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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 »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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Read More »Seen here in Jezebel (1938), Davis’s second Academy Award-winning performance On this day April 5, 1908 – Ruth Elizabeth Davis, known from early childhood as “Betty”, was born in Lowell, Massachusetts, the daughter of Ruth Augusta “Ruthie” (née Favor) and Harlow Morrell Davis, a patent attorney. The family was Protestant, of English,…
Read More »The historically minded among you might want to mark a couple of upcoming events on your calendars. On Sunday, April 15, 2012 at 2 pm at the Patrick J. Mogan Cultural Center at 40 French Street in Lowell, I will give a talk on Lowell and the coming of the…
Read More »Many are familiar with the Bread and Roses Strike which took place in Lawrence and which celebrates its centennial this year. What is not so well known is that the Lawrence action led to other strikes, one of which occurred in Lowell that same year. Next Tuesday, April 10, 2012…
Read More »Its opening day for the Boston Red Sox. Here is a video posted by watchmojo detailing the history of “opening day”…kind of.
Read More »A reminder from our friends at the Pollard Memorial Library blog that volunteers will be ready, willing and able to accept dropped-off donations for the Spring Book Sale this Saturday April 7, 2012 at the Lowell Senior Center at Broadway and Fletcher Streets.: Friends Book Donation Drop Off 9am-12noon This Saturday…
Read More »When Charles Dickens came to America in 1842, one of his goals was to promote copyright laws as a way of protecting the creative product of artists, writers and musicians. This Thursday night (April 5 at 7 pm) at UMass Lowell’s O’Leary Library auditorium, Room 222, 61 Wilder Street, UMass…
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