Bioversity, a leading Massachusetts nonprofit provider of biotech workforce training, joined with UMass Lowell officials Thursday to announce a new life sciences workforce training partnership.

New and transfer students beginning their college careers at UMass Lowell Tuesday were encouraged to be “equally ready to be a leader or a teammate” during a Convocation ceremony at the Tsongas Center attended by the university’s executive team, faculty, alumni, staff and friends.  

Convocation will welcome UMass Lowell first-year and transfer students to campus, introducing them to university initiatives designed to promote academic achievement and connect them to career opportunities.

While Oasis fans clamor for tickets to the band’s just-announced 2025 world tour, a UMass Lowell music professor says the long-awaited reunion of famously feuding brothers Liam and Noel Gallagher may see diminishing returns in ticket sales – not through any fault of the quality of their music.

Weather permitting, a four-person SpaceX civilian astronaut team will begin their journey to one of the most inhospitable regions of space high above Earth Tuesday. Traveling to the Earth’s radiation belts, the crew will investigate the impact of the harsh space environment on manned missions.

Independent candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. dropped out of the presidential race today, endorsing former President Donald Trump in the Republican’s bid to return to the White House.

In an effort to protect the forests of Maine and find a sustainable use for excess biomass, researchers at UMass Lowell and University of Maine share a $10 million grant from the U.S. Department of Agriculture to transform what was once considered unusable into a form of sustainable jet fuel and a protein-based fish food.

Tuesday morning Vice President Kamala Harris chose Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz as her running mate – a “brilliantly dull” pick according to Associate Professor John Cluverius.

Rather than rally support for her campaign using light-hearted, pop-style social media content, Vice President Kamala Harris would benefit from approaching gendered leadership in a serious, strategic manner, according to UMass Lowell Associate Professor Rebecca Richards.

The case of Sonya Massey, the 36-year-old Black woman fatally shot in her Illinois home by a law enforcement officer July 6 is the latest tragic example of why policing needs to be overhauled, according to a UMass Lowell expert available for interviews.

As the world prepares to gather in Paris and observe the Olympic games, France balances, often not successfully, promoting an air of celebration and putting its best foot forward, according to a UMass Lowell historian.

Lynn Coutts was named the next UMass Lowell athletics director in a community event Thursday, July 11. She is the first woman to head the D1 department.

UMass Lowell and Mass General Brigham announced a collaboration to advance cognitive and decision-making performance for members of the military, law enforcement and security during stressful, complex situations.

Agenda items for the 2024 UMass Lowell Women's Leadership Conference includes from harnessing the power of AI to insiders’ tips on how to successfully negotiate. The daylong event will be held Thursday, June 13, at the Tsongas Center.

A fierce student advocate and accomplished scholar who is deeply engaged with the City of Lowell, English Professor Sue J. Kim has been named the next dean of UMass Lowell’s College of Fine Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences.

Three peregrine falcon chicks hatched in a nest box atop Fox Hall last month are healthy and thriving, according to wildlife officials. Last week they visited campus to check on the birds and fit them with ID bands that enroll them in state and federal preservation programs.

A New York jury’s criminal conviction on all counts of former president Donald Trump won’t change the Republican’s 2024 campaign message claiming persecution by the U.S. government, according to John Cluverius, an expert in U.S. politics.

Of 600 likely New Hampshire voters surveyed, Biden leads Trump 42% to 36%, with less than six months until Election Day. Eleven percent of respondents support independent candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr., while 9% are undecided and 2% say they will vote for another candidate.

Forty-one states and 106 countries are represented among the more than 4,500 graduates of the Class of 2024. Among undergraduate members of the Class of 2024, nearly 800 are the first in their family to graduate from college.

Android co-founder Rich Miner, a three-time UMass Lowell graduate, will receive an honorary degree during a weekend of Commencement exercises beginning Friday, May 10, and closing Saturday, May 11.

UMass Lowell set a new philanthropy record during its 7th annual Days of Giving celebration raising more than $3.85 million from nearly 4,000 donors.

Whether individuals are tired of what they view as “far-left” or “far-right” agendas, the politics of place is increasingly influencing where workers choose to live – a development that creates new opportunities for employers, according to a UMass Lowell talent management expert available for interviews.

Renowned artificial intelligence and robotics expert Holly Yanco, who leads UMass Lowell’s Richard A. Miner School of Computer and Information Sciences, has been elected as a 2023 fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science by the organization.

Kaylin Oakes, a sophomore from Tyngsborough, Massachusetts, whose art is teaching people about the climate crisis, is the top winner in the state’s division of UMass Lowell’s Cool Science Contest, in which K-12 students create illustrations that depict the science behind extreme weather, then shares the artwork on transit buses to educate the public. 

At 42%, President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump are tied for support in the upcoming 2024 U.S. general election, according to the latest national poll from the UMass Lowell Center for Public Opinion.

UMass Lowell kicked off Massachusetts Space Week Tuesday, April 16, with a program that united scientists, students and leaders across many industries who share a bold vision for the future of space research and exploration.

Gov. Maura Healey announced Thursday a transformative project that will bring new housing, economic development, technology jobs and workforce development to downtown Lowell. The research nonprofit, Draper Laboratory will become an anchor tenant in the Lowell Innovation Network Corridor, or LINC, a transformative public-private partnership made possible by the leadership of the UMass Lowell.

Xinfang Jin has been awarded a five-year $648,431.00 U.S. National Science Foundation Faculty Career Development award to strengthen her expertise and position her as a leader in multiphysics modeling with microstructures of heterogeneous materials for energy applications.

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell's decision creates a leadership void in the GOP that could reshape the party, according to UMass Lowell’s John Cluverius, an expert in U.S. politics who is available for interviews.

With an extra day in the calendar this leap year, many may feel pressured to “cram in more of one’s normal work tasks,” according to UMass Lowell’s Elana Feldman, a time management expert available for interviews.

A recent Alabama Supreme Court ruling that stated embryos in test tubes be considered children “defies common sense and logic,” according to Associate Professor Heidi Collins Fantasia, chair of the UMass Lowell Solomont School of Nursing.

Fifteen of UMass Lowell’s online graduate and professional courses, notably those designed for military veterans, ranked among the top in the nation, according to 2024 findings released this month by U.S. News & World Report.

As world demand continues to grow for Printed Circuit Boards, UMass Lowell looks to educate the next generation of tech experts and partner with leading manufacturers.

Former President Donald Trump appears poised to win the New Hampshire Republican presidential primary Tuesday by a 16-point margin over former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley, according to new poll results issued by the UMass Lowell Center for Public Opinion and YouGov.