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Want to know the latest from UML? Ask a student. UMass When you receive a call from the Lowell Fund, there is a hard working student on the other end of the line. So go ahead and ask for news of your favorite professor, if parking on campus is still a headache, or how the season is looking for MAGAZINE your favorite RiverHawk team. They’ll be sure to give you the scoop and to thank you FALL 2004 for making your gift to UMass Lowell. VOLUME 7 NUMBER 3 Your Lowell Fund gift allows the ROBOTS — and the University to: Minds That Move Them • Increase student scholarships, • Create research opportunities for both undergraduates and graduates, • Support our talented faculty, and • Improve technology on campus. For more information, please contact: Katherine Hastings, director of the Lowell Fund, at (978) 934-4808, e-mail: [email protected] or visit us at www.uml.edu/alumni. Asst. Prof. Fred Martin Asst. Prof. Holly Yanco Nonprofit Org US Postage Paid Permit 219 Burl., VT. 05401 Office of Alumni Relations Wannalancit Mills Complex 600 Suffolk Street Lowell, MA 01854-3629 Page 18 Change Service Requested Calendar of Events For more information on alumni activities, please check our Alumni Website Calendar: www.uml.edu/Alumni Dear Alumni, Parents and Friends: or call the Office of Alumni Relations toll free (877) UML-ALUM or 978-934-3140. 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 For more information on Athletics, For more information and reserva- Interested in subscribing to William T. Hogan go to www.GORIVERHAWKS .com or tions on the Family Discovery Series, The Connector, UML’s Chancellor call 978-934-2310. please call the Center for the Arts student newspaper? Please call at (978) 934-4444. 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