“Maka," screening and Q&A with Geneviève Makaping and Simone Brioni

Education Assistant Professor Christine Montecillo Leider, a new faculty member, has been awarded a $3.4 million federal grant to expand training for aspiring bilingual teachers in southeastern Massachusetts – and to start a similar program in UMass Lowell’s School of Education.

Students can customize their studies to meet their personal interests and goals through the Bachelor of Liberal Arts degree. They choose two concentrations among 27 options in UML’s flexible, interdisciplinary program.

To mark the 50th anniversary of the Carnation Revolution in Portugal, UMass Lowell’s Saab Center for Portuguese Studies and Department of World Languages & Cultures is hosting a colloquium featuring leading scholars and a screening of the film “April’s Captains.”

First-generation college students studied abroad in Madrid and Seville, Spain, as part of Assoc. Prof. Daniel Arroyo-Rodríguez’s new course, Understanding World Cultures.

UMass Lowell’s Model U.N. team won the award for best delegation at a Model U.N. conference in Scotland over spring break. The team also went to the national competition for Model Arab League a week later and brought home several delegate awards.

Four students and honorary member Mustafa Soykurt, the Consul General of France in Boston, were inducted into Pi Delta Phi, the National French Honor Society.

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.

Visiting Prof. Pedro Letria, a Portuguese photographer and writer, is teaching photography and documenting the Portuguese American community in Lowell for the university’s Portuguese American Digital Archive. His wife, journalist Cláudia Lobo, is also gathering oral histories for the archive.

Michele Woodland and Shanice Kelly do almost everything together: They’re both in the Honors College and they both do renewable energy research with Physics Prof. Robert Giles. They both work at the new telescope on South Campus – and they’re president and vice president of the UML Astronomy Club.

When Harry Rider graduates from UMass Lowell this spring, he will be the fourth generation in his family to do so, starting when his great-grandmother earned her teaching certificate at Lowell Normal School.