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Scientists Develop Renewable Fuel Additives from Sawdust

Scientists Develop Renewable Fuel Additives from Sawdust | In The News

12/12/2018
World Industrial Reporter

The U.S. Department of Energy has awarded a three-year, $1 million grant to a team of researchers led by a UMass Lowell mechanical engineering professor that is working to develop renewable fuel additives from sawdust and other wood byproducts.
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Turcotte’s Asthma Research Helps Children and Seniors in Lowell

Turcotte’s Asthma Research Helps Children and Seniors in Lowell | Featured Story

12/3/2018
For almost two decades, Research Prof. David Turcotte’s “Healthy Homes” project has improved the lives of low-income children and seniors with asthma. His focus on environmental justice also includes research on wind turbines, community health and healthy workplaces.
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Alumni Twins Double Back to Campus to Recruit

Alumni Twins Double Back to Campus to Recruit | Featured Story

11/21/2018
Twin brothers Bhavan and Bhuvan Somayanda, who both earned master’s degrees in plastics engineering in 2015, returned for the Fall Career Fair to recruit for their current employer, Applied Medical.
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Students Design Backpacks of the Future

Students Design Backpacks of the Future | Featured Story

10/29/2018
A total of 30 undergraduate and graduate students and postdoctoral researchers from colleges across the campus competed during the first Future Pack Design Challenge, held at the new Fabric Discovery Center.
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Researchers Seek to Extend Lifespan of New England’s Roads and Bridges

Researchers Seek to Extend Lifespan of New England’s Roads and Bridges | Featured Story

10/19/2018
The U.S. Department of Transportation recently awarded a five-year, $14 million grant to a partnership of faculty and student researchers from UMass Lowell and other universities in New England to create a regional Transportation Infrastructure Durability Center.
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Researchers to Develop Renewable Fuel Additives from Sawdust

Researchers to Develop Renewable Fuel Additives from Sawdust | Featured Story

9/28/2018
The U.S. Department of Energy has awarded a $1 million grant to a team of researchers led by UMass Lowell to develop renewable fuel additives made from sawdust from sawmills.
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Alumni Help Feed Dell’s Employee Supply Chain

Alumni Help Feed Dell’s Employee Supply Chain | Featured Story

9/18/2018
Business grad Mai Pham and engineering alum Nabil Saleh, who both landed jobs at Dell Technologies after graduation, returned to campus to tell students about opportunities in the field of supply chain operations.
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Everything is New Again at Dandeneau Hall

Everything is New Again at Dandeneau Hall | Featured Story

8/23/2018
The Mechanical Engineering and Computer Science departments have moved to a remodeled (and renamed) Dandeneau Hall – one of Facilities Management’s several major renovation projects this summer.
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On-RAMP Summer Camp Supports Women Engineering Students

On-RAMP Summer Camp Supports Women Engineering Students | Featured Story

7/26/2018
The new RAMP summer camp for incoming women engineering students aims to build their skills and connect them with future mentors so they stay the course. The first-year students say it’s boosting their confidence – and helping them make friends.
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UML, Girls Inc. STEM Tide on Science Gender Gap

UML, Girls Inc. STEM Tide on Science Gender Gap | In The News

5/18/2018
Lowell Sun

UMass Lowell seniors Benjamin Tran, 21, and senior Katie Elwell, 22, of Tewksbury, created a wind turbine component of the renewable energy "traveling classroom" for their mechanical engineering capstone.
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‘Invitation to Innovation’ Celebrates Student Ingenuity, Imagination

‘Invitation to Innovation’ Celebrates Student Ingenuity, Imagination | Featured Story

5/11/2018
Invitation to Innovation, which was held May 4 at the Tsongas Center, was attended by more than 2,000 schoolchildren, educators and community and corporate partners.
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Students Win NSF Graduate Research Fellowships

Students Win NSF Graduate Research Fellowships | Featured Story

5/5/2018
Mechanical engineering senior Deborah Fowler and chemical engineering senior Erin Shaughnessey have each won a 2018 Graduate Research Fellowship Program award from the National Science Foundation.
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Engineering Students All About (Energy) Efficiency

Engineering Students All About (Energy) Efficiency | Featured Story

3/7/2018
Mechanical engineer students, led by senior lecturer Michele Putko, are helping improve energy efficiency at the Lowell Transitional Living Center through an independent study project funded by a mini-grant from the university’s Sustainability Encouragement & Enrichment Development (S.E.E.D.) Fund.
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Students Pedal a Uni-que Way to Get Around Campus

