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3/23/2021 Featured Story

Archana Kamal Recognized with Faculty Early Career Awards from NSF, Air Force

Archana Kamal Recognized with Faculty Early Career Awards from NSF, Air Force

Physics Asst. Prof. Archana Kamal has won two early career development awards totaling $1 million from the U.S. Air Force and the National Science Foundation for her research on quantum information processing with open quantum systems.

3/23/2021 Featured Story
3/14/2021 Featured Story

Sciences Dean Will Help NASA Rover Explore Mars

Sciences Dean Will Help NASA Rover Explore Mars

Noureddine Melikechi, dean of the Kennedy College of Sciences and a professor in the Department of Physics and Applied Physics, is part of the science team for SuperCam, one of the main instruments onboard Perseverance that will be conducting experiments on the surface of Mars.

3/14/2021 Featured Story
2/18/2021 CBS Boston In The News

Local Researchers Part Of Mission To Explore Mars

Local Researchers Part Of Mission To Explore Mars

Kennedy College of Sciences Dean Noureddine Melikechi is among the experts interviewed about NASA’s successful mission to Mars.

2/18/2021 CBS Boston In The News
10/20/2020 Featured Story

New Honors Class Inspires Renewable Energy Research

New Honors Class Inspires Renewable Energy Research

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.

10/20/2020 Featured Story

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