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  Featured Story

  Coburn Hall’s Historic Murals Brought Back to Life
  Coburn Hall’s Historic Murals Brought Back to Life

  2/6/2020
  Art conservators are uncovering and restoring a set of 1930s murals depicting the educational mission of Lowell Teachers College, as part of the renovation and expansion of Coburn Hall.
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  Newsletter

  UMass Lowell, City of Lowell Announce Partnership to Accelerate Sustainability Leadership
  UMass Lowell, City of Lowell Announce Partnership to Accelerate Sustainability Leadership

  2/3/2020
  Long at the forefront of efforts to implement and grow sustainable operations and practices in the Merrimack Valley, UMass Lowell and the City of Lowell today announced the Green Community Partnership.
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  Department News

  Niki Tsongas Donates Her Congressional Archives to UML
  Niki Tsongas Donates Her Congressional Archives to UML

  2/1/2020
  Rep. Niki Tsongas, who stepped down from Congress in 2019, has donated her congressional papers and digital archives to UMass Lowell.
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  Featured Story

  Professor’s Study of Drugs’ Impact on the Environment Receives NSF CAREER Grant
  Professor’s Study of Drugs’ Impact on the Environment Receives NSF CAREER Grant

  1/30/2020
  Civil and Environmental Engineering Asst. Prof. Sheree Pagsuyoin’s study on the impact of drug abuse on the environment has been recognized by the National Science Foundation (NSF) with a CAREER award. This prestigious national faculty early career development award highlights the research being conducted by the nation’s best young university faculty-scholars.
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  Featured Story

  Local Ecologies Exhibition Offers a Cautionary River Story
  Local Ecologies Exhibition Offers a Cautionary River Story

  1/29/2020
  The Local Ecologies exhibit running now March 6 at Mahoney Gallery uses the Merrimack River to examine water and our relationship to it.
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  Featured Story

  Criminology Professor Wins NSF CAREER Grant to Study Emergency Decisions
  Criminology Professor Wins NSF CAREER Grant to Study Emergency Decisions

  1/15/2020
  Asst. Prof. Neil Shortland has won a $420,000 National Science Foundation CAREER grant to study how police, firefighters, doctors and others make critical decisions in emergencies – and whether they can learn to make better ones.
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  Newsletter

  UMass Lowell Online Programs are Among Best in U.S.
  UMass Lowell Online Programs are Among Best in U.S.

  1/14/2020
  UMass Lowell’s online education programs are among the best in the nation, according to new rankings released today by U.S. News & World Report, which assessed more than 1,600 programs nationwide.
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  Featured Story

  State Recognizes HR Director for Job Well Done
  State Recognizes HR Director for Job Well Done

  12/20/2019
  Director of Workplace Learning and Development Lee Ann Alden was recognized by the state with the Eugene H. Rooney Jr. Public Service Award, one of the top awards given to state employees, for her outstanding work in human resource development.