Book Launch: From Critical Science to Solutions: The Best of Scientific Solutions Monday, September 26, 4:00 pm, at the Allen House, South Campus, UMass Lowell Richard Clapp edited the book, which is a selection of New Solutions articles published over the past two decades—articles by scholars and staff from UMass…
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The Boston Globe’s Katheleen Conti writes today about the efforts of Lowell High School senior Susan Le and her cohorts to lower the voting age in the city’s local elections to 17. Le, a local youth organization UTEC (United Teen Equality Center) and a cadre of supporters persuaded councilors to…
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In The Chronicle of Higher Education, Kenneth Goldsmith explores the way writing in the digital age is becoming something different. If you skim down toward the end, he offers some surprising examples of what people are “writing” and publishing. For those not familiar with it, the Chronicle is the mainstream…
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I almost can’t believe we have to read this kind of commentary, but it would not be responsible to let it go as if politics is some kind of harmless joke. Maureen Dowd spells it out in her latest opinion column when warning about the worst of what the Republican…
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“Cake and Tea” by Richard Marion (c) 2011 See more artwork at www.richardmarion.net
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Leymah Gbowee, 2011 UMass Lowell Greeley Peace Scholar (web photo by Chester Higgins Jr. courtesy of nytimes.com) Page one of “The Arts” in today’s New York Times includes Julie Bosman’s article about the upcoming book tour by Liberian peace activist Leymah Gbowee, the 2011 UMass Lowell Greeley Scholar for Peace…
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Lowell Buick Company – photos by Tony Sampas
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For those watching the housing market closely as builders, buyers, lenders, sellers, owners, or from any other perspective, please note that one of the nation’s top experts in the housing market, Karl “Chip” Case of the Case-Shiller Index, will be featured at the opening program of the Lunchtime Lectures series…
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Next Thursday night, September 22 at 7:00 pm, at the Pollard Memorial Library, historian Chaim “Mike” Rosenberg, will discuss his book, The Life and Times of Francis Cabot Lowell, 1775-1817 as part of the Moses Greeley Parker Lectures. Last winter, shortly after the publication of this book, I traveled to…
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