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Our Common Dharma: Benjamin Franklin’s bare booty
3+ week, 1+ day ago (848+ words) Benjamin Franklin was one of the most practical people who ever lived. Inventor. Scientist. Diplomat. Printer. Statesman. Yet among all his experiments with electricity, bifocals and lightning rods, perhaps his most unusual obsession had nothing to do with laboratories. It…...
The Five Minute Read: MCC grad interns on Beacon Hill
3+ day, 38+ min ago (315+ words) LOWELL — After graduating with high honors from Middlesex Community College in May, Monique Chan, of Lowell, started the Massachusetts Senate Summer Fellowship. A paralegal studies student, she serves in state Sen. Vanna Howard’s office with fellow Middlesex alumna Julianne Floro....
‘It’s all for the kids’: STEP bikers ride the roads for a good cause
3+ week, 5+ day ago (956+ words) TYNGSBORO — A bunch of sun-bronzed, leather-wearing motorcycle riders gathered at the Tyngsboro Sportsmen’s Club, eyeing each other’s rides and giving an approving nod before they all peeled out on their steel horses and hit the road for the 50-mile Special…...
State agency recommended to oversee youth sports
3+ week, 7+ hour ago (205+ words) A group created to investigate the health impacts and financial challenges around youth sports has recommended an entirely new framework, one that would charge a youth sports oversight agency with licensing coaches and officials and open the door to state…...
MRT, MCC launch M2 Performing Arts Academy
2+ day, 23+ hour ago (469+ words) LOWELL — Merrimack Repertory Theatre and Middlesex Community College recently announced the launch of M2 Performing Arts Academy, a new year-round performing arts program designed to empower young people through theater. Building on a multiyear partnership between MRT and MCC, M2 expands the…...
Inspired by her niece, UMass Lowell administrator authors children’s book
4+ week, 1+ day ago (674+ words) LOWELL — Six-year-old Ellie knows the story by heart. Every time her aunt, Hannah King opens “Ellie Elephant & Tate the Talker,” Ellie beams with anticipation. She recognizes herself in the young elephant who communicates using a talking device because the story…...
UMass Lowell expands biomedical engineering pathways for high school, college students
1+ week, 2+ day ago (223+ words) LOWELL — UMass Lowell is helping prepare high school and college students for careers in biomedical engineering through the development of a new training laboratory and summer program. Assistant professor Yanfen Li is leading the development of the new facility, alongside…...