Over six months, nine local college students gained invaluable career-connected experiences supporting municipalities across the state with clean energy projects as part of the Clean Energy and Environment Legacy Transition (CELT) Municipal Fellowship Program.

The Office of Naval Research awarded UMass Lowell and Stony Brook a grant totaling $6.3 million to advance technologies in areas such as energy infrastructure and storage to enhance the reliability and accessibility of energy systems on land and at sea.

The Lowell Spinners will return summertime baseball to LeLacheur Park’s diamond as the newest franchise in the Futures Collegiate Baseball League.

High school seniors, transfer and other prospective students interested in pursuing a UMass Lowell bachelor’s degree are encouraged to visit campus Saturday, Nov. 15 for a free Admissions Open House, where they may qualify for an application fee waiver and a $1,000 award toward tuition and fees.

The Healey-Driscoll administration and the Innovation Institute at the Massachusetts Technology Collaborative announced Thursday that Greater Lowell has been designated a Housing Innovation TechHub through the Massachusetts TechHubs Program, an initiative intended to strengthen regional innovation ecosystems across the state.

Again this year, UMass Lowell has been named one of the state’s most successful organizations run by a woman. The university ranks second in the education sector and No. 26 overall in The Women’s Edge 2025 Top 100 Women-Led Businesses in Massachusetts.

Employers looking to learn how the state’s new wage transparency law can help them strengthen their workforce gathered at UMass Lowell on Wednesday for a forum presented by the Boston Women’s Workforce Council (BWWC) and attended by state Secretary of Labor and Workforce Development Lauren Jones.

While a majority of respondents give President Donald Trump low marks on his job performance and believe the country is in trouble, Democrats and Republicans agree on little else, according to a new national poll released Wednesday by the Center for Public Opinion at UMass Lowell and YouGov.

Writer Stephen King, whose works have thrilled millions and shaped popular culture for more than 50 years, will join acclaimed author and UMass Lowell English Professor Andre Dubus III for a free, virtual program open to the public later this month. 

The Lowell Center for Space Science and Technology (LOCSST) at UMass Lowell and Space Centre Australia LLC today formalized a landmark AeroLabs Science Consortium Agreement, marking a major milestone in global collaboration for airborne science, low-Earth orbit (LEO) research and horizontal-launch innovation.

With early support from thousands of donors, UMass Lowell on Thursday unveiled a bold, new $250 million fundraising and engagement campaign that will usher in the university’s next era preparing students for fulfilling lives and careers while enabling pioneering research and building partnerships with business and industry that fuel the Massachusetts and New England economy. 

To better protect the environment and public health, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has awarded nearly $350,000 to the Toxics Use Reduction Institute at UMass Lowell to implement new technology and industry-based outreach by advancing a key initiative to reduce the use of the industrial solvent trichloroethylene (TCE).

For the second time in two years, The Wall Street Journal has named UMass Lowell the No. 1 public university in the Bay State. The ranking, included in the WSJ/College Pulse 2026 Best Colleges report, comes on the heels of other accolades to the university issued by U.S. News & World Report and other institutions. 

A new security operations center at UMass Lowell will help fortify area cities, towns and defense industrial base companies against cyber threats. The center is being established through a $300,000 grant from a joint effort between the Massachusetts Technology Collaborative’s MassCyberCenter and Center for Advanced Manufacturing, with ongoing support from Science Applications International Corporation.

NASA on Oct. 1 launched a telescope designed and built by UMass Lowell and the space agency that seeks to identify planets beyond the solar system and other objects in space that would otherwise go unnoticed because they are hidden by the glare of nearby stars.

U.S. News & World Report’s 2026 national rankings of top colleges and universities again this year give high marks to UMass Lowell for the education and economic value it provides to students.

For the sixth time, UMass Lowell’s vibrant community has been honored with a Higher Education Excellence and Distinction (HEED) Award from Insight Into Academia magazine.

Students beginning their college careers at UMass Lowell Tuesday were encouraged to lead by example, connect to the greater community and take care of each other, as university leaders, fellow students, staff and friends welcomed them during Convocation, an annual event at the Tsongas Center that marks the start of the academic year. 

Leaders from the Futures Collegiate Baseball League and UMass Lowell are swinging for the fences. Surrounded by state and local officials, baseball players and team mascots, the partners on Wednesday announced plans to bring a new team to play at LeLacheur Park beginning next spring.

