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In Massachusetts, we have learned that economic strength and social vitality flow from innovation. Ours is a knowledge-based economy. As UMass SEPTEMBER 2004 DECEMBER 2004 MAY 2005 Lowell seeks to create more opportunities for people in our region and state, we Wednesday, September 8 Sunday, December 5 Sunday, May 1 focus on understanding how a particular region can renew itself — how it can Bay Area Alumni Event Comedy & Pet Theatre Smythe & Saucier in Circo Comedia Boston Red Sox vs. Oakland A’s Family Discovery Series Family Discovery Series flourish and re-flourish. Network Associates Coliseum Durgin Hall Durgin Hall Oakland, Calif. UML South UML South We believe that nanotechnology represents the best opportunity to September 18 – 27 Monday, May 2 JANUARY 2005 develop and sustain a robust segment of the area’s economy. Using materials as Alumni Campus Abroad Plastics Engineering Alumni & Friends tiny as one-billionth of a meter in size, this technology is expected to generate Sicily, Italy "50 Years of Plastics at Lowell" January 24 - February 6 Boston Copley Marriott Ballroom two million jobs worldwide and $1 trillion in economic impact by 2015. More Thursday, September 23 Alumni Campus Abroad Boston than 8,000 nanotechnology patents were awarded last year, three times the Circle of Distinction Reception South America American Textile History Museum May 31 - June 8 number in 1996. Real-world applications range from medical devices to renewable Lowell FEBRUARY 2005 Alumni Campus Abroad energy technologies. To that end, this past spring we announced that UMass Lowell would build a Ennis, Ireland Sunday, September 26 All Alumni Hockey Night nanomanufacturing research center at the Lawrence Mills site along the Merrimack River. This Beauty and the Beast Tsongas Arena JUNE 2005 enabling technology, which cuts across product sectors, offers us a chance to establish a competitive Family Discovery Series Date TBA Durgin Hall niche that capitalizes on the special strengths of the Lowell campus. UML South All Alumni Tubing Event Sunday, June 5 Nashoba Valley Ski Area Commencement We are gratified by the widespread support for our nanomanufacturing initiative to date. Gov. Westford Tsongas Arena OCTOBER 2004 Lowell Mitt Romney has proposed $19.5 million for the research center in Lowell, while the John Adams Date TBA Innovation Trust, associated with the Massachusetts Technology Collaborative, has committed $5 Tuesday, October 12 June 26 - July 4 Reading by Andre Dubus, author of House of MARCH 2005 Alumni Campus Abroad million toward our nanomanufacturing endeavor. State and federal leaders are directing substantial Sand and Fog and UML faculty member. Chianti, Italy amounts of research funding toward nanotechnology to keep our scientists and engineers on the lead- Parker Lectures Series Sunday, March 6 O’Leary Library, UML South Frog and His Friends JULY 2005 ing edge. Several of the nation’s top researchers in the field are on the UMass Lowell faculty. We are Family Discovery Series October 15 - 16 Durgin Hall hopeful about the prospect of National Science Foundation funding to support research on plastics July 6 - 14 Fall Festival Reunions UML South manufacturing techniques on the nanoscale, a collaborative project with our partners Northeastern Alumni Campus Abroad Florida Alumni Events Krakow, Poland University and the University of New Hampshire. NOVEMBER 2004 Date TBA As always, we will need help from our alumni, friends and supporters in this ambitious effort Saturday, November 6 Francis Cabot Lowell Awards and APRIL 2005 to make UMass Lowell one of the world’s best-known addresses for nanomanufacturing research. In Athletic Hall of Fame Dinner doing so, we can improve the economy of Massachusetts, from the Merrimack Valley to the Berkshires American Textile History Museum Sunday, April 3 Lowell Twice as Many Friends/ to Cape Cod. You will read more about this exciting development in future issues of the UMass Lowell El Doble De Amigos Magazine. Please join us on this promising journey. Sunday, November 7 Family Discovery Series Lazer Vaudeville Durgin Hall Family Discovery Series UML South Durgin Hall Sincerely, UML South

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Colleges - Arts & Sciences Scoring depended on collecting particularly at risk for injury and death Math Team Achieves Greher, Tobin Work in yellow cups, pushing blue cups onto due to language barriers and lack of job High Rank in International Concert to Reinvigorate opponent territory, or dropping a ball experience. Competition Music Teaching in a basket — and, of course, the To address this need for greater safety, Each February since 1998, UMass Two faculty members — one from the all-important matter of starting and Asst. Prof. Maria Brunette of the Lowell has fielded teams for the Mathe- advertising business and the other from stopping on signal. Department of Work Environment has matical Contest in Modeling, an inter- secondary education — have revamped Overall standings, based on tourna- been awarded a $105,626 grant from national competition sponsored by the the University’s music education pro- ment play combined with Web docu- the Occupational Safety and Health non-profit Consortium for Mathematics gram. mentation, were South Kingston (R.I.) Administration (OSHA) to develop a and its Applications. High School, first; Algonquin Regional Construction Outreach Program for For 20 years, Asst. Prof. Gena Greher High School, second; and Waltham Hispanic workers. James (Kiwi) Graham-Eagle, professor plied her trade as a music director for a and chair of the Mathematical Sciences New York advertising company, collab- High School tied with Wellesley High “Hispanics have higher fatal occupa- Department, is the team coach. English Prof. Joe Zaitchik is the Recipient of the orating on such familiar jingles as, School, third. tional injuries than any other ethnic 2004 Stanley Drama Award. “Just for the taste of it — Diet Coke.” An associated event, the Botfest, was group in the country in the construc- In 2004, one of UMass Lowell’s teams an exhibition of robotics and anima- tion trades,” explains Brunette. achieved the ranking of Meritorious, by a panel of three guests which has “I was interested in the challenge of the third in our history of the competi- creating something from nothing,” tronics for inventors of all ages and “The fatality rate for Hispanics is 20 included such notables as Edward tion. This is the second highest rank Greher says. included demonstrations by college percent higher than rates for white and Albee, Geraldine Page and David and places UMass Lowell in the top 11 students, school groups and community black workers.” Susskind. During the ’90s, however, the adver- exhibitors. percent of competitors — and ahead of tising industry began to rely less and One of the main reasons for this trend Zaitchik describes the play as a come- teams from the University of Michigan, less on original music — turning is most (OSHA) programs are written dy with a very serious theme. Brunette Develops Cornell, Northwestern, Worcester Poly- instead to existing pop melodies. Safety Training Program and delivered in English. This creates technic and Boston University. In all, “I’m very much interested in mysti- for Hispanic Workers an obvious problem for workers who 599 teams entered from 11 countries. cism. This play is based on the philo- “My job,” she says, “was less rele- At the New England Botball tournament, officials read or speak little English. Brunette’s sophical question of why good people vant.” re-set the game board for a seeding round. High The competition may be cerebral, but In the construction industry, educa- program, which begins this fall, will be suffer so much,” says Zaitchik. school teams designed and programmed their it’s hardly for the faint of heart. Teams The native New Yorker elected to robots to operate autonomously as they moved tion is a matter of life and death. delivered entirely in Spanish. choose one of two problems posted at It was his youngest son Daniel, him- return to school, earning her Ed.D.from cups and tried to place a ball in a corner “basket.” Hispanic construction workers are “The program is a concentrated 8 p.m. on a Thursday. self a professional actor, who got Columbia University Teachers College, 10-hour session, which will train His- Zaitchik thinking about playwriting. focusing on the integration of the arts Botball, Botfest Fill Rec Using any published sources and con- panics in the base skills and knowledge Over the years, the self-described into school curricula. She joined the Center with Ingenuity sulting only with each other, they study needed to be valuable, safe and produc- “dabbler” has published poems, short UMass Lowell faculty in 2002. and attempt to solve the problem and Lowell’s Campus Recreation Center tive in the construction trades,” stories, academic articles and textbooks, submit a report by 8 p.m. the following After teaching in the Milford Public was the scene of a high-tech, high- Brunette says. “It will feature practical but had not written a play. Monday. Schools for 15 years, Asst. Prof. Nick energy competition on a recent spring materials and curricula written in collo- “Once Daniel started acting in New Tobin decided it was time for a change Saturday, as 14 high school and middle quial Spanish, such as training manuals, Zaitchik Wins Playwright’s York, I started seeing a lot of plays,” and returned to school to earn a Ph.D. school teams from Massachusetts and visual aids, health and safety alert cards Award as Career Enters says Zaitchik. “I found myself critiquing from the University of Connecticut. He Rhode Island competed in a national and a Spanish construction dictionary.” New Stage what I saw and decided I should give it then began a career in academia, spend- Botball program. The need for actual field workers and a try.” ing time at Boston University and Regis Prof. Joe Zaitchik of the English Student teams had just seven weeks program evaluators prompted Brunette College before joining Greher as one of Department traveled to the Lambs Club Since then, he has written five plays, to create robots — using kits from the to partner with the Laborers Interna- the core instructors of the Department in New York City this spring to receive most of them full-length. KISS (“Keep It Simple, Stupid”) Insti- tional Union of North America of Music’s revised dual-degree music the 2004 Stanley Drama Award for his “I got bit by a bug,” he says. “It’s tute for Practical Robotics — that Local 175 and its business manager, teaching program. new play, Be Our Joys. exhausting, but I love it.” competed completely on their own, Michael Gagliardi. “The history of the music education with no remote control. The prestigious award, which includes Despite the accolades for Be Our Joys, program really excited me,” says Tobin. “These are robots with brains,” says Local 175 Business Manager Michael Gagliardi, a prize of $2,000, was established in none of his plays has been published. “The University has a really wonderful right, who Asst. Prof. Brunette says has been Holly Yanco, assistant professor of com- 1957 by Alma Timolat Stanley to “My career as a playwright has been music education history.” instrumental in developing the Construction encourage and support aspiring play- puter science. “Students designed, built Outreach Program for Hispanic workers, less than moderately successful,” says The two were integral in revamping wrights. As many as 200 plays are sub- and programmed their robots, and the oversees construction on Boston’s Big Dig Zaitchik. the program, which allows students to with a laborer. mitted annually and ultimately judged competition was very exciting.” earn both a bachelor’s and master’s

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early excitement of being able to make ties of working in larger volume and ment fellows for organizations such as Students Learn the ‘Write’ known proteins, such as insulin and taking a biopharmaceutical from a the Coalition for a Better Acre and the Stuff About Sustainability interferon, through a disappointing beaker-full to a multi-liter vat process,” Merrimack Valley Project. period of trying to make brand-new dis- says Lawton. “We can help design from What is sustainability? And how are Prof. Chris Tilly, one of those over- faculty and staff at the University coveries, many of which failed. the beginning or improve the fermenta- seeing the students, says the University tion process of a well-established prod- involved? Students in Adjunct Prof. A more cautious optimism has is seeking to continue funding in the Bridget Driscoll’s News Writing class returned with the decoding of the uct. In one case, we were able to next cycle. quadruple a company’s production of found out this spring. human genome and the ability to test “The competition is tough,” says substances, in rapid-fire fashion, to the vaccine against feline leukemia.” The course was restructured to Tilly. “But, so far, the students have include a service-learning component discover potential pharmaceuticals. Lawton is now leading a statewide gotten a lot out of it. It’s been quite Music profs. Nick Tobin and Gena Greher, who consortium to develop the Mas- around the theme of sustainability. came to UMass Lowell in 2002, have revamped Lawton has seen those changes first- valuable.” sachusetts Bio-Pharmaceutical Center Driscoll collaborated with Jack Luskin the entire program in music teaching. hand, as the Center successfully helped Dave Turcotte, program manager (MBPC) that would help to produce of the Toxics Use Reduction Institute many companies scale up and develop Carl Lawton, director of the Massachusetts with the Center for Family, Work and (TURI) and Mitch Shulman of Media Bioprocess Development Center, helps biotech high-quality clinical material for small their production processes. Community and adjunct faculty in degree in five years. Working primarily companies prepare critically needed test biotech companies. Services to integrate the new topic and with undergraduates, Greher teaches “Engineers understand the difficul- material, scaling up to the 16-liter fermentation RESD, says, “The program fits well with new digital editing equipment into the vat shown here. general methods courses including HUD Grant Connects the UML mission because we’ve got course. By the end of the semester, stu- Multi-Cultural Music in Education Students with Community students working in the community dents completed three projects — a and Technology and Music Education. Physics ‘Interactive’ Gives New Look to Large Lectures doing community development work. news article, a one-minute radio piece Tobin teaches and serves as the gradu- Five graduate students in the Region- It benefits the organizations because it and a short video documentary. Physics Prof. Aram Karakashian ages and other data going back 12 to al Economic and Social Development ate coordinator. gives them resources and staffing, “The project appealed to me because faces a class of 100 or more freshman 15 years.” Department (RESD) have completed allowing them to do things they might “I think the program has tremendous it would provide the students with a physics students and asks a question. There are challenges. The fellowships supported by a two-year, not be able to do otherwise.” potential,” says Tobin, who also unique learning experience beyond the Karakashian is not naïve. He transponders and online textbook are $90,000 grant from the Department of sits on the executive board of the In exchange for their efforts, students walls of the classroom and into the doesn’t expect any student to raise a an additional cost to students and an Housing and Urban Development Massachusetts Music Educators receive tuition remission and a small community at large,” says Driscoll. The hand and essay an answer. additional frustration occurs when (HUD). Association. “I think we’re going to stipend, in addition to the opportunity changes have created a more positive “They don’t want to look foolish in servers go down or registrations bring it back to where it was — the The grant, which was matched by the to gain real-world experience in a pro- response than anyone expected — from front of their peers,” he says. don’t register. University, required students to work 15 fessional organization. the students, the interview participants premiere music education program in Even setting up for the lecture the state.” But within moments, every student hours a week as community develop- and others on campus. has chosen one of five possible takes longer. But Karakashian is Greher and Tobin’s restructuring of answers to the question, every stu- highly motivated. Prof. Sammy Shina, mechanical engi- the music teaching curriculum has Five students in Regional Economic and neering, says the article that student dent’s response is logged into the “I want to see the kids get into it Social Development have completed placed increased emphasis on analytical grade book and a distribution of and succeed,” he says. “Not just their fellowships with a HUD Christie Hodge wrote about Shina’s thinking and music research. responses appears on a large screen at physics majors — all the people who Community Development research with lead-free electronics has the front of the lecture hall. will use physics in their work and Work-Study Program. finally given him a way to explain his As a result, students can take a much in their lives.” David Turcotte, standing left, work in a way people can understand. broader view of educational philosophy Welcome to the new world of and Prof. Arlene McCormack, as well as music itself. interactive science teaching. right, both of RESD, helped “The work Bridget is doing is exactly oversee the students’ work. the kind of outreach that we hope will How does Karakashian rate The students are, from left, Bioprocess Center Changes the new system? Tom Goulakos, David Fofanah, continue to grow at the University,” in Step with Biotech Growth “Last semester was the first Kelly Argie, Josep Varnie says Linda Silka, special assistant to the and Henri Urey. time I used it and the class provost for community partnerships and The biotechnology industry has been average seemed higher,” he director of the Center for Family, Work through some major changes since its says. “But I’m a scientist and I and Community. inception. need to confirm the result by Luskin and Anne Berlin Blackman, “More like a roller-coaster,” says Carl replication. I have class aver- also of TURI, served as resources Lawton, associate professor of chemical Freshmen in a physics lecture demonstrate around the topic of sustainability. Stu- and nuclear engineering and director of how to answer a question with their individually dents interviewed campus or communi- the Massachusetts Bioprocess Develop- registered transponders. From left, they are Daniel Joseph of Boston, Russell Littlefield of ty members about their work, from Julie ment Center. Biotech went from the Haverhill and Brian Khoyi of Chelmsford. Villareal’s vermicomposting project to Shina’s lead-free electronics research.

