Charles Achkar '86 nourished his passion for science as a biology major at UMass Lowell. Now an intellectual property attorney in New York City, Ackbar has come full circle as the newest member of the Kennedy College of Sciences advisory board.

Sean Simonini, who is double-majoring in biology and political science, wants to help find treatments and a cure for amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, or ALS, a fatal neurodegenerative disease. He won a $7,500 Goldwater Scholarship to support that work.

UMass Lowell students were accepted into the Boston University Early Medical School Selection Program, an early assurance program that grants provisional acceptance into BU's Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine.