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University Pays Tribute to Former Chancellor Hogan

University Pays Tribute to Former Chancellor Hogan | Featured Story

4/26/2021
The university paid tribute to former chancellor, William T. Hogan, with the unveiling of space on campus that will serve as a testament to his visionary leadership for future generations of River Hawks.
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Engineering Profs’ Robotics and Composite Materials Research Win $1M in Funding

Engineering Profs’ Robotics and Composite Materials Research Win $1M in Funding | Featured Story

4/7/2021
Two researchers from the Department of Mechanical Engineering – Asst. Profs. Yan Gu and Marianna Maiaru – were recognized by the National Science Foundation and the U.S. Air Force, respectively, with faculty early career development grants totaling $1,015,000. The funding will help advance research on robot walking and the process modeling of composite materials.
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DifferenceMaker Engineering Challenge: ConnectKnee Gets Leg-Up on Competition

DifferenceMaker Engineering Challenge: ConnectKnee Gets Leg-Up on Competition | Featured Story

12/11/2020
It was a cousin’s lacrosse injury that inspired Alyssa Mulry to dream up ConnectKnee, a brace that tracks a patient’s recovery time. And at the recent DifferenceMaker Francis College of Engineering finals, her team -- ConnectKnee -- topped 16 other teams for first place.
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Christopher Niezrecki Named Distinguished University Professor

Christopher Niezrecki Named Distinguished University Professor | Featured Story

12/3/2020
Mechanical Engineering Prof. and Dept. Chair Christopher Niezrecki has been named the 2020 Distinguished University Professor for exemplary teaching, research and service to the university.
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UMass Lowell Secures $11.7M in Research Funding

UMass Lowell Secures $11.7M in Research Funding | Newsletter

10/22/2020
UMass Lowell research projects, ranging from developing new protective gear and sensors to ensure food and water are safe to advanced wireless communications, were recently awarded nearly $12 million in federal funding through the Fiscal Year 20 Defense Appropriations bill.
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New Honors Class Inspires Renewable Energy Research

New Honors Class Inspires Renewable Energy Research | Featured Story

10/20/2020
A new honors seminar that helps students think critically about different sources of energy is inspiring research involving renewables, including projects at UMass Lowell’s Haiti Development Studies Center.
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Honors Students Set Sights on the Stars

Honors Students Set Sights on the Stars | Featured Story

10/8/2020
Michele Woodland and Shanice Kelly do almost everything together: They’re both in the Honors College and they both do renewable energy research with Physics Prof. Robert Giles. They both work at the new telescope on South Campus – and they’re president and vice president of the UML Astronomy Club.
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Inside the Cleanest Room on Campus

Inside the Cleanest Room on Campus | Featured Story

9/8/2020
The Nanofabrication Laboratory clean room on North Campus, perhaps the safest place to be during the coronavirus pandemic, is one of 10 Core Research Facilities that have partially reopened to faculty, students and industry partners under careful safety protocols.
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New Engineering Students RAMP Up for Long-term Success

New Engineering Students RAMP Up for Long-term Success | Featured Story

8/20/2020
Two dozen incoming first-year and transfer students got a jump on their engineering studies — and a preview of college life during the coronavirus pandemic — through the Francis College of Engineering’s Research, Academics and Mentoring Pathways (RAMP) program.
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Fabric Discovery Center Aids Hospitals and Companies with PPE Testing

Fabric Discovery Center Aids Hospitals and Companies with PPE Testing | Featured Story

7/30/2020
Thanks to a state grant, the university’s Fabric Discovery Center acquired equipment to test PPE that could be used to prevent transmission of COVID-19. Now, staff are conducting PPE testing for the state emergency management agency, hospitals, and regional companies that are ramping up to manufacture high-quality masks and gowns. And that’s just the beginning.
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Professor Examines Ethics of Biomedical Research on Soldiers

Professor Examines Ethics of Biomedical Research on Soldiers | Featured Story

7/10/2020
Asst. Prof. of Philosophy Nicholas Evans has won a $209,749 grant to study the ethics of conducting research into biomedical enhancements on members of the military. The three-year grant from The Greenwall Foundation comes with an appointment as a Faculty Scholar in Bioethics.
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Honors Study Abroad Course on Basque Culture Goes Virtual

Honors Study Abroad Course on Basque Culture Goes Virtual | Featured Story

6/15/2020
The university’s in-person study abroad programs are on hold, but International Experiences & Study Abroad is offering virtual global internships and online courses with an international focus. An Honors College professor even moved his summer study abroad program in San Sebastian, Spain, to Zoom, bringing experts on Basque history and culture into students’ homes.
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Amid COVID-19 Campus Closure, Welcome Day and Orientation Going Online

Amid COVID-19 Campus Closure, Welcome Day and Orientation Going Online | Featured Story

4/14/2020
As high school seniors weigh college decisions without the chance to visit campuses, UMass Lowell’s Admissions team is offering one-on-one admissions counseling, individual virtual tours of campus by student tour guides, and social media forums where prospective students can ask questions.
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Engineering Professor Wins $1.4M DOE Grant for Monitoring Wind Turbine Blades

Engineering Professor Wins $1.4M DOE Grant for Monitoring Wind Turbine Blades | Featured Story

4/7/2020
The U.S. Department of Energy has awarded a two-year, $1.4 million grant to Mechanical Engineering Asst. Prof. Murat Inalpolat to develop and test a new, sound-based sensor system for monitoring the structural health and integrity of wind turbine blades.
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The New Normal: Students Adjust to a Semester Interrupted

The New Normal: Students Adjust to a Semester Interrupted | Featured Story

3/26/2020
As Massachusetts officials advised everyone to stay at home to prevent further spread of the novel coronavirus, students are adapting to studying online – and adopting coping strategies to help manage the upheaval.
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Criminology Professor Wins NSF CAREER Grant to Study Emergency Decisions

Criminology Professor Wins NSF CAREER Grant to Study Emergency Decisions | Featured Story

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.
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Renewable Energy is Great, but How Do We Store It?

Renewable Energy is Great, but How Do We Store It? | Featured Story

12/16/2019
Faculty and student researchers examined what the state must do to incorporate renewable energy sources into the electrical grid to reduce carbon emissions in “The State of Grid Energy Storage in Massachusetts,” a report commissioned by the Associated Industries of Massachusetts.
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Students Engineering Better Way to Clean City’s Canals

Students Engineering Better Way to Clean City’s Canals | Featured Story

9/6/2019
Rover the River Hawk, an Industrial Capstone Senior Design project that Engineering students are building to clean debris from the city’s canals, received a Green Design award from the Lowell Sustainability Council and a Certificate of Special Congressional Recognition from U.S. Rep. Lori Trahan.
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Julie Chen Receives Honorary Degree from Queen's University Belfast

Julie Chen Receives Honorary Degree from Queen's University Belfast | Featured Story

7/18/2019
Julie Chen was presented with the Doctor of Science for distinction in engineering from Northern Ireland’s Queen’s University Belfast on June 29.
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Cutting Textbook Costs is High Priority for Campus

Cutting Textbook Costs is High Priority for Campus | Featured Story

5/23/2019
The rising cost of textbooks is hurting students’ wallets – and their academic success. Campus leaders, faculty, the university libraries, the bookstore and students are working together to lower costs.
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Symposium Showcases Student Research and Community Projects

Symposium Showcases Student Research and Community Projects | Featured Story

5/9/2019
More than 280 students finished the academic year by presenting their work at the annual Student Research & Community Engagement Symposium. Many of the students’ research projects aimed to solve or engage real-world problems, from public health to violent crime.
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Tesla Recruits Students via Virtual Campus Visit

Tesla Recruits Students via Virtual Campus Visit | Featured Story

3/13/2019
Alum Nicole Falotico ’11 was one of five Tesla employees who recruited UML students for summer internships and co-op positions via a video conference presentation at Saab ETIC’s Perry Atrium.
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Congresswoman Lori Trahan Gets HEROES Welcome

