UMass Lowell News

Environmental labeling group EcoLogo is working on a program to certify the environmental friendliness of toys, which have been in the headlines for all the wrong reasons in recent years, especially over lead content levels.

Pablo Garcia describes himself as a hard worker and has the broad shoulders and thickly muscled arms to prove it.

The University of Massachusetts Lowell has landed $2.4 million from the National Science Foundation to teach science and engineering graduate students how to communicate about research to local high schools.

Charles J. Ogonowski has been commissioned as a second lieutenant in the U.S. Air Force after completing the Air Force ROTC program and graduating with a bachelor's degree from the University of Massachusetts, Lowell.

Outsourcing chores by hiring a cleaning service or personal assistant might sound like the kind of splurge that a recession-era budget would quickly eliminate.

Westford's Patti Mason, director of development and special programs for the town's Roundenbush Community Center, is retiring after 25 years.

The only ripples seen on Monday at the state-run pool on the North Common in Lowell were those created by raindrops.

An agency at University of Massachusetts Lowell, part of a state-mandated program that has reduced the use of hazardous materials by local manufacturers by more than 40 percent over the past two decades, has lost its funding, the Boston Globe reports.

Boston may be known as the Hub of the Universe, but ask Martha Mayo where the real center of the universe is and she will not hesitate -- Lowell.

This Saturday's Trash for Cash scavenger hunt on the Merrimack River in Lowell has been postponed to July 11, because the river is too high from all the rain, said Rocky Morrison, president of the Methuen-based Clean River Project.

Like many Springfield residents, Vera O'Connor wasn't about to roll out the welcome mat for a state-controlled board that had been sent to manage the affairs of the debt-ridden, scandal-plagued city.

Lydall Affinity, a division of Lydall, Inc. based in Ossipee, NH, has announced that Bill Hume has recently joined the Company as General Manager, and Bob Sandberg has joined the Company as Director of Sales, Marketing and Service.

Notre Dame assistant Sean Kearney, former Boston University coach Dennis Wolff and UMass-Lowell coach Greg Herenda - a former Holy Cross assistant under George Blaney - have all interviewed with AD Dick Regan for the head coaching vacancy at that Patriot League program.

Ed Saindon is a product of the rock 'n' roll revolution, but he never expected to make a living making music.

Here are some of the $46 million in grants and tax incentives issued by Massachusetts as part of the $1 billion, 10-year life science initiative signed by Gov.

Alumni of the University of Massachusetts at Lowell will honor five of its veteran faculty members during NPE2009 and the Antec conference, during a reception and dinner at Alhambra Palace Restaurant in Chicago.

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Metal Fatigue: American Bosch and the Demise of Metalworking in the Connecticut River Valley.

The news of UMass Lowell's signed agreement with owners of the DoubleTree Hotel to buy the 252-room venue for $15 million is positive news for downtown Lowell at a time when there are concerns regarding the School Department's leaving the Bon Marche building.

The Massachusetts Center for the Book has announced the winners of this year's state Letters about Literature program.