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• Securing graduate fellowships from the National Institute of Health (NIH), the National Science Foundation听(), Sustainable Water Innovations in Materials 鈥� Mentoring, Education, & Research听(SWIMMER) and the American Heart Association () .
• Presenting at international conferences that include Evolution, Society for Developmental Biology, The Allied Genetics Conference and Society for Neuroscience.
• Advancing to successful careers within and beyond academia, including:

• Stockholm University
• Moderna
• Pfizer Pharmaceuticals
• University of Arizona
• Dovetail Biopartners (founder and CEO, Dan Dacey, c/o 2021)
• Sarepta Therapeutics
• SeQure Dx听听
• Takeda Pharmaceuticals
• Onco Filtration (founder Abiche Dewilde, c/o 2014)
• Oxford Biomedica Solutions

Colloquium and pizza socials: Our weekly department seminar showcases exciting research from invited external speakers and our own faculty and students. Highlights of the schedule include the Faculty BioBlast, Grad Students on Parade and the Steven Williams Talk Competition. Our invited speakers often stay for pizza after their seminar, which gives students a chance for further discussion and socializing.

Journal clubs: We encourage Applied Biology students to organize Journal Clubs focusing on broad interdisciplinary topics. Attendees include trainees and faculty at all levels, who gather to discuss current literature and dive into new data. Previous iterations of journal clubs have included Biophysics, Immunology and Genomics.

Student leadership: The student-run has created a welcoming community of M.S. and Ph.D. students. The BGSS hosts socials, workshops, career panels and professional development events throughout the year to support students throughout their training.

Annual department retreat: Our department gathers every fall to hear each of our graduate students present their work as talks or posters (with some extra fun thrown in).

Collaborative research centers: Our students are active in campus-wide interdisciplinary research centers, including the UMass Movement Research Center (UMOVE), which studies movement-related issues in health and injury rehabilitation, and the Center for Pathogen Research and Training (CPRT), which develops solutions for combating infections caused by pathogenic microorganisms. These centers host additional professional development opportunities for trainees, including research symposia and local outreach.

• Lowell has a vibrant concert and festival scene, with events year-round, including the Summer Music Series, the Town and the City Festival, Greater Lowell PRIDE, the Lowell Folk Festival (the longest-running free folk festival in the country!), Winterfest and the Kinetic Sculpture Race.
• We also have a strong community of artists. Check out the public art walk, Open Studios weekends at the Western Avenue arts collective, the Mill No. 5 shopping district or the Merrimack Repertory Theater.
• As a Gateway City, Lowell is proud of its long tradition of welcoming immigrants and refugees from Southeast Asia, Central America, the Middle East and more.听
• Downtown Lowell has buildings dating back to colonial times and the American Industrial Revolution, which means you could live in the midst of a National Historic Park.
• Lowell connects to the greater metro area via the MBTA Lowell Line Commuter Rail, so you can easily take public transportation into Boston. We are only a 40-minute drive from Boston Logan International Airport.
• Close to many outdoor attractions - less than a one-hour drive to North Shore beaches and Maine, less than two hours to the White Mountains and the New Hampshire Lakes Region.

Kennedy College of Sciences master鈥檚 and doctoral applicants must submit:

1. An application
2. An application fee
3. A statement of purpose
4. Letters of recommendation
5. Official transcripts
6. Official test score report (required for some programs, waiver form available)

Note, all required materials must be received before the application package can be evaluated.听If you need to introduce new references or add other supporting documents, log on to your application, click on 鈥淧rogram Materials鈥� to update your application. Please note the new documents and references will be considered only if your application has not been reviewed for admission.听听

Chemistry and Polymer Science Ph.D. Applicants: All required documents must be received by the Office of Graduate Admissions by Feb. 15 to receive full consideration for Fall semester acceptance. Applications completed after this deadline will be considered for acceptance in the subsequent semester.

International Students: please see the additional application requirements.

Bachelor's to Master's Students: You will not need to apply via the application portal, Visit the page to learn about the process to transition to your desired master's program.

1. Online Application application

Applications are only being accepted using the online process. Instructions are included in the online application link.

Tips for accessing and completing the online application:

• Capitalize your proper name.
  
• Once the form is submitted, changes can only be made by calling the Office of Graduate Admissions at 978-934-2390.

app-fee 2. Application Fees

The application fee is $50 for each application and is non-refundable. Applications will not be processed until this fee is received or application fee waiver has been approved and delivered to the Office of Graduate Admissions.

3. Statement of Purpose statement

In a separate document, submit a brief statement indicating your immediate and long-range goals, relevant work history, academic honors/awards received, any teaching experience and/or research conducted/published that may be pertinent to your graduate program. Two page recommended maximum.

Note: If you are applying to more than one program, you will need to submit a program-specific statement of purpose with each application package.

4. Letters of Recommendation recommendation

Master's applicants need to submit two (2) letters of recommendation except Medical Physics applicants which requires three (3) letters of recommendation. Doctoral applicants will be asked to submit three letters of recommendation. You will be asked to provide (names and email addresses) referees during the application process, and that an automated request will be sent out after the completion of your application. Alternatively, you may use the graduate admissions recommendation form (pdf) to request letters of recommendations.

Recommendations should be from instructors who have taught you, ideally in the field to which you are applying. Recommendations may also be from employers or supervisors who are in a position to compare your performance to that of your peers. Please use the recommendation form for these.

5. Official Transcripts transcripts

Provide a complete and official transcript from the institution that awarded or will award you a bachelor鈥檚 degree. You may also include transcripts from other institutions at which you have taken relevant coursework. Please note that waiting for additional transcripts may delay review of your application.

Transcripts should be sent in sealed and signed envelopes mailed to the Office of Graduate Admissions. If you received your degree from UMass Lowell, it is not necessary for you to request a transcript, we are able to provide one for you.

UMass Lowell Graduate Admissions
GPS Center
839 Merrimack Street, 2nd Floor
Lowell, MA 01854-3941

International transcripts that do not clearly indicate to the Office of Graduate Admissions that you have received a four-year bachelor鈥檚 degree, the equivalent of an American bachelor's degree must be demonstrated before an application will be processed. Please note, the Office of Graduate Admissions reserves the right to have any application credential evaluated. Baccalaureate verification may be obtained for a fee at:

Center for Educational Documentation, Inc.
P.O. Box 170116
Boston, MA 02117
Telephone: 617-338-7171
Fax: 617-338-7101

test-score 6. Official Test Score Report(s) (waived for most programs)

If your program requires one or more test scores reports, request that the appropriate agency send an official test score report for the GRE or GMAT to the Office of Graduate Admissions. UMass Lowell鈥檚 school code is 3911.

These programs require official test scores:

• MS Computer Science
• Ph.D. Computer Science
• Medical Physics
• Radiological Sciences

Get more information about standardized tests.

Some master's programs will waive the test score requirements under certain conditions.

Further information is available on the GRE/GMAT/MAT Waiver Forms webpage.