Students Pedal a Uni-que Way to Get Around Campus | Featured Story

11/20/2017
Evan Jones and Andrew Terrill, both freshmen in the Francis College of Engineering, turn heads and draw smiles by riding unicycles to get around campus.
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Student Researchers Win Tech Hackathons at MIT

Student Researchers Win Tech Hackathons at MIT | Featured Story

10/24/2017
Two UMass Lowell graduate students were part of the teams that recently won top prizes at two “hackathons” organized by MIT, the U.S. Department of Defense MD5 program and the Naval Postgraduate School.
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Asst. Prof. Wins Grant to Study Gender in Engineering Workplaces

Asst. Prof. Wins Grant to Study Gender in Engineering Workplaces | Featured Story

10/23/2017
Asst. Prof. Kacey Beddoes has won a prestigious National Science Foundation grant to investigate how gender affects the workplace experiences of new engineers.
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Researchers to Develop Sensing Fabrics for Monitoring Civil Infrastructures

Researchers to Develop Sensing Fabrics for Monitoring Civil Infrastructures | Featured Story

9/28/2017
UMass Lowell engineers are creating new, cost-effective sensor-laden textiles that can be used to monitor the structural health of vital infrastructures across the country.
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UML Nanomanufacturing Center and Raytheon Partner on Flexible Hybrid Electronics Manufacturing

UML Nanomanufacturing Center and Raytheon Partner on Flexible Hybrid Electronics Manufacturing | Featured Story

9/19/2017
NextFlex has awarded three projects with a total contract value of $4.4 million to researchers from the UMass Lowell Nanomanufacturing Center, defense contractor Raytheon IDS and SI2 Technologies.
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UML and Raytheon Partner on Flexible Hybrid Electronics Manufacturing

UML and Raytheon Partner on Flexible Hybrid Electronics Manufacturing | Featured Story

9/19/2017
NextFlex has awarded three grants of more than $4 million to teams of researchers from the UMass Lowell Nanomanufacturing Center and defense contractor Raytheon IDS.
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Emerging Energy Initiative Gets a Boost from President’s Office

Emerging Energy Initiative Gets a Boost from President’s Office | Featured Story

6/1/2017
UMass Lowell’s role as a leader in the emerging energy industry got a lift from a recent $95,000 grant from the UMass President’s Science & Technology (S&T) Initiatives Fund.
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New Research Center to Study Biomechanics of Aging

New Research Center to Study Biomechanics of Aging | Featured Story

5/31/2017
A new UMass systemwide research center, launched with a $25,000 grant by the UMass President’s Science & Technology Initiatives Fund, will study the science of how bone and muscle systems work under different conditions.
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Perry, Pasteur Overhauls Begin This Summer

Perry, Pasteur Overhauls Begin This Summer | Featured Story

5/22/2017
The university’s construction projects are kicking into high gear this summer, from the renovations of Perry and Pasteur halls to the completion of the new Fox Hall elevators and Haverhill satellite campus.
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Student Work in the Spotlight at Innovation Showcase

Student Work in the Spotlight at Innovation Showcase | Featured Story

5/18/2017
The university’s first-ever Invitation to Innovation (i2i) event drew a crowd of more than 1,000 to see student projects, research and products coming out of the university’s labs and classrooms.
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Faculty Researchers Awarded $75K to Help Commercialize New Technologies

Faculty Researchers Awarded $75K to Help Commercialize New Technologies | Featured Story

5/18/2017
The UMass President’s Office recently awarded a total of $75,000 to three teams of UMass Lowell faculty researchers to develop new technologies aimed at detecting cancer, improving the cost and quality of plastic products and creating highly stable battery power supplies.
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Student Speakers to Address Thousands of Proud Grads

Student Speakers to Address Thousands of Proud Grads | Featured Story

5/9/2017
The two students, one undergraduate and one graduate, selected by a panel of administrators to deliver speeches at Commencement won the honor through hard work and inspirational messages.
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State Awards $130K to Professors for Clean Energy Research

State Awards $130K to Professors for Clean Energy Research | Featured Story

4/26/2017
Physics Asst. Prof. Wei Guo and mechanical engineering Assoc. Prof. Fuqiang Liu are among seven early-stage researchers recently awarded funding through the Massachusetts Clean Energy Center (MassCEC) Catalyst Program to develop promising products and technologies in the fields of clean energy and clean water.
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High Tech Meets High Heels for Engineering Alum

