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Camera Built to Hunt Alien Worlds Aces First Flight

A Balloon-lofted Camera Built to Hunt Alien Worlds Aces First Flight | In The News

2/2/2020
MSN.com

UMass Lowell Research Scientist Christopher Mendillo recounted the successes and challenges of the Lowell Center for Space Science and Technology’s work on PICTURE-C – which will be used to image planets – at the American Astronomical Society’s recent meeting.
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Professor’s Study of Drugs’ Impact on the Environment Receives NSF CAREER Grant

Professor’s Study of Drugs’ Impact on the Environment Receives NSF CAREER Grant | Featured Story

1/30/2020
Civil and Environmental Engineering Asst. Prof. Sheree Pagsuyoin’s study on the impact of drug abuse on the environment has been recognized by the National Science Foundation (NSF) with a CAREER award. This prestigious national faculty early career development award highlights the research being conducted by the nation’s best young university faculty-scholars.
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Criminology Professor Wins NSF CAREER Grant to Study Emergency Decisions

Criminology Professor Wins NSF CAREER Grant to Study Emergency Decisions | Featured Story

1/15/2020
Asst. Prof. Neil Shortland has won a $420,000 National Science Foundation CAREER grant to study how police, firefighters, doctors and others make critical decisions in emergencies – and whether they can learn to make better ones.
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UMass Lowell Reaches for the Stars in 2020

UMass Lowell Reaches for the Stars in 2020 | Featured Story

1/15/2020
From exploring the solar system and searching for habitable planets around nearby stars to zapping the Martian surface with a laser, our faculty and student researchers are working to gain a better understanding of the cosmic neighborhood in which we live.
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UML Opens New Facility to Support Biopharmaceutical Manufacturing

UML Opens New Facility to Support Biopharmaceutical Manufacturing | Featured Story

12/12/2019
UMass Lowell has opened a state-of-the-art lyophilization facility that will help drive innovation and discovery in biopharmaceutical manufacturing in New England and beyond.
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Researchers Develop Germ-killing Fabrics to Prevent Hospital Infections

Researchers Develop Germ-killing Fabrics to Prevent Hospital Infections | Featured Story

12/5/2019
Chemistry Prof. Yuyu Sun and Assoc. Prof. Nancy Goodyear of Biomedical and Nutritional Sciences are using N-halamine – a biocide with proven germ-killing property – to reduce the occupational burden of exposure by protecting the hospital staff from harmful microorganisms that can cause various infections.
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Researchers Work to Make Cleaning Products Safer

Researchers Work to Make Cleaning Products Safer | In The News

11/21/2019
New England Cable News

The work done in UMass Lowell's Toxics Use Reduction Institute's labs is taking on a renewed urgency in recent weeks after two chemical incidents in the Boston area.
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UML’s New Cyber Range Aims to Boost Internet and Cyberinfrastructure Security

UML’s New Cyber Range Aims to Boost Internet and Cyberinfrastructure Security | Featured Story

11/18/2019
UMass Lowell has opened a new center for cybersecurity education, research and workforce development called the Cyber Range that will help students prepare for careers in the high-demand field.
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Education Professor Wins Fulbright for Ethno-mathematics Work

Education Professor Wins Fulbright for Ethno-mathematics Work | Featured Story

10/31/2019
Assoc. Prof. of Education Iman Chahine has received a Fulbright U.S. Scholar Award to do research in ethno-mathematics. She will spend nine months in South Africa training teachers and evaluating math lessons and materials she developed, based on Zulu and Ndebele arts and culture.
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Students Peer Into the Future of Work

Students Peer Into the Future of Work | Featured Story

10/30/2019
The UMass Lowell Labor Education Program explored how students can prepare for the future of work at “The Gig Economy, Automation and You,” a panel discussion featuring Assoc. Prof. of Management Scott Latham and Thomas Kochan, co-director of the MIT Sloan Institute for Work and Employment Research.
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Politics Professor Says Values Determine the Facts We Believe

Politics Professor Says Values Determine the Facts We Believe | Featured Story

10/30/2019
Americans are more divided than ever – so divided that they no longer believe in the same facts. Assoc. Prof. Morgan Marietta, a political psychologist and constitutional scholar, has been studying the trend and has written a book on “dueling fact perceptions” that’s getting noticed by the media and political commentators.
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Economics Professor Awarded Nearly $1 Million for Asthma Research

Economics Professor Awarded Nearly $1 Million for Asthma Research | Department News

10/28/2019
Research Prof. David Turcotte has won a federal grant of nearly $1 million to do more research on asthma – work that could benefit low-income seniors in Lowell.
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Researchers Develop New Biomaterials to Improve Repair of Heart Muscle

Researchers Develop New Biomaterials to Improve Repair of Heart Muscle | Featured Story

10/10/2019
A research team led by Asst. Prof. Gulden Camci-Unal of the Department of Chemical Engineering is developing new “breathable” biomaterials that can repair heart muscle damaged by disease or heart attack.
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NASA Launches Telescope Built by UMass Lowell

NASA Launches Telescope Built by UMass Lowell | In The News

10/3/2019
Boston Globe

NASA launched a telescope built by the University of Massachusetts Lowell that could someday find new planets and other objects in space that have yet to be discovered.
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A New Astronomical Observatory Rises on South Campus

A New Astronomical Observatory Rises on South Campus | Featured Story

9/11/2019
Students will get a chance to embark on a visual tour of our solar system and beyond when a new astronomical observatory opens on South Campus this fall.
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Manning Professor a ‘Must Read’ in Harvard Business Review

Manning Professor a ‘Must Read’ in Harvard Business Review | Featured Story

9/10/2019
An article co-authored by Asst. Prof. of Management Elizabeth Altman on how companies can turn their products and services into multisided platforms was included in Harvard Business Review’s “10 Must Reads 2019” and “10 Must Reads on Business Model Innovation.”
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Cool Science Expands with $3 Million NSF Grant

Cool Science Expands with $3 Million NSF Grant | Featured Story

9/9/2019
For seven years, the Cool Science contest has asked children to communicate climate science through art, with the winning works displayed on Lowell buses. A $3 million National Science Foundation grant will expand Cool Science in Massachusetts and add two metropolitan areas in the Midwest.
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Worcester Polytechnic Institute and UMass Lowell Team Up to Seed Growth of Combined Research

Worcester Polytechnic Institute and UMass Lowell Team Up to Seed Growth of Combined Research | Newsletter

9/6/2019
To support early-stage research collaboration between faculty at the two universities, the University of Massachusetts Lowell (UMass Lowell) and Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI) have partnered to award more than $111,000 in seed funding to six teams of faculty.
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Students’ Programming Skills Take Off with SoarCS

Students’ Programming Skills Take Off with SoarCS | Featured Story

9/4/2019
The four-day summer program gave first-year, full-time computer science students a chance to live on campus, meet classmates and build skills to help them succeed.
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Summer Programs Set Up Incoming Freshmen for College Success

Summer Programs Set Up Incoming Freshmen for College Success | Featured Story

8/21/2019
A total of 35 first-year engineering majors participated in this year’s UML Launch and RAMP summer programs, which were designed to prepare the students for the rigors of college life.

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