Service-Learning News

10/24/2018 Featured Story

Women Engineering Students Host Repair Café for Community

Women Engineering Students Host Repair Café for Community

Students in the Society of Women Engineers hosted a Repair Café for the campus and community last month. Along the way, they learned some useful skills themselves, such as how to take apart a microwave oven, fix a lamp and hand-sew patches for denim jackets.

10/24/2018 Featured Story
5/18/2018 Lowell Sun In The News

UML, Girls Inc. STEM Tide on Science Gender Gap

UML, Girls Inc. STEM Tide on Science Gender Gap

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.

5/18/2018 Lowell Sun In The News
5/11/2018 Featured Story

‘Invitation to Innovation’ Celebrates Student Ingenuity, Imagination

‘Invitation to Innovation’ Celebrates Student Ingenuity, Imagination

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.

5/11/2018 Featured Story
11/21/2017 Featured Story

Giving Thanks by Giving Back

Giving Thanks by Giving Back

As we celebrate Thanksgiving, we’re grateful for all that our students do to give back to the campus, the community and the world. Here are just a few examples how they are stepping up and making a difference.

11/21/2017 Featured Story
7/31/2017 Featured Story

Students Teach Healthy Eating

Students Teach Healthy Eating

Students studying dietetics gain valuable work experience during their summer community internships.

7/31/2017 Featured Story
5/1/2017 Featured Story

Students Showcase Research and Service-Learning Projects

Students Showcase Research and Service-Learning Projects

The annual Student Research and Community Engagement Symposium showcases research and service-learning projects in the arts and humanities, as well as the sciences and social sciences.

5/1/2017 Featured Story
3/24/2017 Featured Story

Faculty, Students Bring Astronomy Roadshow to Haiti Schoolchildren

Faculty, Students Bring Astronomy Roadshow to Haiti Schoolchildren

A team from UMass Lowell spent spring break teaching more than a hundred schoolchildren in Haiti about astronomy, rocket science, space exploration and the lives of famous scientists, engineers and mathematicians.

3/24/2017 Featured Story
1/4/2017 Featured Story

Students Find Collaborative Care is the Best Care

Students Find Collaborative Care is the Best Care

A new “Interdisciplinary Experiential Learning” course gives students from five different majors — nursing, medical laboratory science, nutritional sciences, exercise physiology and public health — experience working in teams at Summit ElderCare in Lowell.

1/4/2017 Featured Story
12/16/2016 Featured Story

Engineering Students Talk Science with Lowell Schoolchildren

Engineering Students Talk Science with Lowell Schoolchildren

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.

12/16/2016 Featured Story
12/9/2016 Featured Story

Julie Nash is Building on a Culture of Student Success

Julie Nash is Building on a Culture of Student Success

Julie Nash, the new vice provost for student success, is charged with building a university culture that not only helps students stay on track, but achieve at higher levels.

12/9/2016 Featured Story
11/10/2016 Featured Story

Students Help Boy’s Hoop Dream Come True

Students Help Boy’s Hoop Dream Come True

Students from the eNABLE Lowell group fitted 8-year-old Liam Haggerty with a custom-made artificial hand at the South Campus basketball court.

11/10/2016 Featured Story
8/31/2016 Featured Story

Manning Students Help South Carolina Flood Victims

Manning Students Help South Carolina Flood Victims

Three Manning School students spent a week this summer helping repair flood-damaged homes in Andrews, S.C., through lecturer Olga Tines’ Organizational Behavior in Action course.

8/31/2016 Featured Story
6/13/2016 Featured Story

Service-learning Internships Lead to Jobs with Purpose

Service-learning Internships Lead to Jobs with Purpose

Service-learning internships give FAHSS students hands-on experience that leads to paying jobs.

6/13/2016 Featured Story
5/24/2016 Featured Story

Peace and Conflict Graduate Networks Job with Startup

Peace and Conflict Graduate Networks Job with Startup

Before he graduated, Peace and Conflict Studies student Kevin Copson lined up a job with a start-up that supports Weave open-source software, created by university researchers.

5/24/2016 Featured Story
5/18/2016 Featured Story

Young People with Disabilities Master Bike Riding

Young People with Disabilities Master Bike Riding

Exercise physiology students apply their expertise to teach children, teenagers and young adults with disabilities how to ride a bike.

