News

5/11/2021
UMass Lowell is the first university in New England to offer Hacking for Defense, a course sponsored by the U.S. Department of Defense that pairs interdisciplinary student teams with defense and intelligence organizations to rapidly address emerging national security challenges using entrepreneurial methods.

5/10/2021
Transportation engineering graduate student Jenna Howard ’19 is leading the design of UML’s Pawtucket Greenway project through her work as a transportation infrastructure designer for the civil engineering firm TEC.

5/10/2021
One week before Commencement, we asked eight graduating seniors to join us for a roundtable discussion on — where else? — Zoom, where we talked about their favorite UML memories, how the pandemic has affected them and what advice they’d give to themselves four years ago, among other topics.

5/10/2021
UMass Lowell’s Class of 2021 refused to be knocked off course by the COVID-19 pandemic. We asked eight graduating seniors, representing each of UML’s six colleges, to talk about their experiences over the past four years in a virtual roundtable discussion on Zoom.

5/9/2021
Veteran Jamie Smorczewski, a Double River Hawk who is graduating with a master’s degree in security studies, will share some of what he’s learned about persevering as the university’s 2021 student Commencement speaker.

3/31/2021
This story looks at research led by Prof. Daniel Obrist that determined a vast amount of mercury gas in the atmosphere is absorbed by plants, leading it to deposit into soils.

3/19/2021
Sabrina Noel, Principal Investigator, is a member of the CGRP, and Andrew Hostetler and Karen Devereaux Melillo, CGRP members, are co-investigators on this Tufts Health Plan Foundation grant, 2020-2023.

3/7/2021
The partnership with Lowell General Hospital began last month and pairs healthcare workers from the hospital with nursing students from the university's College of Health Sciences.

2/22/2021

2/18/2021
Kennedy College of Sciences Dean Noureddine Melikechi is among the experts interviewed about NASA’s successful mission to Mars.