Two new grants totaling nearly $629,000 will help Biomedical Engineering Assistant Professor Yanfen Li expand STEM research opportunities for high school students and teachers.

Pathways to biomedical engineering careers are expanding at UMass Lowell through a new training laboratory and a high school summer program, both funded by grants from the Massachusetts Life Sciences Center.

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.

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.