Researchers from the Kennedy College of Sciences are taking on one of our planet’s biggest threats: climate change.

UMass Lowell has been devoting more resources to expanding its cybersecurity research and education programs to help defend and secure the country’s critical information systems and networks.

Chemistry Prof. Yuyu Sun and Assoc. Prof. Nancy Goodyear of Biomedical and Nutritional Sciences are leading a project to develop a material that offers health care workers true protection from harmful microbes.

Math Asst. Prof. Elisa Perrone talks about her studies of mathematical tools called copulas, which can make weather forecasts more accurate but have also been blamed for the 2008 global financial crisis.

Prof. Susanna K. Remold, the new chair of the Department of Biological Sciences, shares some insight into her work to unravel an ecological mystery that could help improve the lives of people with diseases such as cystic fibrosis.

As deputy laboratory director for operations and chief operations officer at Argonne National Laboratory near Chicago, Kimberly Conroy Sawyer ‘89 works to ensure a stable future for the organization, which tackles complex challenges in science and technology.

Three Radiological Sciences alumni worked nights and weekends in their basements to lay the groundwork needed to start their own firm. RSCS officially launched in 1989, with radon testing and mitigation services as the early staples of its business.