Featured Story

3/24/2017
A team from UMass Lowell spent spring break teaching more than a hundred schoolchildren in Haiti about astronomy, rocket science, space exploration and the lives of famous scientists, engineers and mathematicians.
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Alien Planet Likely Can’t Support Life, Say Researchers

Alien Planet Likely Can’t Support Life, Say Researchers | Featured Story

3/1/2017
Advanced mathematical 3-D modeling conducted by Asst. Prof. Ofer Cohen and other researchers demonstrates that Proxima b doesn’t have an atmosphere; hence, the chances of finding extraterrestrial life on the alien world’s surface have become less likely.
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Dean’s Research Targets Early Detection of Ovarian Cancer

Dean’s Research Targets Early Detection of Ovarian Cancer | Featured Story

1/24/2017
Noureddine Melikechi, dean of the Kennedy College of Sciences, and his co-researchers have developed a technique that uses intense pulses of laser to break down a patient's blood sample to search for biomarkers for ovarian cancer.
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Research Aims to Reduce Toxics Used in Manufacturing

Research Aims to Reduce Toxics Used in Manufacturing | Featured Story

12/22/2016
The Toxic Use Reduction Institute has funded three UMass research projects, aiming to find safer alternatives to toxic chemicals that harm human health and the environment.
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Valkyrie Robot to Assist in Nuclear Facility Cleanup

Valkyrie Robot to Assist in Nuclear Facility Cleanup | Featured Story

12/13/2016
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.
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Big Data, Artificial Intelligence Drive Innovations in Health Care

Big Data, Artificial Intelligence Drive Innovations in Health Care | Featured Story

11/29/2016
The “Digital Healthcare Revolution” panel discussion featured experts in the areas of technology, entrepreneurship and clinical care and operations.
In The News
Student, Bloomberg Share Stage

Student, Bloomberg Share Stage | In The News

11/21/2016
Lowell Sun

Since Kierra Walsh was 6 months old, she's been a regular at the Boston Museum of Science. Walsh, now 18 and a student at UMass Lowell, would dress up as a bee -- playing in the Discovery Center's hive. For the last four years, she's been volunteering at the museum.
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Climate Change Is Real, Says Nobel Prize Winner

Climate Change Is Real, Says Nobel Prize Winner | Featured Story

11/21/2016
Steven Chu was on campus on Nov. 16 to deliver this year’s Tripathy Endowed Memorial Lecture and receive an honorary doctorate.
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Private Space Telescope to Take Photos of Earth’s Twin Planets

Private Space Telescope to Take Photos of Earth’s Twin Planets | Featured Story

11/18/2016
Project Blue, a consortium of non-governmental, non-profit space and research institutions, including UMass Lowell, has embarked on an ambitious quest to design, build and launch by 2020 a small, privately funded space telescope to detect planets around our nearest stellar neighbor called Alpha Centauri.
Department News
Dean Melikechi Elected as Fellow of the Optical Society of America

Dean Melikechi Elected as Fellow of the Optical Society of America | Department News

11/17/2016
Dean Noureddine Melikechi has been recognized "for pioneering scientific, technological and educational contributions to optics, including novel methodologies in laser induced breakdown spectroscopy for space exploration and cancer diagnosis."
In The News
Scientists Building Telescope to Seek Another Earth

Scientists Building Telescope to Seek Another Earth | In The News

11/15/2016
Washington Post

Several of the technologies necessary for the telescope have already been on various NASA missions, according to Project Blue's lead scientist Supriya Chakrabarti, an astronomer at the University of Massachusetts Lowell.
$Math majors Matthew D'Angelo and Kenneth Allen talk about how to solve a problem.$

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Math Gaining Popularity as a Major

Math Gaining Popularity as a Major | Featured Story

11/15/2016
More students than ever are majoring in mathematics, which opens the door to careers in data analytics, statistics, computer science and teaching.
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Students Help Boy’s Hoop Dream Come True

Students Help Boy’s Hoop Dream Come True | Featured Story

11/10/2016
Students from the eNABLE Lowell group fitted 8-year-old Liam Haggerty with a custom-made artificial hand at the South Campus basketball court.
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Improving Health Starts Here

Improving Health Starts Here | Featured Story

11/7/2016
From improving rehabilitation for stroke survivors to reducing inflammation through diet in older adults, faculty members in the College of Health Sciences are conducting studies that have the potential to make a powerful impact on people’s lives.
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Hacking Team Wins Award and Connections

Hacking Team Wins Award and Connections | Featured Story

11/3/2016
A team of computer science students won an award at a Simmons hackathon for an app that helps people listening to rap music understand the lyrics. They also got mentored by an engineer at Spotify, who invited them to visit the company and apply for internships or jobs.
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Forensic Science Contest Shows off Core Research Facilities

