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10/12/2018 Press Release

Safer Alternative to Toxic Paint Strippers to Go to Market

Safer Alternative to Toxic Paint Strippers to Go to Market

Consumers will soon have a safer alternative to dangerous paint strippers that have claimed dozens lives around the country, thanks to a new formula developed by Toxics Use Reduction Institute researchers at UMass Lowell that is being brought to the market through a licensing agreement with SRD NEWGEN.

10/12/2018 Press Release
1/2/2018 CBS News In The News

Researchers Tout Alternative to Potentially Deadly Paint Stripper

Researchers Tout Alternative to Potentially Deadly Paint Stripper

CBS News's Anna Werner speaks with UML researcher Greg Morose of TURI, who came up with a safe, cost-effective alternative to hazardous paint strippers. Watch a demonstration of the performance of the new formulation.

1/2/2018 CBS News In The News
3/21/2017 Newsletter

New National Cybersecurity Workforce Training Program Launches

New National Cybersecurity Workforce Training Program Launches

UMass Lowell and itSM Solutions are launching a new workforce training program focused on cybersecurity.

3/21/2017 Newsletter
1/25/2016 Featured Story

National Academy of Inventors Honors Prof. Faust

National Academy of Inventors Honors Prof. Faust

Chemistry Prof. Rudolf Faust, a world-renowned expert and pioneer in developing the chemical properties of plastics, was recently named a fellow of the National Academy of Inventors.

1/25/2016 Featured Story
1/17/2014 Featured Story

M2D2 Hosts $50K Medical Device Competition

M2D2 Hosts $50K Medical Device Competition

The Massachusetts Medical Device Development Center (M2D2) — in partnership with Nutter McClennen & Fish LLP and Smith & Nephew — is hosting the third annual new venture competition to showcase the nation’s best innovative medical device ideas by startup companies.

1/17/2014 Featured Story
4/17/2013 Featured Story

Professors Awarded Grants for Technology Innovations

Professors Awarded Grants for Technology Innovations

This year, three UMass Lowell researchers and their collaborators were among those chosen to receive grants from the UMass Commercial Ventures and Intellectual Property (CVIP) Technology Development Fund.

4/17/2013 Featured Story
11/30/2012 Featured Story

Middlesex Region Poised to Become Next Life Sciences Hotbed

Middlesex Region Poised to Become Next Life Sciences Hotbed

Hosted by UMass Lowell’s Office of Commercial Ventures and Intellectual Property, the Nov. 27 meeting of the Middlesex 3 Coalition was billed as “Enabling Life Sciences Innovation Beyond Cambridge.”

11/30/2012 Featured Story
11/28/2012 Lowell Sun In The News

Making the Medical-Device Push

Making the Medical-Device Push

The Middlesex 3 Coalition is a regional collaboration of public and private leaders from Lowell, Billerica, Chelmsford, Bedford and Burlington. It's tasked with helping local businesses flourish. UMass Lowell has been a partner in that mission, especially when it comes to life sciences.

11/28/2012 Lowell Sun In The News
6/13/2012 Press Release

Venture Development Expert Joins UMass Lowell

Venture Development Expert Joins UMass Lowell

Venture industry veteran Nancy Saucier was recently named associate director of new venture development of UMass Lowell’s Office of Commercial Ventures and Intellectual Property (CVIP).

6/13/2012 Press Release
6/6/2012 Press Release

UMass Lowell Licenses Cognitive Function Supplement to Sevo Nutraceuticals

UMass Lowell Licenses Cognitive Function Supplement to Sevo Nutraceuticals

UMass Lowell and Atlantic Virtual Incubation Co. announce license agreements for a patent based on university research that will result in the commercialization of enhanced cognitive function nutritional supplements.

6/6/2012 Press Release
4/30/2012 Featured Story

ETIC Garners State, Private Support

ETIC Garners State, Private Support

As construction of the Emerging Technologies and Innovation Center enters the homestretch, plans to equip the building with cutting-edge laboratories and research space are getting a boost from a $10 million state grant and unprecedented support from private donors.

4/30/2012 Featured Story
3/30/2012 Featured Story

Engineering Professors Win Grants for Breakthrough Ideas

Engineering Professors Win Grants for Breakthrough Ideas

Three teams of University researchers will receive three of this year’s nine grants from the UMass Commercial Ventures & Intellectual Property (CVIP) Technology Development Fund.

3/30/2012 Featured Story
3/30/2012 Featured Story

Testing the Toxicity of Nanomaterials

Testing the Toxicity of Nanomaterials

Electrical Engineering Assoc. Prof. Joel Therrien, along with Profs. Susan Braunhut of Biology and Kenneth Marx of Chemistry, has developed a “nanocanary,” a living-cell-based biosensor capable of continuously monitoring the physiological state of the live cells contained within it.

