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…
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Sophomore biology major Kingsly Mante Angua has a lot of things that he wants to do when he graduates from UMass Boston—like become a pediatric surgeon, or work with Doctors Without Borders, or go…
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Since 2003, the Eastern Pequot Tribal Nation and Stephen Silliman, professor and chair of anthropology in the College of Liberal Arts at UMass Boston, have been running the Eastern Pequot…
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While most graduating medical students must wait until the third Friday in March to discover where they will begin their careers as doctors, School of Medicine 2020 class members Lauren Colwell,…
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Dear Colleagues, Like our counterparts around the world, the University of Massachusetts finds itself thrust into a moment of almost unimaginable challenge, but as we move forward to confront the…
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In a video recorded on Monday, March 23, Chancellor Michael F. Collins is urging members of the UMass Medical School community to continue working closely together, even as many do their jobs from…
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AMHERST, Mass. – A slender little fish called the sand lance plays a big role as “a quintessential forage fish” for puffins, terns and other seabirds, humpback whales and other marine mammals, and…
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AMHERST, Mass. – When cocaine kingpin Pablo Escobar was shot dead in 1993, the four hippos he brought to his private zoo in Colombia were left behind in a pond on his ranch. Since then, their numbers…
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After some hunting, you find a metered parking space in downtown Lowell. But when you go to drop a few quarters in the nearest payment kiosk, the machine doesn’t work. Should you find another kiosk?…
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As public schools across the country began closing to prevent the rapid spread of COVID-19, Clinical Prof. of Education Scribner-MacLean-Michelle Michelle Scribner-MacLean watched as teachers,…
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