Dr. Ramprasad Balasubramanian (Ram Bala), Associate Provost for Decision Support and Strategic Initiatives at UMass Dartmouth, was recently chosen as the UMass designee to the Massachusetts Clean Energy Center (MassCEC) Board of Directors by UMass President Marty Meehan.
What is like when scientists go out to sea to conduct research and discover ways to help protect our ocean ecosystems and marine life?
UMass Dartmouth’s Academic Resource Center (ARC) has received a $2.35 million TRIO grant to help provide support services to students who meet certain criteria, including students enrolled in business courses and STEM-specific programs and eligible students who are Pell Grant recipients. The five-year grant will help provide support services to students of underrepresented populations as well as students who identify as first-generation, low-income, or disabled.
Why was Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering Charles Thompson crossing University Avenue in full academic regalia on a recent Friday morning?
He was heading to the patio outside Starbucks to check out the design projects that 25 incoming Francis College of Engineering students worked on this summer with industry partners like Dell Technologies, Red Hat and Collins Aerospace.
Restaurants in Massachusetts have been hit particularly hard by the coronavirus pandemic, with a recent survey showing that revenue dropped by at least half for 70 percent of eateries in the first six months of 2020.
So when a group of UMass Lowell students approached local restaurant owner Craig Faulkner this summer and offered him free consulting to help his business weather the downturn, he didn’t question their credentials. Instead, he gladly accepted their offer.
With all the COVID-19 disruptions, the summer of 2020 could have been a washout for so many UMass Lowell students. But plenty of River Hawks managed to nail down internships and find opportunities that are aligned with their studies, gaining valuable hands-on experience and expanding their professional networks. Here’s a sampling of some of the positions River Hawks landed this summer.
Taking Stock in the Cloud
As the coronavirus pandemic continues to cripple social interaction, upend education, endanger health and disrupt business, the university’s researchers are exploring the ever-widening aspects of the virus’ presence.
In the latest round of seed grant funding, seven faculty-led research projects that explore the social, medical and academic factors tied to COVID-19 were awarded more than $70,000 from the university’s Office of Research and Innovation.
A team of researchers from UMass Lowell and SUNY Albany won a three-year, $1 million grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to create a computer science curriculum for middle schools in collaboration with school districts in Lowell and Methuen, Mass., and Schenectady, N.Y.
Called CS Pathways, the project aims to build a partnership between researchers and practicing educators to develop inclusive, culturally responsive and sustainable computer science programs at the middle school level.
On July 30, NASA successfully launched its heaviest and most sophisticated Mars rover, named “Perseverance,” from Cape Canaveral, Fla., aboard an Atlas V rocket.
Computer science major Brennan Macaig has spent a lot of time on campus the past few months.
Some days, he roams around University Crossing or Fox Hall and chats with fellow students. Other days, he busies himself by stacking one-cubic-meter blocks at University Suites, the residence hall where he was living when the coronavirus pandemic shut down the campus in March.
“Whenever I miss being on campus, I’ll come on and work on stuff,” says Macaig, a junior from Concord, N.H.