Through the HEROES (Harnessing Emerging Research Opportunities to Empower Soldiers) partnership, UMass Lowell and the Army's Natick Soldier Research, Development and Engineering Center join forces to keep our soldiers safe and healthy.

Commodore Builders, founded in 2002 by Joseph J. Albanese ’84, was ranked by the Boston Business Journal last year as the sixth largest veteran-owned business in Massachusetts.

The Francis College of Engineering currently has 21 lecturers. Five of these lecturers share a common experience: military service.

Ken Classon ’71 and his wife, Louise, have set up an endowed scholarship fund for student-veterans in the Francis College of Engineering.

A team of researchers led by Prof. Peter Avitabile recently received more than $425,000 in funding from Eglin Air Force Base to help improve the efficiency of the bunker buster’s conventional fuze.

The Navy recently awarded Asst. Prof. Alireza V. Amirkhizi with a three-year grant totaling more than $300,000 to find the mechanisms of premature wear, damage or failure in materials exposed to cavitation conditions.