Music adjunct faculty member Nicole Parks looks to create more learning and teaching opportunities as the new director of the String Project.

Three generations of River Hawks – Katherine Jeanne Manousos ’63, Julie Petros ’91, ’93 and senior mechanical engineering major Ben Petros – play pickleball together at UML, and two of them will be participating in a fundraising tournament during Homecoming.

Members of the Joy Tong Women in Business student organization are selling backpacks to raise funds, some of which will be donated to Girls Inc. of Greater Lowell. The backpacks were donated by John Pulichino ’67, ’14 (H) and Joy Tong ’14 (H).

The Lowell National Historical Park’s new “One City, Many Cultures” exhibit showcases the history and experiences of various immigrant communities in the city.

UMass Lowell has received a $2.5 million grant to expand the work of its Asian American Center for Engagement and Excellence in collaboration with UMass Boston. This builds on UMass Lowell’s $1.5 million 2021 grant to launch the center.

The Zuckerberg: Ready, Set, Go! program hosted 20 first-year health sciences majors arrived on campus a week before classes start for social activities, community service and educational and cultural activities to help them get acclimated to campus and the city of Lowell.

Lowell is a city unlike any other, and September is the perfect time for UML students, faculty and staff to explore its eclectic mix of creativity, culture and history.

Through the Emerging Scholars program, graphic design major Michael Page ’23 and Architectural Studies Program Director Marie Frank teamed up to document a revitalizing era in Lowell’s history.

UMass Lowell’s Mary Jo Leahey Symphonic Band Camp celebrated 25 years of curating students’ passion for music, capped off by the camp’s first-ever performance at Symphony Hall in Boston.

Campus may be quieter over the summer, but Lowell is buzzing with activity.

Students in an Introduction to Labor Studies class partnered with the Lowell National Historical Park this spring to propose their own potential exhibits for the Boott Cotton Mills Museum.

A multigenerational group of UML alumni created the Lowell Youth Leadership Program, a nonprofit that runs a free summer camp for underserved kids designed to help them become self-confident, socially connected community leaders.

The sixth annual UMass Lowell Women’s Leadership Conference featured keynotes from Brig. Gen. Ginger Gaglio of the Massachusetts Air National Guard and Pam Kuong, senior vice president and market director at Santander Bank.

Distinguished University Prof. Robert Forrant held a “book party” to culminate a monthslong collaboration with a second grade class from Lowell’s McAuliffe Elementary School in which he helped the students write and publish their own books.

The Zuckerberg College of Health Sciences recently rolled out its Mobile Health Unit, a 34-foot recreational vehicle that travels to local communities to promote health and wellness.

The New England Consortium at UMass Lowell partnered with the Lowell Community Health Center for the first time to provide disaster preparedness training sessions to the public.

Julie Chen highlighted the importance of making an impact during her formal inauguration as UMass Lowell chancellor, a two-day celebration that helped raise $2.6 million for her new Fund for Student Success.

Backed by a grant from the Massachusetts Department of Secondary and Elementary Education, the School of Education is expanding programs for students at Lawrence High School who want to become teachers.

Students in the Introduction to Gerontology course interviewed retired faculty about their lives and careers.

Members of four fraternity houses near North Campus rescued several people from a 2:30 a.m. house fire, gave them warm clothing and provided information to fire investigators and police. And the whole Greek system is working to aid the displaced families.

Students in “Experiencing Philanthropy,” an honors seminar that explores how nonprofit organizations and community foundations operate, awarded a $10,000 grant to Teen BLOCK, a youth development program run by the Lowell Community Health Center.

The UML Turkish Cultural Club is raising money and collecting donations such as winter clothing, blankets and baby formula to support those affected by the disaster.

Students in health sciences are gaining research experience in Lowell, working alongside an adult advisory group and local agencies to help make the city an “age-friendly” community.

During a class field trip to the State House, public health majors learned how advocates can impact policies that effect health.

The Tsongas Industrial History Center, a partnership between the university’s School of Education and Lowell National Historical Park, has welcomed more than 1.4 million students and teachers from around New England for hands-on lessons about Lowell’s history, technology and environment since its founding in 1991. 

Future teachers at UMass Lowell and Lowell High School were celebrated at the fall 2022 Education Symposium, where researchers, educators and activists talked about the need for "radical innovation" to address inequities.

A new study led by Prof. of Public Health Wenjun Li, with funding from a $4 million, five-year grant from the National Institute on Aging, will analyze how older people move and use the outdoor space in their communities.

When students arrived back on campus, they were greeted by two colorful murals: a “chrome” hermit crab by internationally known artist “Bikismo” and six endangered species painted by New England muralist Sophy Tuttle. The murals were sponsored by ArtUp Lowell, a citywide coalition that brought nine muralists to the city in August.

Professors in music and psychology are running EcoSonic Playground music camps for children with autism spectrum disorder. UMass Lowell students are getting hands-on teaching. experience, too.

Outgoing Chancellor Jacquie Moloney and NBC Celtics reporter and host Abby Chin fired up 300 people at the UMass Lowell Women’s Leadership Conference, the signature event Moloney founded seven years ago.

To help students in her Chemistry I and II courses understand the diversity of those working in STEM fields, Asst. Teaching Prof. Suzanne Young has created brief lessons on Black, brown and indigenous scientists not mentioned in their textbook.  

Preparations are underway to reopen the Kayak Center for the season with student workers excited to bring water sports to the public.

More than 20 years after it began, the UMass Lowell String Project is bringing accessible, high-quality music education on violin, viola and cello to Lowell-area schoolchildren – and giving UML music students teaching experience. 

Mill City Consulting, a student-run venture created last fall in the Internship in Entrepreneurship course, helped two Lowell restaurants as they continue to recover from the pandemic.

After 25 years of empowering UMass Lowell students and communities through education and innovation, Julie Chen was unanimously approved as the university’s next chancellor — a move that received sweeping praise from students, faculty, staff and alumni.

UMass Lowell’s Innovation Hub in Haverhill hosted the Digital Equity Challenge, where entrepreneurs and nonprofits pitched their ideas and projects for increasing digital access and literacy in Essex County.

Students in the UTeach program who are getting early teaching experience in high school math, science and engineering classrooms hosted their high school students on North Campus for a day of hands-on activities.

Seven projects led by students, faculty and staff received a share of the university’s annual $50,000 Sustainability Encouragement & Enrichment Development (S.E.E.D.) Fund. 

This year, the Nancy L. Donahue Celebration of the Arts celebrated the Lowell philanthropist’s $2 million donation to renovate Durgin Concert Hall. It is only her latest gift to the university.

UML’s Society of Environmental Scientists teamed up with two local organizations for a cleanup along the riverbank behind LeLacheur Park. Together, they filled more than 30 60-gallon bags with trash.

The Kennedy College of Sciences hosted its fourth annual “Spring into Science” showcase, featuring educational and social events to highlight the importance of the field.

U.S. Rep. Lori Trahan and U.S. Sen. Edward Markey visited campus to announce $500,000 in federal funding for the River Hawk Scholars Academy, which serves first-generation college students at the university.

Amara, a social media platform designed to create a more positive experience for users, took top honors at the Rist DifferenceMaker Institute’s 10th annual $50,000 Idea Challenge, held recently at Moloney Hall.

Sixty-five students from Greater Lowell and Shawsheen Valley technical high schools and their teachers got an overview of UML’s computer science and cybersecurity programs and some hands-on experience at the university’s Cyber Range during a recent visit to campus.

Art Assoc. Prof. Ingrid Hess is traveling to some of the world’s most beautiful places to make artwork that educates children about the natural world and environmental sustainability. She’s won grants, fellowships and artist residencies to visit national parks in Costa Rica, Australia, the U.S. and more.

Hosted for the first time by UMass Lowell, the Student Sustainability Leaders Symposium brought together more than 100 students from 18 colleges and universities across the Northeast to share their work and explore opportunities for collaboration and partnerships.

Four Manning School of Business students are preparing taxes for low-income families as part of a new internship program with Community Teamwork, a Lowell-based nonprofit organization that supports the IRS’ Volunteer Income Tax Assistance program.

Students gain professional experience and expert education through UMass Lowell’s close partnership with The Washington Center for Internships and Academic Seminars.

Local college-minded high school students discovered how UMass Lowell supports entrepreneurship, innovation and creative problem-solving during recent campus events hosted by the Rist DifferenceMaker Institute.

With construction work complete on two new canal bridges along Pawtucket Street, students are enjoying shorter trips on two of the university’s busiest bus lines — and improved paths for walking and biking.

Famed Beat writer Jack Kerouac was born in Lowell a century ago this March. The university, the city and Kerouac’s literary estate will be celebrating with an exhibit at Lowell National Historical Park, a festival and more.

Sociology Asst. Prof. Teresa Gonzales is studying how people of color use public parks and other urban spaces for leisure – and to assert their cultures. Her “Joyful Cities” project, supported by a Ford Foundation fellowship, is teaching students about ethnographic research.

The reach of the Rist DifferenceMaker Institute extends well beyond the boundaries of the UML campus, and groups of area high school students recently met virtually to compete using ideas rooted largely in the ongoing pandemic.

More than 100 students in the Zuckerberg College of Health Sciences have volunteered to help out at Lowell General Hospital’s COVID-19 vaccination clinic, which gives about 2,000 shots each day. In addition, some nursing students are earning clinical hours while giving vaccinations.

When two alumni now working at Lowell Community Health Center wanted volunteers for their “Stop the Spread” COVID-19 testing campaign this summer, they knew whom to call: their former professors in the Zuckerberg College of Health Sciences.

With the economy still reeling from the coronavirus pandemic, the summer of 2020 could have been a washout for students looking to land internships or build their résumés through summer jobs. But scores of UMass Lowell students managed to find opportunities where they could apply their skills and gain experience.

UML students from the Manning Consulting Group volunteered their services this summer to help two Lowell businesses, Warp and Weft and Brew’d Awakening Coffeehaus, find ways to increase business during the coronavirus pandemic.

Plastics engineering majors organized a small-scale COVID-19 response effort, using their 3D printing capabilities to crank out supplies for health care workers.

The New England Consortium, a UML-based institute, is offering free trainings on keeping workers safe amid the COVID-19 pandemic, whether they’re front-line health care workers or employees in other essential industries.