3/30/2012 Featured Story
3/30/2012 Featured Story

A ‘Greener’ Approach to Cleaning

A ‘Greener’ Approach to Cleaning

Plastics Engineering Asst. Prof. Ramaswamy Nagarajan, along with graduate students and Asst. Prof. Bridgette Budhlall of Plastics Engineering, are developing non-toxic, bio-based and biodegradable surfactants using “greener” materials and synthetic routes.

3/30/2012 Featured Story
3/30/2012 Featured Story

Helping Prevent Blood Poisoning

Helping Prevent Blood Poisoning

Chemical Engineering Assoc. Prof. Sanjeev Manohar and his team have developed an inexpensive, easy-to-use sensor system that instantaneously detects endotoxins, compounds from bacteria that can cause septicemia and sepsis.

3/30/2012 Featured Story
3/14/2012 Press Release

Metabolix Grants a Patent License to NatureWorks LLC for New Biopolymer Blends

Metabolix Grants a Patent License to NatureWorks LLC for New Biopolymer Blends

Metabolix, Inc. today announced that it has granted a non-exclusive license to NatureWorks LLC for the U.S. patent No. 5,883,199, titled “Polylactic Acid-based Blends,” to make, use and sell blends of polylactic acid (PLA) with certain other polymers including polybutylene succinic polymers (PBS).

3/14/2012 Press Release
11/18/2011 Featured Story

Researchers Develop Method to Monitor Bridge Safety

Researchers Develop Method to Monitor Bridge Safety

A team of researchers from UMass Lowell, the University of Illinois, Chicago and private companies has received a $1.3 million grant from the U.S. Department of Transportation to help inspect and monitor the nation’s highway bridges.

11/18/2011 Featured Story
9/8/2010 Featured Story

Researchers to Harness the Power of Photosynthesis

Researchers to Harness the Power of Photosynthesis

Researchers at UMass Lowell are now able to replicate photosynthesis in the laboratory, with the goal of someday storing solar energy on a commercial scale to help alleviate global energy need and reduce high concentrations of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere.

9/8/2010 Featured Story
4/21/2010 Featured Story

Plastics’ Role in Medical Devices Highlighted

Plastics’ Role in Medical Devices Highlighted

On April 20, the Plastics Engineering Department, in collaboration with the Society of Plastics Engineers Medical Plastics Division and the Eastern New England SPE Section, organized the Plastics for Medical Devices Conference at the UMass Lowell Inn & Conference Center.

4/21/2010 Featured Story
4/7/2010 Featured Story

Breakthrough Technologies Showcased at Nano Summit

Breakthrough Technologies Showcased at Nano Summit

More than 100 people had a firsthand look at the exciting research that UMass Lowell faculty and students are conducting in nanomanufacturing and nanotechnology during the Nano Summit April 1.

4/7/2010 Featured Story
3/17/2010 Featured Story

Researchers Receive Technology Development Grants

Researchers Receive Technology Development Grants

Two teams of UMass Lowell researchers have been chosen to receive two of this year’s eight grants from the UMass Commercial Ventures & Intellectual Property (CVIP) Technology Development Fund.

3/17/2010 Featured Story
3/17/2010 Featured Story

Nano Summit Slated for April 1

Nano Summit Slated for April 1

The fourth annual Nano Summit will showcase cutting-edge research in nanotechnology.

3/17/2010 Featured Story
2/24/2010 Featured Story

M2D2, Nutter Hold Strategic Planning Seminar

M2D2, Nutter Hold Strategic Planning Seminar

M2D2 and attorneys from Nutter McClennen & Fish LLC recently hosted the Nutter Strategic Planning Program at Wannalancit Mills.

2/24/2010 Featured Story
10/7/2009 Featured Story

Profs to Develop High-Speed Microscope Probe

Profs to Develop High-Speed Microscope Probe

Asst. Profs. Joel Therrien and Daniel Schmidt have received a three-year $340,000 grant from the National Science Foundation to produce new cantilevers for use in high-speed Atomic Force Microscopy.

10/7/2009 Featured Story
5/27/2009 Featured Story

M2D2 Companies Showcase New Medical Device Product Ideas

M2D2 Companies Showcase New Medical Device Product Ideas

The Massachusetts Medical Device Development Center held a company showcase and open house on May 21 at Wannalancit Mill.

5/27/2009 Featured Story
3/25/2009 Featured Story

Engineering Profs Receive Tech Development Grants

Engineering Profs Receive Tech Development Grants

Asst. Profs. Xingwei Wang, Ramaswamy Nagarajan and Zhiyong Gu received grants from the UMass Commercial Ventures & Intellectual Property Technology Development Fund.

3/25/2009 Featured Story

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