News

1/15/2020
Asst. Prof. Neil Shortland has won a $420,000 National Science Foundation CAREER grant to study how police, firefighters, doctors and others make critical decisions in emergencies – and whether they can learn to make better ones.

1/15/2020
Sgt. Mike Soucy, who recently received the statewide Sean Collier Award for Innovations in Community Oriented Policing, was among several UMass Lowell Police Department officers recognized at a breakfast celebrating the successful strides the department has made over the past decade.

1/15/2020
From exploring the solar system and searching for habitable planets around nearby stars to zapping the Martian surface with a laser, our faculty and student researchers are working to gain a better understanding of the cosmic neighborhood in which we live.

1/2/2020
Honors students are assigned to explore the city of Lowell, from its past as America’s first planned industrial city to its current identity as a multicultural arts hub, in the First-year Seminar in Honors. 

12/20/2019
Director of Workplace Learning and Development Lee Ann Alden was recognized by the state with the Eugene H. Rooney Jr. Public Service Award, one of the top awards given to state employees, for her outstanding work in human resource development.

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.

11/18/2019
Knowing more about how and when flooding will occur helps us manage our watersheds for the benefit of people and fish.

11/9/2019
In 1890, there were fewer than 100 Greeks living in the City of Lowell, but just 35 years later, Lowell was home to the third-largest Greek population in America — trailing only New York City and Chicago, according to Wael Kamal, assistant dean of UMass Lowell’s College of Fine Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences.