Chancellor’s Medal for Student Service (Deadline March 5, 2014 5 p.m) Have you made outstanding contributions to the University in clubs and organizations, campus programs, leadership positions, or other activities that improved the quality of life for students at the University of Massachusetts Lowell? Chancellor’s Medal for Community Service (Deadline March 5, 2014 5 p.m.) Have you…
Game Design Engages Students
Computer science teacher Michael Penta has trouble pulling his students away from their computers for an outdoor break during his weeklong game programming summer workshop at UMass Lowell Design Camp.
They Know Which Way Wind Blows
Littleton’s Kristina Oakland, an incoming senior in UMass Lowell’s Environmental Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, started her internship at NECN on June 1, the day deadly tornadoes struck western Massachusetts. Haverhill’s Heather Jaffe, a 2011 graduate…
Row Time
UMass Lowell program puts middle schoolers on the river to learn the sport of crew.
Tsongas Center in World’s Top 20 Venues
For the first time in its history, the Tsongas Center was named in the top 20 in the world for venues with a capacity between 5,001 and 10,000 by Venues Today Magazine. The facility entered Venues Today’s mid-year rankings at No. 20.
No Child’s Play in This Sandbox
Todd Fry, the executive director of the Merrimack Valley Sandbox, talks about
the initiative’s first few months have gone and to explain further what exactly
an ideas sandbox is.
Higher Ed Cheerleader
Robert Caret, the new University of Massachusetts president, wants to
increase investment in the state’s university system — both emotional
and monetary — of taxpayers, elected officials and alumni.
Wanderings Offer New Path to Understanding ‘Walden’
To increase scholarly and popular understanding about Thoreau’s
influence on history, the Thoreau Society has partnered with the Walden Woods
project and the University of Massachusetts Lowell on a new online
collaboration called “Mappin…
