On Saturday, UMass Lowell Chancellor Julie Chen greeted students and parents to campus alongside “Spot,” a Boston Dynamics robot tested for its agility at the university’s New England Robotics Validation and Experimentation (NERVE) Center. Here, they visit with physics major Christian O’Connell of Saugus. (TORY WESNOFSKE/UMASS LOWELL)
Dance music, ice cream, lawn games, university leaders and “grad” bags of campus essentials greeted new and returning students to UMass Lowell on Friday, Sept. 1 and Saturday, Sept. 2 for the start of the fall semester.
Some 2,700 first year and transfer students are joining the community of River Hawks, making for a total enrollment of approximately 17,000.
This year, an estimated 4,000 students will live in university housing. Classes begin Wednesday, Sept. 6.
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- UMass Lowell welcomed new and returning students to campus Friday, Sept. 1 and Saturday, Sept. 2 for the start of the fall semester. The university offers more than 250 student-run clubs and groups to complement students’ academic experience. (ED BRENNEN/UMASS LOWELL)
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- UMass Lowell computer science major Sonakshi Gupta of Dracut worked the front desk of Fox residence hall on Friday, Sept. 1, providing room keys to new students arriving on campus. The university’s mascot, Rowdy the River Hawk, lent a hand. (UMASS LOWELL PHOTO)
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- New roommates, from left, Mackenzie Lavallee, an exercise science major from Cumberland, R.I.; criminal justice major Amanda Roy of Holden, Mass.; nursing major Rebecca Kelleher of Tewksbury, Mass.; and Molly Grace, an electrical engineering major from Berwick, Maine, got to know each other on social media this summer before moving in together. (HENRY MARTE/UMASS LOWELL)
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- UMass Lowell Chancellor Julie Chen, left, shown here with students who serve as resident advisers, all helped incoming students settle into their new rooms this weekend. From left are students Chioke Onwuogu, a business major from Peabody; Angel Molekunnel, a business major from Houston, Texas; Phoenix Whiting, an education major from Chelmsford; and Isabella Dubois, a business major from Methuen. (TORY WESNOFSKE/UMASS LOWELL)