As food insecurity grows because of the coronavirus pandemic, the university’s Urban Agriculture Program is helping to provide fresh, healthy produce to the community through its partnership with Mill City Grows.

With the university’s mid-March shift to virtual learning in response to the coronavirus pandemic, a new, remote reality began for students, faculty and staff. And don't forget those learning in retirement: LIRA members treasure their time at the university, as well.

The College of Education is stepping up to help teachers in K-12 schools transition their classes online during school closures caused by COVID-19. Clinical Prof. Michelle Scribner-MacLean created a Facebook group with teacher resources, and the Tsongas Industrial History Center is beefing up its social media offerings and website.

UML's Elissa Johnson-Green's EcoSonic Playground melds music with STEM and ends up being a whole new thing at the regional science fair.

This year’s winners of the university's Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Distinguished Service Awards have served the community through theater, community health research and volunteer work with homeless people and at-risk high school students.

When the Honors College dean put out the call for volunteers at a local food pantry, dozens of students stepped up, allowing Central Food Ministry to serve more families. Now, two honors student fellows are helping to sustain and grow the partnership.

UMass Lowell has opened a state-of-the-art lyophilization facility that will help drive innovation and discovery in biopharmaceutical manufacturing in New England and beyond.

Eight groups of physical therapy students partnered with local schools and senior centers to promote health and wellness.

UML’s College of Education is working with the state and local school districts to recruit future teachers who represent the Merrimack Valley’s diversity. Lawrence High School students visited the campus recently to learn more about careers in education – and campus life.

U.S. Rep. Lori Trahan discussed bipartisan legislation, the importance of research at UMass Lowell and ways to boost the innovation economy in a conversation with Chancellor Jacquie Moloney that was part of the Moses Greeley Parker Lecture series.

The Philosophy and Film series at the Luna Theater downtown brings students and community members together to watch popular movies and then discuss them with a philosophy professor. The free movies are shown monthly during the academic year.

College of Fine Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences students Jacqui Gallant, Sarah Galevi and John Fedirko competed as the Rowdy River Rovers in the fourth annual Lowell Kinetic Sculpture Race, a festive community event that merges the “STEAM” fields of science, technology, engineering, art and mathematics.

Students will get a chance to embark on a visual tour of our solar system and beyond when a new astronomical observatory opens on South Campus this fall.

When liberal arts alum Erin Reynolds ’18, coordinator of creative services and entertainment for the Lowell Spinners minor league baseball team, needed a video production intern this summer, she turned to her former classmate, senior graphic design major Sara May.

Rover the River Hawk, an Industrial Capstone Senior Design project that Engineering students are building to clean debris from the city’s canals, received a Green Design award from the Lowell Sustainability Council and a Certificate of Special Congressional Recognition from U.S. Rep. Lori Trahan.

The UMass Lowell Climate Change Initiative, in conjunction with the National Association of Geoscience Teachers and the College of Education, hosted a professional development workshop for two dozen area K-12 teachers on incorporating climate change education into the classroom.

Summer camps at the Lowell National Historical Park allow children to explore history, science and more while having fun. The camps are run by the Tsongas Industrial History Center, a partnership between the park and UML’s College of Education.

Students donated more than 14,000 pounds of clothing, bedding, food and personal items during this spring’s Sustainable Move Out Donation Drive, which benefitted a half-dozen nonprofit organizations across the community.

“Be true to yourself” and “prioritize” emerged as key themes at the fourth annual Women’s Leadership Conference. Some speakers and sessions also encouraged women to work at tech firms.

At the third Voices of Hunger conference, UML and other colleges in southern New England shared strategies for serving students struggling with hunger, housing, transportation and other needs.

The university’s Climate Change Initiative hosted members of the state’s House Committee on Global Warming and Climate Change for a roundtable discussion on climate science and policy at which faculty members shared scientific research and expertise to help inform policy decisions.

At UMass Lowell’s Center for Gerontology Research and Partnerships’ forum, speakers shared their latest research on aging workers in the workplace, age-friendly initiatives and asthma in older adults.

Education, psychology and art faculty worked with community groups to collect folktales from four Southeast Asian countries and turn them into a book that can be used in the Lowell schools.

Rows of kale, Swiss chard and collard greens are growing on the new Green Roof vegetable garden at University Crossing, a collaboration between Mill City Grows and UML’s Urban Agriculture Program, Student Government Association and Office of Sustainability.

Working Cities Lowell is a collaborative effort of 13 partners, including UMass Lowell, focused on improving the Acre neighborhood in Lowell and funded by the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston.

Nearly 200 high school students along with dozens of UMass Lowell students, faculty and staff and the public attended the recent “Moonshot” symposium organized by UMass Lowell and the JFK Library Foundation to commemorate this year’s 50th anniversary of NASA’s Apollo 11 lunar landing mission.

Immigrants bring a wealth of different languages to the United States. When schools value those languages, children learn better – and everyone benefits, Prof. Michel DeGraff told educators at the College of Education’s spring symposium.

Six of the 12 projects to receive a share of the $50,000 Sustainability Encouragement & Enrichment Development (S.E.E.D.) Fund this year were led by students, the most in the fund’s three-year history.

