News

2/13/2020
Three of the Whitcomb quadruplets chose UMass Lowell, each for their own reasons. But they’re happy to be here together.

2/7/2020
Faculty can save time grading – and provide faster and more detailed feedback to students – with Gradescope, an online tool now available campuswide.

2/7/2020
Three student projects proposing ways to reduce the university community’s carbon dioxide emissions by 10,000 pounds in 10 weeks received the first-ever Rist Institute for Sustainability and Energy (RISE) Student Innovation Awards and a share of $1,000 in prize money.

2/7/2020
Over two days, students from South Korea explored the worlds of virtual reality and 3D sculpting on their mission to Mars.

2/6/2020
Art conservators are uncovering and restoring a set of 1930s murals depicting the educational mission of Lowell Teachers College, as part of the renovation and expansion of Coburn Hall.

2/2/2020
UMass Lowell Research Scientist Christopher Mendillo recounted the successes and challenges of the Lowell Center for Space Science and Technology’s work on PICTURE-C – which will be used to image planets – at the American Astronomical Society’s recent meeting.

1/24/2020
Research by Iman Chahine, associate professor of education, in South Africa through a Fulbright Scholar Award is featured.

1/10/2020
Under layers and layers of beige paint, UMass Lowell’s Coburn Hall hid a colorful mural of 1930s Lowell for more than three decades.

12/18/2019
Dracut residents Karen and Meaghan O’Brien spend Saturdays once a month volunteering at the Dracut Food Pantry. Meaghan, a junior studying business administration at UMass Lowell, first became involved with the pantry about two years ago after taking a Business 101 course at the university with Kevin Willett, chairman of the organization’s board.

11/21/2019
The work done in UMass Lowell's Toxics Use Reduction Institute's labs is taking on a renewed urgency in recent weeks after two chemical incidents in the Boston area.