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21 hrs ago | Lowell Sun

Konarka opens its New Bedford facility

Konarka Technologies Inc., a startup that develops thin-film solar materials, announced last week that it opened its new 250,000-square-foot manufacturing facility in New Bedford.

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Related Topix: Manufacturing, Boston Metro, Beacon Power, Electronics, Energy

Sun Oct 12, 2008

Lowell Sun

Read and relax

Seeking stress relief in these troubled times? Pick up a book and read. While it won't guarantee a stock market rebound or aid your 401K, it will help you escape, at least for awhile, said a psychiatrist on a ...

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Related Topix: Boston Metro, Boston, MA Metro, Nonfiction, Arts

Fri Oct 10, 2008

Lowell Sun

Solar car firm eyes Lowell

Imagine driving a car with zero emissions -- one that relies on free, renewable energy, and costs an average of less than two cents per mile to operate -- being built by hundreds of workers, right here in ...

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Related Topix: Electric Vehicle, Lowell, MA, Alternative Energy, Science / Technology, Renewable Energy (Green Energy), Energy

Shirley Oracle

UMass dean's list

The following students were named to the dean's list at the University of Massachusetts Lowell for the spring semester 2008.

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Related Topix: Ayer, MA, UMass Amherst

Thu Oct 09, 2008

CIOL

Konarka opens largest roll-to-roll thin film solar facility

Former Polaroid facility prepares Konarka for large scale production of Power Plastic thin film photovoltaics Wednesday, October 08, 2008 LOWELL, USA: Konarka Technologies Inc.

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Related Topix: Massachusetts, Bedford, MA, New Bedford Metro, New Bedford, MA, Science / Technology, Alternative Energy

Tue Oct 07, 2008

SouthCoastToday.com

Solar power firm has big plans for old Polaroid plant

A company that manufactures a thin-film solar material cut ribbon Tuesday to mark its move into the former Polaroid building in the New Bedford Business Park as state and local officials touted the potential ...

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Related Topix: Solar Energy, Science / Technology, Renewable Energy (Green Energy), Energy, Alternative Energy, New Bedford, MA, US News, US House of Representatives, Barney Frank, Democrat, US Politics, Department of Energy

Market Wire

Emportal Appoints Senior Executive to Head Development

Uniting the way business works with the way people work, Emportal today announced that Chris Bavelock, a software engineering management professional with 25 years' experience, has joined the company as vice ...

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Related Topix: Science, Computer Science

Mon Oct 06, 2008

Nurse.com

Grant Brings Diversity to Nursing

The University of Massachusetts Lowell's department of nursing was recently awarded a three-year HRSA grant to recruit, retain and graduate minority and disadvantaged students in the Lawrence and Lowell, Mass., ...

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Related Topix: Boston Metro, Lowell, MA Metro, Education Etc.

Lowell Sun

Body found near UML identified

The body of a man found Saturday along the Merrimack River near the University Avenue Bridge has been identified as Edward Regan, 54, formerly of Dracut.

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Related Topix: Dracut, MA, Lowell, MA

Sat Oct 04, 2008

Lowell Sun

Police probe dead body discovered in Lowell

A group of University of Massachusetts Lowell students found a man dead along the banks of the Merrimack river about 4 p.m. Saturday.

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Related Topix: Lowell, MA

Fri Oct 03, 2008

Lowell Sun

Meehan lauded as 'bridge-builder' between U.S., Ireland

UMass Lowell Chancellor Marty Meehan was honored as a bridge-builder between Ireland and the U.S. yesterday in Boston by The Irish Echo, a New York-based Irish American newspaper.

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Related Topix: Lowell, MA, Dropkick Murphys, Punk

Wed Oct 01, 2008

Today's Chemist At Work

Nanoemulsion Preparations of the Anticancer Drug Dacarbazine...

Srikanth Kakumanu , †‡ and Robert J. Nicolosi *† Center for Health and Disease Research and the Biomedical Engineering/Biotechnology Program, University of Massachusetts Lowell, Lowell, ...

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Related Topix: DTIC-Dome, Dacarbazine (generic), Medicine, Medication, Lowell, MA Metro

Tue Sep 30, 2008

Today's Chemist At Work

Microwave, Photo- and Thermally Responsive PNIPAmaS'Gold Nanoparticle Microgels

Bridgette M. Budhlall , *†‡§ Manuel Marquez , § and Orlin D. Velev *‡ NSF funded Center for High-Rate Nanomanufacturing and Nanomanufacturing Center of Excellence, Department of ...

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Related Topix: Lowell, MA, North Carolina State University

Sun Sep 28, 2008

EagleTribune.com, North Andover, MA

Bioreactor at UMass Lowell will help industry, students

Wyeth Biotech of Andover and three other Merrimack Valley life sciences companies recently donated $600,000 worth of equipment, manpower and expertise to UMass Lowell for a new biomanufacturing pilot plant.

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Related Topix: Biotech, Science / Technology

Sat Sep 27, 2008

Lowell Sun

UMass Lowell grad re-elected chairman of college's trustees

Robert Manning, a 1984 graduate of UMass Lowell, was re-elected chairman of the University of Massachusetts board of trustees yesterday.

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Related Topix: UMass Boston, US Politics, US News, Mitt Romney, Boston Metro, 2008 Presidential Election

Fri Sep 26, 2008

Lowell Sun

Economic crisis will loom large -- if candidates take stage

Sen. Barack Obama walks to his office on Capitol Hill yesterday before taking part in a White House meeting on the financial crisis with President Bush, Sen.

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Related Topix: University of Mississippi, US Politics, US News, Barack Obama, John McCain, George Bush

Wed Sep 24, 2008

Lowell Sun

UML's a star

Thanks to Edwin Aguirre and Imelda Joson, Umasslowell rocketed into a lofty orbit last month.

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Related Topix: Boston Metro, Astronomy, Science

Tue Sep 23, 2008

Mass High Tech

UMass Lowell opens biomanufacturing plant

Invensys Process Systems , Wyeth Biotech , Dakota Systems Inc. and Millipore Corp.

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Related Topix: Scientific Instruments, Millipore Corporation, Environmental, Massachusetts

The Valley Patriot

Lawrence, UMASS Lowell partner for 2.7mil worker safety program

Lawrence, UMass Lowell partner for $2.7 Million Worker Safety Program The City of Lawrence and UMass Lowell officials last month announced $2.7 million in federal funding has been received to launch a new ...

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Related Topix: Boston Metro, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

Mon Sep 22, 2008

Cw56.com

MCAS critics renew call for abolition of test

Dozens of education professors in the state's public college system are calling on Gov.

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