For four years, History Prof. Robert Forrant and Assistant Prof. Ingrid Hess of Art & Design have quietly charted the history of immigration in Lowell. With the help of a team of UML students , they have built a unique website to help teachers and students understand the waves of immigrants calling the city their new home.

Multiple groups of nursing students educated teens in Dracut, Billerica and Tewksbury about the health risks of vaping.

Thirteen business, engineering and health science students spent a week in Houston helping Hurricane Harvey flood victims rebuild as part of the Organizational Behavior in Action directed study course led by Olga Tines, an assistant teaching professor in the Manning School of Business.

The U.S. Mint’s release of a new state quarter featuring Lowell National Historical Park represents a quiet triumph for UML’s Ellen Anstey, who has devoted a decade to promoting, researching and critiquing designs for the coin.

The Manning School of Business hosted more than 800 students from nine area high schools for a DECA regional conference at the Campus Recreation Center and University Suites.

Are America’s public schools failing their students? For the most part, they’re not, says education historian and Asst. Prof. Jack Schneider – despite political rhetoric to the contrary.

Jonathan Lemire, White House correspondent for the Associated Press and the son of Susan Lemire, the university’s coordinator of advisory services and is a member of the curriculum committee for the Learning in Retirement Association, spoke at UMass Lowell recently.

A new digital archive -- launched at UMass Lowell on Dec. 4 -- documents the history, culture and experiences of people of Southeast Asian origin living throughout the area.

Lowell’s Southeast Asian community celebrated the launch of the university’s Southeast Asian Digital Archive, which documents the violence they fled as refugees and their experiences resettling in Lowell.

Joaquim de Almeida, the best-known Portuguese actor in Hollywood, gave career advice to students in the Theatre Arts and Digital Media programs. He also spoke at a public event to celebrate the fifth anniversary of the Saab Center for Portuguese Studies.

Bill Cummings, a self-made real estate magnate and billionaire philanthropist, shared life lessons with 200 Manning School of Business students at an event hosted by the Wilson Center for Entrepreneurship and supported by the student-run Real Estate Network Association.

The Donahue Center for Business Ethics & Social Responsibility hit the ground running in its first year, expanding ethics-related education and research to students and faculty across the university.

For almost two decades, Research Prof. David Turcotte’s “Healthy Homes” project has improved the lives of low-income children and seniors with asthma. His focus on environmental justice also includes research on wind turbines, community health and healthy workplaces.

After "graduating" from the iHub Oct. 1, Horsepower Technologies, which is pioneering rehabilitative orthotic devices for horses, headed for the fifth floor of Wannalancit Mills on Cabot Street, a space with room to grow. 

“Confronting Gun Violence Against Kids” was the theme of the College of Education’s 23rd Panasuk Symposium on Educational Research, Policy & Practice, which featured Peter Cunningham, former assistant secretary for communications and outreach for the U.S. Department of Education.

Students in the Society of Women Engineers hosted a Repair Café for the campus and community last month. Along the way, they learned some useful skills themselves, such as how to take apart a microwave oven, fix a lamp and hand-sew patches for denim jackets.

UMass President Marty Meehan returned to campus to discuss the power of education and the importance of college affordability as part of “Leaders in Lowell,” a speaker series run by a pair of Lowell Catholic High School students.

Dave Ouellette, president of Acre Coming Together Improving Our Neighborhood, and UMass Lowell Chancellor Jacquie Moloney unveiled a new student-painted mural on Decatur Way, a narrow alley between Salem and Merrimack streets that was transformed from a wooded haven for drugs and the homeless to a paved walkway lined with art, poetry, and the creativity of the neighborhood.

The university planted 25 mature trees and shrubs behind Allen House on South Campus, all donated by the Lowell Parks & Conservation Trust via a $10,000 grant from TD Bank.

New Director of Intercollegiate Athletics Peter Casey, who brings a “smorgasbord” of experience to the job, looks to continue the successful course charted by his mentor, Dana Skinner.

Assoc. Prof. Wilson Palacios is researching new approaches to prevent opioid overdoses and the spread of disease in Lowell. Meanwhile, Asst. Prof. Angela Wangari Walter is identifying barriers to prevention, treatment and recovery for fishing industry workers in New England.

Operation250, which began as a student project to combat terrorism, is the subject of a $1 million U.S. government grant to develop and evaluate its program for teaching children, teenagers, parents and educators about online safety, hate sites and terrorist recruitment tactics.

Men’s soccer player and sophomore business administration major Abdi Shariff-Hassan, a Somali refugee, is a key figure in author Amy Bass’ book “One Goal,” which is being featured in the 2018 Lowell Reads series.

University researchers are collaborating with Lawrence to turn the city into an “Age-Friendly Community” – a place where housing, transportation, green spaces, health care and social services help residents of all ages lead healthier lives.

Trevor Noah, the host of Comedy Central’s “The Daily Show,” will bring his biting brand of humor to the Tsongas Center on Oct. 5, courtesy of Student Activities. Students can get discounted tickets.

Linens, blankets and towels donated during Spring Move Out have returned to campus as good as new and are available to students in need, thanks to the collaborative efforts of the Office of Sustainability, Student Affairs and the nonprofit organization Grad Bag.