Forensic Science Contest Shows off Core Research Facilities | Featured Story

10/26/2016
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.
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Honors Student Shares Podium with Bloomberg at Science Museum

Honors Student Shares Podium with Bloomberg at Science Museum | Featured Story

10/25/2016
Honors biology major Kierra Walsh shared the podium with businessman and former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg when he announced a $50 million gift to the Boston Museum of Science.
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New App Tracks Reactions to Clinton-Trump Debates

New App Tracks Reactions to Clinton-Trump Debates | Featured Story

10/18/2016
A team of researchers from UMass Lowell and Dartmouth College has developed two new tools that allow users nationwide to react and view responses to the presidential debates in real time.
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New Sciences Dean Gets Warm Welcome at Block Party

New Sciences Dean Gets Warm Welcome at Block Party | Featured Story

10/7/2016
The second annual Kennedy College of Sciences Block Party at Cumnock Hall gave the school’s new dean, Noureddine Melikechi, a fun and informal way to introduce himself to students, faculty and staff.
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Dartmouth College and UMass Lowell Launch HillaryDonald.com

Dartmouth College and UMass Lowell Launch HillaryDonald.com | Press Release

9/23/2016
A team of researchers from UMass Lowell and Dartmouth College recently launched HillaryDonald.com -- a set of tools that provides users with the ability to react and view an aggregation of reactions to the debates and other election events of the 2016 presidential election campaign in real time. The two tools include the interactive app that allows users to remotely “applaud” or “boo” live remarks by Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump in real-time, and a visualization tool called TwitterScope, which maps live political discourse on Twitter by ideology and sentiment.
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Freshmen Gain Lab Experiences in Solving Real-World Problems

Freshmen Gain Lab Experiences in Solving Real-World Problems | Featured Story

8/18/2016
At UMass Lowell, high-merit students in the Co-op Scholars Program are given opportunities to conduct summer research after their freshman year.
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Hanscom Air Force Base Partnership Takes Off

Hanscom Air Force Base Partnership Takes Off | Featured Story

8/17/2016
A new partnership with Hanscom Air Force Base is expanding. It’s just one highlight of the Division of Online and Continuing Education’s workforce development program.
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Researchers Develop New Super High-Resolution Imaging Technique

Researchers Develop New Super High-Resolution Imaging Technique | Featured Story

8/15/2016
Scientists from UMass Lowell and King’s College London have demonstrated a new way of capturing ultrasharp images of structures of extremely tiny objects measuring billionths of a meter in size.
In The News
Students on a NASA Mission to Build Satellite

Students on a NASA Mission to Build Satellite | In The News

8/12/2016
Boston Herald

UMass Lowell students awarded $200,000 grant by NASA to design and build a satellite that will launch into orbit in 2018.
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UMass Lowell Designated Center of Excellence in Cyber Defense Research

UMass Lowell Designated Center of Excellence in Cyber Defense Research | Featured Story

7/26/2016
The U.S. National Security Agency and Department of Homeland Security have recently designated UMass Lowell a “National Center of Academic Excellence in Cyber Defense Research” in recognition of the university’s intensive cyber-security research and academic programs.
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Professors Win Grants for Innovative Research

Professors Win Grants for Innovative Research | Featured Story

7/12/2016
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.
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Prof. Stephen Pennell Awarded Manning Prize

Prof. Stephen Pennell Awarded Manning Prize | Featured Story

6/24/2016
Math Prof. Stephen Pennell has been recognized for his outstanding teaching and exemplary dedication to students and the campus community.
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Biology Student Helps Drive Fossil Fuel Divestment

Biology Student Helps Drive Fossil Fuel Divestment | Featured Story

6/21/2016
The UMass system’s move to divest from direct fossil fuel holdings is a personal victory for senior biology major Sabrina Pedersen, president of the Climate Change Coalition.
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Student Research: From Saving Endangered Sea Turtles to Diagnosing Skin Cancer

Student Research: From Saving Endangered Sea Turtles to Diagnosing Skin Cancer | Featured Story

6/13/2016
Held each spring, the Student Research and Community Engagement Symposium enables students to showcase their work through presentations to peers, faculty and guests.
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NASA's Valkyrie Robot Will Blaze the Trail to Mars & Beyond

NASA's Valkyrie Robot Will Blaze the Trail to Mars & Beyond | Featured Story

5/24/2016
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.
Department News
Propp Elected Fellow of the American Mathematical Society

Propp Elected Fellow of the American Mathematical Society | Department News

5/5/2016
Prof. James Propp of the Department of Mathematical Sciences was recently elected fellow of the American Mathematical Society for his “distinguished contributions to mathematics.”
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Students to Launch UMass Lowell’s First Satellite

Students to Launch UMass Lowell’s First Satellite | Featured Story

5/3/2016
If everything goes as planned, in 2018 a small satellite designed and built by a team of undergraduate students will be launched into Earth orbit.
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Science Careers Put Under the Microscope

Science Careers Put Under the Microscope | Featured Story

5/2/2016
Recent alumni and industry leaders share practical career advice at annual Life Science Young Professionals Panel and Networking Session.
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Lights, Camera, Climate Change!

