Two UMass Lowell faculty members have received prestigious Fulbright U.S. Scholar Program awards to advance their careers as educators and researchers. The honors, awarded by the U.S. Department of State and the Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board, are bestowed based on the academic merits of recipients’ work and leadership potential.

Three recent alumni have won grants from the Fulbright U.S. Student Program to do research and teach abroad. They are the first UMass Lowell graduates to win the prestigious awards since 1979.

UMass Lowell is the first New England university to partner with Braven, a nonprofit whose mission is to accelerate students’ careers and prepare them for strong first postcollege jobs.

A talk on ancient coins by History Assistant Professor Jane Sancinito for the American Numismatic Society inspired New York doctor David Menchell to buy a collection of ancient Roman and Greek coins for students at UMass Lowell to study.