Nanotech efforts are being furthered here at Umass Lowell. Thanks to a $2.7 million dollar grant awarded by the National Science Foundation in July and August to the university, more projects are being created for the use of nanotechnology here in Umass Lowell for a variety of purposes, including detecing explosives and chemical agents and searching for structural damage in buildings. The primary recipients of the award were Co-Director of the Nanomanufacturing Center and Mechanical Engineering professor Julie Chen, along with 14 other researchers. The money will mainly be used to fund an $80 million dollar project to build a new nano and biomanufacturing center, named the Emerging Technology and Innovation Center. Development of the site will begin sometime this week.
On September 25th, Chancellor Marty Meehan announced the establishment of Dana Greely McLean Endowment for Peace Studies at a special lunch. The endowment came to a total of $511,000 dollars, including a grant from the Greeley foundation and matching state funds. The Greeley Scholar for Peace Studies will be hosted soon at PASCI (Umass Lowell's Peace and Study Conflicts Institute), with the goal being to bring the first Greeley Peace Scholar to UMass Lowell in the spring of 2008. The Greeley Foundation for Peace and Social Justice awards grants to socially conscious organizations dealing with subjects such as youth gangs, intimate partner violence and child abuse, civil rights, and various other conflicts that threaten the peace and stability of the world.
That will just about do it for this week's latest news update.
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