Lights, Camera, Climate Change! | Featured Story

5/2/2016
Students in Assoc. Prof. Juliette Rooney-Varga’s climate change course produce one-minute PSA videos on the plight of Earth, which are screened at Lowell Eco-Film Series.
In The News
Robot Could Ready Red Planet for Humans

Robot Could Ready Red Planet for Humans | In The News

4/7/2016
Boston Herald

Val — short for Valkyrie — is a 6-foot, 2-inch, 300-pound mass of metal, wires and plastic that was delivered to UMass Lowell, along with a squad of NASA engineers, who put together the robot piece by piece.
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Hawkathon: A Day (and Night) for Invention

Hawkathon: A Day (and Night) for Invention | Featured Story

3/31/2016
Nearly 100 students from across the region gathered at the Innovation Hub to bring good things to life — by hacking them.
In The News
Professors are Survivors, Teachers, Benefactors

Professors are Survivors, Teachers, Benefactors | In The News

3/2/2016
Lowell Sun

UMass Lowell was there for Alexandre and Rita Blumstein during a remarkably difficult time in their lives.
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Looking for Love Online

Looking for Love Online | Featured Story

2/9/2016
Computer science Assoc. Prof. Benyuan Liu and his co-researchers recently used data from a leading dating website in China to develop a recommendation system that would help those seeking romance find a good match.
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National Academy of Inventors Honors Prof. Faust

National Academy of Inventors Honors Prof. Faust | Featured Story

1/25/2016
Chemistry Prof. Rudolf Faust, a world-renowned expert and pioneer in developing the chemical properties of plastics, was recently named a fellow of the National Academy of Inventors.
In The News
UMass Lowell Team Hunts for Cold, Hard Facts in Antarctica

UMass Lowell Team Hunts for Cold, Hard Facts in Antarctica | In The News

1/19/2016
Boston Globe

UMass Lowell professor Kate Swanger and postdoctoral researcher Kelsey Winsor want to learn about past climates, a goal that led them on a six-week study tour of Antarctica, where they researched sediment and glaciers in temperatures as cold as 15 degrees below zero Fahrenheit.
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NASA Robot Coming to Campus

NASA Robot Coming to Campus | Featured Story

1/7/2016
A state-of-the-art NASA robot prototype will soon be taking up residence at the university’s robotics testing lab to study how this human-like machine can assist astronauts in future space exploration.
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5 Questions on COP21 with Juliette Rooney-Varga

5 Questions on COP21 with Juliette Rooney-Varga | Featured Story

12/16/2015
After attending the U.N. Conference on Climate Change, Assoc. Prof. Juliette Rooney-Varga, director of the Climate Change Initiative, says the Paris Agreement is an important first step.
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Researchers Use Smartphones to Improve TB Diagnosis in Peru

Researchers Use Smartphones to Improve TB Diagnosis in Peru | Featured Story

12/8/2015
A team of researchers led by UMass Lowell faculty is using smartphone technology to help improve the diagnosis of people afflicted with tuberculosis.
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Scientists to Launch Planet-Finding Telescope

Scientists to Launch Planet-Finding Telescope | Featured Story

11/12/2015
Prof. Supriya Chakrabarti and Asst. Prof. Timothy Cook are launching a rocket-borne experiment called PICTURE-B to take direct images of the disk of dust surrounding a nearby Sun-like star.
Newsletter
UMass Lowell Names College of Sciences for Alumni

UMass Lowell Names College of Sciences for Alumni | Newsletter

10/28/2015
UMass Lowell announced today that it has named its College of Sciences for alumni John and William Kennedy.
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Researchers to Probe Antarctica’s Rock Glaciers for Climate Clues

Researchers to Probe Antarctica’s Rock Glaciers for Climate Clues | Featured Story

10/16/2015
A team of researchers led by Asst. Prof. Kate Swanger is spending two months in Antarctica to study the history of rock glaciers and buried glacial ice in the McMurdo Dry Valleys region.
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Students Get Straight-Talk on Climate Change

Students Get Straight-Talk on Climate Change | Featured Story

10/15/2015
Environmental straight-talker Naomi Oreskes urges students to focus on solutions — and forget the doubters — at sixth annual Climate Change Teach-In.
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Robotics Researcher Earns Highest Honor from UMass Lowell

Robotics Researcher Earns Highest Honor from UMass Lowell | Press Release

9/21/2015
Renowned robotics expert Holly Yanco has been named Distinguished University Professor, the highest distinction bestowed on a University of Massachusetts Lowell faculty member.

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