Congresswoman Lori Trahan Gets HEROES Welcome | Featured Story

3/1/2019
U.S. Rep. Lori Trahan learned about the latest technology used in parachutes and other battlefield innovations while touring the HEROES lab on Feb. 20.
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UMass Lowell Researchers Doing Battle for Soldiers

UMass Lowell Researchers Doing Battle for Soldiers | In The News

2/21/2019
Lowell Sun

U.S. Rep. Lori Trahan toured UMass Lowell's HEROES Center on Wednesday, checking out the bomb suit technology.
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Scientists Develop Renewable Fuel Additives from Sawdust

Scientists Develop Renewable Fuel Additives from Sawdust | In The News

12/12/2018
World Industrial Reporter

The U.S. Department of Energy has awarded a three-year, $1 million grant to a team of researchers led by a UMass Lowell mechanical engineering professor that is working to develop renewable fuel additives from sawdust and other wood byproducts.
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Turcotte’s Asthma Research Helps Children and Seniors in Lowell

Turcotte’s Asthma Research Helps Children and Seniors in Lowell | Featured Story

12/3/2018
For almost two decades, Research Prof. David Turcotte’s “Healthy Homes” project has improved the lives of low-income children and seniors with asthma. His focus on environmental justice also includes research on wind turbines, community health and healthy workplaces.
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Alumni Twins Double Back to Campus to Recruit

Alumni Twins Double Back to Campus to Recruit | Featured Story

11/21/2018
Twin brothers Bhavan and Bhuvan Somayanda, who both earned master’s degrees in plastics engineering in 2015, returned for the Fall Career Fair to recruit for their current employer, Applied Medical.
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Students Design Backpacks of the Future

Students Design Backpacks of the Future | Featured Story

10/29/2018
A total of 30 undergraduate and graduate students and postdoctoral researchers from colleges across the campus competed during the first Future Pack Design Challenge, held at the new Fabric Discovery Center.
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Researchers Seek to Extend Lifespan of New England’s Roads and Bridges

Researchers Seek to Extend Lifespan of New England’s Roads and Bridges | Featured Story

10/19/2018
The U.S. Department of Transportation recently awarded a five-year, $14 million grant to a partnership of faculty and student researchers from UMass Lowell and other universities in New England to create a regional Transportation Infrastructure Durability Center.
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Researchers to Develop Renewable Fuel Additives from Sawdust

Researchers to Develop Renewable Fuel Additives from Sawdust | Featured Story

9/28/2018
The U.S. Department of Energy has awarded a $1 million grant to a team of researchers led by UMass Lowell to develop renewable fuel additives made from sawdust from sawmills.
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Alumni Help Feed Dell’s Employee Supply Chain

Alumni Help Feed Dell’s Employee Supply Chain | Featured Story

9/18/2018
Business grad Mai Pham and engineering alum Nabil Saleh, who both landed jobs at Dell Technologies after graduation, returned to campus to tell students about opportunities in the field of supply chain operations.
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Everything is New Again at Dandeneau Hall

Everything is New Again at Dandeneau Hall | Featured Story

8/23/2018
The Mechanical Engineering and Computer Science departments have moved to a remodeled (and renamed) Dandeneau Hall – one of Facilities Management’s several major renovation projects this summer.
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On-RAMP Summer Camp Supports Women Engineering Students

On-RAMP Summer Camp Supports Women Engineering Students | Featured Story

7/26/2018
The new RAMP summer camp for incoming women engineering students aims to build their skills and connect them with future mentors so they stay the course. The first-year students say it’s boosting their confidence – and helping them make friends.
In The News
UML, Girls Inc. STEM Tide on Science Gender Gap

UML, Girls Inc. STEM Tide on Science Gender Gap | In The News

5/18/2018
Lowell Sun

UMass Lowell seniors Benjamin Tran, 21, and senior Katie Elwell, 22, of Tewksbury, created a wind turbine component of the renewable energy "traveling classroom" for their mechanical engineering capstone.
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‘Invitation to Innovation’ Celebrates Student Ingenuity, Imagination