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Funded in part by the Provost’s office, Jessica Molignano of Westford Partnership Institutes Renewing entirely online at efforts to demonstrate the ways a students are learning to piece together learned about the project when a mem- Education). UMass Lowell. public campus can help a region video documentaries on the latest digi- ber of her Cadet Girl Scout troop saw “We are excited to provide a forum “Having cross-conti- sustain its quality of life.” tal editing equipment in Media Ser- an item in the local newspaper. The for K-12 educators to come together nental and interna- Discussing the event in a separate vices. troop hosted a “battle of the bands” at with scientists, science educators and tional students, in interview, Prof. David H. Wegman, the Parish Center for the Arts in West- engineers to design a seamless curricu- Quilters, Girl Scouts addition to regional dean of the School, said, “The new ford, raising $500 to support the Wel- lum that best meets the needs of students, speaks to the School is guided by a vision of human Help Children Entering come Pack Drive. their particular district,” says Michelle Foster Care quality of the program health that links individual well-being The Tewksbury Piecemakers Guild Scribner-MacLean, principal investiga- provided by our facul- to healthy communities and environ- also saw a notice in their paper and tor and full-time lecturer in the ty,” says Dean Donald ments. We are planning innovative The Psychology Club has concluded Two students in the online educational administration master’s program — its third annual Welcome Pack Drive, decided to contribute their efforts to Graduate School of Education. Pierson of the Gradu- Jessica Aran, right, of Plymouth, Mass., and Linda Szypula, left, of Egg ways to combine outstanding teaching, presenting more than 100 children’s the Welcome Pack Drive as well. ate School of Educa- Harbor Township, N.J. — finally met face-to-face during graduation cere- the University’s commitment to com- monies. They also met Asst. Prof. Judith Davidson, second from left, and backpacks to the Massachusetts The guild, which gathers weekly to Demo School Accredited tion (GSE). “Students munity service and our proven success By NAEYC Media Services Director Mitchell Shuldman. In June, 10 students were the Department of Social Services (DSS). quilt blankets and other items for a want convenient first to have earned their master’s degrees entirely on-line. in interdisciplinary problem-solving.” access to strong degree The packs contain age-appropriate series of charities, delivered 15 baby The Demonstration School, a part- At the celebration, former Dean of programs and being able to convert Colleges - Health items such as underwear, toiletries and quilts, 30 pillow cases and 45 Teddy nership between the Graduate School the College of Health Professions Jan- an existing program online is one way other essentials needed by children bears. of Education and the Lowell Public ice M. Stecchi was honored as the first to do that.” New School of Health and entering foster care. Many children Schools, has earned accreditation from recipient of the Provost’s Award for Colleges - Education Environment Celebrated enter and move within the system so the National Association for the Educa- The Master of Education in Educa- Lifetime Achievement. quickly that they have little time to tion of Young Children (NAEYC) — tional Administration program is a The University community, col- U.S. Rep. Martin T. Meehan collect what belongings they have. GSE Grant Targets Science the nation’s leading organization of collaboration of GSE and the Division leagues and friends gathered early this Education applauded the campus for its “continu- The packs help ensure the basics are early childhood professionals. of Continuing Studies and Corporate spring to celebrate the new School of ing leadership role in the region, Education (CSCE) to prepare teachers Health and Environment, which provided for. The 2003 MCAS science test results “We’re thrilled to be accredited by focusing its research and teaching on using a mix of online courses and field includes the departments of Health indicated a serious deficiency in NAEYC, and recognized for our com- the complex interactions that make experience to advance their careers to and Clinical Sciences, Nursing, Physi- science content and skills among mitment to reaching the highest profes- success sustainable.” director, principal, and superintendent cal Therapy and Work Environment. Massachusetts’s students. With sional standards,” says Dr. Ann roles. State Sen. Steven C. Panagiatakos statewide failure rates in fifth and Benjamin, director of the Demonstra- Chancellor William T. Hogan spoke said, “The creation of this new school eighth grades at 14 and 30 percent, tion School. “NAEYC Accreditation The location of the students is only of the creation of this School, which at UMass Lowell is a great example of respectively, the need for improved lets families in our community know half the story. The enrollments for the became official in January, as a signifi- why we need to support public higher teaching in science is clear. The that children in our program are getting master’s program have skyrocketed cant step in the campus’s “long-term education in Massachusetts.” Lawrence and Lynn school districts the best care and early learning experi- since it was introduced online in the have partnered with the Center for ences.” Fall of 2001. For a program that was enrolling less than a dozen students Field Services and Studies (CFSS) The preschool-to-fourth-grade school annually, the numbers have continued and Salem State College to tackle was founded to provide exemplary early to grow over the last two years to 75 the problem of developing science childhood instruction to children matriculated students this past instruction in their schools. from diverse cultural and linguistic semester. The Massachusetts Board of Higher backgrounds. Education awarded an Improving “The online master’s in educational Teacher Quality State Grant to CFSS, Online M.Ed. Grads Hail administration, similar to our other Salem State and the two partner from California to Brazil online graduate programs, continues to schools to develop and deliver science attract students from diverse locations. Having graduate students from New institutes to K-12 teachers during the We hope to significantly expand these Hampshire, Pennsylvania, Indiana, summer and fall of 2004. Nearly numbers in the future,” says Catherine California and Brazil is not usual. But Jessica Molignano, center, and her Cadet Girl $200,000, plus an additional $60,000 Kendrick, director of Corporate and Scout troop raised $500 to support the Psychology what if they have never stepped on in matching funds from the partner Distance Marketing Development Club and Department’s Welcome Back Drive, bene- campus, met one another or their fiting children entering foster care. Molignano and institutions, are funding the one-year for CSCE. professors? In June, 10 Graduate School her alumna mother Dottie ’80, left, delivered nearly program, Project SPIRE (Science two dozen back packs and other items to Prof. of Education students were the first to Charlotte Mandell of psychology. have earned their master’s degree

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Campus - Outreach Kerouac’s Scroll Is On the Road to Lowell Colleges - Engineering Start-Up Holds Lowell has been selected to host an exhibition of Jack Kerouac’s legendary On Malloy Shares Knowledge ‘Graduation Party’ the Road scroll as part of a national tour of the extraordinary literary artifact. U.S. with PBS Rep. Marty Meehan made the announcement on what would have been Kerouac’s After three years in UMass Lowell’s Prof. Robert Malloy, chair of the Plastics 82nd birthday, in the presence of the numerous agencies involved in bringing the Commercial Venture Development Engineering Department, is understandably scroll to the city, including the Lowell (CVD) center in Wannalancit Mills, enthusiastic about his subject. So, he was National Historical Park, the University and Axiom Valuation Solutions is mov- pleased to help develop an online feature the Cultural Organization of Lowell (COOL). ing to its own facility. about the history and future of plastics for the “It’s only natural that a national tour of his “Graduation,” an important WGBH American Experience’s Wayback prized work would be coming to this city,” milestone in the life of a start-up Web site, “The Future.” says Meehan, who was integral in ensuring company, was celebrated with Malloy invited Ravi Jain and Joe Bunik of that Lowell was on the tour schedule. In anecdotes, parting gifts and cake. the American Experience to visit campus for Kerouac’s hometown, the scroll will be shown a hands-on primer on plastics. The result — Axiom, like most new companies, at the Boott Cotton Mills Museum of the U.S. Rep. Marty Meehan, right, joins John the M.F.P.P.L. (Multi-functional Plastics started with little more than a good National Park Service, from June 1 through Sampas, the literary representative of the Production Lab), a virtual process lab that idea and a need for help. Founded by Aug. 15, 2007. Jack Kerouac Literary Estate, at the business executive Roger Winsby and announcement that Kerouac’s On the The Healthy Homes project, a two-year collaboration of the Center for Family, Work and even includes audio from some UMass Lowell The yellowed manuscript of Kerouac’s beat Road scroll will come to Lowell. Sampas Community and the Lowell Health Department, includes training seminars for represen- Stan Feldman, associate professor of machines. generation novel, which the author typed on announced a $12,500 matching donation to tatives of community organizations. Participants pictured are, from left, Pean Chhuon, finance at Bentley College, the com- help defray the cost of bringing the project. Clarendon Family Daycare; Jane Ginsburg, Lower Highlands Neighborhood Group; Graduate student Bhavjit Ghumman pro- a 120-foot paper scroll in a 21-day marathon pany helps small business owners Jennifer Pires, Elaine Melanson and Jennifer Taylor, all of Community Teamwork Inc.; vided the “plastics expert” interview, which, in 1951 and was published six years later, is on a 13-stop national tour of museums and Rene Demers, City of Lowell Fire Department. determine their company worth, according to Jain, “served as a great FAQ on and libraries. The tour to the city will conclude with an exhibition at the New York using high quality valuation and plastics engineering and helped reinforce Public Library in the fall of 2007, the year marking the 50th anniversary of the CFWC Project Targets Dangers in the Home financial analysis tools, and at a that there is still much to be explored and publication of Kerouac’s classic novel. fraction of the cost of a traditional In the year 2000, nearly 20,000 children were exposed to or discovered.” business valuation. poisoned by household chlorine bleach in the United States. Axiom, now a $2.5 million, UMass Lowell Professor Is Computer Science Transforms Community Outreach Problems such as this one are being addressed by UMass seven-employee company, has moved ‘Science Guy’ at Florida Lowell’s Center for Family, Work and Community (CFWC) and the to Wakefield. The University’s Community Software Lab has created a database system for the Baseball Field Trip United Teen Equality Center (UTEC), whose community outreach workers do gang City of Lowell’s Health Department in a two-year project called When PBS broadcast a show this spring on intervention, leadership training and local organizing. Healthy Homes. “The Physics of Baseball,” which was carried Gregg Croteau, executive director of UTEC says, “All our forms and reports are The goal of the project is to increase the understanding of live to schools across the country — 14 mil- online, which frees up time for direct service to clients. It’s revolutionary in the field of unhealthy home issues within the diverse communities of Lowell. lion students in 47 States — the network youth development. This would have been impossible to do on our own.” In the first of a series of training seminars held recently for repre- turned to two men for on-screen help. The Lab serves the Lowell Telecommunications Corporation (LTC), which is assisted sentatives of community organizations and participating University The first was Baseball Hall of Famer Ozzie by the University’s students, Assoc. Prof. Stephanie Chalupka of nursing stressed the Smith, who showcased the hitting and field- Computer Science importance of cultural responsibility. ing, the day-to-day playing of the game; the Department. “We think of home as a safe haven,” said the director of baccalau- other, to explain the physics — what actually LTC serves non- reate nursing and creator of the project training manual, Cross- happens, for instance, when the bat meets profit organizations, Cultural Approach to Healthy Homes: Healthy Solutions for Healthy the ball — was Prof. Jim Sherwood of the Louis Petrovic, left, director of External such as UTEC. UMass Lowell Mechanical Engineering Funding, Technology Transfer and Partnering, Families. talks with Roger Winsby, co-founder of Axiom Staffed by student Department. In reality, though, she said the home may be littered with hazards Valuation Solutions. The company “graduat- volunteers, the Lab The broadcast, dubbed an “electronic field ed” from UMass Lowell’s Commercial Venture such as lead, carbon monoxide and carpet cleaners, which could offers free services trip,” was organized, in part, by the Teachers’ Development center. endanger children. such as e-mail, soft- The Community Software Lab, which offers free services to non-profit organiza- tions, was the focus of a Computer Science Colloquium recently. Helping to cele- College at Ball State University in Indiana, ware and database brate were, from left, Prof. Thomas Costello, chair, and Prof. Jim Canning, both which was in charge of the audio-visual work. development. of computer science; Dan MacNeil, computer science major and leader of the To fulfill the content end of its job, Ball State Lab; Gregg Croteau, executive director of the United Teen Equality Center; and turned to the Baseball Hall of Fame, which Sovanna Pouv, UTEC technical coordinator.