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.

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.

The university is piloting a community-supported agriculture (CSA) program this summer, a joint initiative between the Office of Sustainability, the Center for Public Opinion and Mill City Grows, to lay the foundation for a self-sustaining CSA at the university while also providing research opportunities.

The city of Lowell and the Massachusetts Department of Transportation will begin replacing two canal bridges on campus this summer. Expected to take two years, the projects will create short-term traffic challenges but also long-term benefits to the university community.

With more visibility and space, the university’s new Outdoor Center and Bike Shop is better equipped to keep pace with students’ growing interest in cycling and recreational programs.

Teachers from elementary, middle and high schools around the country flock to Lowell to learn hands-on teaching techniques in America’s first industrial city.

At the third annual Women’s Leadership Conference, speakers including the chancellor addressed blatant and subtle bias on the job – and said that in the #MeToo era, there’s still plenty of work to do.

Julie Lenzer brought her message of creative disruption to the seventh annual Deshpande Symposium for Innovation & Entrepreneurship in Higher Education, which drew more than 300 educators, researchers and entrepreneurs, all looking for ways to infuse innovation into academia. 

Manning School of Business Senior Lecturer Deb Finch won the 2018 Manning Prize for Excellence in Teaching, awarded annually to one faculty member from each of the five UMass campuses.

Students in Regina Milan's Design in Motion class took their assignment outside the classroom to help Girls Inc. create videos that would appeal to donors.

Spring Move Out yielded a record haul from students, with 16,500 pounds of clothing, household goods and nonperishable food items collected by the Office of Sustainability and donated to local nonprofits.

UMass Lowell seniors Benjamin Tran, 21, and senior Katie Elwell, 22, of Tewksbury, created a wind turbine component of the renewable energy "traveling classroom" for their mechanical engineering capstone.

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.

Compost generated from the university’s dining hall food waste is now available for purchase by the bag, thanks to a new pilot program run by the Office of Sustainability.

Students got to experience democracy first hand at the 3rd Congressional District debates sponsored by UML and The Boston Globe.

In her first year as vice provost for faculty success, Beth Mitchneck has focused on building a sense of community among the university’s nearly 800 faculty members while helping them succeed in their research, instruction and professional development.

Children of color come to school with amazing cognitive skills they’ve developed through music, dance and art. Understanding their culture and history is key to keeping them engaged in meaningful learning, says renowned educator Bettina Love.

Ten first-generation UML students are mentoring children in Lowell after-school programs. Assoc. Prof. Phitsamay Uy says she hopes the UML students will get the children interested in college – and that the children will get the UML students interested in teaching.

Ten projects led by students, faculty and staff received more than $50,000 in support from the university’s Sustainability Encouragement & Enrichment Development (S.E.E.D.) Fund, which saw a jump in applications in its second year.

The university’s Emergency Medical Services team finished second out of more than 30 teams in a skills competition at the National Collegiate EMS Foundation’s annual conference in Philadelphia.

Mechanical engineer students, led by senior lecturer Michele Putko, are helping improve energy efficiency at the Lowell Transitional Living Center through an independent study project funded by a mini-grant from the university’s Sustainability Encouragement & Enrichment Development (S.E.E.D.) Fund.

Last fall, Hurricane Maria tore across Puerto Rico, decimating the island's infrastructure. Months later, the struggle to rebuild and rebound continues. UMass Lowell wants to help.

The Center for Program Evaluation is helping The Career Academy, an alternative public high school in Lowell, figure out the best ways to help and empower students.

UMass Lowell announced the recipients of this year’s 2020 Community Impact Grants, members of the university and Greater Lowell communities who are leading projects that support the goals of the "UMass Lowell 2020" strategic plan. 

The university’s new Richard and Nancy Donahue Center for Business Ethics and Social Responsibility hosted a community screening of “We the People: The Market Basket Effect,” a documentary film co-produced by entrepreneur and former UML student Ted Leonsis, owner of teams in the NBA and NHL.

As we celebrate Thanksgiving, we’re grateful for all that our students do to give back to the campus, the community and the world. Here are just a few examples how they are stepping up and making a difference.

Students are collecting new teddy bears and other stuffed animals to give to children in Lowell and hurricane-ravaged areas for the holidays. The Student Alumni Ambassadors are collecting in Fox Hall and also taking online donations of money.

The new Manning Women in Business student club helped raised more than $2,100 on Veterans Day for Operation Delta Dog, which rescues homeless dogs and trains them to become assistance dogs for veterans suffering from PTSD.

UMass Lowell was among eight urban agriculture projects from across the Commonwealth to share in more than $343,000 in state grants, which were announced at the ceremonial opening of the Urban Agriculture Greenhouse on East Campus.

Mill City Grows unveiled its new greenhouse, part of a partnership with UMass Lowell, to be able to extend its growing season, bringing fresh, healthy produce to Lowell residents even during long chills.

Students who take a sports injury management class at Billerica Memorial High School recently visited UMass Lowell’s exercise physiology labs to meet professors and participate in demonstrations.

Business students in lecturer Deb Finch’s Marketing for Nonprofits class participated in the Lowell Association for the Blind’s annual “Dining the Dark” event, then analyzed how the event can be better marketed.

