During his tenure at Stevens, he also served as Dean of the School of Professional Education, where he was head of corporate training and online learning and was also responsible for the university's graduate programs in China.

[5] In China, he headed three blended learning master's at Central University of Finance and Economics and Beijing Institute of Technology.

In 2024, he was Senior Editor of CHLOE 9, the ninth annual report on the status of online learning in higher education.

Ubell is a recipient of the A. Frank Mayadas Online Learning Leadership Award, the highest honor given to an individual in digital education.

[9] Ubell is the author of Virtual Teamwork: Mastering the Art and Practice of Online Learning and Corporate Collaboration, published in 2010.

The Encyclopedia of Climate and Weather was awarded the Best PSP Book (1996) by the American Association of Publishers, Professional and Scholarly Division.

Ubell has served on the editorial board of numerous scholarly and other journals, including Online Learning, The Scientist, The Sciences, and others.

Ubell lives in Manhattan and is married to the art historian Rosalyn Deutsche, professor at Barnard College, Columbia University.