

News & Events Commencement Weekend, May 30-31, 2008 Tom O'Connor ('77 BS Biology, '80 MS Environmental Science) is honored as the Distinguished Alumnus. Prof. Ed Wilson receives an Honorary Degree. Women To Watch! Mass High Tech Publisher Mike Olivieri (Mathematics '85) held the fifth annual Mass High Tech: The Journal of New England Technology Women to Watch event at the Charles Hotel in Cambridge, MA on Wednesday evening, March 5, 2008. This event honors 10 Women to Watch in the high tech sector, one of whom, Heather Healy (Senior Director, Strategic Planning, Office of the CTO, EMC Corp), is a UMass Lowell grad. Mike sponsored a table for 10 for UMass Lowell women science students. The group (minus the dean) is pictured above. They are (from the left): Patrizia Stadler, Biomedical Engineering & Biotechnology (PhD), Melissa Spencer, Physics and Mathematics (BS), Heather Byrne, Computer Science–Bioinformatics (BS; front), Elizabeth Ehasz, Physics (PhD; rear), Katherine Tsui, Computer Science (ScD), Devon Berry, Biological Sciences (BS; front), Catherine Schetky, Mathematics (BS; rear), Jie (Jane) Yang, Computer Science (ScD), and Urmila Tandel, Physics (PhD). ************************************************* SOS program 2007, Summer of Science, gets off to a great start.** In order to attract more students to the sciences and engineering, UMass Lowell funds high school seniors in the summer before their start at UML -- students who will be science, math, computer science, or engineering majors. The program is designed to give the recent high school graduates the opportunity to spend their summers on campus rather than being employed in summer jobs not related to their academic careers. The students will be involved in projects ranging from research to developing new laboratory exercises for courses this fall. The seven SOS students are shown at a welcoming breakfast in the Dean of Science's conference room. From left: Alexander Kehn (Clinton High School, Physics), Thomas Harrington, (Arlington High School, Physics), Laura DeMeo (Haverhill High School, Chemistry), Olivia Asaro, (Gloucester High School, Chemistry), Rachel Doucette (Waltham Senior High School, Math), Bryan Crompton (Lowell, Home Schooled, Math), and Michael Johnson (Woburn High School, Physics).

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