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Read More »Archive for April 6th, 2012
John Prendergast, UMass Lowell Greeley Peace Scholar, 4/9
John Prendergast meeting in South Sudan during the Southern Sudanese independence referendum, 2011 with President Jimmy Carter, 7th Secretary-General of the United Nations Kofi Annan and George Clooney (web photo courtesy of wikipedia.com) John Prendergast of the Enough Project is the 2012 UMass Lowell Greeley Scholar for Peace Studies. He has two…
Read More »The US Constitution and Slavery
In this week’s Local History article on the Howl in Lowell website, I write about the Three-Fifths Compromise in the US Constitution, the section of that document that tacitly acknowledged the existence of slavery without ever mentioning that word. While standing firm in opposition to slavery in 1787 may have…
Read More »UMass Lowell Robotic’s Lab
Here is another video excellent from the UMass Lowell Robotic’s Lab. This video is an overview of the UMass Lowell Robotics Lab’s research, including our work with multi-touch devices for robot control, telepresence, combining art and robotics, and student projects from undergraduate and graduate students.
Read More »Charging Tim Cahill: too much or about time? by Marjorie Arons-Barron
The entry beow is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. Most attorneys general don’t go after political corruption because acting against colleagues can translate into a dead end politically. But Martha Coakley has a new Public Integrity Division, a welcome addition. And she has the new 2009 ethics…
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