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  Featured Story

  Music 'Bridge' Program Connects Students, Professionals
  Music 'Bridge' Program Connects Students, Professionals

  9/25/2019
  Professional musicians and educators, including plenty of alums, have come together in Alan William's Take it to the Bridge program to offer real-world music experiences to students who wish to make a life in music.
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  Featured Story

  New Program Provides Merit Scholarships for 20 Students from Washington, D.C.
  New Program Provides Merit Scholarships for 20 Students from Washington, D.C.

  9/16/2019
  Under a new partnership, 20 high school graduates from Washington, D.C., are studying at UMass Lowell this fall with merit scholarships. It’s part of the university’s mission to support students from all backgrounds in getting a great college education.
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  Department News

  New Scholarship Will Benefit Education Students
  New Scholarship Will Benefit Education Students

  9/13/2019
  Joyce ’77 and Gerald ’78 Colella have endowed a $300,000 scholarship that will benefit both undergraduate and graduate students at the College of Education.
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  Featured Story

  University Helps Food Companies Find Recipe for Sustainability
  University Helps Food Companies Find Recipe for Sustainability

  9/13/2019
  Food and beverage companies learned about sustainable manufacturing and cleaning processes at a workshop funded by the EPA.
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  Featured Story

  A New Astronomical Observatory Rises on South Campus
  A New Astronomical Observatory Rises on South Campus

  9/11/2019
  Students will get a chance to embark on a visual tour of our solar system and beyond when a new astronomical observatory opens on South Campus this fall.
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  Featured Story

  Cool Science Expands with $3 Million NSF Grant
  Cool Science Expands with $3 Million NSF Grant

  9/9/2019
  For seven years, the Cool Science contest has asked children to communicate climate science through art, with the winning works displayed on Lowell buses. A $3 million National Science Foundation grant will expand Cool Science in Massachusetts and add two metropolitan areas in the Midwest.
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  Newsletter

  Worcester Polytechnic Institute and UMass Lowell Team Up to Seed Growth of Combined Research
  Worcester Polytechnic Institute and UMass Lowell Team Up to Seed Growth of Combined Research

  9/6/2019
  To support early-stage research collaboration between faculty at the two universities, the University of Massachusetts Lowell (UMass Lowell) and Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI) have partnered to award more than $111,000 in seed funding to six teams of faculty.
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  Featured Story

  Students Engineering Better Way to Clean City’s Canals
  Students Engineering Better Way to Clean City’s Canals

  9/6/2019
  Rover the River Hawk, an Industrial Capstone Senior Design project that Engineering students are building to clean debris from the city’s canals, received a Green Design award from the Lowell Sustainability Council and a Certificate of Special Congressional Recognition from U.S. Rep. Lori Trahan.