High Tech Meets High Heels for Engineering Alum | Featured Story

4/11/2017
Mechanical engineering alum Marcelle Durrenberger ’16 is working with rocket scientists at Los Angeles “fashion-tech design house” to revolutionize the high-heel shoe.
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New Honors Class Develops a Mindset for Adventure

New Honors Class Develops a Mindset for Adventure | Featured Story

3/17/2017
Honors students are learning about the hero’s quest in a new film and literature class, A Call to Adventure, and preparing to become the heroes of their own adventurous lives.
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New vLabs:Engineering a ‘Game-Changer’ for Students

New vLabs:Engineering a ‘Game-Changer’ for Students | Featured Story

1/4/2017
With the groundbreaking vLabs:Engineering project, students can access the university’s full suite of graphics-intensive engineering software from any internet-connected device, even their phones.
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Engineering Students Talk Science with Lowell Schoolchildren

Engineering Students Talk Science with Lowell Schoolchildren | Featured Story

12/16/2016
Mechanical engineering students visited Lowell middle schools and after-school programs to get kids excited about science. It was a service-learning project that was part of a required course, Materials Science for Engineers.
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Students Help Boy’s Hoop Dream Come True

Students Help Boy’s Hoop Dream Come True | Featured Story

11/10/2016
Students from the eNABLE Lowell group fitted 8-year-old Liam Haggerty with a custom-made artificial hand at the South Campus basketball court.
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Professor Engineers Life-Saving Heart Valve Replacement

Professor Engineers Life-Saving Heart Valve Replacement | Featured Story

11/2/2016
Mechanical Engineering Asst. Prof. Scott Stapleton and research collaborators are developing tissue-engineered heart valves that can be implanted in a less invasive procedure that can cut the cost of the operation and the patient’s hospital recovery time, especially for the young and elderly.
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Student Designs System for Total Hip Replacement

Student Designs System for Total Hip Replacement | Featured Story

11/1/2016
Mechanical engineering Ph.D. student Tina Dardeno ’14, who was awarded an NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Award, is developing a non-contact, non-invasive method for monitoring the insertion and seating of cementless femoral implants in real-time.
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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.
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Textiles Help Teach STEM Concepts

Textiles Help Teach STEM Concepts | Featured Story

9/2/2016
A group of psychology, math, engineering and education professors and students, working with fiber artists, are using textiles to teach STEM concepts with the hope of reducing math anxiety in girls and young women and improving learning for all.
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NASA Awards $200K to UMass Lowell to Build a Satellite

NASA Awards $200K to UMass Lowell to Build a Satellite | Press Release

8/11/2016
NASA recently awarded $200,000 to a team of UMass Lowell students to design and build a satellite the space agency hopes to launch into orbit in 2018.
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Student Team Wins Second Prize in National Wind Competition

Student Team Wins Second Prize in National Wind Competition | Featured Story

6/15/2016
A team of 16 students from the Francis College of Engineering and Manning School of Business took second place in the national Collegiate Wind Competition.
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Student Research: From Saving Endangered Sea Turtles to Diagnosing Skin Cancer

Student Research: From Saving Endangered Sea Turtles to Diagnosing Skin Cancer | Featured Story

6/13/2016
Held each spring, the Student Research and Community Engagement Symposium enables students to showcase their work through presentations to peers, faculty and guests.
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Researchers Use Solar Energy For Sustainable Fuels

Researchers Use Solar Energy For Sustainable Fuels | Featured Story

5/16/2016
Mechanical Engineering Asst. Prof. Juan Pablo Trelles is developing a new process to convert waste carbon dioxide from power plants and factories into sustainable fuels and high-value chemicals.
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Students to Launch UMass Lowell’s First Satellite

Students to Launch UMass Lowell’s First Satellite | Featured Story

5/3/2016
If everything goes as planned, in 2018 a small satellite designed and built by a team of undergraduate students will be launched into Earth orbit.
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Mathematical Modeling Helps Make Smart Weapons Smarter

Mathematical Modeling Helps Make Smart Weapons Smarter | Featured Story

4/14/2016
A team of researchers led by Prof. Peter Avitabile recently received more than $425,000 in funding from Eglin Air Force Base to help improve the efficiency of the bunker buster’s conventional fuze.
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Researcher Investigates Surface Erosion in Naval Vessel Components

Researcher Investigates Surface Erosion in Naval Vessel Components | Featured Story

4/11/2016
The Navy recently awarded Asst. Prof. Alireza V. Amirkhizi with a three-year grant totaling more than $300,000 to find the mechanisms of premature wear, damage or failure in materials exposed to cavitation conditions.
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Hawkathon: A Day (and Night) for Invention