Just halfway through their first semester, 18 first-year education majors are getting a taste of what it’s like on the frontlines of teaching at the Charlotte Murkland Elementary School in Lowell.

A growing partnership between the university’s Autism Studies Program and a new treatment center in Lowell offers multiple opportunities for students and graduates. The PrideStar Center for Applied Learning employs UML students and alumni and offers research opportunities for faculty and graduate students.

Maura Walsh '80, health care administration alumna and former leader of a 15-hospital health care system in Texas, returned to campus recently to share her experience managing a command center during and after Hurricane Ike.

The first UMass Lowell satellite campus opened in Haverhill several weeks ago and about 75 students already are enrolled in night classes.The Haverhill campus offers bachelor's degree programs in business, criminal justice and psychology, but college officials anticipate the offerings will expand. Courses can be taken in Haverhill, or online, so that students can accelerate their programs if they wish.

For her first honors class at UMass Lowell, plastics engineering major Brianna Atwood wanted to do community service. She called a neighbor, the nun who is principal of the St. Patrick School in Lowell, and soon had a dozen student volunteers tutoring in multiple languages.

The university’s new Urban Agriculture Greenhouse, run in partnership with Mill City Grows, will be a testing ground for water and energy efficiency — while also providing food for the local community.

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.

Every year, more than 200 first-year students receive merit-based, $4,000 Co-op Scholarships in their acceptance packages. The scholarships pay them to do research with a faculty member, intern at a community agency or study abroad.

After more than a year of negotiations, UMass Lowell and city officials signed a "historic" master agreement, laying out the university's commitments to the city.

Three education master's students helped 12 Lowell High School seniors graduate by teaching a three-week English course.

The Southeast Asian American Studies Conference at UMass Lowell drew scholars and policymakers, artists and activists from around the country for three days of shared learning and performance.

University Prof. Robert Forrant helped launch a summer history and writing program for Lawrence students from third grade through middle school, with help from the Lawrence History Center, Andover Bread Loaf and a Creative Economy Grant from the UMass President’s Office.

Students studying dietetics gain valuable work experience during their summer community internships.

Denisse Torres and Anthony Gervase, both seniors in the College of Fine Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences, are working as video production interns for the Boston Red Sox’ Single-A Lowell Spinners this summer at LeLacheur Park.

A dozen incoming first-year students have been awarded scholarships by the Nisei Student Relocation Commemorative Fund. The fund honors efforts to get nearly 5,000 second-generation Japanese-American (Nisei) students out of World War II relocation camps and into colleges.

Lowell offers a bounty of summer activities, from kayaking to fishing to music festivals to culinary adventures.

Nine student, faculty and staff projects were awarded a share of the university’s first $50,000 Sustainability Encouragement & Enrichment Development (S.E.E.D.) Fund, which supports environmental sustainability initiatives that make a positive impact on the student experience.

Gov. Charlie Baker was in Lowell to award $11.3 million to the university for what may fuel a new fabrics boom in the city.

Steve Tello and Ellen Wetmore hatch the Art-to-Work Incubator, a program designed to train artists in the practical side of making a living with art.

Students in Savannah Marshall’s Progressive Performance and Production Pedagogy class learn about music’s potential to connect people by performing at local senior center.

The Model United Nations Team brought home six awards from its latest competition in Belgium and recently hosted its 13th annual Model U.N. for regional high schools. Alumni have started Model U.N. clubs at area schools whose graduates often matriculate at UMass Lowell and join the team.

A broad array of UMass Lowell faculty came together to benefit the Burmese community with spikes and fellowship. But Bump Set Win prevailed.

A $239,000 National Endowment for the Humanities grant will help the university libraries and the Center for Asian American Studies organize and expand a digital archive documenting the history of Southeast Asian refugees in Lowell — before too much of that history is lost.

Student Employee of the Year Mary Connell, a sophomore art major from Princeton, helps promote all that Lowell has to offer through her work with the Community Relations office.

MBA students in Asst. Prof. Liz Altman’s capstone strategy class develop and present business strategies for Mill City Grows’ mobile market as part of field-based learning project.

This year's Greeley Scholar, Noy Thrupkaew, seeks to put the "human" back in human trafficking

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.

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.

The Graduate School of Education hosted 21 teachers from around the world for an intensive six-week program that included field experiences in local schools and cultural excursions.

Teams from the UMass Lowell Marketing Society compete in the annual Google Online Marketing Challenge, including a group of student-athletes working with Lowell’s Humanity Boutique.

When Haverhill High School senior Isabella Callahan enrolls in UMass Lowell’s honors engineering program this fall, she will take 40 Northern Essex Community College credits with her.

Students, faculty and staff who rely on public transportation to get to campus appreciate the university’s new partnership with the LRTA and MVRTA, which lets them ride buses for free.

The first students in UMass Lowell’s new Master of Public Administration program are getting a crash course in how to manage public and private agencies in the arts and humanities, criminal justice and human services.

UMass Lowell's "Teach a Computer to Sing" after-school program has been going on at Lowell's Bartlett Community Partnership School for about 18 months.

