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- They'll Have a Field Day with This One: Aiken Fields will open this winter on East Campus and will include two tennis courts and two AstroTurf fields surrounded by stadium lights and scoreboards for club and intramural sports.
- Art of Gold: PayScale.com rated UMass Lowell No. 1 in the nation for its 20-year return on investment for art majors and art careers.
- All Hot Air: Music Prof. John Shirley spent his summer sharing his love for the harmonica by teaching group lessons outside Boston's Faneuil Hall and leading a harmonica jam at Make Music Boston.
- Dream Weavers: Gov. Charlie Baker awarded UMass Lowell $11.3 million to establish a Fabric Discovery Center focused on smart fibers and wearable electronics.
- Fake News, for the Win: A new theory says a sudden reversal of Earth's gravity wiped out the dinosaurs. There's not a shred of scientific evidence for that idea, but it did win UMass Lowell math Prof. James Propp top honors at BAHFest—the Festival of Bad Ad Hoc Hypotheses, an MIT-sponsored contest for silly, pseudoscientific theories.
Alumni Spotlight
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Kripa Krishnan '02
Management Information Systems
Kripa Krishnan is one of four senior women at Google featured as “sheroes”—female superheroes— in the book “Ara the Star Engineer.”
The MIS degree gave me a little bit of tech, a little bit of science, a little bit of business.