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Prof. Margaret Knight, UMass Lowell The hugely successful Lunchtime Lectures series at the UMass Lowell Inn & Conference Center resumes on Monday, March 28, at 12 noon, with Prof. Margaret Knight of the UMass Lowell Dept. of Nursing taking a close look at “Diversity in Health Care Professions,” an important topic…
Read More »Who says most people don’t care about History? In France, there’s a public argument going on about President Sarkozy’s proposal to create a new museum about his nation’s history. The crux of the debate seems to be a struggle over the story line. Read about it in the NYTimes here,…
Read More »Last August a team of archaeologists from Queen’s University, Belfast, Northern Ireland, traveled to Lowell and joined with a group of students from UMass Lowell to conduct an excavation in front of St Patrick’s Church. The purpose of the dig was to search for artifacts left by the city’s earliest…
Read More »Here is a view of the Concord River in Lowell as melting snow begins to have an effect. video originally posted by leftbankofthecharles
Read More »Yesterday’s Lowell Sun editorial reminds us that with the new judicial center on schedule, the current superior courthouse, located at 360 Gorham Street near the end of the Lowell Connector, will eventually be vacated. The state has invested substantial amounts of money in the building over the past decade, replacing…
Read More »City Manager Bernie Lynch weighed in at Gerry Nutter’s place on the news about disruptive and worse behavior by some members of the public in the Pollard Memorial Library. The Library is like an indoor common, open to all, which means the world walks in the door, sometimes acting in ways that…
Read More »Although the weather might suggest otherwise, Tony Sampas reminds us that baseball in Lowell is not far away.
Read More »Columnist David Brooks of the NYTimes today puts on his social psychology hat and a couple of other disciplinary caps to make an opening argument for something that he calls “The New Humanism.” He wants us to start thinking and acting differently in order to make better decisions for ourselves and…
Read More »The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. The process for deciding and ratifying former Blue Cross/Blue Shield CEO Cleve Killingsworth’s exorbitant severance package seems to reflect what happens when movers and shakers in any sector get too comfortable with each other. We saw it on…
Read More »The folks at Image Theater sent along the following information about FemNoire: The Festival of Women Playwrights” which will be performed this coming Friday and Saturday (March 11 and 12) at the ALL Gallery, 22 Shattuck Street, Lowell: Lowell’s Image Theater proudly presents the festival for women playwrights: Femnoire… two…
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