Our office understands the importance of having a professional web presence for our faculty, staff and students.

Faculty bios are fully hosted in Tridion with the strong>exception of Manning School of Business (MSB) faculty. Through contract renewal with Watermark, faculty of the Manning School will continue to update all of their content through the Faculty Success (former Digital Measures or DM) interface. The UMass Lowell web office maintains the component and page of all uml.edu bios, so MSB faculty must submit a Bio Update Form, to have a uml.edu presence. Faculty Success content will feed into MSB bios with the exception of the image and the title.

Additionally, professional website hosting is available for full-time faculty with the support of Information Technology.

Our team generally completes requests for bios within three weeks but could take considerably longer at the beginning of each semester due to the high volume of requests.

Use the information below, including photo requirements, to create or update your biography on uml.edu using the Faculty, Staff, Student and Other Bios Update Form.

Bio Information and Template

Below is the template for the faculty and staff bios that include all of the available fields. You do not have to fill out all of them in order to have a published bio (those required are indicated with an asterisk*).

There are many bios that consist of as little as name, title, phone and email, however many have all or most of these fields filled out. You can also view your area's department etc. list to get a better idea what others have done.

The fields available in the bio template consist of:

  • First Name*
  • Last Name*
  • Suffix
  • Title
  • Pronouns
  • Department*
  • Office
  • Phone
  • Fax
  • Email*
  • Expertise/Activities (this is what feeds to the list view along with the name and department as well.)
  • Educational Background (school, degrees – please write out degree name for accessibility)
  • Research Interests
  • Biosketch
  • Selected awards and honors
  • Selected publications
  • Selected presentations
  • Selected intellectual property
  • Selected artistic and professional performances and exhibits
  • Selected contracts, fellowships, grants and sponsored research
  • Research currently in progress
  • Attachment (place for curriculum vitae (CV) and more in pdf format, please note that we will be checking this document for accessibility which may cause delays)
  • Website (faculty or other)
  • Headshot Photo

Our team generally completes requests for bios within three weeks but could take considerably longer at the beginning of each semester due to the high volume of requests.

Photos on Bio Pages

Faculty, staff and students with bio pages are encouraged to use headshots submitted via the Faculty, Staff, Student and Other Bios Update Form.

If you do not already have a suitable photo, you can take one using a digital camera or phone. Find a space with good natural lighting and a blank white or neutral-colored wall. Have another person use the camera / phone and stand four to six feet away from you with their back to a window (in order to get natural light). A standard cell phone is able to capture a professional photo.

Photo Requirements

  • Color, not black and white, photo.
  • At least 800 (high) by 800 (wide) pixels after cropping and original can not be smaller than that.
  • Photo should be tight on subject with not too much space to the left and right or above and below.
  • No props (hats, sunglasses and similar objects) or other people in the photo.
  • Subject should be looking at the camera.
  • A photo that includes your head and upper torso, at least, so we can crop to the appropriate focus.

Professional head-shot photographs can be taken at Eastern Photography for a minimal charge billed to your department. Their Lowell location is at 5 Webber Street, Lowell, MA, telephone: 978-937-0101.