‘Invitation to Innovation’ Celebrates Student Ingenuity, Imagination | Featured Story

5/11/2018
Invitation to Innovation, which was held May 4 at the Tsongas Center, was attended by more than 2,000 schoolchildren, educators and community and corporate partners.
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Students Win NSF Graduate Research Fellowships

Students Win NSF Graduate Research Fellowships | Featured Story

5/5/2018
Mechanical engineering senior Deborah Fowler and chemical engineering senior Erin Shaughnessey have each won a 2018 Graduate Research Fellowship Program award from the National Science Foundation.
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Engineering Students All About (Energy) Efficiency

Engineering Students All About (Energy) Efficiency | Featured Story

3/7/2018
Mechanical engineer students, led by senior lecturer Michele Putko, are helping improve energy efficiency at the Lowell Transitional Living Center through an independent study project funded by a mini-grant from the university’s Sustainability Encouragement & Enrichment Development (S.E.E.D.) Fund.
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Students Pedal a Uni-que Way to Get Around Campus

Students Pedal a Uni-que Way to Get Around Campus | Featured Story

11/20/2017
Evan Jones and Andrew Terrill, both freshmen in the Francis College of Engineering, turn heads and draw smiles by riding unicycles to get around campus.
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Student Researchers Win Tech Hackathons at MIT

Student Researchers Win Tech Hackathons at MIT | Featured Story

10/24/2017
Two UMass Lowell graduate students were part of the teams that recently won top prizes at two “hackathons” organized by MIT, the U.S. Department of Defense MD5 program and the Naval Postgraduate School.
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Asst. Prof. Wins Grant to Study Gender in Engineering Workplaces

Asst. Prof. Wins Grant to Study Gender in Engineering Workplaces | Featured Story

10/23/2017
Asst. Prof. Kacey Beddoes has won a prestigious National Science Foundation grant to investigate how gender affects the workplace experiences of new engineers.
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Researchers to Develop Sensing Fabrics for Monitoring Civil Infrastructures

Researchers to Develop Sensing Fabrics for Monitoring Civil Infrastructures | Featured Story

9/28/2017
UMass Lowell engineers are creating new, cost-effective sensor-laden textiles that can be used to monitor the structural health of vital infrastructures across the country.
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UML Nanomanufacturing Center and Raytheon Partner on Flexible Hybrid Electronics Manufacturing

UML Nanomanufacturing Center and Raytheon Partner on Flexible Hybrid Electronics Manufacturing | Featured Story

9/19/2017
NextFlex has awarded three projects with a total contract value of $4.4 million to researchers from the UMass Lowell Nanomanufacturing Center, defense contractor Raytheon IDS and SI2 Technologies.
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UML and Raytheon Partner on Flexible Hybrid Electronics Manufacturing

UML and Raytheon Partner on Flexible Hybrid Electronics Manufacturing | Featured Story

9/19/2017
NextFlex has awarded three grants of more than $4 million to teams of researchers from the UMass Lowell Nanomanufacturing Center and defense contractor Raytheon IDS.
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Emerging Energy Initiative Gets a Boost from President’s Office

Emerging Energy Initiative Gets a Boost from President’s Office | Featured Story

6/1/2017
UMass Lowell’s role as a leader in the emerging energy industry got a lift from a recent $95,000 grant from the UMass President’s Science & Technology (S&T) Initiatives Fund.
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New Research Center to Study Biomechanics of Aging

New Research Center to Study Biomechanics of Aging | Featured Story

5/31/2017
A new UMass systemwide research center, launched with a $25,000 grant by the UMass President’s Science & Technology Initiatives Fund, will study the science of how bone and muscle systems work under different conditions.
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Perry, Pasteur Overhauls Begin This Summer

