UMass President Marty Meehan today announced that Justice David A. Lowy, the first UMass graduate to serve on the state’s Supreme Judicial Court, will become the next General Counsel of the 74,000-student, five-campus University of Massachusetts system. In addition to his appointment as General Counsel, Justice Lowy will serve as Strategic Advisor for Law School Education and Adjunct Professor of Law at UMass School of Law-Dartmouth, the university’s ABA-accredited Law School.

The five-campus University of Massachusetts (UMass) system generated a record $8.3 billion in economic activity and supported nearly 40,000 external jobs across Massachusetts, according to a report released today.

Responding to today’s Biden Administration announcement that Massachusetts has been chosen as the location for the Investor Catalyst Hub of the Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health (ARPA-H), UMass President Marty Meehan and Congressman Richard Neal issued the following statements: