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  Research Seeks to Improve Sleep Patterns of Night Shift Workers
  Research Seeks to Improve Sleep Patterns of Night Shift Workers

  5/29/2019
  Sleep disruption can lead to depression, cardiovascular disease and accidents on the job or at home. To combat these issues, Asst. Prof. Yuan Zhang of the Solomont School of Nursing is partnering on a $1.7 million four-year National Institute of Aging grant to study strategies that help older night shift workers sleep soundly.
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  Researchers Produce Renewable Engine Fuel from Wet Biowaste
  Researchers Produce Renewable Engine Fuel from Wet Biowaste

  5/24/2019
  A team of researchers from UMass Lowell, the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and China Agricultural University in Beijing has developed a new, sustainable way of converting wet biological waste into diesel-compatible fuel, using heat and water.
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  Featured Story

  Record River Hawk Class Soars Out Into the World
  Record River Hawk Class Soars Out Into the World

  5/18/2019
  The university honored its largest graduating class ever – more than 4,500 students – at graduate and undergraduate Commencement exercises held over two days at the Tsongas Center at UMass Lowell.
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  Featured Story

  Faculty Experts Brief Legislators on Climate Change
  Faculty Experts Brief Legislators on Climate Change

  5/15/2019
  The university’s Climate Change Initiative hosted members of the state’s House Committee on Global Warming and Climate Change for a roundtable discussion on climate science and policy at which faculty members shared scientific research and expertise to help inform policy decisions.
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  Featured Story

  UML Teams Up with Community on Southeast Asian Folktales Book
  UML Teams Up with Community on Southeast Asian Folktales Book

  5/8/2019
  Education, psychology and art faculty worked with community groups to collect folktales from four Southeast Asian countries and turn them into a book that can be used in the Lowell schools.
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  ROTC Cadets Get Nutrition, Exercise Help from Health Sciences Students
  ROTC Cadets Get Nutrition, Exercise Help from Health Sciences Students

  5/3/2019
  UMass Lowell Air Force ROTC Commander Jesse Jaramillo partnered with Zuckerberg College of Health Sciences faculty to deliver nutrition and exercise science education, counseling and training for cadets.
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  Department News

  New Scholarship Helps Attract Homegrown Talent
  New Scholarship Helps Attract Homegrown Talent

  5/2/2019
  Janis Raguin ’92 is joining the College of Education’s efforts to strengthen its connections with communities that are underrepresented in the teaching profession.
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  Benji Ball Hits DifferenceMaker Home Run
  Benji Ball Hits DifferenceMaker Home Run

  5/1/2019
  A game modified to make baseball more inclusive, created by a DifferenceMaker team on a winning streak, topped 10 student teams to take home the $6,000 Rist Campuswide DifferenceMaker award at the seventh annual Idea Challenge competition.