5/18/2016 Featured Story
5/3/2016 Featured Story

Writing Students Visit Lowell High to Learn and Inspire

Writing Students Visit Lowell High to Learn and Inspire

College Writing II students visited Lowell High to speak about college as part of a study on whether service learning leads to better academic outcomes for UMass Lowell students.

5/3/2016 Featured Story
5/2/2016 Featured Story

Lights, Camera, Climate Change!

Lights, Camera, Climate Change!

Students in Assoc. Prof. Juliette Rooney-Varga’s climate change course produce one-minute PSA videos on the plight of Earth, which are screened at Lowell Eco-Film Series.

5/2/2016 Featured Story
4/22/2016 Featured Story

Center for Community Research and Engagement Helps Local Agencies

Center for Community Research and Engagement Helps Local Agencies

The Center for Community Research and Engagement helps local agencies, links faculty research with community needs and provides graduate students with research experience.

4/22/2016 Featured Story
2/25/2016 Featured Story

College of Health Sciences Rallies for Hockey, Health and Fun

College of Health Sciences Rallies for Hockey, Health and Fun

College of Health Sciences students designed interactive, fun activities to educate kids about health before the College of Health Sciences Alumni Night with the River Hawks hockey game.

2/25/2016 Featured Story
2/10/2016 Featured Story

Students Write Grants for Community Agencies

Students Write Grants for Community Agencies

Undergraduates are writing grants for community nonprofits and gaining valuable professional experience in a new service-learning class offered by the English Department.

2/10/2016 Featured Story
12/27/2015 Lowell Sun In The News

Helping Lift a Community

Helping Lift a Community

A steady stream of clients step into the Cambodian Mutual Assistance Association on a December afternoon. In the back, UMass Lowell student Brian Hunt is beginning another day of his writing internship with the CMAA.

12/27/2015 Lowell Sun In The News
11/24/2015 Featured Story

Students Become Teachers for Lowell Kids

Students Become Teachers for Lowell Kids

English Department Lecturer Matthew Hurwitz’s students recently celebrated the culmination of a literacy improvement partnership with second- and third-grade students from the Bartlett Community Partnership School.

11/24/2015 Featured Story
10/19/2015 Featured Story

Service Learning Program Gives Students Insight into Disabilities

Service Learning Program Gives Students Insight into Disabilities

Assoc. Prof. Bridget Marshall’s Disability in Literature class takes students downtown to meet the people who live with blindness every day.

10/19/2015 Featured Story
12/19/2014 Newsletter

UMass Lowell Named to President’s Higher Ed Honor Roll

UMass Lowell Named to President’s Higher Ed Honor Roll

The commitment to community engagement and service at the university puts it among the top institutions in the United States, according to a new national ranking.

12/19/2014 Newsletter
8/13/2014 Featured Story

Service-Learning Leads to Self-Discovery

Service-Learning Leads to Self-Discovery

Honors students organized and staffed a day of fun for siblings separated by the foster system in a newly designated service-learning college writing course.

8/13/2014 Featured Story
6/4/2013 Featured Story

Business Students Weave Marketing Plans

Business Students Weave Marketing Plans

Students studying international business got real-world experience through a service-learning project by developing marketing plans for Burmese refugees to increase sales of hand-woven goods.

6/4/2013 Featured Story
5/28/2013 Featured Story

PT Students Discover the Power of Service Learning

PT Students Discover the Power of Service Learning

Physical Therapy students worked on community projects that assessed local health needs, improved infant motor development and prevented injuries.

5/28/2013 Featured Story
3/27/2013 Press Release

UMass Lowell Earns Place on National Honor Roll for Community Service

UMass Lowell Earns Place on National Honor Roll for Community Service

UMass Lowell was recently named to the 2013 President’s Higher Education Community Service Honor Roll. This designation is the highest honor a college or university can receive for its commitment to volunteering, service-learning, and civic engagement.

3/27/2013 Press Release
10/15/2012 Featured Story

'Involve Me and I Learn'

'Involve Me and I Learn'

Internship programs, co-ops and service learning projects have expanded, giving students more opportunities to be ready for work once they graduate.

10/15/2012 Featured Story
5/4/2012 Featured Story

Volunteering Time, Gaining Recognition

Volunteering Time, Gaining Recognition

UMass Lowell wins national and local awards for community service.

5/4/2012 Featured Story
2/20/2012 Featured Story

Service Learning Projects Targets Back Pain

Service Learning Projects Targets Back Pain

Six graduate physical therapy students showed future medical doctors physical therapy techniques used to treat debilitating back pain.

2/20/2012 Featured Story

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