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CSCE Provides On-Site Campus - People Professional Courses for Corporate Employees Retired Professor Publishes First Novel Employees at Analog Devices in Wilmington and BAE Systems Information and Electronics Linda Kistler, a professor emerita who Warfare Systems (IEWS) in Nashua, N.H., retired in 2000 from the College of Manage- recently completed professional courses con- ment, has published her first novel, a book ducted on-site by the University’s Division of that she began in 1988 and worked on for Continuing Studies and Corporate Education parts of 13 years. Cause for Concern, based (CSCE). on girlhood memories of toxic waste Nineteen Analog workers completed a cus- dumped in an eastern Pennsylvania univer- tomized certificate program in engineering sity town, was rejected by scores of agents Prof. Jim Sherwood, fourth from right, with some of the students, from both Florida and Indiana, skills, the second such group at that company before Kistler decided to publish it herself. who participated in the baseball field trip program. Ozzie Smith’s daughter is at the far left. to complete the program. Many of the gradu- The Mark A. Saab Advanced Polymers Physical and Rheological Properties Testing Laboratory in It’s available on-line through Amazon and ates are continuing their education through an plastics engineering was officially opened with the help of, from left, Prof. Robert Malloy, chair, other outlets. recommended Smith, a long-time Plastics Engineering Department; Mark Saab, president, Advanced Polymers, Inc.; Dean John Ting on-site associate’s degree in engineering tech- Hall of Fame shortstop for the of the Francis College of Engineering, and Provost John Wooding. Their Responsibility Is the nology offered by CSCE. St. Louis Cardinals, as host of the ‘Care and Feeding’ of the program; and to Sherwood, who has At BAE Systems, 14 employees received cer- Day of Dedications purchased 20 years ago. The compa- Laboratories done extensive ball- and bat-testing tificates in information technology with a focus Honors Major Gifts to ny has placed 27 such machines in It’s a rare issue of the UMass Lowell Maga- for both Major League Baseball and on software release engineering, and eight oth- Engineering North American Universities. ers participated in the two-year program. As a UMass Lowell’s is the only gift. zine that doesn’t include one or more stories the NCAA, to serve as what he Three major gifts to departments result, 19 employees have been reclassified into about the University’s laboratories. calls “the science guy.” in the Francis College of Engineer- Leistritz, an international equip- new job titles. But, what of the care and feeding of these “I talked about flight, trajectory, ing gave occasion for celebration at ment manufacturer, produces high- labs? Who stocks them and maintains them impact, those sorts of things,” says Prof. Jim Sherwood, right, and Baseball Hall CSCE Dean Jacqueline Moloney says, “We’re the spring meeting of college and end extrusion processing equipment. of Famer Ozzie Smith, formerly of the St. and keeps them going? Sherwood. “The idea was to illus- celebrating a new way of building corporate departmental industrial advisory The company hires many UMass Louis Cardinals, between exhibitions at the Lowell graduates. trate the basic concepts of physics “electronic field trip” in Jupiter, Fla. The partnerships.” boards. The answer is that this work is done by a event, designed to illustrate the concept of to middle- and high-school Mark A. Saab, president of Rick Pierro, a 1983 M.S. graduate number of hard-working employees who students, using baseball as the physics through the medium of baseball, was in chemical engineering, is president usually, but not necessarily, go by the title carried live on PBS and aired to an audience Advanced Polymers, Inc., in Salem, vehicle.” of 14 million students in 47 states. N. H., and a 1981 UMass Lowell and co-founder of Superior Con- “professional technician.” graduate in plastics engineering, trols, Inc. The company funded a Three examples of these workers are, in donated more than $120,000 new computer laboratory in the alphabetical order, Glen Bousquet, Jim Hall University Plays Prominent Role in toward the renovation of a labora- Chemical and Nuclear Engineering and Gary Howe. They serve different FIRST Event tory. The new Advanced Polymers Department that serves undergradu- departments but all have many things in Mechanical Engineering Prof. Physical and Rheological Properties ate and graduate students. The gift is common: they all have advanced degrees, Sammy Shina tries out a Segway at the Testing Laboratory is a teaching unusual in also providing an annual all supply and maintain the laboratories, all FIRST (For Inspiration and Recogni- and research facility dedicated to donation for student support and support students and faculty alike, and all tion of Science and Technology) polymer property evaluation. continual lab upgrades. have work schedules that vary from day to regional competition in Manchester, Advanced Polymers produces Superior Controls designs custom day depending on what’s needed. N.H. Shina and Asst. Prof. Holly innovative products, including automated control and information Bousquet, director of the labs in the Yanco of computer science were judges ultra-thin tubing, catheters and systems for the chemical engineering Mechanical Engineering Department, at the event, and the Submillimeter- Nineteen employees from Analog Devices graduated this year angioplasty balloons. industry. earned both his mechanical engineering Wave Technology Lab sponsored a from a customized certificate program provided by the Division degrees (B.S ’90. M.S. ’95) at Lowell and high school team. The regional of Continuing Studies and Corporate Education (CSCE). Cele- Stuart Kapp, sales manager of has worked for the University for 14 years. competition, one of more than 30, brating their achievements at a graduation luncheon were, Leistritz Corporation, was recog- from left, Mark Norton, vice president of Human Resources, Bousquet is responsible for more than a paired high school teams with engi- Analog; Dean Jacqueline Moloney, CSCE; Virginia Hehn, director nized for the donation of a new neers to develop and build a robot of Human Resources, Analog; Catherine Kendrick, director of extrusion machine worth $180,000. dozen graduate and undergraduate labs, in six weeks. FIRST is directed by Corporate and Distance Marketing Development, CSCE; and The machine replaces one the Plas- for which he orders, maintains and repairs Joanne Talty, on-site project manager, CSCE. Dean Kamen, creator of the Segway. tics Engineering Department had equipment. In addition, he also designs

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experiments, guides and instructs stu- teaching assistants who teach the labs, company in Burlington. New Plans and Initiatives the same commit- as Chancellor Hogan has stated, dents in their assignments, and helps and preparing notes on how to grade The toughest part of the job, he says, Create Promising Prospects ment that was are “more and better jobs, healthier those doing research. the labs. is “trying to keep things clean, opera- for UMass Lowell made for K-12 people, and a higher quality “There’s no such thing as a daily His workday extends from 8:30 a.m. tional and put away. I try to ensure that education over a environment.” With the launching this spring of an decade ago.” schedule,” he says. “You may come in until “whenever the last kids finish everyone works together and that ambitious strategic planning process, expecting to take care of two or three their lab work — hopefully by 5:30, everyone is happy.” Concerning Board of Trustees Names the progress being made in nanotech- Jack Wilson as President things and you can’t get to any of but sometimes it isn’t.” nology initiatives, and other encourag- nanotechnology, Campus - Outlook them. Every day is different. But Houghton Mifflin has published two ing developments, Chancellor William UMass Lowell is a Dr. Jack M. Wilson, a nationally rec- that’s what makes it nice. It’s always lab manuals written by Hall: Experi- T. Hogan sees a moment with great finalist in a quest ognized innovator in higher education different.” New Diversity Group Is for funds from the Chancellor and former chief executive officer of mental Chemistry and Introductory potential for UMass Lowell. William T. Hogan More Inclusive Than its National Science UMassOnline, has been named presi- Jim Hall came to the Lowell Chem- Chemistry. The 10-year strategic plan, or Trans- istry Department in 1988 after teach- Predecessor Foundation (NSF) to establish a dent of the 60,000-student, five-cam- Gary Howe says his responsibilities formation Strategy, will guide the nanomanufacturing center, in partner- ing and supervising the chemistry labs The needs of the UMass Lowell in Civil and Environmental Engineer- transformation of the campus into an ship with Northeastern University and at Tufts University for 15 years. ing are “very broad.” ethnic community, for the second institution focused even more sharply He earned his bachelor’s degree in the University of New Hampshire. He orders lab equipment, handles all time in a year, are being re-addressed on its integrated mission of providing chemistry at Tufts and his master’s at to broaden scope and improve. affordable, high quality instruction and In its strategic planning, UMass Northeastern. procurement for the department, does Lowell will explore approaches to edu- ALANA, the campus group devot- assisting in sustainable regional devel- Web design, controls reader-card access cation that incorporate the latest tech- Although his title is Professional ed to the needs of ethnic students, opment. The plan is being shaped in to all doors, maintains five labs, and nology and reflect the way people now Technician, Hall says he considers assists with research. has been broadened and renamed — the context of realistic expectations himself to be the freshman lab coordi- for future state support and with keen organize their lives. Lowell will look to “I work with a lot of graduate stu- it is now the Office of Multicultural nator. This entails planning schedules, awareness of the speed at which tech- fully integrate “day,” “evening,” and dents, but not one-on-one. I don’t Affairs (OMA) — while the Center choosing experiments, ordering and nology is changing both teaching and “summer” school, as well as online want to hold their hands,” he says. “I for Diversity and Pluralism, a student- setting up the chemicals, meeting with learning. instruction. just steer them in the right direction.” faculty group devoted to diversity, has been effectively phased out. Coinciding with these activities on The use of mixed classroom-based Howe earned his bachelor’s degree in and electronically delivered instruc- The Center’s policy committee, the campus, the Massachusetts Senate has electrical engineering at UMass Lowell tion will be expanded. Closely related Council on Diversity and Pluralism, established a new task force charged in 1992 and his master’s four years lat- courses will be combined and offered remains active, under the directorship with developing a comprehensive 10- er. Before joining the University in in streamlined, interdisciplinary, and of Psychology Prof. Anne Mulvey and year strategy to reform public higher 1995, he had held a co-op job with resource-saving sets. More courses will Dean of Student Life Larry Siegel, education in the Commonwealth. NYNEX in Manchester, N.H., and be provided to and received from other and will continue to oversee the Senate President Robert E. Travaglini worked for an electronics equipment UMass campuses whenever cost effec- interests of diversity on campus. appointed Sens. Steven C. Panagio- Dr. Jack M. Wilson takos of Lowell and Stanley C. Rosen- tive agreements can be made. Such “Our group is basically ALANA, Glen Bousquet berg of Amherst to chair the task changes will require significant negoti- with a new name and a more inclu- ations with the faculty and, in the case force. pus University system by the UMass sive mission,” says Brenda Evans, of the new structure for course offer- Gary Howe Board of Trustees. formerly associate director of Student “A college ings, require legislation on retention Activities, who is serving as the new degree and the of tuition. Wilson, who had served as interim director of the OMA. “The focus of skills to acquire it president, previously was vice presi- As expressed by the Chancellor, ALANA was limited to the needs of are needed now dent for Academic Affairs of the sys- UMass Lowell’s ambition is to be rec- ethnic students, while the new Office more than ever to tem. He also is a tenured professor of ognized within higher education as a will address a broad range of ethnic, meet the demands management at UMass Amherst. of a new and model that demonstrates how a public cultural and sexual needs and “We look forward to working with changing econo- university providing high quality, preferences.” President Wilson as UMass Lowell Jim Hall my,” says Sen. affordable programs and operating in advances to its next stage of develop- Panagiotakos. “We the respected tradition of land-grant ment,” says Chancellor William T. need a realistic, institutions can assist sustainable Sen. Steven C. regional development in a global econ- Hogan. “This is a time of transforma- well thought out Panagiotakos tion on our campus, with promising 10-year plan with omy. The practical results of this effort,

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initiatives that will impact sustainable and staff for their dedication and the students’ bedrooms, before most Teaching Goes Totally Wired Campus - Research development. In partnership with Dr. efforts in making UMass Lowell a first- students had to leave their dorms for Wilson, we will forge ahead with inno- class university. the day. Gerard Dybel, associate professor of physical therapy, has vative efforts that will yield economic The campus will receive an interim Phase two, which went into motion always preferred including multiple media in his lectures. and social benefits for the region and review at the five-year point in the 10- a year later in the fall of 2002, widened “I have students with different learning styles, who benefit entire state.” year cycle, due in the fall of 2008. the pool of students to 84 — all of from information presented in different ways,” says Dybel, A well-known entrepreneur and them, as undeclared liberal arts majors, who teaches courses in physical therapy procedures and busi- distance educator, Wilson was a co- LEARN: Keeping Students considered to be at high risk of drop- ness management skills to students in the clinical doctorate founder, president, and chairman of Successful and Involved ping out — expanded the course offer- program. LearnLine Corporation (now Menter- ings, added a number of workshops and It was a simple enough idea: bring A few years ago, he had to load a cart with all the equip- gy), a supplier of software systems for other support services and saw the the classes and faculty to the doorstep ment he needed and allow extra time for set-up before and corporate training to Fortune 1000 beginnings of a mentoring program. of the students, and chances are good after classes. Not any more. firms. that they will come. It had grown out The results were almost immediate. Extensive upgrades of three lecture halls in Weed Hall Wilson formerly was the J. Erik of an exchange between two UMass Of the 84 at-risk freshmen, 79 were show the shape of things to come across campus. New equip- Johnson Distinguished Professor of Lowell leaders — Fine Arts Dean Nan- back the following fall. ment in each hall includes a computer, flat-screen monitor, Nanomanufacturing research will develop new technologies needed Physics, Engineering Science, Informa- cy Kleniewski and Larry Siegel, then Phase three began last September. It LCD projector, digital document camera, VCR and DVD. to control properties at the molecular level while producing at high tion Technology, and Management director of campus life — three years has seen the renovation of Bourgeois Machinery is mounted in new teaching stations, built by the volume and high speed. UMass Lowell faculty leading the effort are, at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute ago this spring, then taken form offi- from left, Assoc. Profs. Carol Barry and Joey Mead, plastics engineer- Hall — bathrooms, lounges, all stu- carpentry shop, and controlled by an Extron MediaLink ing, and Prof. Julie Chen, mechanical engineering. (RPI), where he also had served as a cially four months after that. dent bedrooms refurbished — to switcher. dean and interim provost. Today, after the close of its third full accommodate 300 high-risk freshmen. “This will allow faculty to control all of the technology via State Makes Commitment to Nanomanufacturing Center UMass Lowell Reaccredited year of implementation, the fruits of Phase three also included a partner- one easy-to-use interface,” says Mike Lucas, coordinator of this idea are both stunning and pretty and Placed in Highest ship with the University’s orientation distance learning for the Center for Field Services and Stud- Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney has proposed much inarguable: vastly improved Review Category program, and with the Centers for ies and director of this project. $19.5 million to construct a new building for the grade-point averages, a rise in earned Learning, whose personnel oversee all “All of the upgraded rooms are configured exactly the UMass Lowell Nanomanufacturing Center. UMass Lowell has been reaccredited credits by students, a jump in retention tutoring and support services. same, so once faculty are familiar with the equipment in one by the New England Association of rates. Meanwhile, the state has promised $5 million in It’s hard to argue with the results. of the lecture halls, they can easily teach in another one Schools and Colleges (NEASC) and grant matching funds to the new Center in hopes of Siegel, who has shepherded the pro- Ninety-five percent of the Phase-three without having to learn any new interface.” placed on a 10-year review cycle — capturing a major share of the expected $1 trillion in gram through each of its several phas- LEARN freshmen — an unprecedent- the longest review period awarded — As more upgrades are completed (planned for Coburn, Ball economic activity and two million new jobs worldwide es, is unsparing in his praise. It is, he ed number — returned to UMass following the NEASC Commission and O’Leary), Lucas hopes to use the new configuration as a generated by the new technology. says, “probably the most exciting pro- Lowell for the spring ’04 semester. on Institutions of Higher Education’s model, so there is a consistent look and “feel” to the rooms ject I’ve been involved with in my 18 The average GPA of those in the pro- “It is that technology that is going to create jobs,” rigorous evaluation of the campus. and the technology. years at UMass Lowell.” gram was close to10 percent higher says Sen. Stephen C. Panagiotakos of Lowell, who has been spearheading the effort to see nanomanufactur- The commission’s evaluation report Its acronym is LEARN (for Living than the campus-wide freshman grade; ing established on the former Lawrence Mills site, notes that among the campus’s “out- Education and Resource Networking); and the number of credits earned per a 13-acre parcel opposite the new LeLacheur Park. standing assets are a clearly defined it began, with 60 freshman students LEARN student was more than 20 Panagiotakos stresses that manufacturing research mission…; a dedicated and talented and four faculty members, in a reno- percent greater than for the freshman is necessary to commercialize the science of the faculty; an ambitious and loyal student vated space on the sixth floor of Fox class as a whole. body; and an experienced, committed nanoscale, and that UMass Lowell’s expertise is Hall in the fall of 2001. Its goals, in its Phase four, set to kick off this fall, administrative leadership team.” second to none. first phase, were basic: to increase fac- will enhance the mentoring program The commission also noted that ulty-student interaction outside the still further, bring student staff into “UMass Lowell’s researchers have the business “academic programs are of good quali- classroom, bring academics into the Bourgeois Hall to lead academic connections and manufacturing science that will help ty, and programs targeted for support residence halls and improve atten- support initiatives, and sponsor change the way people work and live in the not-too- and expansion (e.g., plastics) are doing dance at early-morning freshman class- motivational workshops by deans, distant future,” he said. very well indeed, and positioned for es by making them more accessible. department chairs, and even the Plans for a new building at the corner of Aiken and national prominence.” In pursuit of these aims, four courses University provost. Perkins streets replaces a plan to build the research center inside a former mill building on the property. Chancellor William T. Hogan said were offered — two each in English Assoc. Prof. Gerard Dybel, left, physical therapy, and Michael Lucas, coordinator he was pleased with the outcome of and philosophy — in a renovated Fox of distance learning for the Center for Field Services and Studies, show the new “Because the center requires cutting-edge laborato- the review and thanked the faculty Hall classroom space, only steps from integrated multi-media equipment set-up for lecture halls, including the new ries, a new building would be more suitable. It’s more digital document camera (center) and the easy-to-use control panel (lower left).

