Dr. Huimin Yan Image by: Gray Milkowski More than 650,000 people undergo chemotherapy treatments each year, and for anyone who has experienced it — or knows someone who has — the procedure takes a…
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Giulia Po DeLisle, associate teaching professor in the Department of World Languages and Cultures, accepts her OERscar award at the second-annual ceremony, held recently at Moloney Hall. “Why isn’t…
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2022 Greeley Scholar for Peace Studies, Soe Mying, sits and smiles at camera This year’s Greeley Scholar page at UML Greeley Scholar for Peace Studies , a Burmese journalist in hiding from the…
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EMTs, from left, Andrew Finerty, Angela Piso and P.J. Roe stand in front of UMass Lowell EMS car Neither rental car snafu nor ice storm could keep 16 students from UMass Lowell’s Emergency Medical…
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Art and Design Associate Professor Ingrid Hess, center, with Sheila Kirschbaum, right, director of the Tsongas Industrial History Center and co-editor of one of Hess's books, and Paulette Renault-…
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Four students attending symposium smile at camera There were the tangible takeaways, like pollinator seed packets, jars of locally produced honey and freshly planted centerpieces on the Coburn Hall…
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Photograph by Pavel Romaniko of vintage Russian car after accident Asst. Teaching Prof. Romaniko-Pavel Pavel Romaniko , whose family has roots in both Ukraine and Russia, is divided by war. Yet…, Q: All of the works in “Nostalgia” are photos of intricate paper models. Why make these detailed models in paper when you could create images digitally?, A:, In “A Guide to Collective Melancholie,” I restore things. I either go to a physical space or I find a photograph – mine or someone else’s, significant or insignificant – and then I reconstruct it as…, Q: Why is your work titled “Nostalgia”? , A:, The title is satire. Nostalgia is dangerous because it requires no imagination. Nostalgic thinking never implies an actual place; it implies a return to a utopian space. It employs a sense of…, Q: The only people present in your “Nostalgia” photos are portraits and sculptures of Soviet and Russian leaders, from Vladimir Lenin to Vladimir Putin. , What is the historical context for some of your works?, A:, The book begins and ends with photos that show a car, modeled on the Soviet Lada, that has been in an accident. Russian history is an accident that keeps repeating itself. Russians haven’t dealt…, Q: In your reconstruction, the gallery is empty, with only a single canvas turned to the wall. And your photo “Untitled (Gallery)” contains not art, but the standard propaganda photos of Soviet and…, In your view, what is the relationship between politics and art?, A:, Art is never apolitical. The act of making artwork in a totalitarian society is an act of dissent. Simply producing artwork is a form of free expression: It’s why literature is a danger to…, Q: You have spoken out about your opposition to the invasion of Ukraine. How has it affected you?, A:, Until the minute of the invasion, I and many Russians I know thought the military buildup was a bluff. I just broke down and I wept. I have a lot of friends I would see cry on the phone; they would…
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Society of Environmental Scientists members Fiona Benzi, Andrew Riggs, Jamie-Lyn Cavallon, Thomas Furtado, Sarah Mahannah and Lucia Cheney pose behind the trash they collected alongside Lowell Litter…
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The UMass Amherst Transportation Center’s (UMTC) $4.75 million, state-of-the-art aviation research and training center officially opened at Westover Municipal Airport in Chicopee with a ribbon-…
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Maddison Lessard, has received the Barry M. Goldwater Scholarship , one of the most prestigious awards in the U.S. for undergraduates studying the sciences. The scholarship is given annually to college sophomores…, Alexey Veraksa, ’s lab over the past year, using the fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster to investigate cell signaling mechanisms during organism development. “I congratulate Maddison Lessard on receiving this…, Marcelo Suárez-Orozco, . “I am proud to see our students achieve at the highest level, and am grateful for our faculty who guide them toward success.” In Veraksa’s lab, Lessard has joined a project that is using…, Claire Jackan, , who recently graduated. Now she will be working independently to move this project forward, Veraksa said. “Based on her performance so far, I am fully confident that she will successfully carry out…, IMSD, , a, , research-intensive, skill-building mentoring program for undergraduates interested in pursuing research careers in the biomedical sciences. Lessard said the program was “invaluable.” Lessard also…
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