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  Press Release

  Dartmouth College and UMass Lowell Launch HillaryDonald.com
  Dartmouth College and UMass Lowell Launch HillaryDonald.com:React, View and Track Reactions to Politics in Real Time | Press Release

  9/23/2016
  A team of researchers from UMass Lowell and Dartmouth College recently launched HillaryDonald.com -- a set of tools that provides users with the ability to react and view an aggregation of reactions to the debates and other election events of the 2016 presidential election campaign in real time. The two tools include the interactive app that allows users to remotely “applaud” or “boo” live remarks by Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump in real-time, and a visualization tool called TwitterScope, which maps live political discourse on Twitter by ideology and sentiment. 
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  In The News

  UMass Lowell Receives $3.5M to Work on Promoting Women in Sciences
  UMass Lowell Receives $3.5M Grant to Work on Promoting Women Faculty in the Sciences | In The News

  9/21/2016

  Boston Globe

  
  The $3.5 million National Science Foundation grant will "make the (hiring and promoting) process more open,"according to Vice Chancellor for Research and Innovation Julie Chen.
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  Press Release

  $3.5 Million NSF Grant Will Fund Program to Close Gender Gap for STEM Faculty
  $3.5 Million NSF Grant Will Fund Program to Close Gender Gap for STEM Faculty | Press Release

  9/20/2016
  A team of researchers from UMass Lowell recently received a $3.5 million NSF grant to develop a program to combat "microaggressions" and other barriers that face women faculty in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) fields across higher education. 
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  Featured Story

  Engineering Profs Awarded Funding for Offshore Wind Energy Research
  Engineering Profs Awarded Funding for Offshore Wind Energy Research | Featured Story

  9/14/2016
  Mechanical engineering Prof. Christopher Niezrecki and Asst. Prof. Murat Inalpolat are among the researchers from eight academic and research institutions across the state who have received grants from the Commonwealth totaling nearly $700,000 to advance offshore wind energy research and development.