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cost effective to build it new,” says An Apple (Juice) a Day There were three parts to the test. “I said, “Oh God, Oh God, let it Diana Prideaux-Brune, vice chancellor Keeps the Oxidant Away, Some mice in each of the two groups be,’” Williams told reporters of her for facilities. She hopes the facility will Says Prof. Shea were fed a complete diet; some got one stunned reaction after watching the be built within four years. lacking vitamins; and others were Tom Shea, professor of biological winning numbers being drawn on Although Massachusetts is currently given one that lacked vitamins but television. sciences, Prof. Gene Rogers of Health was supplemented with apple juice. a leader in nanotechnology research, and Clinical Sciences and others at Williams, who retired from the other states and countries are increas- the University have been conducting When introduced into a maze exper- University in 2002, was remembered ing their investment. research for several years regarding the iment, which requires memory, the by co-workers as someone who not “By getting in early and attracting ways in which nutritional deficiencies normal mice did fine on the complete only has worked hard her entire life, diet and the one lacking vitamins, and capital to us, it will enable us to cap- place individuals at risk for age-related Prof. Sue Braunhut and Dr. Samuel Straface, CEO of Triton BioSystems, are interviewed by Janet Wu but also has a reputation for selfless- ture a significant portion of the jobs decline in brain function — specifical- even better when their diet lacked of WCVB-TV, Channel 5, regarding their development of a new cancer-fighting nanotechnology. ness and generosity. nanomanufacturing will generate,” ly in learning and vitamins but included apple juice. Promising New Technology “The pace at which we’ve “She is a great person,” said Dennis says Frederick P. Sperounis, executive memory — and The at-risk mice performed as well Fights Breast Cancer advanced this technology is only Bourque, retired working foreman vice chancellor. The UMass Lowell actually may lead as normal mice when fed a complete made possible through partnership who was Williams’ boss for 15 years. center is unique in New England in to the loss of diet, and when their diet lacked Triton BioSystems in Chelmsford with a private company, which is “I just want her to have some quality focusing its research on high-volume, brain cells. vitamins but included apple juice. and UMass Lowell Prof. Susan consistent with our [University’s] time for herself now that she can do high-speed processes at the nanoscale: When given only the diet lacking “We have Braunhut of biological sciences have mission,” says Braunhut. “Our goal is what she really wants.” the bridge between laboratory inven- vitamins, they did very poorly. developed a new cancer-fighting demonstrated to treat breast cancer. We are con- Speculation about Williams’ iden- tion and the commercial market. nanotechnology that evolved from that the presence It was clear, then, that the mice per- fronting a disease, metastasized breast tity circulated throughout the region U.S. Army Research Lab work aimed The team of researchers, working of a gene linked formed better in these memory tests cancer, that doesn’t have a cure.” when it was announced that the win- with existing facilities, already has a to Alzheimer’s when their diet included apple juice. at facilitating battlefield repairs of U.S. Rep. Marty Meehan helped ner purchased the ticket at a Lowell track record of success. Prof. Julie disease, coupled military armor. For humans to enjoy the same bene- obtain further funding for the store. But she did not come forward Chen, of mechanical engineering, with nutritional Prof. Tom Shea fits, Shea says, they would need to When Triton Systems CEO Ross project, specifically a grant to to claim the prize for seven days. and Assoc. Profs. Joey Mead and Carol deficiencies,is a disastrous combina- drink two to three eight-ounce serv- Haghighat saw the potential for convert defense-related technology Williams, who supplemented her Barry, of plastics engineering, have tion,” Shea says. ings of juice a day. The antioxidants in using the technology to attack cancer to life sciences applications. pension by cleaning houses, met with been exploring the fundamental His most recent research project, the apple product are what make it tumors, he turned to Dr. Samuel lawyers and financial advisors prior science of electrospinning, extrusion he says, shows that apple juice can effective, he says. Straface, CEO of spin-off life sciences Retired UMass Lowell to collecting her earnings. and injection molding on the company Triton BioSystems. prevent the loss in memory that “But natural factors are important,” Laborer Sweeps up nanoscale, under a grant from the The massive windfall thrust the accompanies both genetic and nutri- he says. “If you try to take pills alone Straface contacted Braunhut, who $294 Million National Science Foundation (NSF). unassuming Williams into the lime- tional deficiencies. as a supplement, you’re missing some- has been researching breast cancer A new proposal to NSF involves Geraldine “Gerry” Williams spent light, as she ducked pleas from news thing. Likewise, if you take twice as treatments for 15 years — much of it collaboration with Northeastern To explain the findings, Shea says 15 years sweeping floors, dusting organizations from throughout the much apple juice but reduce your sponsored by the Army. University and the University of that human cells — such as those in desks and emptying trash barrels in world requesting interviews, and calls overall dietary intake, you lose the New Hampshire. the brain — seek to be balanced, The new treatment works by the classrooms and offices of UMass and letters from strangers seeking meaning that they have an equal num- beneficial effect. attaching magnetic bioprobes to spe- financial assistance. Although she And sponsored research from indus- Lowell South. But, the retired skilled ber of positive and negative charges. “The magic is in the combination. cific antibodies. The antibodies seek told reporters at the lottery press try is expected to grow, as more than laborer cleaned up in a big way But, even in the course of normal A balanced diet is most important,” out and attach to the target tumor. conference that she has no plans to 170 Massachusetts companies have recently when she won the 11-state metabolism, they can become he says. When the doctor activates a magnet- modify her lifestyle, the fledgling products, or show interest in develop- $294 Million Mega Millions jackpot unbalanced and, therefore, suffer ic field, the bioprobe particles heat multi-millionaire acknowledged that ing products, that use nanotechnology. — the third-highest single-ticket “oxidative damage” unless antioxi- up and kill cancer cells, but not any she likely will retire her mop and do These companies employ more than lottery prize in North America. dants are present. of the surrounding healthy cells. some traveling. 30,000 people and generate revenue in Williams, 67, who opted to take excess of $5 billion, including firms in Apple juice, like many other fruits “It gives us laser-like precision and, her winnings in a lump-sum $117.6 “I don’t know what it is to biotechnology, electronic components, and vegetables, contains antioxidants. so far, has shown no side effects,” says million payout after taxes, is the have money. I don’t know what I’d new materials and chemicals, medical To determine the degree of effective- Braunhut. “The nanoparticle is mother of three and grandmother of change, but I hope I stay the same,” devices and pharmaceuticals. ness of apple juice, Shea and his assis- benign until activated.” eight. Her odds of winning were one she said. tants used mice, some normal and The treatment is also unique in in 135 million. others genetically engineered to be at- allowing doctors to control precisely risk for age-related neurodegeneration. the length of treatment.

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By Geoffrey Douglas

From Hunting Easter Eggs to Search- ROBOTS — and-Rescue —There’s No Limit to What and the Minds That These Little Fellas Can Do he scenarios are almost limitless. A bedridden invalid T suddenly able to fetch her Move Them own own food and medicines; a wheelchair-bound quadriplegic crossing the street without help; a trapped, unconscious fire victim locat- ed remotely in a smoke-blackened high-rise; a cave-hidden terrorist found without risk to human life. And the more mundane applica- tions. The no-hands vacuum cleaner. The alarm-bell reminder. The ’round- the-clock, unpaid errand-boy. The animated toy that can almost double as a friend. They are, of course, robots. Comput- er-programmed robots that “see” and “hear,” and walk and (sometimes) talk, and can sense without touching and “know” without being told. They are getting “smarter,” more plentiful and ever more versatile — and among their biggest strongholds is the campus of UMass Lowell. Asst. Prof. Fred Martin of Computer Science, with one of his student's self-designed robot cars. “The progress with robots has been pretty unbelieveable,” says Asst. Prof. it took 10 students in the Robotics I robots work by designing them to Holly Yanco, one of two faculty mem- class taught by Asst. Prof. Fred Martin perform a specific task.” bers who teach a two-semester course — who teaches the first half of the Martin’s half of the year-long UMass on robotics. “You take a basic task like two-semester course — to design and Lowell course deals largely, he says, picking up a piece of trash. Ten years assemble a series of robots that could with the “fundamentals” of robotics: ago, that would have been a major compete head-to-head in an egg hunt, sensors, gear trains, and the control entry in a [robotics] competition— with the eggs color-coded and assigned panels by which the robots are made now you can teach a student how to point-values by color. The idea of the to perform tasks. Students, by the end do that in a week.” contest, won by senior computer sci- of that first semester, are expected to And in two weeks, with a full class ence major Michael Bohan, was, says be capable of designing their own, still of students, you can manage tasks that Martin, for the students “to demon- relatively primitive, robots (as they did go well beyond trash. That’s how long strate their range of knowledge of how in the case of the egg-hunt), which,

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Fred Martin puts it another way: There are three broad areas, says expense. Now [with robots], they can But in the end, as with so much “Robotics is a way to widen your sense Holly Yanco, in which robots, have what they need fetched for else in life — the more so where of the computer’s role — there’s a lot already, have a major foothold in them, they can have their houses technology is involved — the future more going on than just what’s there today’s world. The first is toys: “Toys cleaned, their meals prepared; it’s will belong to the next generation. on your desktop.” are the way kids usually get intro- even possible [for others] to monitor At the University’s Campus Recre- Martin’s career since graduate duced to robots in the first place, to them from a distance, to make sure ation Center on a Saturday last school has been devoted to what he all the possibilities of what they can they’ve eaten breakfast or taken spring, teams of middle-, high-, and terms “educational robotics” — the do.” Among the original toy robots, their meds. The possibilities are elementary-school students from use of robots to “widen our sense of she says, was “Furby,” the cute, little pretty incredible.” Rhode Island and Massachusetts, what’s possible in the world.” As a furry animal with enormous eyes, some as young as eight, gathered to graduate student at MIT, his master’s popular in the late 1990s, who had its showcase the range of achievements project was the development of a own language and could be pro- they had programmed their robots to “programmable brick” the size of a grammed to sleep and wake up on perform — from dropping colored deck of cards through which children, cue. balls into baskets to sorting recy- by plugging in sensors, could create Another broad application, she clables, to negotiating a miniaturized mobile robots to perform simple tasks. says, has been in the military, where Australian landscape. His doctoral project was a more robots have been used — notably in “It was the kids who first took on powerful version of the same brick, Afghanistan — to locate fugitive ter- computers,” says Yanco. “They grew this time for use by adults. rorists without exposing live soldiers up with them, they adopted them as Asst. Prof. Holly Yanco with some of the robots that were designed in her lab. “As time goes on,” says Martin, to risk. There are other such uses, she their own. And they’ll do the same says Martin, “should possess sensors, HRI — Human-Robot Interaction— “there are going to be more and more says; the military applications “are with robotics. In the end, for all we a control program and some way of which, she says, “is where things really ways in which robots affect our daily only now beginning to be fully do at this level, the real progress is affecting the world.” begin to get interesting.” lives. Already, you can go to Brook- realized.” The search-and-rescue robot undergoing a going to come from the kids.” hardware upgrade. Yanco’s second-semester course, on HRI, at its more advanced levels, is stone, and for $200, buy a robot that The final area, and perhaps the one the other hand, is built around three “where you begin to deal with things will vacuum your living-room floor. with the broadest influence on daily mobile, pre-built “research-grade like urban search-and-rescue — say, And that’s only the beginning — as life, says Yanco, is in the home. robots” — larger, more expensive, and finding victims of an earthquake or a computers become more [sophisticat- Especially with the elderly. capable of more complex tasks. Stu- fire. Or infrared imaging, where you’re ed], and robots can be programmed “The population is aging. More and dents in this course, says Yanco, outside somewhere, directing your to have an even greater sense of the more, people are wanting to stay at world, there’s almost no limit to what home rather than be confined to “The progress with robots has been pretty could be done.” unbelieveable.” — Asst. Prof. Holly Yanco nursing homes — not to mention the

“might be working on getting their robot to locate a victim from an image robots across the street, potentially to you’re reading on a screen. Or putting the library to pick up a book. Or a CO2 sensor on a robot — to sense maybe [to help] a paraplegic, who whether someone is alive — and can’t get across on his own.” sending it in to locate the living It is at this stage of their learning, victims…” both professors say, that students Although this level of complexity, begin to deal seriously with the appli- Yanco says, is mostly the province of cation of “artificial intelligence” (AI) graduate students doing lab research, — or, as Yanco puts it, “having your “it’s here that computers really begin robot move through the world in to show their value. You get to write a some sort of intelligent fashion, hope- program, and see something actually fully without bumping into walls.” AI, happening in the world, as opposed to Asst. Prof. Holly Yanco's lab, both robots and humans. The humans, front, from left, Brenden Keyes, Robert Casey and Rachel Mulcrone; rear, from left, Aron Barabas, Philip Thoren, Prof. Yanco, Marbella Duran, Undergraduate Aron Barabas at work on the A wheelchair robot under development in in turn, is still one step removed from just spitting out interest rates.” Michael Baker and Andrew Chanler next-generation wheelchair-robot. Asst. Prof. Yanco's lab.

