LOWELL – UMass Lowell has dedicated Perry Hall Plaza, a new greenspace that is the latest step in the university’s work to further enhance the the beauty and sustainability of the campus.

The plaza is named for alumnus Barry Perry and his wife, Janice, who have been generous supporters of UMass Lowell and its students through establishing scholarships and helping to fund the renovation of the university’s main engineering building. That building, which dates back to the 1950s, was named for Barry Perry in 2012.

Iman Chahine, an associate professor of education, has received a Fulbright U.S. Scholar Award to pursue ethno-mathematical research in South Africa for nine months.

Beginning in January 2020, Chahine will train South African teachers in high-needs districts in how to incorporate indigenous Zulu and Ndebele arts and culture into the high school math curriculum. 

“Accelerating the Marine Science and Technology Corridor” along the SouthCoast of Massachusetts and throughout Cape Cod and Rhode Island was the focus as more than 150 leaders from industry, higher education, and government gathered at UMass Dartmouth today. The meeting, the activities leading up to it, and the next steps are being funded by a three-year $600,000 grant by the U.S. Economic Development Administration (EDA).

AMHERST, Mass. – University of Massachusetts Amherst food scientist Matthew Moore has received two grants from the USDA to apply new technology in an effort to more quickly detect and trace foodborne disease caused by noroviruses and bacteria.

Yuriy Brun and Charles C. Weems Jr., both associate professors in the College of Information and Computer Sciences, have been selected as 2019 Distinguished Members of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM).

The new Carney Family Auditorium in Furcolo Hall at UMass Amherst's College of Education was officially unveiled to the public in a ribbon-cutting ceremony on Friday. Chancellor Kumble Subbaswamy and Dean of the College of Education, Cynthia Gerstl-Pepin were in attendance.

After the announcement of UMass Amherst Libraries’ acquisition of his historic personal papers, whistleblower and activist Daniel Ellsberg has completed a series of visits, lectures and presentations to the UMass Amherst community.

Symmetric Computing, a tech company located at UMass Boston’s Venture Development Center, recently won a $100,000 ASPIRE Design Challenge award from the National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences (NCATS) at the National Institutes of Health.

Fidan Ana Kurtulus, economics, spoke in favor of broad-based employee ownership of firms and cooperatives and how governments can enact policies to encourage the adoption and prevalence of employee ownership and cooperatives at the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) on Thursday, Oct. 24. 

Economists at the University of Massachusetts Amherst and California Polytechnic State University have found that higher temperatures increase emergency department visits for mental illness, suicide rates and self-reported days of poor mental health. Further, the researchers found no evidence of effective adaptation among American populations to these negative effects of heat. They also warn their findings suggest that both warming local climates and increases in extreme heat events will contribute negatively to population mental health.