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  From Testing to Telehealth, UML Committed to Students’ Well-being
  From Testing to Telehealth, UML Committed to Students’ Well-being

  9/2/2020
  As a fall semester like no other gets underway, UMass Lowell is focused on the health and safety of students — both residential and remote —  through measures such as surveillance testing for COVID-19 and teletherapy counseling sessions.
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  Featured Story

  Saab Center Grant Will Help Shine Light on Portuguese-American Experience
  Saab Center Grant Will Help Shine Light on Portuguese-American Experience

  8/28/2020
  Students, faculty and researchers interested in Portuguese-Americans in the Merrimack Valley and beyond will soon have access to a digital archive chronicling generations of immigrants, thanks to a $300,000 grant received by the university’s Saab Center for Portuguese Studies.
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  Researchers Awarded $1M NSF Grant to Create Middle School Curriculum
  Researchers Awarded $1M NSF Grant to Create Middle School Curriculum

  8/24/2020
  A team of researchers from UMass Lowell and SUNY Albany won a three-year, $1 million grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to create a computer science curriculum for middle schools in collaboration with school districts in Lowell and Methuen, Mass., and Schenectady, N.Y.
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  Local Businesses Are Hurting. These Students Are Helping.
  Local Businesses Are Hurting. These Students Are Helping.

  8/20/2020
  UML students from the Manning Consulting Group volunteered their services this summer to help two Lowell businesses, Warp and Weft and Brew’d Awakening Coffeehaus, find ways to increase business during the coronavirus pandemic.
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  New Engineering Students RAMP Up for Long-term Success
  New Engineering Students RAMP Up for Long-term Success

  8/20/2020
  Two dozen incoming first-year and transfer students got a jump on their engineering studies — and a preview of college life during the coronavirus pandemic — through the Francis College of Engineering’s Research, Academics and Mentoring Pathways (RAMP) program.
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  Newsletter

  During Pandemic, University Exceeds Fundraising Goals
  During Pandemic, University Exceeds Fundraising Goals

  7/30/2020
  While many colleges and universities around the country lowered their fundraising goals toward the end of the 2020 fiscal year due to the COVID-19 crisis, UMass Lowell surpassed its targets.
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  Featured Story

  Fabric Discovery Center Aids Hospitals and Companies with PPE Testing
  Fabric Discovery Center Aids Hospitals and Companies with PPE Testing

  7/30/2020
  Thanks to a state grant, the university’s Fabric Discovery Center acquired equipment to test PPE that could be used to prevent transmission of COVID-19. Now, staff are conducting PPE testing for the state emergency management agency, hospitals, and regional companies that are ramping up to manufacture high-quality masks and gowns. And that’s just the beginning.
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  Assoc. Prof. of English Keith Mitchell Awarded Manning Teaching Prize
  Assoc. Prof. of English Keith Mitchell Awarded Manning Teaching Prize

  7/9/2020
  A teacher changed Assoc. Prof. Keith Mitchell’s life, setting him on the path to become a professor of American and African American literature. Now Mitchell’s passion for the classroom has been recognized with the 2020 Manning Prize for Excellence in Teaching.