UMass Lowell is one of the research partners that received funding on to help prevent gang violence from the state. The Lowell campus received $49,980, while both the Lawrence campus and Haverhill/Methuen campus received $24,994.

A new “Interdisciplinary Experiential Learning” course gives students from five different majors — nursing, medical laboratory science, nutritional sciences, exercise physiology and public health — experience working in teams at Summit ElderCare in Lowell.

Mechanical engineering students visited Lowell middle schools and after-school programs to get kids excited about science. It was a service-learning project that was part of a required course, Materials Science for Engineers.

The EcoSonic Playground, a research project led by Asst. Prof. Elissa Johnson-Green and visiting lecturer Christopher Lee, brings musical play to underserved communities while teaching kids STEM skills as they build their own musical playground structures from recycled materials.

Officials from UMass Lowell outlined plans to bring an innovation hub to the new downtown Harbor Place commercial building in Haverhill in hopes the city will become another Cambridge as a "go-to place" for innovation.

The recent student-organized Graduate Volunteer Day gave grad students across all disciplines a chance to help the local community while building connections with one another.

At the university’s 2016 National and International Partnerships in Sustainability Workshop, a broad range of attendees collaborated on existing initiatives — and explored new ones.

Steven Chu was on campus on Nov. 16 to deliver this year’s Tripathy Endowed Memorial Lecture and receive an honorary doctorate.

Prof. David Turcotte and a team of students carried out a community health needs assessment for Lowell and surrounding towns—and made some surprising findings.

Students from the eNABLE Lowell group fitted 8-year-old Liam Haggerty with a custom-made artificial hand at the South Campus basketball court.

The new Kerouac Room at the Center for Lowell History brings the UMass Lowell Libraries’ collection of Beat literature together in one place as a research resource for the university community and general public.

UMass Lowell professors MinJeong Kim, Allyssa McCabe and Phitsamay Sychitkokhong Uy will work to bring original Southeast Asian folk tales to Lowell's elementary students.

University researchers helped the Lowell Police Department win two major grants totaling nearly $1.3 million over three years to study factors contributing to opioid addiction and come up with solutions.

The National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health awarded the Center for the Promotion of Health in the New England Workplace a five-year $6,357,027 grant.

In the first of four concerts to benefit music students, a show based around the skills of faculty players earned a standing ovation.

More than 100 turned out for a moving ceremony at the Unity memorial next to Leitch Hall on Sept. 9.

The university welcomed new and returning students to Lowell with tours, sounds and lights the day before classes began, and hundreds enjoyed the festivities.

Manning School’s Global Entrepreneurship and Innovation summer session grows to 122 students from eight countries, including 49 from Myanmar who make $1,470 donation to local Burmese community center.

The first annual Women’s Leadership Conference was a resounding success, with a sellout crowd, high-powered speakers, practical advice – and lots of laughter.

Asst. Prof. Phitsamay Uy in the Graduate School of Education conducts workshops with educators and Southeast Asian parents to improve student success.

UMass Lowell is a partner in a dramatic transformation of a troubled alley whose five-year journey was celebrated with an opening June 2.

Dozens of city and neighborhood officials, UMass Lowell leaders, schoolchildren and others gathered Thursday in a roped-off section of Salem Street to mark the ceremonial opening of Decatur WAY, its transformation finally complete.

Before he graduated, Peace and Conflict Studies student Kevin Copson lined up a job with a start-up that supports Weave open-source software, created by university researchers.

Students donated more than 14,000 pounds of clothing, furniture and miscellaneous dorm room items during spring move-out, which the Office of Sustainability provided to local charities.

Public health students created campuswide campaigns to raise awareness about global health issues.

Exercise physiology students apply their expertise to teach children, teenagers and young adults with disabilities how to ride a bike.

Theatre Arts students create a documentary and movement piece called “Refuge” – and take it on the road.

A UMass Lowell MBA class is conducting a study into whether a Lowell children s museum is feasible

College Writing II students visited Lowell High to speak about college as part of a study on whether service learning leads to better academic outcomes for UMass Lowell students.

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.

The Center for Community Research and Engagement helps local agencies, links faculty research with community needs and provides graduate students with research experience.

Hundreds of small business owners flocked to the Tsongas Center for U.S. Sen. Elizabeth Warren’s third annual Massachusetts Business Matchmaker event.

This year, thanks to more than two dozen community partners including UMass Lowell, Lowell is dedicating the entire month of April to eco-conscious activities and educational events as part of Lowell Earth Day Celebration 2016.

More than 34,000 pages from late Sen. Paul Tsongas’ political career are now online thanks to the efforts of UMass Lowell’s library staff.

Thanks to Prof. John Wooding's creative economy grant, the university is partnering with more than two dozen community groups for the monthlong Lowell Earth Day Celebration 2016.

More than 1,200 UMass Lowell students pitched their qualifications for full-time positions, internships and co-op opportunities at the Spring Career Fair, held last Wednesday at the Tsongas Center at UMass Lowell.

More than 30 middle-school and high-school students from the Merrimack Valley spent six weeks at UMass Lowell, designing and building a robot for an international robotics competition.

Members of the Disable the Label club work to unite people with unique challenges and to welcome students with disabilities through events and outreach.

