Alumni, faculty and staff now have an opportunity to help provide emergency financial help to students impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic.
Students in need of financial assistance as a result of the coronavirus pandemic may seek relief through the Student Care and Emergency Response Fund (SCERF). Donations to SCERF may be made at minutefund.umass.edu/project/20457.
As a result of decreased campus operations, the campus will transition to locking all building entrances effective Monday, April 6. These changes are being implemented to prevent unauthorized access and to ensure the safety of university staff and protection of property. In recent weeks, there have been several incidents of theft or damage to UMass property in unoccupied campus buildings.
Since its debut in early 2011 on Fox, “Bob’s Burgers” has taken its place among the most beloved animated sitcoms, twice winning Emmy awards and developing a dedicated audience. Two UMass Lowell alumni, brothers and Spencer natives Tim and Pat Dacey, are linchpins of the show’s distinct musical soundtrack.
Local hospitals and first responders rang the alarm for protective gear, and UMass Lowell responded.
The Zuckerberg College of Health Sciences and the Kennedy College of Sciences donated face shields, masks, gowns, eyewear, gloves and more to local health and first responders on the front lines of fighting the coronavirus.
Yuriy Brun, an associate professor in the College of Information and Computer Sciences (CICS), has been selected to receive the Most Influential Paper Award at the 15th International Symposium on Software Engineering for Adaptive and Self-Managing Systems (SEAMS 2020). The award recognizes his 2007 paper, “An Architectural Style for Solving Computationally Intensive Problems on Large Networks,” co-authored with Nenad Medvidović. The award recognizes work published at least ten years prior that has had substantial impact in industry or academia.
Irma McClaurin, who earned her Ph.D. and MFA from UMass Amherst, was recently awarded a $15,000 Historical Archives Grant from the Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research, Inc. The funds are for the continuing development of the Irma McClaurin Black Feminist Archive in Special Collections and University Archives (SCUA), in the UMass Amherst Libraries.