Sound recording engineer Jamie Tagg of Nashua, N.H., a graduate student in UMass Lowell’s Music Dept., has been nominated for two Grammy awards for his work on recordings by Seraphic Fire, a Florida-based singing group. Read more about the Syracuse, N.Y, native at syracuse.com Gabrielle Tinto and Jamie Tagg sometimes would stand shoulder…
Watch the Nobel Peace Prize ceremony live on Saturday, Dec. 10, from Oslo, Norway, where Leymah Gbowee will accept the Peace Prize jointly with Ellen Johnson Sirleaf and Tawakkol Karman. See the ceremony at www.nobelprize.org
The latest UMass Lowell-Boston Herald poll on the Mass. U.S. Senate race shows Elizabeth Warren leading Scott Brown 49-42. At this moment the poll is the home-page top story on huffingtonpost.com. The election polling is a project of the UMass Lowell Center for Public Opinion in collaboration with the Herald. Here’s the poll…
Billy Joel at UMass Lowell’s Durgin Concert Hall tonight for a conversation about the art and business of Music, with a few songs dropped in. This is a university-only event at the request of the Piano Man. He does these college visits once in a while as a way to…
FROM UMASS LOWELL PUBLIC AFFAIRS OFFICE AND CENTER FOR PUBLIC OPINION 11/06/2011 By Christine Gillette, (w) 978-934-2209, (c) 978-758-4664, Christine_Gillette@uml.edu If you have trouble viewing the charts in this release, please e-mail Christine_Gillette@uml.edu. Nov. 6, 2011 Backers of Opposing Groups Largely Share Dislike of Government, Corporations; UMass Lowell Holds Forum…
The argument for saving primary materials such as notebooks is strengthened by recent news that an old notebook in the archives of Choate prep school confirms the source for what may be the most famous quotation associated with President John F. Kennedy. Associated Press reporter Michael Melia in a boston.com…
nytimes.com is previewing a profile in the paper’s upcoming Sunday Magazine of author, comic strip artist and teacher Lynda Barry, who spent three days in Lowell this week as the first artist-in-residence of the UMass Lowell Center for Arts and Ideas (see earlier post below). Read Dan Kois’s magazine article here, and…
Advance interest is high for the upcoming Lunchtime Lecture at the UMass Lowell Inn & Conference Center on the topic of the 2012 Presidential primaries and caucuses. Seating is limited to 100, but a few spaces are available. UMass Lowell Chancellor Martin T. Meehan will moderate a panel discussion with journalists…
For the past three days, UMass Lowell’s Center for Arts and Ideas hosted its first visiting artist, Lynda Barry, an award-winning author, comic strip artist, painter, and teacher. She met with students in their classes, gave a talk to a standing-room-only sized audience in O’Leary Library, and taught a workshop about stories and…
Web photo by Jim Bishop, courtesy of Eastern Mennonite University. Winning the Nobel Peace Prize is a big deal. When I learned this morning that Leymah Gbowee of Liberia, now Ghana, had been awarded the Prize in a three-way share with two other women, the President of Liberia and a democracy…