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UMass Lowell today announced a donation valued at $5 million from alumni Robert and Donna Manning. A new home for the university’s College of Management will be named the Robert Manning School of Business. Read the Boston Herald report here, and get the Herald if you want to read…
Read More »One of our far-flung correspondents, Ray LaPorte of Lowell and beyond, sent this phone-cam picture of a Kerouac souvenir t-shirt in a shop window in Vineyard Haven on “the Island” in the Atlantic.
Read More »UMass Lowell this week was recognized as one of the top schools in the nation for its commitment to community engagement with the announcement that UMass Lowell had been named to the President’s Higher Education Community Service Honor Roll with Distinction. The rankings are assigned by the Corporation for National…
Read More »Read all about “Porches,” the Jack Neary play coming to the UMass Lowell Inn & Conference Center in June in this news release from the UMass Lowell Public Affairs Office. This is a production of Actors, Inc., in partnership with the UMass Lowell Center for Arts and Ideas. Jack Neary of…
Read More »Read the latest movie gossip about the adaptation of Jack Kerouac’s novel “On the Road” from indiewire.com
Read More »This is a baseball card that I never owned. Somehow, this one never showed up in a five-cent package of cards when I was 11 years old. The 1965 Topps baseball card series is my favorite for several reasons : the Red Sox line-up of heroes of that time, the design,…
Read More »Web photo courtesy of bbc.co.uk bbc.co.uk today reports that Bob Dylan via his website has responded to critics who claim he submitted to Chinese political censors’ demands and sent authorities the list of songs he planned to play on a recent visit there. Dylan stated that he played everything he…
Read More »“National Recognition for the Work of Lowell’s Revolving Museum” “Lowell’s Revolving Museum learned on May 10, 2011, that it was selected as a National Arts and Humanities Youth Program Award national finalist by the President’s Committee on the Arts and the Humanities. The Revolving Museum was named one of fifty finalists…
Read More »The final poetry event for National Poetry Month at UMass Lowell is set for Thursday, April 28, at 7 pm, when Lowell native Michael Casey and Nicholas Samaras, with family ties in Lowell, read at O’Leary Library Auditorium, 61 Wilder St, UML South Campus. The event is free and open…
Read More »The Associated Press and boston.com report that a team of UMass Lowell students won one of only six national grants from the US Environmental Protection Agency for a project aimed at improving environmental quality. A team of students at the school has set a goal to develop a new class of non-halogenated flame…
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