AMHERST -- June 17, 2015:UMass Trustees today voted to create a Search Committee to assist in the process of selecting a successor to UMass Lowell Chancellor Marty Meehan, who will become president…, Co Chairman:R. Norman Peters, Member of the UMass Board of Trustees and founding partner of Peters &Sowyrda, Co Chairman:JohnPulichino'67, '14 (H), Chairman and CEO, Group III International Ltd., Lisa Abdallah, Chairwoman and associate professor, School of Nursing, UMass Lowell, Lawrence Carpman, Member of the UMass Board of Trustees and Partner, Northwind Strategies, Michael Carter, Chairman and associate professor, Department of Economics, and president of the Faculty Senate, UMass Lowell, Julie Chen, Vice provost for research, UMass Lowell, James Christopher, UMass Lowell Student Government Association president, Jerry Colella '78, President and CEO, MKS Instruments, Nancy Donahue '13 (H), Community leader and co-founder of Merrimack Repertory Theatre, Robert Giles, Professor of physics and director, Submillimeter Wave Technology Lab, UMass Lowell, Anita Greenwood, Dean of the Graduate School of Education, UMass Lowell, Charlie Hoff '66, '04 (H), Chairman, The Hoff Foundation Inc., John F. Kennedy '70, Former president and CFO, Nova Ventures Corp., Margaret Koziel, Assistant vice provost of clinical and translational research, UMass Medical School, and co-director of the ³È×ÓÓ°Ôº Medical Device Development Center (M2D2), Scott Latham I, nterim dean of the Manning School of Business, UMass Lowell, Charlotte Mandell, Vice provost for undergraduate education, UMass Lowell, Stephen McCarthy, Professor of plastics engineering, UMass Lowell, and co-director of the ³È×ÓÓ°Ôº Medical Device Development Center (M2D2) and the Center for Irish Partnerships, Carol McDonough, Professor of economics, UMass Lowell, and president of the ³È×ÓÓ°Ôº Society of Professors Lowell, Keith Mitchell, Associate professor of English, UMass Lowell, Amanda Robinson, Student trustee-elect, UMass Lowell, Dana Skinner, UMass Lowell director of athletics, Kumble Subbaswamy, Chancellor, UMass Amherst, Marcellette Williams, UMass senior vice president for academic and student affairs and international relations, Margaret Xifaras, Member of the UMass Board of Trustees and attorney, Law Offices of Lang, Xifaras & Bullard. Contact: Jan Brogan 617-287-4027
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BOSTON - A ³È×ÓÓ°Ôº Board of Trustees committee recommended on June 10 raising tuition and the mandatory curriculum fee by up to 5 percent for in-state undergraduates, with the…, UMass Amherst: $11,684, UMass Boston: $11,886, UMass Dartmouth: $11,598, UMass Lowell: $12,252, About 20 percent of the revenue generated by the curriculum fee increase will be directed to providing financial aid to students with the most significant need. The 63 percent of in-state…
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BOSTON -- June 3, 2015: The ³È×ÓÓ°Ôº system's Here For a Reason multi-media marketing and advertising campaign today was honored with Gold and Silver medals in this year's Council…
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BOSTON - June 3, 2015: Describing faculty research and scholarship as work that "distinguishes us as a university and is essential to our quest for a better and richer future," President Robert L.…, President's Science and Technology Initiative Fund recipients:, Center for Data Science, Industrial Outreach:, Andrew McCallum and David Jensen of UMass Amherst. This award provides support to Amherst's recently announced new initiative in big data. While the campus has already made strategic investments in…, Institute for Cyber Security:, Brian Levine and Emery Berger of UMass Amherst. This award provides support to a new strategic initiative in cyber security. The Institute builds on a strong collaboration among five colleges at…, Integrating Physical Sciences and Oncology:, Vincent Rotello of UMass Amherst and Arthur Mercurio of UMass Medical. This project represents a unique combination of the physical sciences at Amherst (e.g., polymers, chemistry) with molecular…, Sustainable Seafood Collaboratory:, Robyn Hannigan of UMass Boston, with UMass Amherst, and UMass Dartmouth. This collaborative effort addresses issues in the state's marine economy about maintaining sustainable seafood, especially in…, Multi-Scale 3-D Printing:, Joey Mead of UMass Lowell, with UMass Amherst. This project involves a strong collaboration between materials and manufacturing expertise at Lowell and the e-Design group at Amherst and builds off an…, Establishing a Core Facility for Genome Engineering in Model Organisms:, Vivian Budnik and Marc Freeman of UMass Medical with UMass Amherst. This award represents the development of a new core research facility that will enable the characterization and understanding of…, Developing a Chemical Screening Initiative:, Paul Thompson, UMass Medical with UMass Amherst. This initiative focuses on accelerating the identification of small molecule targets for therapeutics by taking advantage of new advances in synthetic…, Marine