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The Luso-American Development Foundation (FLAD) in Lisbon, Portugal, and the Saab Center for Portuguese Studies in the University of Massachusetts Lowell College of Fine Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences announce the FLAD/Saab Visiting Professorship in Portuguese Studies for Spring Semester 2025. This program is a three-year collaboration that sponsors a one-semester a year, open-rank, Visiting Professor […]

The Luso-American Development Foundation (FLAD) in Lisbon, Portugal, and the Saab Center for Portuguese Studies in the University

I write to share some important lessons from my first mentor in business, W. Rodney Thomas. Read more here.

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 E-Mail LOWELL, Mass. - A product that detects and helps seal leaks in ill-fitting face masks to protect against COVID-19 and other environmental hazards recently won top honors in UMass Lowells annual student entrepreneurship pitch competition. Called TrueFIT, the invention was named the Rist Campuswide DifferenceMaker in UMass Lowells 2021 DifferenceMaker $50,000 Idea Challenge, a contest that caps a year-long program that teaches students in all majors skills they can use to launch their o...

David Perry It was a cousin’s lacrosse injury that inspired Alyssa Mulry to dream up ConnectKnee, a brace that tracks a patient’s recovery time. Mulry’s cousin dislocated her patella during a soccer game, requiring long recovery. Then a friend and family members also suffered knee injuries. “I saw first-hand how limited and discouraging recovery for a knee injury was,” says Mulry, a senior biomedical engineering major from Rutland, Massachusetts. “One thing stayed ...