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December 13, 2006 Under a new partnership with Anystream Inc., students are able to use their iPods to listen to lectures.
November 28, 2006 A team of Lowell High School and UMass Lowell students, working out of the Center for Family, Work and Community, evaluated the impact of the arts on life in Lowell.
November 09, 2006 The men's cross-country team won two major titles this season, including the New England Championships, becoming the first-ever Division II or Division III team to win the title in the race's 94-year history.
October 20, 2006 U.S. Sen. Edward Kennedy and U.S. Rep. Marty Meehan delivered a check in the amount of $2 million, to be used for UMass Lowell’s nanonmanufacturing research.
October 10, 2006 Carving implements will be busy all over campus as students, faculty and staff race to create as many as 1,250 Jack-O'-Lanterns to contribute to the Life is Good Pumpkin Festival on Boston Common on Saturday, Oct. 21.
October 01, 2006 Governor Mitt Romney, over the summer, signed into law an economic stimulus bill that includes $35 million for an integrated advanced manufacturing research and technology assistance facility at UMass Lowell, following strong advocacy for the funding from Lowell area legislators.
September 07, 2006 The National Institute of Occupational Safety and Health award will fund the Center for the Promotion of Health in the New England Workplace.
August 23, 2006 Co-Founder of Life is Good Bert Jacobs will impart his wisdom to freshmen at the convocation ceremony on Thursday, Sept. 7 at 9:30 a.m. in the Durgin Concert Hall.
August 16, 2006 For those who think that apple juice is a kid’s drink, think again. Apples and apple juice may be among the best foods that baby boomers and senior citizens could add to their diet, according to new research that demonstrates how apple products can help boost brain function similar to medication.
August 02, 2006 Teens from Lowell High School join computer science and art majors from UMass Lowell to create some really cool robotics this summer, in a project funded by the National Science Foundation.
July 06, 2006 An interdisciplinary team is modifying an active component of green tea -- making it remarkably effective against breast cancer cells.
June 09, 2006 The College of Engineering event attracts more than 100 student inventors from a dozen schools across the state.
May 30, 2006 The University has two Nobel Prize winners participating in this year’s commencement ceremony on Sunday, June 4, at the Tsongas Arena.
May 02, 2006 The UMass Lowell Profs. Susan Braunhut and Kenneth Marx have joined groups from five other institutions and secured funding from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA). The UMass Lowell portion of the DARPA grant is $1.2 million for the first two years, with an anticipated continuation of $1.4 million for the next two years.
April 24, 2006 The Exploratory Student Program, developed by the Office of Enrollment and Student Success, is a retention initiative targeted to new freshmen and transfer students who are uncertain enough about their academic and career direction to be unwilling to commit to a major.
March 31, 2006 UML's College Bowl team, the first ever to make the nationals, will face stiff competition from 14 other collegiate teams at the University of Hartford in April.
March 14, 2006 UML’s Tsongas Industrial History Center has received a $224,000 grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities to fund a summer program for teachers, education administrators and personnel from around the country. The award marks the first NEH grant in UML’s history.
February 26, 2006 Senior art major Scott Cahill has learned that community relationship-building is as much an art as his chosen field of study. And according to all involved with his project designing a logo for a Ward Hill business group, he earned an “A” in both areas.
February 12, 2006 The Southwick dining hall—now officially the Southwick Food Court—closed for renovations since early last summer, is now open.
February 01, 2006 Innovative work on flame resistant materials has earned the respect and attention of the U.S. Army-as well as new funding.
January 16, 2006 The Division of Continuing Studies received three national awards for excellence in its online education programs from the Sloan Consortium – an association of more than 1,000 institutions and organizations of higher education engaged in online learning.