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Higher education is the life’s blood of the economy in Massachusetts, so it’s no surprise that stories about searches, salaries, rankings and more are constantly in the news. While much of the focus lately seems to be on replacing the presidents at the University of Massachusetts, Suffolk University and the…
Read More »The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. By all accounts, Marty Meehan has done a terrific job at UMass Lowell, expanding the campus, lifting academic standards, sharpening connections with the business community, raising funds and enhancing the overall brand of the university. Not surprising then…
Read More »This video from dteubner is of Chelmsford High School’s 1980 graduating class reunion. Do you see anyone you know? Here is the video poster’s description… Here we are at the Chelmsford High School 30th reunion. We’re the class of 1980. Video excerpts from the November 26, 2010 event held at…
Read More »This is an interesting amateur video from jphauker92 who is enjoying some of the simple sights and sounds in his Lowell neighborhood.
Read More »The scoopers at the Boston Herald’s InsideTrack are speculating this morning that UMass Lowell Chancellor Marty Meehan may have re-set his sites on a university presidency – this time it’s Suffolk University. Meehan who took himself off the list of candidates for the UMass presidency fanned the flames of the Suffolk…
Read More »Who says there’s nothing new under the sun? Or should I say nothing new about what we think we know under the sun? Remember when Carl Sagan used to say “billions and billions” in his unmistakable voice? Scientists from Yale and Harvard now say there are three times as many…
Read More »Katrina vanden Heuvel, editor of The Nation, this week wrote about wealthy Americans who are saying they are more than willing to pay their fair share of taxes, and a little more if needed. Read her column in The Washington Post here, and get The Nation if you want more. I picked…
Read More »By the fall of 1864, Union commander Ulysses Grant had concluded that the surest way to end the Civil War was to decisively defeat the Confederate army of Robert E. Lee and the surest way to do that was to continue to drive on Richmond, the capital of the Confederacy.…
Read More »John Edward, a resident of Chelmsford who earned his master’s degree at UMass Lowell and is an adjunct professor of economics at Bentley University, contributes the following column which deserves to be read by everyone. ————————————- Where ignorance is bliss, ‘Tis folly to be wise Thomas Gray If ignorance is…
Read More »This poem dates from December 1977 and was reprinted in my recent book What Is the City? At the time I wrote this I was trying different forms for my poems and pushing myself to write in a more open way with lots of unusual images and unexpected language. The original…
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