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  With NSF Award, New Grad Program Focuses on Protecting Water Resources
  With NSF Award, New Grad Program Focuses on Protecting Water Resources

  9/22/2021
  An interdisciplinary team of UML faculty, led by Assoc. Profs. Meg Sobkowicz-Kline and Chris Hansen, have received a nearly $3 million National Science Foundation Research Traineeship award for a new graduate student program focused on developing sustainable materials and chemicals that won’t harm water resources.
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  Engineering Professor Wins $2.7M Grant for Alzheimer’s Research
  Engineering Professor Wins $2.7M Grant for Alzheimer’s Research

  9/20/2021
  Assoc. Prof. Joyita Dutta of the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering has been awarded a $2.7 million grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) for research that could help shed light on the progression of Alzheimer’s disease.
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  New Digital Media Major Combines Storytelling and Technical Skills
  New Digital Media Major Combines Storytelling and Technical Skills

  9/17/2021
  The university’s new digital media major prepares students to become video, audio, corporate media and advertising professionals through classes that combine storytelling and technical skills. Students also get hands-on experience through internships.
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  As I-Corps Interns, Business Students Put Assumptions to Test
  As I-Corps Interns, Business Students Put Assumptions to Test

  9/13/2021
  Master of Science in Entrepreneurship students Lani Faith Gacula and Wynn Wiggins put their customer discovery and market research skills to work through the new I-Corps Intern Program.
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  Publications Praise UMass Lowell Efforts on Diversity
  Publications Praise UMass Lowell Efforts on Diversity

  9/9/2021
  Three magazines have named UMass Lowell to their lists of "Top Colleges and Universities" for 2021 for the university's efforts to improve diversity, equity and inclusion on campus.
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  Newsletter

  UTeach Scholarship Grows as the Program Celebrates Its 10th Year
  UTeach Scholarship Grows as the Program Celebrates Its 10th Year

  9/6/2021
  The UTeach program at UMass Lowell is celebrating a decade of turning STEM majors into sought-after teachers — and Kristine ’74 and Louis ’74 Beaudette are helping it succeed.
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  Nutrition Professor Says a Sustainable Diet is a Healthier Diet
  Nutrition Professor Says a Sustainable Diet is a Healthier Diet

  9/2/2021
  Assoc. Prof. Kelsey Mangano, a nutrition researcher, says that the health of the planet and our own health go hand in hand – and that by improving one, we can improve the other.
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  UMass Lowell Among Team Awarded $20 Million by NSF
  UMass Lowell Among Team Awarded $20 Million by NSF

  9/2/2021
  A team of researchers led by Sonia Chernova, associate professor of Interactive Computing at Georgia Tech, has won a five-year, $20 million grant from the National Science Foundation to build intelligent systems that support aging.