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Town to spend $20M on closed college’s campus

LEICESTER, Mass. (AP) — Voters in Leicester have overwhelmingly approved the town's purchase of the campus of now-closed Becker College. The town will move forward with an assessment of the property to determine how the buildings will be used, whether any should be sold, and what is needed ...

UMass Lowell researcher wins $2.7M grant for Alzheimer’s research

LOWELL, Mass. – The National Institutes of Health has awarded $2.7 million to a UMass Lowell researcher studying how Alzheimer’s disease evolves. Funded by the NIH’s National Institute on Aging, Electrical and Computer Engineering Associate Prof. Joyita Dutta aims to develop models that ...

UMass Lowell to host open house for prospective grad students

LOWELL, Mass. – Prospective students will have a chance to learn about new graduate degrees and ways to pursue their education in a variety of formats at UMass Lowell during an upcoming virtual open house. Students and working professionals interested in pursuing graduate, ...

UMass to rename nursing school after getting $21.5M gift

AMHERST, Mass. (AP) — The University of Massachusetts Amherst has received a $21.5 million gift from the foundation named for an alumna who was also the author of several influential nursing textbooks, school officials announced Thursday. In honor of the gift from the Elaine Nicpon Marieb ...

Plymouth State University lecture to explore roots of anti-vaccine sentiments

PLYMOUTH – The Plymouth State University Saul O Sidore Lecture Series, focused this year on understanding and responding to social disruptions, will present “Before Anti-Autism: Cow Mania and the Vaccination Debates” on Friday, September 24, at 7 p.m., featuring Travis Chi Wing Lau, ...