Three-time U.S. Poet Laureate Robert Pinsky gave a public reading and visited a poetry class taught by Asst. Prof. Maggie Dietz, who worked with him on the Favorite Poem Project.

Visiting Lecturer Regina Milan’s Design in Motion students created 60-second fundraising motion graphics for Melmark, a school in Andover that treats severely autistic children and teens.

Art students created a mural commissioned by the owner of Drum Hill Ford in Lowell, who was so impressed with the end result, he committed to funding an annual Art Department scholarship.

Former U.S. Sen. Paul Tsongas, who would be turning 75 in February, helped shape the trajectory of Lowell and the university.

Undergraduates are writing grants for community nonprofits and gaining valuable professional experience in a new service-learning class offered by the English Department.

Distinguished Service Awards, presented at the annual Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. dinner, go to students, faculty and staff dedicated to social change, service and community engagement.

The National Institute for Environmental Health Sciences has awarded The New England Consortium a $7.6 million grant to protect the health and safety of workers responding to hazardous-materials and climate-change crises.

The National Institute for Environmental Health Sciences has awarded The New England Consortium a $7.6 million grant to protect the health and safety of workers responding to hazardous-materials and climate-change crises.

Faculty and students from a wide swath of disciplines demonstrate why the university is increasingly becoming known for its entrepreneurial prowess.

Lecturer Michelle Hunt and the university’s men’s and women’s lacrosse teams supported suicide prevention by walking in the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention’s Out of the Darkness walk.

Campus Resource Officer Jeff Connors, whose partner Joe Brown is recovering from a heart attack, was among four members of UMass Lowell Police to receive statewide honor.

After working in Iraq and Afghanistan for five years, Mehmed Ali is excited for his new assignment: Program and Project Coordinator for the university libraries.

The Lowell Folk Festival, which has been sponsored by the university since its inception 29 years ago, runs July 24 through 26 throughout downtown.

The three-day Deshpande Symposium for Innovation and Entrepreneurship in Higher Education attracted attendees from colleges and universities around the globe.

The new Lowell Walks series, co-sponsored by UMass Lowell, the richardhowe.com blog and the Lowell National Historical Park, features a different Saturday morning tour of the city throughout the summer.

Prof. Paula Rayman spent her recent senior Fulbright Scholarship sabbatical in Northern Ireland and Israel, teaching and working with women leaders on strategies for peace.

A lifelong friendship with Music Prof. Gena Greher helped bring Grammy-winning singer-songwriter Melissa Manchester to campus in February.

Singer-songwriter Jolie Holland’s nod to Jack Kerouac comes with a backdrop of rarely seen Andy Warhol films at Mill No. 5 in Lowell Oct. 10, part of the 2014 Kerouac Literary Festival.

UMass Lowell is hosting a conference called "Irish in Massachusetts: Historical Significance, Lasting Legacy," from Wednesday to Friday. The conference, and the collaborations between UMass Lowell, Queens University Belfast and Dublin City University, focus on much more than history, though. Seminars will explore Irish influence and history on topics ranging from literature to sports to the continuing impact of the Irish.

Lowell's unique history, heritage and location offer loads of options for entertainment, enrichment and fun. We've put together a top-ten list of things to do in Lowell.

A class of mechanical engineering students under Asst. Prof. Christopher Hansen has been working with the Lowell Transitional Living Center to improve the cots used in the Center’s Winter Emergency Bed Program. 

The growth of public universities can power economic revival in their host cities, according to a new report released by the University of Massachusetts Lowell.

The University of Massachusetts Lowell unveiled a report this week detailing what its leader called its substantial impact on the local and regional economy, citing many contributions to the city, including more than $600 million in capital projects "now producing a windfall for ... Lowell."

The Acre neighborhood's renaissance, slowed by the recession, is back on track. Thanks to new construction projects at Jeanne D'Arc Credit Union and UMass Lowell, the Merrimack Street corridor is becoming one of the more "blossoming" areas of Lowell, according to city officials.

A total of about 400 seventh- and eighth-grade students from Lowell Public Schools toured the campus as part of the University's STEM outreach effort.  

A growing number of business students are getting professional experience through the co-op program and gaining an edge in the job market.

Eleven members of the University police force were recognized for dedication, professionalism and service at the department’s third annual awards program.

The University of Massachusetts Lowell plans to open its first-ever satellite campus in downtown Haverhill next fall.

Two UMass Lowell mechanical engineering graduate students saw that crutches, in their traditional form, do not give users the ability to interact with their mobile devices as easily as people who don't use crutches.

UMass Lowell’s grounds are getting a new look with the planting of new trees, flowering bushes, perennial beds and a rose garden.

UMass Lowell faculty and students, in collaboration with the Cambridge Educational Access TV Media Arts Studio have created a program that blends media-making and climate-change science.

With support from its partners and from NASA’s Innovations in Climate Education grant, UMass Lowell's Climate Change Initiative is developing ways to integrate student-media production into climate-change education.

UMass Lowell students are working with local preschools to improve literacy skills in low-income communities.

Learn how to make green cleaning products at a "Natural Cleaning" workshop on April 9.

Prof. Emeritus Alan Lincoln enjoys challenges.  Working as a Fulbright Specialist in the West African nation of Ghana was challenging in a new way.