Campus News

UMass Lowell's Baseball Research Center has been getting mass media coverage lately during World Series season. The Bat Lab is the official certification site for all NCAA and Major League Baseball bats. Baseball testing services are also provided by the Bat Lab to Major League Baseball. The Boston Globe, The Lowell Sun and the Lawrence Eagle Tribune have all ran stories on the lab, and WBZ, WFXT and WBUR have all featured it n their TV news programs. The Bat Lab was also featured on October 17th, on the show "Wired Science," which will also be re-run twice in November. This has generated great publiciy for the Bat Lab, as well as the University in general.

UML Alumni Patrick Kaplo, a high school science teacher in Litchfield, New Hampshire, has experienced the opportunity to teach a physics class in Hyderabad, India, which he has been doing since the summer because of the Fulbright Teacher Exchange Program. He teaches the class at K.V. Tirumalagiri High School, which is about 750 miles south of the city of New Delhi. Dr. Ananda Vardhana Telapakalle Sharma is the teacher who he exchanged classes with, and both have found the experience enjoyable. Since there is tremendous social and competitive pressure to do well in school in India, behavioral problems have almost been nonexistent, making the job easier for Kaplo than here in the US. Of course, this is just one of the many cultural differences between the US and India that Kaplo has noticed since the start of his stay there. Kaplo will return to his home school in January. You can read about his adventures at http://kaploinindia.blogspot.com.

Business and Liberal Arts students got the chance to explore job opportunities at the Office of Career Services' Business and Liberal Arts Career Fair. At the fair, the students were able to meet with a large selection of employers, as well as schedule on-site interviews and get a larger perspective of the post-college job market. An Engineering and Technology Career Fair will be held by the Office of Career Services on October 24th in the Rec Center, from 1 to 4 PM.

The accounting firm of Vitale, Caturano & Co. recently made a donation of $25,000 to UMass Lowell. The money is intended to open up a discretionary fund to assist the faculty and students in the Accounting Department. The Public Higher Education Endowment Incentive Program added more money to the gift, making the overall award add up to $37,500. The company is recognized as one of the fastest growing companies in the nation.