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“It was the toughest course I ever “I think it’s fair to say that, as had in my life,” Shulman recalls. with anything that’s new and “Charlie would spend the three hours growing, there were some bumps writing on the blackboard, his pants in the road,” Costello says, “but covered in chalk. those bumps were ironed out “But he insisted that it was ‘good over time.” for me,’ sort of like taking bad-tasting One of those early “bumps,” medicine. It would make me ‘stronger’ in Pecelli’s estimation, was that some day. Well, he was right.” first curriculum, which, he says, In 1981, the department was, “was, to be charitable, inappro- indeed, “fresh and new” as Shulman priate for a CS department. In any event, that was one of the Jim Canning says many alumni will remember this as the says, having been formed two years “Eyes Project,” an exercise in visual programming. earlier with a handful of faculty drawn first problems to be solved. By from other departments, and a modest early 1983, we had changed the At Wannalancit, says Costello, “we By Jack McDonough inventory of equipment. curriculum to lay the foundation, with had more general support labs for stu- Faculty members who have led the Computer Science Department during its first 25 years some necessary evolution since then, dents and more focused research labs, have included, from left, Giampiero Pecelli, Jim Canning, Bill Moloney and Tom Costello. Now, after years of moving, chang- for the core that is now in place.” ing and expanding, Computer Science which also supported some of the is celebrating its 25th anniversary. Equipment at the outset included teaching faculty.” punched cards, paper printout Prof. Tom Costello, who heads the Pecelli , who came to Lowell in DECwriter terminals connected to 1981 and taught both computer sci- department today, says that around Control Data Cyber computers and, here were a lot of “great teachers” in the the mid 1970s the Mathematics ence and mathematics, remembers THEY’VE a little later, DEC Vax with video well those early days when resources department, says David Shulman, but the Department had begun offering T display terminals. were slim. one he remembers in particular is the late computer courses other than languages Charlie Steele. and syntax. The department’s first offices and “The facilities were next to non- COME classrooms were in “modest” spaces on existent. I remember a meeting in It was 1981 when, as Shulman recalls,“the “Electrical Engineering had been the second and third floors of Olsen offering language and syntax courses 1982 when Leon Beghian announced Computer Science Department was fresh and Hall. In the fall of 1982, the depart- a major equipment donation from A LONG for a while, too, and student interest ment moved to Pinanski where it new,” and Steele was his advisor and professor was growing. At that point, I suggested Data General. He said it would set us in a number of courses. remained until 1985 when the Univer- up for the next 10 years. that the school should think seriously sity leased space in the Wannalancit Exhibiting the temerity WAY about forming a computer science “I was next to Dean Joseph Salam- Mills building. department.” one and I quipped that if we were characteristic of youth, “It was great space,” Shulman told Steele that FROM A committee — chaired by Provost says Costello. We went he was doing well in his Leon Beghian and made up of repre- from 8,000-square feet studies and thought sentatives of business and industry — in Pinanski to 37,000 perhaps it might be a PUNCH was formed to recommend a starting in Wannalancit.” curriculum. Steele was the first full- good idea to take on time faculty member appointed. He And they needed the another course as an was joined by Costello, Bill Moloney room. By 1986 there CARDS were 800 computer sci- added challenge. and Shimshon Berkovitz, all of mathematics; Dave Korff of physics; ence majors — 600 Shulman says Steele seized on this suggestion The Computer Science undergraduates and 200 as an opportunity to change his entire schedule, Win Fuller of management; and Department Celebrates Stu Smith of music. graduate students (by make him “one of the first guinea pigs” in an then the department honors program and enroll him in a graduate level Its 25th Anniversary Berkovitz was the first department also had added a doctor- head. He was followed in that post by al program) — and the Ted Ryan, left, Jim Canning and Tom Costello enjoying the buffet at combinatorics math class that he, himself, taught Costello, Moloney, Giampiero Pecelli a department Christmas party in Pinanski in 1985. one night a week for three hours. By Jack McDonough faculty had nearly and Jim Canning. tripled, to about 18.

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interested in developing computer Giam Pecelli was elected being made. We were making deci- courses for business majors. department head in 1989 and, says sions from moment to moment. Steele Was Right. “In the ’70s it became clear that Moloney, given the conditions, had “The excitement today seems The Hard Work Paid Off. computers would become big in a hard time. quite similar. We have all these academia. A number of us were inter- Pecelli agrees. new energized faculty people on Charlie Steele was right. ested in them and thought that creat- board and the department is quite “I found myself watching over — When he bombarded undergraduate David ing a separate computer department healthy emotionally. We’re well with no capacity to alter the course Shulman with a graduate course in math made sense. Math was the biggest positioned to help the region – the effects of the end of the ‘Mas- and piled on other class work, he told department in those days and we because there are so many high- sachusetts Miracle’ on our depart- the young student that it would be good thought it would be awkward to create tech companies in the area. ment. I had hoped for stability or a for him. a computer science program within bit of expansion. But I ended up “But a big difference now is that math.” with no departmental funds for we have CS alumni — about 2,000, And look at the result. So it was that computer science equipment and supplies, fewer than mostly in the region. We didn’t Rich Miner ’86, ’89, ’97 and Rob Silvers ’91 (on the screen) work on a project using the After graduating became a separate department within half of the TAs and half the secre- have those in the ’80s. I can’t go to technology of the day. with a 3.96 GPA in the College of Arts and Sciences. tarial staff.” a company now without bumping Computer Science doing our job right, we’d need another It came at a time when industry “Shim Berkovitz, the first depart- But the down times finally ended. into an alum.” and Mathematics, major upgrade in 18 months. He needed to develop more cooperation ment head, left in 1982 and Tom Canning says that, as department Shulman became looked aghast. among work groups in design and In 1991, the leadership mantle (Costello) succeeded him. Tom was was passed to Jim Canning and, head, he did “a little outreach” with director of software “I was wrong by six months. Within manufacturing processes. energetic and had some good ideas.” fortunately for him, the economy alumni and they started writing development at a year, our needs — and, fortunately, “Our students traveled all over the A primary goal at that time was to began to recover. “warm notes” back to the school, North East Research our resources — had outstripped any- country and discovered they could acquire some good equipment. some with checks enclosed. Associates in thing available at that moment.” compete with students from premier Woburn before schools and with people in industry,” “We wanted to get a general purpose “They all generally appreciate one another and work Dave Shulman says Work with rudimentary robots — going on to Charlie Steele’s course computer system,” says Moloney. basic Heathkit models — also began Costello says. cooperatively. That’s what has made this place pretty nice over Microsoft Corpora- in combinatorics “Digital made a lot of equipment in the early ’80s. Bill Moloney, who, in 1986, suc- the years. I wouldn’t trade it for anything.”— Bill Moloney ton where he held mathematics was the available to us. They either sold it to toughest one he ever a number of key us at a discount or just gave it to us. Canning, a graduate of Virginia took in his life. “Our students traveled all over the country and discovered they management posi- Tech, had been recruited by Tom “I believe the alumni have a could compete with students from premier schools and with people “Ed DeCastro (EE ’60) was CEO of tions over a 13-year period. In 2002, he Costello and he joined the faculty fondness for the department,” in industry.”— Prof. Tom Costello Data General then and he was very founded and now serves as president of in 1985 — his “first and only job,” he says. supportive, too, in providing us with Sargon Technology, Inc., a technical he says. Bill Moloney’s feelings about ceeded Costello as department head, equipment. consulting service in Bellevue, Wash. It was also at that time that the the department may explain this had joined the Mathematics Depart- “And Data General was very He taught undergraduate com- department began working with Pat attachment on the part of its In 1999, he created the David E. Shulman ment in 1970. He taught computer- helpful. We did some diagnostic puter architecture and graduate Krolak’s Center for Productivity graduates. Fund for Excellence in Computer Science, related courses and was particularly software work for them and they, in software engineering. Enhancement. which supports a scholarship program turn, allowed their employees to teach “The early days were exciting, “You probably won’t find a more Costello describes it as “an out- and lecture series at UMass Lowell. He and help us to use their equipment. certainly for me as a young faculty cohesive group of people,” Moloney growth of some things going on in also created the Computer Science member. In those days, just prior to says. “They all generally appreciate computer science. It was an attempt “Over the years, Data General has Association of Computing Machinery the Internet, students came to the one another and work cooperative- to find ways for students to work with taken many of our students as interns Student Chapter Fund. University to work. It was like ly. That’s what has made this students and faculty in other disci- and most of them end up working going to camp. There was lots of place pretty nice over the years. Shulman was presented with the Francis plines . . . to work on real computer- there full-time.” action. I wouldn’t trade it for anything.” Cabot Lowell Arts and Sciences Alumni oriented activities rather than The department received accredita- Award in 1999. traditional academic problems. tion in 1989. That was the good news. “Labs and classes were full and many times we stayed up all night “A lot of these projects were funded The bad news was that the economy working on projects. by industry and it was one of the first began to sag, enrollment went down multi-disciplinary partnerships within Bill Moloney and department secretary Liz and a lot of faculty left for jobs in “The department was growing the University.” Fortin at a Computer Science meeting. industry. and a lot of internal policy was

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icture a warehouse, a huge storage shelves as high as 110 feet warehouse, larger than any above the floor, it is the largest food P warehouse you've ever distribution center in the world. It is 1,000 worked in or walked through. Now also, says the man in charge of it, a picture a truck delivering a load: the model for the 21st century. arrival at the loading “This is an automated facility on tomatoes or paper towels) and are bay, the unloading, an unprecedented scale,” says Ron Trucks, the gloved men pil- “smart” enough to store the towels Wright ( BS, Lowell Tech, ’72), nearer the front. And during the ing crates onto pal- president of ES3 and of its sister lets, the forklift down-time between truck deliveries, company, C&S Whole- they are programmed to “shuffle” 140,000 driver bearing the sale Grocers. “It is a stor- inventories for optimum efficiency. pallets to this or that age and retrieval system row or section, that not only stores and Between the size of the ES3 ware- Pallets, stacking them — delivers, but can track its house and the efficiencies made ES3 President and six, eight or ten feet inventory. It allows efficiencies of possible by the cranes, it becomes high — then return- UMass Lowell alum- possible, says Wright, for ES3’s cus- nus Ron Wright time and scale that were only and ing for another load. dreamed of before.” tomers — Heinz, Campbell’s, ConA- Thirty or 40 or 50 times a day. gra, DelMonte and 20 or so other The ES3 warehouse, says Wright, U.S. food manufacturers — to both That was the old way. Now picture features fully-integrated lift trucks, the new one. The truck arrives; men reduce their inventories significantly Robots computers and scanners controlled and, at the same time, drastically on lift trucks unload it, placing the by wireless technology. The cranes pallets on an automated “induction lower the lag-time (or “lead-time”) themselves move at 600 feet per between order and delivery. spur,” from which they pass to an minute and are guided by laser Who The company refers to this as the enormous robotic crane, 11 stories technology: “They have algorithms ‘Know “This is an automated facility on an unprecedented scale.”— Ron Wright tall, which transports them to storage designed into their systems, so they RBCW (Really Big Consolidation positions up to 100 feet high, then can actually ‘know’ where stuff is.” Warehouse) concept. The RBCW — logs them by contents, source and as described in ES3's on-line descrip- Where They “know,” for instance, the dif- date. The process is repeated — by tion — “is 20 to 30 times the size of ference between the slow- and fast- many such cranes, coming and going, the traditional distribution center,” movers (tabasco sauce, say, versus Stuff Is’ from 2,000 trucks a week. Between enabling multiple manufacturers to delivery shipments, as pallets are shipped out or stored away, they are constantly reshuffled, then re-logged, By Geoffrey Douglas for maximum efficiency. And again, no men, no forklifts — only 15 11- story, robotic cranes on rails, pre- The automated, robotic programmed to load, unload, shuffle cranes in the ES3 plant, and sort. Cranes with brains, you one of which is in the background here, can could say. locate pallets, delivered This is the way of things at the ES3 from trucks, in storage warehouse in Erie, Pennsylvania. shelves up to 11 floors With 450,000 square feet of floor- above the factory floor. space housing the inventories of 20- odd U.S. food manufacturers in The ES3 plant, with a floor area of 450,000 square feet and a vertical storage height of more than 100 feet, is the largest food distribution center in the world.