Perry, Pasteur Overhauls Begin This Summer | Featured Story

5/22/2017
The university’s construction projects are kicking into high gear this summer, from the renovations of Perry and Pasteur halls to the completion of the new Fox Hall elevators and Haverhill satellite campus.
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Student Work in the Spotlight at Innovation Showcase

Student Work in the Spotlight at Innovation Showcase | Featured Story

5/18/2017
The university’s first-ever Invitation to Innovation (i2i) event drew a crowd of more than 1,000 to see student projects, research and products coming out of the university’s labs and classrooms.
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Faculty Researchers Awarded $75K to Help Commercialize New Technologies

Faculty Researchers Awarded $75K to Help Commercialize New Technologies | Featured Story

5/18/2017
The UMass President’s Office recently awarded a total of $75,000 to three teams of UMass Lowell faculty researchers to develop new technologies aimed at detecting cancer, improving the cost and quality of plastic products and creating highly stable battery power supplies.
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Student Speakers to Address Thousands of Proud Grads

Student Speakers to Address Thousands of Proud Grads | Featured Story

5/9/2017
The two students, one undergraduate and one graduate, selected by a panel of administrators to deliver speeches at Commencement won the honor through hard work and inspirational messages.
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State Awards $130K to Professors for Clean Energy Research

State Awards $130K to Professors for Clean Energy Research | Featured Story

4/26/2017
Physics Asst. Prof. Wei Guo and mechanical engineering Assoc. Prof. Fuqiang Liu are among seven early-stage researchers recently awarded funding through the Massachusetts Clean Energy Center (MassCEC) Catalyst Program to develop promising products and technologies in the fields of clean energy and clean water.
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High Tech Meets High Heels for Engineering Alum

High Tech Meets High Heels for Engineering Alum | Featured Story

4/11/2017
Mechanical engineering alum Marcelle Durrenberger ’16 is working with rocket scientists at Los Angeles “fashion-tech design house” to revolutionize the high-heel shoe.
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New Honors Class Develops a Mindset for Adventure

New Honors Class Develops a Mindset for Adventure | Featured Story

3/17/2017
Honors students are learning about the hero’s quest in a new film and literature class, A Call to Adventure, and preparing to become the heroes of their own adventurous lives.
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New vLabs:Engineering a ‘Game-Changer’ for Students

New vLabs:Engineering a ‘Game-Changer’ for Students | Featured Story

1/4/2017
With the groundbreaking vLabs:Engineering project, students can access the university’s full suite of graphics-intensive engineering software from any internet-connected device, even their phones.
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Engineering Students Talk Science with Lowell Schoolchildren

Engineering Students Talk Science with Lowell Schoolchildren | Featured Story

12/16/2016
Mechanical engineering students visited Lowell middle schools and after-school programs to get kids excited about science. It was a service-learning project that was part of a required course, Materials Science for Engineers.
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Students Help Boy’s Hoop Dream Come True

Students Help Boy’s Hoop Dream Come True | Featured Story

11/10/2016
Students from the eNABLE Lowell group fitted 8-year-old Liam Haggerty with a custom-made artificial hand at the South Campus basketball court.
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Professor Engineers Life-Saving Heart Valve Replacement

Professor Engineers Life-Saving Heart Valve Replacement | Featured Story

11/2/2016
Mechanical Engineering Asst. Prof. Scott Stapleton and research collaborators are developing tissue-engineered heart valves that can be implanted in a less invasive procedure that can cut the cost of the operation and the patient’s hospital recovery time, especially for the young and elderly.
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Student Designs System for Total Hip Replacement

Student Designs System for Total Hip Replacement | Featured Story

11/1/2016
Mechanical engineering Ph.D. student Tina Dardeno ’14, who was awarded an NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Award, is developing a non-contact, non-invasive method for monitoring the insertion and seating of cementless femoral implants in real-time.
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Engineering Profs Awarded Funding for Offshore Wind Energy Research

Engineering Profs Awarded Funding for Offshore Wind Energy Research | Featured Story

