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    Research aging-related diseases

    The UMass Lowell Innovative Fellows Training program connects researchers with M2D2 and healthcare industry experts to seek commercial applications of their work.
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    New Program Gives Graduate Students a LIFT

    Ten students recently completed UMass Lowell’s Innovative Fellows Training (LIFT), a new program supported by a five-year, $1.2 million grant from the National Institute on Aging that is designed to diversify career opportunities for early-career scientists in the field of aging and aging-related diseases.
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    Faculty Panel: The Best of Both Worlds

    This panel was for faculty members who are considering retirement, but want to stay engaged with the university, whether through research, teaching, student engagement, or other initiatives.
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  • Public health master's student Kyle Fahey goes over a park evaluation form with UML student and faculty researchers and older residents of Lowell.

    City and UML Partner on Making Lowell ‘Age-Friendly’

    Students in health sciences are gaining research experience in Lowell, working alongside an adult advisory group and local agencies to help make the city an “age-friendly” community.
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    New Study Analyzes How Neighborhoods Impact the Likeliness of Falls

    A new study led by Prof. of Public Health Wenjun Li, with funding from a $4 million, five-year grant from the National Institute on Aging, will analyze how older people move and use the outdoor space in their communities.
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    Learning in Retirement Association Embraces Hybrid Era

    The Learning in Retirement Association, a UML partner organization that offers educational courses and social events to retired and semi-retired people, has embraced a hybrid learning model that has allowed it to reach more members and guest speakers.
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  • Joseph Sheedy celebrated learning for all of his 86 years.

    At 86, Joe Sheedy Embodied Lifelong Learning

    Joseph Sheedy was a man who embodied lifelong learning. He earned his final degree in Psychology from UMass Lowell, posthumously.
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    New Project Explores Healthy Aging in the Lowell Community

    Sabrina Noel, Principal Investigator, is a member of the CGRP, and Andrew Hostetler and Karen Devereaux Melillo, CGRP members, are co-investigators on this Tufts Health Plan Foundation grant, 2020-2023.
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    $300K Grant to Support Age-Friendly Lowell Initiative

    UMass Lowell was recently awarded a three-year, $300,000 grant from Tufts Health Plan Foundation to create a citywide, age-friendly initiative that builds community capacity to promote health, independence and quality of life for older residents in Lowell.
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  • The senior students at LIRA won't be denied class, thanks to a quick and efficient move online for classes.

    With a Viral Threat, Learning in Retirement Program Goes Online

    With the university’s mid-March shift to virtual learning in response to the coronavirus pandemic, a new, remote reality began for students, faculty and staff. And don't forget those learning in retirement: LIRA members treasure their time at the university, as well.
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  • Jonathan Lemire, White House correspondent for the Associated Press, visited UMass Lowell's Learning in Retirement Association (LIRA). He spoke about covering President Donad Trump. His mother, longtime UML employee Susan Lemire, introduced him.

    Journalist Shares the View from His Front Row Seat to History

    Jonathan Lemire, White House correspondent for the Associated Press and the son of Susan Lemire, the university’s coordinator of advisory services and is a member of the curriculum committee for the Learning in Retirement Association, spoke at UMass Lowell recently.
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    What If You Live to 100?

    The odds have never been better that you will live to be 100. Advances in health care, nutrition and technology are contributors to longer living. But does living longer mean living better? Researchers at UMass Lowell are tackling this issue. We asked them to help us understand why we’re living longer, and what’s at stake.
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  • Allison Hansell of the SEIU 775 Benefits Group, Asst. Prof. Fumilayo Showers of Central Connecticut State and another woman listen while UML History Prof. Robert Forrant talks

    Global Conference Focuses on Carework Inequalities

    As babies and children and when we’re sick, disabled or dying, we all need care – and most of that care is provided by women working for low or no wages. It’s time to change that, according to speakers at the Global Carework Summit.
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    Faculty Prepare Students for Careers in Gerontological Nursing

    Massachusetts Senior Care Foundation, in collaboration with the UMass Lowell School of Nursing, recently hosted its 6th annual Faculty Institute for Gerontological Nursing for nursing faculty across the Commonwealth.
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    Students Find Collaborative Care is the Best Care

    A new “Interdisciplinary Experiential Learning” course gives students from five different majors — nursing, medical laboratory science, nutritional sciences, exercise physiology and public health — experience working in teams at Summit ElderCare in Lowell.
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    Improving Health Starts Here

    From improving rehabilitation for stroke survivors to reducing inflammation through diet in older adults, faculty members in the College of Health Sciences are conducting studies that have the potential to make a powerful impact on people’s lives.