Bioprospecting Initiative:, Sivappa Rasapalli and Steven Lohrenz of UMass Dartmouth with UMass Amherst, UMass Boston, UMass Lowell and UMass Medical. Planning grant for a complex, five-campus effort that is focused on…, Concussion Prevention and Diagnosis Initiative:, James Sherwood of UMass Lowell and Constance Moore of UMass Medical. This planning grant is for a multi-disciplinary initiative to improve the understanding of concussions to drive improvements in…, President's Creative Economy Initiatives Fund recipients:, Making Places Matter: Arts, Culture and Community in Holyoke, ³È×ÓÓ°Ôº., Max Page and Joseph Krupczynski, Department of Architecture, UMass Amherst. This project will create public, pop-up art in three of the most important revitalization sites in Holyoke. Award: $27,500., The Arts and Politics Project., Tanya Fernando, Department of English, Susan Jahoda, Department of Art, and Gilbert McCauley, Department of Theater, UMass Amherst. This initiative involves development of two multi-disciplinary…, Circles of Care and Native Crafts: A Culturally Focused Intervention Addressing Violence Against Native American Women., Cedric Woods, Institute for New England Native American Studies, UMass Boston. Including instruction in native crafts, as well as counseling, referral and entrepreneurship training, this project will…, From Boston to Baghdad: Healing the Wounds of War through Art, Theater, and Community Engagement., Thomas T. Kane, Director, William Joiner Institute, UMass Boston. This project will bring Iraqi and American academics together in cross-cultural literary, musical and artistic initiatives to promote…, Building Community Capacity for HIV-Positive Individuals in Southcoast, ³È×ÓÓ°Ôº: A Pathway to an Interdisciplinary Academic-Community Partnership., Caitlin Stover, College of Nursing, and Margaret Drew and Jason Potter Burda, College of Law, UMass Dartmouth. The project aims to establish multi-disciplined community partnerships to reduce…, UMass Dartmouth Grows—Southcoast Permaculture Incubator for Food Justice., Rachel Kulick and Isabel Feo Rodriquez, Department of Sociology, Anthropology, Crime & Justice Studies, and colleagues from the Departments of English and Political Science as well as the…, Re-envisioning Lawrence, MA: Youth Interpret Historic Sites and Create Community., Robert Forrant, Department of History, UMass Lowell. The proposed project, based at the Lawrence History Center, is collaboration between UMass Lowell, the Lawrence History Center, and Andover Bread…, Lowell Tex: Embracing Lowell's Cultural, Historical and Educational Assets to Create Pathways to STEM., Sarah Kuhn, Department of Psychology, and colleagues from Departments of Engineering, and Mathematics and UTeach, UMass Lowell. This highly innovative project will use the fiber arts to teach STEM (…, Lowell Earth Day Celebration 2016: Organizing a city-wide, month-long celebration of the arts, nature and sustainability., John Wooding, Department of Political Science, and many others, with multiple community partners, UMass Lowell. This project seeks to build on efforts already underway in Lowell for Earth Day 2015 to…
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BOSTON -- Martin T. Meehan, a former US congressman who became chancellor of his alma mater, UMass Lowell, and transformed it into a highly ranked national research university, was unanimously…
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BOSTON - April 30, 2015:A Search Committee today named two finalist candidates for the UMass presidency, describing both as "outstanding candidates eminently capable of leading the institution that…
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Boston, MA- March 30, 2015:The ³È×ÓÓ°Ôº today announced that it would for the second year in a row field a Boston Marathon team that will honor the memory of UMass Boston alumna…, About the Krystle Campbell Scholarship Fund, The Krystle Campbell scholarship fund is an endowed fund dedicated to the memory of Krystle Campbell, a UMass Boston graduate killed in the April 15, 2013, Boston Marathon bombing. The fund was…
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Boston, MA - April 1, 2015:The ³È×ÓÓ°Ôº announced today it will welcome Paralympian and Boston Marathon champion Dr. Cheri Blauwet to campus for a special Krystle Campbell…, About the Krystle Campbell Scholarship Fund, The Krystle Campbell scholarship fund is an endowed fund dedicated to the memory of Krystle Campbell, a UMass Boston graduate killed in the April 15, 2013, Boston Marathon bombing. The fund was…
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BOSTON - Feb. 27, 2015:The ³È×ÓÓ°Ôº Presidential Search Committee held its first meeting today and selected the international executive recruitment firm Korn Ferry to help identify…
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In recent years, the ³È×ÓÓ°Ôº has been on a roll - as evidenced by surging enrollment, increases in private and public investment, and growing recognition of its status as a…
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