26 UMASS LOWELL MAGAZINE FALL 2004 UMASS LOWELL MAGAZINE FALL 2004 27 CoverStory Best-Selling Author Encourages Graduates to ‘Use the Power’ store their inventories there. With the costs of storage being shared among tenants, the costs of receiving and bookkeeping defrayed by the “intelli- gence” of the cranes, and ES3 truckers under contract to deliver to customers within 24 hours after the order is Delivered pallets, once unloaded from their trucks, are placed on automated “induction spurs,” from received, the advantages of the RBCW where they are picked up by the robotic cranes, which then transport them to their storage positions and seem just about impossible to dispute. log them by contents, source and date. All of which explains why the com- costs. It was there, in his junior year at $110-million warehouse in Pennsylva- pany, only three years down the road the Watertown Star Market, that he nia and corporate offices in Keene, from its inception, is about to add a met another student, a part-time meat- N.H., less than 30 minutes from those second warehouse, with another wrapper named Ellen. The two were of C&S, it was designed to serve all 300,000 square feet of space, and 10 married a year later; they have a son classes of trade, wholesale and retail more robot-cranes to go with the 15 and two daughters, and have been as well as drug clubs and mass mer- it has now. together 32 years. chants — by “facilitating the collabo- He stayed with Star Markets 10 more ration of manufacturers and retailers” years, rising into and through the mid- and “synchronizing supply and dle-management ranks, before leaving demand.” in 1983 to join C&S as a buyer. If its growth is any indication, it has Twelve years after that, in 1995, he succeeded in both these goals. And it was named executive vice president has done so with Ron Wright, its presi- on-line — 30 — since the internet program began through Best-selling author Barbara Ehrenreich encouraged and chief operating officer; he was dent since day one — it was Wright Continuing Studies and Corporate Education in 1996. UMass Lowell graduates to “use the power that diploma Middlesex County Sheriff James DiPaola called the com- made president in 1998. who recruited most of its 45 managers, opens up to you” by working to make higher education mencement to order and State Rep. Colleen Garry It was a big job — and remains so. who in turn hired the roughly 150 a right for all. others it now employs — in charge offered greetings on behalf of the Legislature. C&S Wholesale Grocers is the second- “You are at this moment walking through a “Use the every step of the way. In addition to delivering the commencement largest food wholesaler in the U.S., door that was closed to many of your parents and power that speech, Ehrenreich received an honorary degree, serving as a source for 4,000 indepen- How he has managed this, in tandem almost certainly closed to your grandparents,” diploma opens along with Charles H. Hoff, a venture capitalist and dents, supermarket chains, mass mar- with his duties as head man at C&S, she said. “You can walk on through and let that chairman of the Hoff Foundation; and Victor W. door slam shut behind you. Or you can resolve up to you by The 15 cranes in the ES3 plant were designed by HK Sidel, former president of the American Public health to tear that door off its hinges and open the way Systems in Minnesota, at a cost of $1 million each. “The robot-cranes that enable all this are guided by lasers working to Association and founder of Physicians for Social to all who come behind you.” and driven by computers.”— Ron Wright make higher Responsibility. “We've got 2,000 trucks coming in With sales approaching the one-million mark, education a Dr. Susan Pasquale, chair of the Alumni Relations and out every week,” says Ron Wright. Ehrenreich’s last book, Nickel and Dimed: On keters and wholesale clubs from Maine would be a mystery to most. He divides Council, presented the Distinguished Alumni Award “And we're full, we’re at capacity. (Not) Getting By in America, has appeared on right for all” to the west coast and Hawaii. Based in his time, he says, more or less equally to Frank M. Spinola ’66, chemical engineering, former With the new space we’re getting, it’ll The New York Times best-seller list for more than Brattleboro, Vt., it is the eighth-largest between the two companies, with an —Barbara Ehrenreich president and CEO of INDSPEC Chemical Corp. be up to 3,000 a week. There's no say- privately-held company in the nation, office at each. He has benefitted, of a year. She is the author of numerous critically lauded books and her articles regularly appear in publica- The University also recognized individual graduates for ing where we go from there. But this is with 40 warehouses in nine states, course, from the proximity of the two tions such as Harper’s, The Atlantic Monthly and The New academic excellence and service, including Chancellor’s definitely the way of the future.” 10,000 employees and yearly revenues offices; and from their complementary York Times Magazine. Medalists for Distinguished Academic Achievement It’s a future he seems to have been of more than $11 billion. roles. Also, he adds: from the aid and (students with the highest GPAs in each college): Nihal Chancellor William T. Hogan and President Jack M. born for. Since he was a teenager, the confidence of “a great boss, who is also Patel, College of Arts and Sciences, Division of Science and The company is 75 years old, and is Wilson conferred 1,800 degrees — including a record num- food business is the only vocation he a partner and friend.” Mathematics; Megan Williams, College of Arts and Sci- owned today by the grandson of the ber of 95 doctorates — at the June commencement at the has known. ences, Division of Humanities and Social Sciences; Tracy man who founded it. But perhaps Beyond all this, he says: “I’ve been Tsongas Arena in downtown Lowell. VanZandt, College of Engineering; Tracey Hanson, School As a major in business administra- never in that time has its owner, Rick able to hire some great people, and to For the first time in University history, there were two of Health and Environment; and Anna Larina, College of tion at Lowell Tech in the early seven- Cohen, stretched himself more ambi- hold them accountable. Great people valedictorians — both of whom had a perfect 4.0 GPA — Management. Patel and Williams also received Trustees ties, he worked part-time for Star tiously than he did three years ago, are hard to find, but if you can find Megan Williams and Nihal Patel. There also was the Keys for attaining 4.0 averages — an award that had been Markets — as a warehouse worker, when he conceived and founded ES3. them, and keep them, you can succeed largest number of undergraduates who took their courses granted only 11 times previously. then cashier — to help meet tuition Built according to his vision, with a at least most of the time.”

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The Honorable James DiPaola, sheriff of Middlesex The National Anthem was sung by Jaclyn Soep, State Rep. Colleen Garry ’85 delivered County, called the ceremonies to order. who graduated magna cum laude with a bachelor congratulations and greetings on behalf of From left, Chancellor William T. Hogan, President Jack M. Wilson and honorary degree recipient Best-selling Author Barbara Ehrenreich encourages of music degree in music studies. the Legislature. Charles H. Hoff ’66 listen intently to the speakers. graduates to help make higher education accessible for all, in a stirring commencement address.

Several graduates used their mortarboards to express their Celebrating at the pre-commencement breakfast were, from left, Provost John Wooding, Graduates were exuberant as they prepared to receive their diplomas after years of hard work For the first time in University history, there were feelings to the thousands of well-wishers gathered in the President Jack M. Wilson, Jane Levy, Chancellor William T. Hogan and Executive Vice Chancellor and studies. two valedictorians, Megan Williams and Nihal Tsongas Arena. Patel, both of whom had perfect 4.0 GPAs. Fred Sperounis.

Chancellor William T. Hogan, left, and Athletic Director Dana Skinner, right, present Chancellor William T. Hogan, left, congratulates Class President Robert Chancellor William T. Hogan, left, and Provost John Wooding, right, congratulate Honorary degree recipients, from left, Victor W. Sidel, Barbara Ehrenreich Uri Grunwald, a business administration management information systems major and Blatt, who delivered his final speech to his classmates. Distinguished Alumnus Frank Spinola, 66, and his wife, Mary Jo ’66. and Charles H. Hoff a River Hawks basketball player, with the University Athletic Scholarship Award for attaining the highest GPA among varsity athletes.

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‘Just a Couple of Kids From Massachusetts’— It’s a promise they’ve made good on many times over, pay him two dollars for every drum that comes off that Carving Two Lives, and a Fortune, though their generosity hasn’t been limited to UMass machine. It’s a good deal for everyone—the company Lowell. In addition to the scholarship aid they’ve provided conserves capital, while Charlie assures a good return on By Geoffrey Douglas — to benefit student-athletes, as well as students of his money — but the best part, says Charlie, is what he Out of $938 and the Kitchen Sink nursing, music, chemistry and chemical engineering — plans to do with the cash: the Puliaficos have given their time to almost too many “The plant will produce around 70,000 barrels a year, at hey met on a bus, from the Lowell campus to causes to name. Charlie, for his part, was president of the two bucks a barrel — I’m going to have a lot of fun giving Worcester, in the spring of 1941. Both were on Webster-Dudley Chamber of Commerce and of the board that money away.” of directors at Hubbard Regional Hospital in Webster, T their way home for the weekend — she from He and Jackie, already, have given away a quite a lot. Lowell State Teachers’ College, he from Lowell Textile. “I said to Charlie at the time, ‘If we’re ever Since first being recruited 12 years ago, on the occasion of On their first date, a week later, he proposed walking to able financially, we’ve got to see what we can a UMass Lowell football game in Dudley, to raise money the movies to save on bus fare. “I knew right then,” she do for Lowell.’” at athletic events, they have contributed at charity golf remembers, “that this was a boy without an extra nickel — Jackie Puliafico tournaments, given $25,000 a year for several years toward to his name.” scholarships, and now — with their most recent, by far as well as chairman of the Massachusetts Small Business They were married three years later, sixty years ago most generous pledge — have agreed to donate $500,000, Advisory Council and a member of the Board of Overseers this summer. Since then, in addition to their other to fund priority projects on campus as determined by at Old Sturbridge Village, a nonprofit that provides educa- generosities, they have endowed five UMass Lowell the Chancellor. tional opportunities for kids. scholarships, given thousands more for needed projects, Two years ago, at the UMass Lowell 2002 commence- As for Jackie, although she retired officially years ago, it’s and — most recently — pledged half a million dollars to ment, they were presented jointly with the University’s been hard for those who know her to see much difference. be used by the Chancellor for campus priorities. Distinguished Alumni Award. After more than 20 years directing the music programs in It all began, says Charlie Puliafico, with a little Webster’s schools, as well as the local high school choir, “We’re just a couple of kids from Massachusetts who met company he called Webster Chemical, run out of the she has led a retirement that has included endless field on a bus,” Charlie says with a chuckle. “Our first date was back room of his mother-in-law’s old variety store — trips, music classes, musical productions and fund raisers a movie — and I could barely pay for that. But life since “with a baby and a couple rooms of furniture, and a of every sort. Not long ago, through ad sales and concert then has been very, very good.” $938 stake.” It was 1947. His first product was a floor tickets, she raised $40,000 to renovate the Webster audito- cleaner; his lab was the kitchen of their home. rium — fresh-painted walls, new window dressings, velvet He sold his stake in Webster Chemical nine years drapes — which hadn’t had an upgrade, she says, “since later, for $32,000. With that he launched a second sometime in the 1920s.” Until recently, she was director of company, Webco, a manufacturer of specialty chemicals, Webster’s St. Joseph’s Basilica Choir, which—among other out of a rented space not far from his home. It is still things — performed under her direction for the Pope and there today — in Dudley, Mass. — run now by his fami- 50,000 others in St. Peter’s Square in Rome. For close to Charlie and Jackie Puliafico ly, and bills over $20 million a year. 20 years now, the Bartlett High School auditorium has He had earned his BA in textile chemistry from been known officially as the “Jacqueline D. Puliafico Lowell Textile in 1944, an education he says today was Theatre.” My teachers, to keep me in school, got together and paid for “the foundation of my success.” His wife, Jackie, who my music texts, which were a big expense at the time.” Charlie meanwhile, has taken a back seat at Webco — majored in music education, had earned her bachelor’s whose top three spots are now held by his son, grandson two years before that — in large part due to an act of She stayed at Lowell State as a result, and graduated the and son-in-law — although a good part of his energies kindness by her teachers. following June. “And I’ve never forgotten,” says Jackie remain devoted to channeling a portion of its profits Puliafico. “I said to Charlie at the time, ‘If we’re ever able “My father died in August, just before my senior year was toward the people and projects he holds dear. In a recent financially, we’ve got to see what we can do for Lowell.’ ” to start. I was going to transfer to Worcester State, to be agreement he came to with the company, for instance, he nearer to Webster” — her hometown, both then and today agreed to advance it the purchase price of a machine to manufacture 15-gallon drums; the company, in return, will —”because I couldn’t afford [the boarding costs at] Lowell. The Puliaficos, with Chancellor William T. Hogan, at the 2002 Commencement ceremony at which they were honored.

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NHL Eyes UMass Lowell Star By Bob Ellis An Era Ends with Inbar’s Graduation

Ben Walter is allowed to dream. UMass Lowell Hockey Coach work his crackers off every day.” The Elad Inbar era Elad Inbar years in a row and played for a The Boston Bruins called the Blaise MacDonald was not surprised. The younger Walter remembers at UMass Lowell is National Championship as part of UMass Lowell Junior hockey center’s He had talked to various NHL teams watching his father play and practice over. New frontiers the NCAA Division II Elite 8. name during the 5th round of the about his player. “It’s a testimony to with the Canadiens, remembers the await the young man The River Hawks would not have National Hockey League’s draft of Ben. He’s a tremendous kid, works atmosphere in the team’s locker who was at the epicen- been there without the man an amateur players. really hard, is very respectful, has a room and remembers taking shots on ter of the University’s opposing coach described as “The high level of integrity and a tremen- basketball resurgence. It was not the first Montreal goaltender Patrick Roy Larry Bird of Division II.” Inbar is dous passion for the game,” said before practice. And Walter says it Inbar graduated in remembered for the steal of a pass time he’d thought MacDonald. “He loves his team- about the prospects. was there in that locker room that he June 2004, leaving the and two free throws that sealed the mates, he goes about his business developed his passion for the game. University after a myriad of honors, Northeast-10 Championship, a Elad Inbar It is something that in a very professional manner for a championships, big shots and memo- 3-point bomb with 14 seconds had been rumbling Although drafted, Walter has no young man.” rable moments. He is the school’s remaining against Southern New around in the young plans to sign a professional contract The River Hawk center was an all-time leading scorer with 2,099 Hampshire that sent the game into man’s mind probably just yet. He plans to return to Ben Walter integral part of the growth in the points and was named the 2004 overtime, and the River Hawks to from the time he first UMass Lowell for his junior year. University’s hockey program during Lester Cushing Award winner as an eventual victory in the NCAA laced up a pair of ice His goals are simple and include to tell him to shoot the ball. He is a the 2003-04 season. Walter tied for the University’s outstanding male regional, and for a fall away basket skates. “Of course you always dream another dream — “to win a very team-oriented player.” the team lead in goals with 18, game- (collegiate) national championship.” athlete. with 4.2 seconds on the clock that and hope, but you try not to think The “Larry Bird” comparison is winning goals with 3, and was tied Inbar was named to various all-star defeated Bryant and won the NCAA about it,” said Walter not a new one. It’s been following for second with 34 points. He was and all-tournament teams, grabbed regional. in a radio interview during his out- Inbar for a while. As a youngster he among the nation’s top scorers when various Northeast-10 Conference Fans remember the baskets better standing sophomore season at the his team was on the power play. would attend practices of an older Ben Walter honors, was a two-time All-America, than Inbar does. “Those kind of University. team coached by his father Zvi. “I had talked to But MacDonald and topped off his college career by shots, I don’t remember,” he says. And on a hot summer “Every time I’d come into practice, Boston and had a good points out that Walter being named the 2004 NCAA “I don’t remember taking them, it’s Sunday afternoon his he used to introduce me to the team interview with them. cannot be summarized Division II Player of The Year. just something that happens during name had been called. as Larry Bird,” says Inbar. “He was When they called my by a list of numbers or The 6-foot-7 forward from Kiryat the game, you lose yourself in the “I had talked to Boston always a player I admired, tried name it was really accomplishments. “It’s Haim, Israel, takes all of this rather moment. All you can remember is and had a good interview to copy.” exciting.” the mental side, the calmly, preferring to think in terms what you saw, later, on the video with them. When they Inbar’s father was also once a hero. — Ben Walter ability to think the of the River Hawk basketball team as tape.” called my name it was Zvi Inbar was a member of the Israeli game, to see the ice, to a whole. “It’s not one thing or one Inbar may not remember the really exciting,” said Walter. national team and often the team’s have awareness, that’s hard to teach, shot (that I remember),” says Inbar, shots, but he’s always been comfort- top scorer and played professionally He was in Raleigh, N.C. if it can be taught at all. You must “but the fact that we had able with the situation. “I play well in Israel. Those are footsteps the watching the draft when his name have good instincts to play the game a winning team for four years. under pressure. I don’t think about it younger Inbar would like to follow. was announced from the podium. and that’s his strongest suit as a [Teammate] Uri Grunwald and as the last shot,” he says. “I’m not A Bruins cap was placed on his head player.” I accomplished 100 wins, it’s thinking I’m going to win the game; Although drafted by a team in the and he was given a team sweater to Walter has “good blood lines.” incredible to me.” it just comes natural to me to take United States Basketball League and try on. given a tryout by the National Bas- His father, Ryan Walter, was a first The River Hawks show a record of that shot… and do well. Maybe I ketball Association’s New Jersey The call came halfway through round selection and played in the 100 wins and only 27 losses during have too much of an ego; I’m confi- Nets, Elad Inbar hopes to play pro- the league draft, the midpoint in the National Hockey League, with three the four years that Inbar and Grun- dent in myself.” fessionally in Israel and to represent nine rounds, a bit earlier than the teams, for 15 seasons, sharing a wald played; 56-11 during their As much as Inbar has taken and his country in international competi- experts had projected. “People told Stanley Cup as a member of the junior and senior seasons. The 100 made big shots, there are times tion. “I hope to play at the highest me I could go in the middle rounds,” game’s fabled Montreal Canadiens wins are more than any other UMass basketball Coach Ken Barer has level,” Inbar says. “I hope to play for said Walter. “I’m just happy to be in 1986. Lowell basketball players have been to remind him, he is the go-to guy. the 2008 (Olympic) team.” selected. It didn’t matter (what “Nothing has been easy for him,” part of. Their teams won the NCAA “He’s a terrific player, but there are round.)” his father told espn.com. “He’s had to Northeast Regional tournament two times,” says Barer, “where I do have – BE

