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R & D Hub

In all the good words spread around last Thursday at the announcement of the forthcoming UMass Lowell Innovation Hub in the 110 Canal St. building, formerly Freudenberg Nonwovens, this  statement by Mayor Rodney Elliot resonated strongly for me because it had a familiar theme: “The location of UMass Lowell’s Innovation…

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South Common, June 1944

An image from Lowell High School Field Day in June 1944 contributed by Eleanor Sullivan at a Mass. Memories Road Show event at the Boott Cotton Mills Museum of Lowell National Historical Park. The photo was published by the University Archives and Special Collections at UMass Boston, and can be…

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Dennis Lehane Making Sense

“As a country, we used to respect knowledge that was earned over knowledge that was cherry picked.” —Dennis Lehane, Boston Globe,4/1/9/14 In today’s Boston Globe, author Dennis Lehane thinks aloud about the Boston Marathon Bombing, knowledge vs. opinion, intellectual relativism, bad narratives, and his belief that good ideas will prevail.…

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