Hawkathon: A Day (and Night) for Invention | Featured Story

3/31/2016
Nearly 100 students from across the region gathered at the Innovation Hub to bring good things to life — by hacking them.
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Researchers Harness the Power of the Sun

Researchers Harness the Power of the Sun | Featured Story

3/31/2016
Asst. Prof. Juan Pablo Trelles and his team are synthesizing sustainable fuels using solar energy and carbon dioxide as well as water or methane from natural gas.
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Student Startup Brings Phone Charging Kiosk to Campus

Student Startup Brings Phone Charging Kiosk to Campus | Featured Story

1/29/2016
Two UMass Lowell students, Felipe Nascimento and Upkar Singh, co-founded startup Veloxity, maker of the new cell phone charging kiosk located at University Crossing.
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Road Scholars: Engineering Students Intern at Tesla

Road Scholars: Engineering Students Intern at Tesla | Featured Story

1/12/2016
Three students from the Francis College of Engineering turn coveted internships at Tesla Motors in California into launching pads for young careers.
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Mass. Could Play Lead Role in Reviving Textile Industry

Mass. Could Play Lead Role in Reviving Textile Industry | In The News

12/19/2015
Boston Globe

UMass Lowell and MIT are each members of competing teams of universities, nonprofits, and businesses seeking federal money to establish a center for developing innovative technology for the nation’s textile industry.
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Natick Investigates Self-Healing Protective Clothing

Natick Investigates Self-Healing Protective Clothing | In The News

12/2/2015
Aerotech News

Researchers, at the Natick Soldier Research, Development and Engineering Center, UMass Lowell and Triton Systems Inc. are collaborating on the technical development of self-healing technologies that will be used to mend chemical-biological protective clothing.
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MassMEP, UMass Lowell Unveil New Workforce Training Program

MassMEP, UMass Lowell Unveil New Workforce Training Program | Featured Story

11/3/2015
The Massachusetts Manufacturing Extension Partnership (MassMEP) and the university recently joined forces to expand training options in advanced manufacturing in the northeastern region of the state.
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Researchers ExCEL in New Laser Technology

Researchers ExCEL in New Laser Technology | Featured Story

8/31/2015
Teams of researchers led by UMass Lowell are developing state-of-the-art “lidar” (light detection and ranging) technology to map and study the environment in unprecedented detail.
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Students Shine in National Competitions

Students Shine in National Competitions | Featured Story

8/6/2015
UMass Lowell students showcased their ingenuity and intellectual prowess by racking up numerous honors and awards in nationwide competitions this spring and summer.
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Symposium Connects Industry to Researchers

Symposium Connects Industry to Researchers | Featured Story

7/27/2015
The Toxic Use Reduction Institute hosted business leaders at its biannual Greener Materials Research Symposium and funded two UMass Lowell faculty member research projects.
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Prof gets grant to lighten NASA load

Prof gets grant to lighten NASA load | In The News

6/5/2015
Outer Business

Christopher Hansen has landed a $579 million grant from NASA to design and fabricate lightweight materials for use in construction of a variety of spacecraft.
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Mass. researcher awarded $579K to 3D-print Lego-like materials for NASA

Mass. researcher awarded $579K to 3D-print Lego-like materials for NASA | In The News

6/5/2015
3ders.org

Many experts in the field of engineering have been turning their focus towards new ways of thinking about anti-gravity manufacturing.
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Researcher to Develop Lego-like Materials for NASA

Researcher to Develop Lego-like Materials for NASA | In The News

6/4/2015
BBJ

UMass Lowell researcher Christopher Hansen has secured $579,000 in a NASA grant for his project to develop lightweight interlocking construction materials to be used to build space stations and other structures for space explorations.
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Alumni Recruit New River Hawks

Alumni Recruit New River Hawks | Featured Story

6/3/2015
The Alumni Admissions Volunteer Program connects alumni with prospective students across the world, building excitement and increasing applications.
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UMass Lowell Graduate Programs Ranked Among Best in Nation

UMass Lowell Graduate Programs Ranked Among Best in Nation | Press Release

3/10/2015
UMass Lowell's graduate programs in business, education and engineering are among the top in the nation, according to new rankings from U.S. News & World Report.
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Pats Full of Hot Air? Nope, Says Engineering Prof

Pats Full of Hot Air? Nope, Says Engineering Prof | Featured Story

1/27/2015
Experiments conducted by UMass Lowell engineering Asst. Prof. David Willis reveal plausible explanations for deflated Patriots’ footballs.

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