News

5/22/2020
For nearly three hours on the last night of spring semester’s finals, current and former students of the Music Department gathered online with faculty and friends to cut loose in song. Even the department head chimed in.

5/22/2020
Two assistant professors of criminology have won a pair of $500,000 grants from the National Institute of Justice to study sex and labor trafficking. Ryan Shields is working on ways to better identify trafficking victims, while Amber Horning Ruf researches how people become pimps and sex traffickers.

5/18/2020
Students practice assessment, critical thinking and communication skills via videoconferencing with the help of student actors.

5/18/2020
From his pioneering role in video conferencing software to his tenure as UMass president during the Great Recession, UML Distinguished Professor Jack Wilson provides a unique perspective on these uneasy times.

5/14/2020
The 23rd annual Student Research and Community Engagement Symposium went online this spring. The quality of the student projects remained as high as ever, despite the change of venue.

4/3/2020
Joan Marchessault ’00 found a creative way to thank the health-care workers providing hospice care for her 96-year-old mother.

3/26/2020
Experts including UMass Lowell Clinical Assistant Prof. Jennifer Nicoloro, who directs the university’s undergraduate medical laboratory science program, speak about social distancing and its effectiveness.

3/25/2020
Meredith Ritze, a registered nurse who works in the emergency department at Lowell General Hospital and soon-to-graduate nurse practitioner from UMass Lowell, is thankful for the community support her request has prompted.

2/20/2020
This month the City of Lowell and the university announced the Green Community Partnership — an alliance committed to driving down the carbon footprint of the Mill City.

2/18/2020
The Center for Advancing Point of Care Technologies, or CAPCaT, a joint operation between UMass Lowell and UMass Medical, is seeking more entrepreneurs to develop new technologies and medical devices designed to help patients with these conditions manage their well-being.