Veterans Reskilled in Innovative Solutions for Employment (Vets RISE) accelerates the transitions of veterans, service members and their spouses into meaningful post-military careers.

The Climate Cool Schools program is a collaborative sustainability initiative between the University of Massachusetts Lowell and National Grid.

Thirteen UMass Lowell undergraduate students are participating in a paid summer internship program with Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC), a global leader in technology integration and a partner in the Lowell Innovation Network Corridor.

Weston & Sampson's expansion into the Lowell Innovation Network Corridor further strengthens the company’s partnership with UMass Lowell.

Susan Roberts, an accomplished biochemical engineer and academic leader with ties to the Greater Lowell region, has been selected to lead UMass Lowell’s Francis College of Engineering.

Five peregrine falcon chicks hatched at UMass Lowell in May were deemed healthy and thriving by Massachusetts wildlife officials who visited campus last week. The biologists checked in on the birds in their nest box atop the university’s Fox Hall to fit them with ID bands that enroll them in monitoring and protection programs.

The Association for the Advancement of Sustainability in Higher Education (AASHE) recently named UMass Lowell a platinum campus, the highest possible rating a college or university can earn for its sustainability performance through AASHE’s Sustainability Tracking, Assessment and Rating System (STARS).

More than 4,440 members of UMass Lowell’s Class of 2025 this weekend took home degrees, as the university awarded 4,451 bachelor’s, master’s and doctoral degrees to the graduates in three ceremonies on Friday, May 16 and Saturday, May 17 at the Tsongas Center in Lowell.

The MassRobotics Jumpstart Fellowship Program provides opportunities for high school girls in Massachusetts to learn about careers in robotics. The program, which originated in Boston in 2021, expanded to UMass Lowell in 2024 with support from the Massachusetts Tech Collaborative.

Six area residents are participating in Bioversity’s inaugural life sciences workforce training cohort at UMass Lowell.

To bring care directly to Lowell children, Lowell Public Schools, UMass Lowell’s Zuckerberg College of Health Sciences and the Lowell Community Health Center joined forces to launch a Mobile Health Unit. The “clinic on wheels” travels to Lowell community schools, providing K-12 students with access to services such as checkups, sick visits and vaccinations.

UMass Lowell achieved remarkable success during its eighth annual Days of Giving celebration, raising more than $900,000 from 3,200 donors to support scholarships, career resources, athletics, food and housing insecurity programs, first-generation students and more.

A multichannel camera designed by UMass Lowell hitched a ride on a NASA mission Saturday, May 3, successfully lifting off from Wanaka Airport in New Zealand.

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UMass Lowell, BJ’s Wholesale Club, EatWell Meal Kits and the Greater Lowell Health Alliance are joining forces to provide healthy meal kits along with nutrition education to study participants.

UMass Lowell students have a new place to flex their skills and imagination, thanks to Brooks Automation Inc., which has committed to create a new makerspace at the university. 

M2D2 $200K Challenge names 2025 contest winners. Company developing noninvasive device to measure brain pressure awarded top prize.

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UMass Lowell is the top public research university in the state for students seeking a strong return on their investment after graduation, according to a 2025 Georgetown University study.

The University of Massachusetts Lowell and Florida Gulf Coast University will establish joint education, research and career-connected opportunities to benefit students, faculty and other stakeholders at both institutions, under an agreement announced Monday, March 17.

UMass Lowell’s NanoFabrication Core recently acquired two PlasmaLab ICP systems from Oxford Instruments, reflecting the decades-long relationship between the university and the manufacturing and research company, that will advance the capabilities of the lab, expanding its audience and customer base.

UMass Lowell is now listed as a Carnegie Research 1 (R1) university, a prestigious designation used to identify the nation’s top research institutions.

Charismatic fado singer Katia Guerreiro, honored by the governments of Portugal and France for her virtuosity in the genre, will make her UMass Lowell debut in concert next month.

 A new partnership announced this week between the UMass Lowell Applied Research Corp. and Hanscom Air Force Base seeks to speed the creation and transfer of technology, supporting Hanscom’s unique and vital acquisition mission. The Partnership Intermediary Agreement is the 16th of its kind in the Air Force and first in New England.

Fourteen of UMass Lowell’s online graduate and professional programs are once again ranked among the top in the nation according to the 2025 U.S. News & World Report ranking released this month.

Poll surveyed 3,200 likely voters across the country before the 2024 presidential election.