The move to remote learning has meant big changes for all UMass Lowell students. But many are also coping with drastic financial changes, says Julie Nash, vice provost for academic affairs. In the…
Type: News
How many programs can confidently say: “We have individuals every year who run for political office”? And how many of those individuals are a part of a diverse cohort of women leaders 2020 is the…
Type: News
Music may have the power to soothe, but for more than a week, those who teach it have been scrambling to adjust to the new reality of COVID-19 and online instruction. While adapting his classes as…
Type: News
Stating that “Graduating medical students are ready: let’s get them to work,” Chancellor Michael F. Collins announced that the Commonwealth of Massachusetts has approved a bold and unprecedented…
Type: News
As children’s regular routines are upended during the COVID-19 pandemic, they turn to the adults in their lives for emotional as well as physical safety. A newly released resource guide co-authored…
Type: News
Anastasia Khvorova, PhD, professor of RNA therapeutics at UMass Medical School, spoke to Discover magazine last week about new efforts in her lab to develop a vaccine using RNA-based therapies…
Type: News
Graduate student Rebecca Olivieri usually teaches a group fitness class to around 20 students, faculty and staff every Thursday at noon at the Campus Recreation Center. Leading the 45-minute interval…
Type: News
UMass Boston’s Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality (WGS) Studies Department dedicated this Women’s History Month to promoting feminism and activism; however, due to the coronavirus, students and faculty…
Type: News
Department of Computer Science Computer Science Prof. Prof. Xinwen Fu Xinwen Fu has been awarded more than $4.5 million by the National Science Foundation (NSF) and the U.S. Department of Energy (…
Type: News
Midway through spring break, students learned that the campus would be switching completely to online classes, due to the rapid spread of UMass Lowell coronavirus alerts COVID-19 . Everyone got a…, Zoom Me In, Finn lives way out in the woods in Manchester-by-the-Sea, with no cable connection and spotty internet service. That means she and her older brother, who’s working remotely, have to go to their…, On and Off Campus, Not all students have moved back home. Hikma Abajorga, a senior Plastics landing page plastics engineering major from Ethiopia, can’t finish her classes from home because there’s no reliable…
Type: News