Senior English major Julia Magee has won the 2025 Elinor Lipman Award for Writing for her short story “A Little Less than Halfway to Boiling,” which impressed judges with its vivid first-person voice and earned her recognition from the Pollard Memorial Library Foundation.

As digital and social media coordinator for the New England Patriots, English alum Carter Hochman ’19 has turned his student-athlete experience at UML and media passion into a dream job in the NFL.

English Prof. Maureen Stanton’s new memoir, “The Murmur of Everything Moving,” about young love, death, caretaking and grief, has won major literary awards. One resulted in the book’s publication this month, 25 years after she first wrote it.

Elizabeth Strout, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of the Olive Kitteridge and Lucy Barton novels, gave clear and simple advice to young writers in a conversation with author and Prof. Andre Dubus III: Listen. Keep writing. And keep your reader in mind.

Writer, director and performer Jack Neary – whose plays have been staged around the world and who has appeared in films such as “Black Mass” and “The Town” – donated his professional papers to his alma mater, UMass Lowell.

English alum and former UML men’s soccer goalie Carter Hochman ’19 is back on campus as the social media and marketing associate for Boston's Professional Women's Hockey League team, which plays its home games at the Tsongas Center.

Seniors Jake Hogan and Nick Israelson are embracing all the Commencement festivities that they missed out on four years ago when they graduated together from Saugus High School.

A three-year, $140,000 grant from the Theodore Edson Parker Foundation is paying up to 12 students each semester to provide support to Lowell nonprofits – and paying for staff from 60 nonprofits to take an intensive UML class on grant-writing.

Junior English major Evan Applebaum had a courtside seat for the NCAA Division I men’s basketball tournament at TD Garden in Boston as a sports journalist for the Eagle-Tribune newspaper.

A theatre arts collaboration between Haverhill High School and UMass Lowell, led by alumna Melissa Allen ’15 and Prof. Shelley Barish, serves as a bridge to college for young students.

Award-winning poet Sandra Lim, an English professor in the College of Fine Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences, was named 2023 Distinguished University Professor, UMass Lowell’s most prestigious academic honor for a faculty member.

Sandra Miller, an adjunct faculty member in the English Department, discusses her psychological thriller novel “Wednesdays at One,” which puts a spin on a harrowing personal experience from her past and has been launched to positive reviews.

As an author of two books about Johnny Cash, English Prof. Jonathan Silverman explains the significance of Cash’s music for fans around the world. 

English professors Andre Dubus III and Sandra Lim spoke with a crowd of students, faculty and community members about their writing processes and recent work.

The Honors College expanded its study abroad options this year with new courses on Shakespeare’s London and the history of Madrid. Honors College Dean Jenifer Whitten-Woodring is looking for faculty partners to offer even more.