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Tom Clarke: Balls and Strikes from a Different Angle Tom Clarke used to stand atop bucks. For a 13 year old kid, to his ultimate goal, Major League Oneonta. “We’re driving from here They use Carapazza’s car and share the pitcher’s mound and stare in at ten bucks is a lot of money. It Baseball. Now in the New York- to Brooklyn at 4 a.m.” says Clarke on the driving. “Games take care of home plate. He probably did not kept me in the game.” Penn League he is a step closer. a visit to LeLacheur Park in Lowell. themselves,” says Clarke. “The travel is the toughest part.” have much sympathy for the umpire; The umpiring career still Life in the minor leagues takes The stop in Lowell was as close to now the roles are reversed. had to wait until Clarke grad- some adjustment. An umpire had home as the Andover resident gets. Killing time in a hotel room in The UMass Lowell alum is still uated. He had enough credits best learn to live on the road. “You “Could you tell I was from around some forgotten stop on the road to pursuing a baseball career, but the to graduate, just not in the don’t do this if you don’t love it. Our here? I got booed out of the stadium. the major leagues is not that diffi- tools and the job have changed. right places. It took another lifestyle… we don’t have home “Five thousand people booing. There cult. “We have to take care of each He has little sympathy for pitchers… two and a half years before he games,” says Clarke. are no home games. If you don’t love other. We talk about games; we talk “none whatsoever.” was done. In the New York Penn League a it there is no point being here.” about umpiring, we have situational manuals we go through. “We’re try- At 27 years old, Clarke is a first He graduated from UMass season consists of 76 games in 79 An umpire has one friend; his ing to make each other better.” year umpire in the Class ”A” New Lowell in December 2001 days in cities and towns that seldom partner. In Clarke’s case it’s Vic York-Penn League, a short season, and entered umpiring school a are marked in bold on road maps. Carapazza. They live together in a – BE entry-level league. The league’s month later. Clarke went to For every Brooklyn and Staten series of far-less-than four-star hotels teams are part of “organized” base- the Jim Evans School for Tom Clarke Island there is a Batavia and during the three-month long season. ball. The rosters are stocked with umpires in Florida, twice. players whose rights are owned by The first time he injured his major league teams; one step on a knee and missed three weeks long road to major league baseball. of the five-week session. www.uml.edu/grad 1-800-656-GRAD [email protected] For Clarke it has already been a The second time, he didn’t long road. He finished his River miss a day. Hawk playing career in the spring of The Evans School taught bly: “I’m a people person; I like to THE GRADUATE SCHOOL 1999. An imposing pitcher, stand- Clarke the rules and the mechanics, talk; I like being out there. I think UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS LOWELL ing 6-foot-7, he went 8-0 with a 2.27 and during the final two weeks I’ve got a good personality for it. If earned run average, good numbers at focused on “situation management.” you don’t have the personality for it Areas of Graduate Study any level. His team won 37 games That, Clarke confesses, is the tough- you can’t work out there. You’ve got 100+ and participated in the NCAA est part: “They throw everything in to adjust and think on your feet.” 32 Master’s Degree Programs Tournament. the world at you and see how you 15 Doctoral Degree Programs But his baseball playing career was ”They don’t want robots; they don’t want cookie cutter people; you 36 Graduate Certificate Programs ...unlimited possibilities over. “At the end of that season I have to develop style. That’s authority. You can’t teach it.” had nothing left in my shoulder,” says Clarke, “so there was no chance — Tom Clarke of playing (anymore).” It was in school that Clarke react.” Instructors charge out onto began to develop a style. Rules and So, he fell back on what had been the field and argue calls. Some side job positioning are important but style his through college. “I ran students handle it well, some don’t. brings with it authority. “They don’t into a couple of professional umpires “They will clam up, get nervous, or want robots; they don’t want cookie- who worked one of these games, fall over,” says Clarke. “That’s how cutter people; you have to develop (NYP), so I picked their brains they weed ’em out.” all night long and it peaked my style. That’s authority. You can’t interest.” Clarke was one who did handle it teach it.” well. “I’m still not used to it, but I’m Clarke spent one year umpiring He’d begun umpiring little league prepared for it,” he says. The key in the Northeast League, an inde- games at age 13. “It was something may be an individual’s personality. pendent league with no connection QUALITY GRADUATE EDUCATION AT AN AFFORDABLE COST to do. They paid us a couple of Clarke’s has been described as bub-

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2.) The 2004 Distinguished Biology Alumni Award was presented 6.) On the eve of the 2004 commencement ceremonies, a dinner to Tom O’Connor ’77, ’80 during the annual department awards was held at Vesper Country Club for Honorary Degree recipient 5.) Members of the 1988 Basketball championship team 1.) The annual RAD Sciences alumni gathering was held on May 11 on ceremony and alumni reception. Pictured from left, Retiring Chair Charlie Hoff, ’66 and Distinguished Alumni Award recipient reunited for a round of golf during this year’s UML tourney. campus. Scholarship awards were presented to two master’s degree Prof. Robert Lynch, Tom O’Connor, Dean of Sciences Robert Frank Spinola ’66 and their families. Pictured from left, From left are, John Paganetti ’84, Captain Leo Parent ’88, candidates during the ceremony. Proudly displaying the UMass Lowell Tamarin and retiring Prof. Dave Eberiel. Provost John Wooding, Charlie Hoff ’66, Frank Spinola ’66 and Gavin Cummings ’88 and Bobby Licare ’88. banner are, from left, Prof. Clayton French, Asst. Prof. Mark Tries, Executive Vice Chancellor Fred Sperounis. Department Chair Jim Egan, scholarship recipients Diane Quintero and Julie Gostic, and Mike Ryan ’74, ’76. 7 7.) UMass Night at the Pops was held on the 3 evening of June 23 at Symphony Hall in 3.) This alumni foursome and Boston. The concert was conducted by perennial players in the UML Marvin Hamlisch with a little help from annual golf tournament are, UMass President Jack Wilson and Board of from left: Richard Cacciapouti Trustees chairperson Grace Fey. From left ’63, ’78, John DiStefano ’71, are, Dave McInerney ’76, Vice Chancellor ’77, Mike Ossing ’81, and Administration and Finance for UMass Lowell Bob White ’70, ’73. Louise Griffin ’78, Steve Gendron ’85 and Kathy Gendron ’85.

8.) Those enjoying the Pops performance for 4 4.) Participants in this year’s UMass Night on June 23 included, from left, UML golf tournament at Sky Debbie Penney, Bill Penney ’75, Herbert Goldberg Meadow Country Club included, ’43, Barbara Goldberg and UML Director of from left, the foursome of Development Mike MacNeil. Fran Day, Diana Day, Larry Day and Joe Day, ’66. It was an all-Day event.

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security department. James 1964 Edwin Njoku has been in has been married for 31 years, 1976 Baghdad since January and 1985 David Healy started Healy has three children and lives in Brett Blaisdell was awarded was appointed by General Bradley Mingels has been & Associates, Inc., as manu- Quincy, where he grew up. a Design News Engineering Sanchez as the radiation named marketing manager for facturers’ representatives Achievement Award for protection officer for the Venture Tape Corporation, a to the paper, plastic and coat- 1974 Global Innovation. Combined Forces in worldwide manufacturer of ings industry with specialty Photographic film and the Baghdad. He can be reached specialty tapes and foils. He chemical additives. Louise Hart has written a additives used in engineering at igewekala.e.njoku@us. also is an adjunct professor in book entitled Rosie’s Rule, plastics don’t always mix, army.mil the College of Engineering. which can be ordered through making it tough to develop Bradley is a co-founder and 1970 publishamerica.com It is a materials for single-use 1980 coach of “Nautical Mile,” a Kathleen (Pigeon) Clark book about a “war” that cameras. Blaisdell led a team track and field program for Beckert, widowed in 2000, school children declare on of Kodak engineers that Suzanne A. Page is assistant South Shore youth in grades recently married Dietmar schoolyard violence and is a developed a new kind of to the managing director/man- Hampshire USA/Teen USA 2-8. He also coaches in the Beckert and the couple hon- “testament to the resiliency, color camera that can sport ager of board administration Pageants. Kim writes that she Scituate youth sports program. eymooned in Dietmar’s native creativity, self-determination different looks in different at the Boston Symphony owes a lot of her success to her Germany. Kathleen is in her and the power of the individu- Paul Bertrand and his wife, parts of the world. Orchestra. Suzanne writes education at Lowell and the 24th year as a chiropractor al to make a difference.” Wendy, welcomed their sec- that she “graduated in 1980 extracurricular activities and Dietmar operates a Jim Fraser has been appoint- ond daughter, Amanda, in Juan S. Linares retired from with a Bachelor of Music which afforded her “extraordi- sawmill. They mountain climb ed by BAE systems as director December 2003. Dad assisted the Venezuelan oil industry degree and studied with nary leadership experiences as and garden together. Kathleen of business management for with the birth, and managed after working for 28 years in Eunice Alberts, who is still vice president of student gov- recently welcomed a newly the Information not to faint. They moved to information technology. He teaching voice at the Depart- ernment, pledge mistress of Class of ’46 Has Perfect Reunion Record graduated chiropractor to her and Electronic Lunenburg in 2002, where the attended a culinary academy ment of Music.” Alpha Omega sorority, orien- office in Hartland, Maine, Warfare Systems family also includes two Members of the Class of 1946 from the State Teachers in Caracas and is now an tation guide for freshmen, which will help to ease her (IEWS) unit yellow Labs. Paul is looking College at Lowell have held a reunion every year since gradua- executive chef at a Swiss Entrepreneurs Club member work load. headquartered in 1983 forward to both girls obtaining tion. Those attending this year, at the home of Doris Lowrey restaurant in the mountains and Homecoming Court, to Nashua, N.H. Kim (Savage) Bass owns collegiate golf scholarships. Tereshko, were Martha Basile Maloney, Rose Clemente DeMasi, James F. Kelley, Jr. spent 10 of Caracas. He is planning to Fraser and his name a few.” Rosemary Nicholson, Louise Levingston, Helen Corbett Moriar- years in the banking industry open his own restaurant in the and operates Bass Enterprises, wife, Donna, live Joan Gasparoni has been ty, Doris Tomlinson, Elizabeth Cluin Quealy and Marjorie Mer- after college and then 17 years Caribbean in the future. which produces state shows 1986 in Chelmsford. living on a coastal Atlantic rill Robinson. Pictured at their reunion held in 2003 are, managing one of the largest for NBC television including Their son Jim is a senior at Ocean island in South Caroli- Demetrios Venetis writes standing, from left, Louise, Rosemary, Rose and Martha; seated, liquor stores in the state. In Miss New York USA/Teen UMass Amherst. na for seven years. She misses that he is “ecstatic, thrilled from left, Elizabeth, Doris and Helen; and seated in front, Doris. 1995 he became the parking USA Pageants and Miss New the “Boston folks” and would and overjoyed” to announce Others who have attended recent reunions were June Crowley operations manager for the enjoy hearing from some the birth of his first child, Traynor, Charlotte Spieler Cohen, Martha Yoshida Suminas, city of Quincy and in 2003 college friends. Sophia Irini Venetis. She was Lucy Valente Davis and Mary McDonnell Cole. “We have met moved to the state lottery 1979 born on April 22. Both mom every year,” the women say. “We wonder if any other class can Glenn Tainter and Sandy (Landry) Tainter, seen here with Charles Roche has been and baby are doing great, and match this record?” sons Glenn and Adam, recently celebrated the 25th anniver- promoted at Pratt & Whitney dad is on an emotional high. 1974 saries of their marriage, graduation and move to Virginia. to a technical leadership posi- They met on their first day of classes in Cumnock Hall and tion. He recently joined the adjunct faculty at the Univer- 1987 1958 dated throughout their college years, sity of Hartford in Connecti- Wayne G. Fisher was Edward J. Snyder, Jr. was recognized for and are “best cap- cut and teaches composites licensed by the Board of Pub- his support of education, leadership in the tured on page 84 of courses at Pratt & Whitney’s lic Accountancy as a Certified business industry and volunteerism in the the 1979 yearbook Engineering Technical Uni- Public Accountant (CPA) in community with an honorary Doctor of dancing at the versity. Dr. Roche is currently January. He is a technical spe- Public Service at the May 15 commence- senior semi-formal.” the mechanical engineering cialist with the Department of ment ceremony of the University of North Glenn has advisory board chairman at Defense and lives in Billerica. Carolina at Charlotte. He serves as the advanced through UMass Lowell and remains director of the UNC Charlotte Foundation and was a mem- the years to aircraft active in the University’s out- 1989 ber of the Board of Trustees for eight years. He is also active carrier project reach efforts. He is married in the Albemarle community as chairman and trustee of the John David Murphy is pleased to announce that his daugh- superintendent at Norfolk Naval Shipyard’s Nuclear Engineer- with two children, living in Michael D. Coffey married Stanly Community College Foundation and director of a ter, Lindsay, has signed a NAIA basketball scholarship with ing Department. Sandy “retired” from her career as an Tolland, Conn. Rebecca (Lanier) Coffey ’99 on July 26, 2003. Michael is foundation of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Charlotte. nationally ranked Berry College of Rome, Ga. The 5-foot-4 accounting department manager prior to the birth of her first John Traphagan, Ph.D. has Additional affiliations have included director and member of point guard has been recognized by the Atlanta Tipoff Club as son, but has been active in both of her boys’ activities, full and been appointed director of the a senior meteorologist for the executive committee of the North Carolina Textile Man- one of the premier college basketball players in the Greater part-time teaching, Scouting, and has been recognized Center for East Asian Studies Meteorlogix, LLC in Woburn. ufacturers Association and president of the Stanly County Atlanta area. throughout her community as an outstanding volunteer. They at the University of Texas at Rebecca is an operational Manufacturers Association and various community honors. extend their best wishes to all their friends and classmates as Austin. forecaster for WSI Corpora- they all celebrate their 25th. tion in Andover, and they live in Dracut.