9/14/2016
Mechanical engineering Prof. Christopher Niezrecki and Asst. Prof. Murat Inalpolat are among the researchers from eight academic and research institutions across the state who have received grants from the Commonwealth totaling nearly $700,000 to advance offshore wind energy research and development.
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Textiles Help Teach STEM Concepts

Textiles Help Teach STEM Concepts | Featured Story

9/2/2016
A group of psychology, math, engineering and education professors and students, working with fiber artists, are using textiles to teach STEM concepts with the hope of reducing math anxiety in girls and young women and improving learning for all.
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NASA Awards $200K to UMass Lowell to Build a Satellite

NASA Awards $200K to UMass Lowell to Build a Satellite | Press Release

8/11/2016
NASA recently awarded $200,000 to a team of UMass Lowell students to design and build a satellite the space agency hopes to launch into orbit in 2018.
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Student Team Wins Second Prize in National Wind Competition

Student Team Wins Second Prize in National Wind Competition | Featured Story

6/15/2016
A team of 16 students from the Francis College of Engineering and Manning School of Business took second place in the national Collegiate Wind Competition.
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Student Research: From Saving Endangered Sea Turtles to Diagnosing Skin Cancer

Student Research: From Saving Endangered Sea Turtles to Diagnosing Skin Cancer | Featured Story

6/13/2016
Held each spring, the Student Research and Community Engagement Symposium enables students to showcase their work through presentations to peers, faculty and guests.
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Researchers Use Solar Energy For Sustainable Fuels

Researchers Use Solar Energy For Sustainable Fuels | Featured Story

5/16/2016
Mechanical Engineering Asst. Prof. Juan Pablo Trelles is developing a new process to convert waste carbon dioxide from power plants and factories into sustainable fuels and high-value chemicals.
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Students to Launch UMass Lowell’s First Satellite

Students to Launch UMass Lowell’s First Satellite | Featured Story

5/3/2016
If everything goes as planned, in 2018 a small satellite designed and built by a team of undergraduate students will be launched into Earth orbit.
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Mathematical Modeling Helps Make Smart Weapons Smarter

Mathematical Modeling Helps Make Smart Weapons Smarter | Featured Story

4/14/2016
A team of researchers led by Prof. Peter Avitabile recently received more than $425,000 in funding from Eglin Air Force Base to help improve the efficiency of the bunker buster’s conventional fuze.
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Researcher Investigates Surface Erosion in Naval Vessel Components

Researcher Investigates Surface Erosion in Naval Vessel Components | Featured Story

4/11/2016
The Navy recently awarded Asst. Prof. Alireza V. Amirkhizi with a three-year grant totaling more than $300,000 to find the mechanisms of premature wear, damage or failure in materials exposed to cavitation conditions.
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Engineering Profs Explore the Potential of New Biofuels

Engineering Profs Explore the Potential of New Biofuels | Featured Story

4/4/2016
Asst. Profs. Hunter Mack and Hsi-Wu Wong are developing new processes to make biofuels and to evaluate their performance.
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Hawkathon: A Day (and Night) for Invention

Hawkathon: A Day (and Night) for Invention | Featured Story

3/31/2016
Nearly 100 students from across the region gathered at the Innovation Hub to bring good things to life — by hacking them.
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Researchers Harness the Power of the Sun

Researchers Harness the Power of the Sun | Featured Story

3/31/2016
Asst. Prof. Juan Pablo Trelles and his team are synthesizing sustainable fuels using solar energy and carbon dioxide as well as water or methane from natural gas.
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Student Startup Brings Phone Charging Kiosk to Campus

Student Startup Brings Phone Charging Kiosk to Campus | Featured Story

1/29/2016
Two UMass Lowell students, Felipe Nascimento and Upkar Singh, co-founded startup Veloxity, maker of the new cell phone charging kiosk located at University Crossing.
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Road Scholars: Engineering Students Intern at Tesla

Road Scholars: Engineering Students Intern at Tesla | Featured Story

1/12/2016
Three students from the Francis College of Engineering turn coveted internships at Tesla Motors in California into launching pads for young careers.

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