UMass Lowell News

They could have held the office Christmas party outdoors yesterday. After a rainy start, the temperature had reached 70 degrees by noontime in some locations.

An innovative approach to reducing toxic-chemical use scrambles to stay alive as big science prospers, says Daniel Sarewitz.

Students at the University of Massachusetts, Lowell have come up with a low cost robot arm that was specially designed to open doors.

The Lowell Center for Sustainable Production at the University of Massachusetts Lowell released a new report and case studies recently describing how three leading companies - Nike, Hewlett-Packard and SC Johnson - are working to reduce their chemical impact while innovating safer products.

I erred in a recent column in saying that moves in W.Va. and other states to abolish strip mining came to naught a generation ago, according to Chad Montrie, a history professor at the University of Massachusetts-Lowell. "People came really close to abolishing all strip mining," Montrie recently told a reporter.

Incubated by a team of scientists in a UMass Lowell chemistry lab, the seeds for Konarka Technologies were planted in Massachusetts.

A Methuen teenager faces additional charges for allegedly leaving the scene of an accident that seriously injured a 12-year-old boy, police said yesterday.

Former UMass Lowell researcher Erin Rapacki has developed a robotic hand to help people in wheelchairs open doors.

UMass Lowell has hired a 38-year-old high-school athletic director who is well-versed in arena management to oversee its newest real-estate holding -- the Tsongas Arena.

OPENING a door is trickier for robots than you might expect, but a gripper designed to help wheelchair users seems to have cracked the problem.

Presuming that many readers of LiL and any other local blog, Professor Bob Forrant needs no introduction.

For Jeanne Gunion, it all started with the midweek bridge game she taught at the Chelmsford Senior Center.

A lucrative contract extension for Suffolk University President David Sargent has critics pointing to the small, Beacon Hill institution as an example of the excess in private higher education.

The driver suspected in Monday's hit-and-run accident in Lowell could be facing numerous charges.

Boston comedian and former Tyngsboro resident Kevin Knox died Monday at Brigham & Women's Hospital after a six-year battle with cancer.

Police have found the car they believe struck and critically injured a 12-year-old boy in a hit-and-run accident on Wednesday afternoon.

Happy Thursday! President Obama has tapped several well-known names to serve on the Broadcasting Board of Governors , including a few journalism veterans and a former Bush administration official.

Contact Laura Barnes with questions, comments, and suggestions. November 17, 2009 States, Academics, and Industry to Collaborate and Promote Safer Products: New Report Outlines Framework for Green Chemisty and Design of Environment Read the full press release .

Do good and you will do well. Many tech companies have been following this practice by being good corporate citizens in the education arena.

Currently, the activity level of H1N1 is widespread across Massachusetts, including Lowell.