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March, at the Massachusetts Kuwait, Afghanistan and designed from the ground up Software, Inc. Cristy and her Heather L. Melito-Dezan has In Memoriam 1990 Music Educators Association’s Uzbekistan. His awards to meet national standards. family live in Grafton. graduated with a J.D. from Tara Denno Guschov was Annual All-State Conference, include the Bronze Star, Meri- Tim will be using the text in Jennifer M. Wetmore New England School of Law 1926 1959 in Boston. promoted to senior criminal Heather received the Excel- torious Service Medal, Army his classes at UML. completed a one-year judicial Beatrice E. Condon Mary J. (Quinn) Gallucci investigative analyst at the lence in General Music Award Commendation Medal with clerkship in October 2003 David Watters, vice presi- 1927 1962 Insurance Fraud Bureau of from the Society for General third Oak Leaf Cluster dent of operations at Cabrera through the Attorney General’s 1999 Massachusetts. She received a Music in Massachusetts. She (OLC), Army Achievement Honor Program at the Execu- Mary A. (Hughes) Barr David P. Wade Services, received notification Rebecca (Lanier) Coffey mar- Professional Service Award teaches music in Dedham. Medal with 1st OLC, Global tive Office for Immigration from the ABHP that he ried Michael D. Coffey ’89 on 1928 1963 from the International Associ- War on Terror (GWOT) Review in New York City. successfully passed the certifi- July 26, 2003. Rebecca is an Mary R. (Corbett) Sullivan Frances D. (Devlin) Galle ation of Law Enforcement Expeditionary Medal, the She now practices immigration 1993 cation exam and is now operational forecaster for 1931 1965 Intelligence Analysts for out- GWOT Service Medal, credentialed as a Certified law at a firm in Lynn. Julia (Willis) Dunning and WSI Corporation in Andover. Ruby A. (Donnelly) Fitzsimmons Stephen C. Tacelli standing contributions as an Korean Defense Service Health Physicist. Watters, her husband, Mark, started Michael is a senior meteorolo- intelligence analyst to the Medal, Army Service Ribbon who has an M.S. in radiologi- 1932 1968 a nonprofit called Decibels 1998 gist for Meteorlogix, LLC in achievement of law enforce- and the Overseas Service cal health physics from UMass Cecilia M. McManus Theresa A. (Mendonsa) Caldwell Charity to ensure funding for Jonathan Adam August is a Woburn. They live in Dracut. ment objectives. Recently Ribbon. Jason is married to Lowell, is one of the founding Eric S. Goulston education for children with physical therapist at Rikers Kara L. Kelley was promoted 1934 she was awarded lifetime the former Jennifer Lynn principals of Cabrera, an 8(a) Roger A. Poor hearing loss. Decibels has Island Correctional Facility in to senior engineer at XDD, Adele J. (Connor) Fuller certification by the Society of Carey of Hesperia, Calif., and certified, small disadvantaged provided funding for Minute New York. In the summer of LLC, a small environmental Edna Hoyt 1971 Certified Crime Analysts. has a daughter, Emma, 2. business providing specialized Man Early Intervention Pro- 2001 he was designated the remediation consulting firm in Arlene R. (Tracy) Barsamian Bruce Marshall accepted a radiological and environmen- 1935 gram for Children with Hear- athletic trainer/physical thera- Stratham N.H. Kara received promotion to product manag- tal consulting and field ser- Gertrude L. (Schwartz) Frank 1977 1992 ing Loss in Concord, the pist for the Gold Medal win- her master’s in civil engineer- er at WebMD and, as a result, vices to federal and state Jean D. Dupuis Peter S. Haslam and his Caroline Bass Fund at Chil- ning USA Men’s Basketball ing at UML in 2000. 1940 was relocated to the government and private Michael F. Mohan wife, Cindy, moved in 2002 to dren’s Hospital in Boston and Team in the Maccabiah Games Edward M. Lynch, Jr. Nashville, Tenn., headquar- industry across the United Geneva, Ill., where Peter is the Thayer Lindsley Nursery in Israel. In the Spring of 2002, 1981 ters. His wife, Carrie Moore States. 2001 1943 controller for Prairie Business at Emerson College in Boston. he became an introduction Thomas G. Babcock Marshall ’95, recently released Credit, Inc. Julia and Mark’s daughter leader for Landmark Education Anna Shuman Oliver is the Eileen M. (Flynn) Cunha her first solo CD. (See 1995, community resources coordina- 1983 James E. McGaugh recently Annabella has hearing loss 1995 and also graduated from the 1944 next column.) tor at Cedar Crest in Pompton James J. Navarro joined Citigroup as vice presi- and is doing remarkably well Carrie Moore Marshall has Institute for Integrative Bernice E. (Engstrand) Kelly Armen Najarian is the Plains, N.J. Anna received her dent and counsel overseeing with the assistance of a released her first solo CD, all Nutrition as a certified holistic 1985 director of product manage- master’s degree in social work 1947 legislative and regulatory cochlear implant. Decibels songs she wrote and arranged. health counselor. He has been Judith D. (Uwazany) Windham ment at Softcoin, Inc., in from Syracuse University, with Sofia N. Giavis activity in New England for recently held its annual golf It was recorded and produced working as a holistic health Brisbane Calif. a concentration in community 1987 the world’s largest financial tournament at the Wedge- by Terry Skotz, 1994 SRT. counselor since then in his own 1948 organizing, policy, planning A. Robb Frederickson institution. He was previously wood Country Club in Stow, Carrie’s husband, Bruce private practice based out of Jean F. (Duffy) Kephart and administration. She is employed as state and federal where Julia lives. Anyone 1994 Marshall ’93, sings on a New York City. He completed 1991 experienced in the non-profit, 1950 government affairs director interested in participating, number of the songs. The CD the 2002 New York City William R. Finn Timothy Looney recently health care and volunteer man- Robert M. Lacey for NSTAR Electric & Gas. sponsoring or donating can do has been released through an Marathon in 4:19:20. During authored an Auto CAD agement fields. At Cedar Crest, Joan C. (Brunelle) Matthews 2002 James lives in Needham with so online at decibelcharity.org. independent distributor, the Summer of 2003 he spent textbook published through a campus for middle-income Jeanine M. Rodgers his wife, Katherine, and two Captain Jason Mackay indieheaven. Interested six weeks of intensive training 1951 McGraw Hill/Glencoe which people, age 62 or over, she sons, Quinlan and Aidan. relinquished command of the alumni can go to the website in Pune, India, at the OSHO Nishan Boghosian 2003 he said was “one of the hard- works with the Resident 95th Maintenance Company (www.indieheaven.com) and Meditation Center to further Ludwig Rebenfeld Sharon A. Rocheleau Bethany (Patriquin) est but most interesting jobs” Life team, which focuses on (TMDE) in a ceremony at the type “Carrie Marshall” in the his holistic health counseling Robert W. Spencer Tsioropoulos and husband he has ever had. Hands-On enhancing the quality of life for John M. Cone Metrology Lab- search by name field. Dean of practice. In April 2004 he Dean’91 welcomed their sec- AutoCAD is a comprehensive, the residents by promoting and 1952 Faculty, Staff and Friends oratory on Redstone Arsenal, Student Services Tom Taylor teamed up with Time Warner ond son Evan in April 2003. basic CAD textbook that coordinating resident events, Gordon L. Axon Ala., in April. Jason com- plays back-up acoustic guitar Cable of Milwaukee in making He joins big brother Alex. teaches the AutoCAD soft- activities, interest groups and Stephen J. Bodor Kenneth L. Rogers, manded the only calibration on a few songs—so the CD four video segments for their Bethany is director of ware using short, interesting educational programs. Professor Emeritus and repair company for Test, really has UML connections. “On-Demand” service that dis- 1953 vocational services at Career projects that will capture and cusses a range of health issues Services Corporation in Measurement, and Diagnostic hold student attention. The Trevor A. Finnie Frances C. Rogers Equipment (TMDE) in the from childhood obesity and the 2003 Haverhill, and Dean is a chapters are ordered logically 1996 effects of sugar on the body to 1954 music teacher completing his Army. He assumed command for CAD, rather than for tra- Emily Neal and Michael Cristy (Davidson) Rosen- how food affects our immune Helen (McSweeney) Hauser master’s in music education in June 2002 and commanded ditional board drafting. In Irving are getting married on hahn and her husband, Scott, system. He is now training James F. O’Sullivan at UML. for 22 months. Jason deployed addition, each chapter has a October 30 at St. Michael’s welcomed a daughter, Shelby for the Mighty Hamptons Catherine A. (McDermott) Warry the company to Kuwait and separate “Teamwork Project” Church in Bedford. Emily is a Heather (Ward) Kirby and Lynne, born in April. Cristy Triathlon, which will be held Florian J. Weissenborn Iraq during Operation Iraqi designed to allow students property manager for the her husband, Bob, adopted graduated from Massachusetts in September. Freedom where he led the to pursue chapter topics in a Nashua Housing Authority and 1958 their first child, 11-year-old School of Law in 1999 and is company and coordinated second real-world scenario. Mike is a customer service Vivian R. (Cornwall) Norton Jasmine, in February. In the contracts manager for NSI calibration support for Iraq, Hands-On AutoCAD is manager for the Beverly Port

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Marina. Best wishes and con- Rob Velella has been named mater, UMass Lowell, where, of student writers and broad- Migrant Engineer Finds Home at UML gratulations Emily and Mike!! director of the student news- as an underclassman, he per- casters will help W&J build Matthew Ridley is teaching paper and radio at Washing- sonally took on the challenge upon the strong foundation it UML engineering graduate and joining them.” a special education class in a ton and Jefferson College. In of returning his student paper, has built in student media.” his new position, Velella The Connector, to prominence Rob was recently honored at entrepreneur Bill Morrison is finding a He founded Sky Meadow Solutions Lynn middle school and will home for his nascent company, Sky be in grad school in the fall at oversees and advises student and legitimacy among the UML with the dedication of as a program management develop- either UMass Boston or Cam- media, including W&J’s stu- campus community,” said the “Rob Velella Editorial Meadows Solutions, LLC, in the new ment company allowing his clients to bridge College, studying dent weekly newspaper, the Susan Yuhasz, W&J dean of Room.” business incubator at the university’s employ his services at any point in the Red & Black, and the campus Student Life. “His ability to school adjustment counseling. Office of Research Administration. design and production process, paying radio station, 91.7 WNJR- apply professional standards of FM. “Rob brings W&J the journalism to student media “I went through what it has to offer for what they need as they need it. foresight and professional atti- without removing a bit of the and it seems like a really good fit,” said As outsourcing becomes the rule tude he displayed at his alma spirit and unique perspective Morrison, who plans to be in the new rather than the exception, Morrison offices by the end of the year. “It’s hard feels his well-rounded experiences in working out of your home. I feel Bill Morrison both the engineering and operations On Mother's Day, a Gift of Elegance and Hope much more energized when I can work ends of telecommunications, medical alongside other entrepreneurs, even try downsizing that saw many others technologies, electronics and semicon- those in other fields, where we can dis- lose jobs as well. However, unlike ductors make him an attractive or a domestic-abuse victim, a family holiday can be From all accounts, the day was a success. The women F cuss experiences and ideas to generate many others, Morrison knew those alternative to the high overhead of a time of loneliness and bitter reminders. But for at arrived in their new suits, warmly welcomed by Coun- cil members and beauty professionals. Each then had creativity. This should be a great jump halcyon days would not return. a full time, permanent staff. least 10 such women this Mother’s Day, thanks to a few start for my company.” local businesses and a UMass Lowell alumna whose her choice of hairstyling, makeup or a sampling of “Companies that laid off their engi- The new business incubator is Morrison started his engineering specialty is enhancing the lives and looks of others, both, while all enjoyed a light dinner of sandwiches, neering departments won’t be hiring operated under the guidance of consulting venture when, after five it was anything but that. salad and dessert. Several had their pictures taken with back even 80 percent of those employ- Louis Petrovic, Director of External their makeup artists or hairstylists; one, says Chris years as program manager of develop- ees, but there will be a demand for Funding, Technology Transfer & On the day after Mother’s Day, May 10, in an event Vasiliadis, “literally gasped with glee after seeing her ment at GN Netcom in Nashua, he production services,” Morrison said. Partnering at UML. choreographed by the Alumni Relations Council, the new self in the mirror.” was laid off in the wake of tech indus- “Instead of trying to fight them, I’m 10 woman, all residents of Lowell's Alternative House, arrived at Wannalancit Mills for a day of coiffed hair, The women left after dinner, says Vasiliadis, “not treated skin and pampered egos. only with a new look and a gift of makeup supplies, but ® with wide, genuine smiles and a brand new way of ALUMNI HOLIDAYS 2005 TRAVEL PROGRAMS The plan had begun hatching late last year, when the looking at themselves.” Council, in search of a gesture of community outreach, THE UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS, LOWELL INVITES YOU TO TRAVEL WITH ALUMNI AND FRIENDS ... contacted Alternative House, a shelter for women and children victimized by domestic abuse. Council mem- Treasures of South America Ireland- Ennis Tuscany- Chianti ber Tom Kershaw ’88, put in a call to friend and fellow January 24 — February 6, 2005 May 31 — June 8, 2005 June 26 — July 4, 2005 alum Chris Vasiliadis ’87, founder and president of Discover Argentina and Chile, exotic lands From charming Ennis, explore the beauty, Roam through Chianti’s vineyards, Burlington-based Signature Faces, to enlist her makeup of amazing scenery and ancient cultures. culture and mysteries of the Emerald Isle. hilltop castles and enchanting villages. skills. Approximately $3,495*, plus air Approximately $1,795*, plus air Approximately $1,895*, plus air Vasiliadis took it from there. Her company, which Poland- Krakow Sorrento specializes in makeup consulting — but focuses also on Yucatan Peninsula image enhancement in general — in turn recruited a July 6 — 14, 2005 September 12 — 20, 2005 November 24 — December 1, 2005 second makeup artist and two hairstylists; local charity Stroll the noble streets of Krakow and Delight in Sorrento’s brilliant seaside sun- Soak up Mexico’s anthropological treasures, Suitability donated new suits. Part of the idea, says glimpse the heart and soul of Poland. sets, historic buildings and serene gardens. warm culture and natural wonders. Deme Gys of University Advancement, who helped Approximately $1,795*, plus air Approximately $1,895*, plus air Approximately $1,495*, plus air coordinate the event, was to provide an image-boost to *All prices are per person, For further information please contact University of Massachusetts-Lowell the Alternative House women, which would then based on double occupancy. Office of Alumni Relations 600 Suffolk Street, Lowell, MA 01854 978-934-3140 hopefully carry over into interviews and new jobs. Chris Vasiliadis

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