Cleft lip and cleft palate are birth defects that occur when a baby’s lip or mouth do not form properly during pregnancy. About 1 in every 1,600 babies is born with these defects in the United States…
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In the U.S., about 34 million people suffer from varying degrees of hearing loss, and about 10 million of them have to use hearing aids, according to Ketan Muni ’87. “Hearing loss is more common as…, Good Vibrations, “The Earlens device is the world’s first and only custom implanted hearing solution designed to directly vibrate the eardrum,” says Ketan. Unlike most hearing aids that use an amplifier and speaker…
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Ryan Shields, assistant professor in the School of Criminology and Justice Studies, is sharing a $1.5 million, four-year grant from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to study a unique…
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Garret Roberts baseball profile page Garret Roberts has played baseball for as long as he can remember. The game is what led him to UMass Lowell, where he is an outfielder and right-handed pitcher…
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The UMass Lowell women’s soccer team was en route to Stony Brook, New York, for the semifinals of the 2018 America East conference tournament. As the River Hawks’ bus made the five-hour drive to Long…
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Steve Kornacki ’17 (H), the irrepressible political analyst for MSNBC, took a deep dive into the numbers during “Election 2020 Debrief,” an 80-minute Zoom gathering that also featured UMass President…
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Assoc. Teaching Prof. of link this for MEI landing page Marketing, Entrepreneurship and Innovation Finch-Deborah Deb Finch kept waiting for someone to write a book about the ALS Ice Bucket…, Q. How did the book take shape?, A., It started in January when I attended a national entrepreneurship education conference. I met Eric Koester, a professor from Georgetown University who started a course called the Creator Institute,…, Q. You were able to publish your book in under a year. Safe to say the course was a success? , A., It’s very well done. What I like about it is, it’s more than writing a book. You meet weekly with editors and you’re part of a cohort of about 35 students, so you have a support network of people…, Q. Why was the ALS Ice Bucket Challenge so successful?, A., Pete Frates really got it going, but it wasn’t a brand new idea that he came up with. There was already something called the Cold Water Challenge. But he’s the first person to tie it to ALS. And it…, Q. How is social media marketing for nonprofits different than for a company like Starbucks or Tesla?, A., The biggest challenges for nonprofits are staffing and resources. I focused on smaller nonprofits with budgets under $500,000 that don’t have a full-time marketing person on staff. When you don’t…, Q. What advice would you offer to nonprofits to improve their social media presence?, A., One thing I hear over and over from students that were working with nonprofits, maybe as an Honors project, is ‘What do you want your social media to do?’ Even executive directors of organizations…, Q. Are there examples of local nonprofits that do a good job on social media?, A., The Boys and Girls Club of Greater Lowell does a fantastic job. It’s probably my primary go-to if I want to look at an organization. Their stuff is well-formulated, and one of our graduates from the…, Q. Will there ever be another social media phenomenon like the Ice Bucket Challenge? , A., Honestly, until this summer, I would have said no. But the Minnesota Freedom Fund, a nonprofit working to eliminate cash bail, raised $30 million this summer after the killing of George Floyd.…
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During my years of service in the United States Congress, I never could have imagined the U.S. Capitol being desecrated in such fashion. Equally, I couldn’t have envisioned elected officials inciting…
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This year was truly unique. A global pandemic transformed every facet of our lives and affected the health and wellbeing of millions of people. We all shifted to living, learning, and working…
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The Cooperative Institute for the North Atlantic Region (CINAR) recently announced five new Quantitative Fisheries and Ecosystems Science Fellows, including Associate Professor Gavin Fay (Fisheries…, Fay, . According to CINAR, “The goal of the fellowship program is to engage early-career scientists in research that supports the training and education of the next generation of stock assessment…
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