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  Lowell Institute - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Lowell Institute, an educational foundation in Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.A., providing for free public lectures, and endowed by the bequest of $237,000 left by John Lowell, Jr.
The first trustee was Lowell's cousin, John Amory Lowell, who administered the trust for more than forty years, and was succeeded in 1881 by his son, Augustus Lowell, who in turn was succeeded in 1900 by his son Abbott Lawrence Lowell, who in 1909 became president of Harvard University.
During the mid-20th century, the Lowell Institute decided to get into the radio and television broadcasting business, which led to the creation of the WGBH radio station in 1952.
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 Lowell - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Lowell is the name of several places, families, persons, and institutions mostly in the United States of America.
Francis Cabot Lowell, businessman and co-founder of Lowell, Massachusetts
Lowell High School, Lowell, MA Lowell High School, Lowell, OR Lowell High School, San Francisco, CA Lowell House, Cambridge, MA Lowell Institute, Boston, MA Lowell Observatory, Flagstaff, AZ University of Massachusetts Lowell, Lowell, MA This is a disambiguation page: a list of articles associated with the same title.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Lowell   (312 words)

  
 Chapter James Russell Lowell of Index by Simonds History of American Literature
James Russell Lowell, the youngest of the New England group and the most versatile, was born in Cambridge, February 22, 1819.
An uncle was the founder of the Lowell Institute in Boston.
Lowell, a woman of intensely imaginative mind, a lover of poetry and music, was of Scotch parentage, her father having been a native of the Orkney Islands.
www.bibliomania.com /2/3/270/1820/21950/1.html   (646 words)

  
 Finding aid for the Lowell Institute School Records
John Amory Lowell, the founder's cousin, was appointed sole trustee of the new Lowell Institute and organized the first lecture series in 1839.
Augustus Lowell, son of John Amory Lowell and second trustee of the Lowell Institute, persuaded President Rogers of the newly-founded Massachusetts Institute of Technology [MIT] to establish a series of evening public lectures on practical subjects in 1868.
Upon the death of Augustus Lowell in 1900, his son A. Lawrence Lowell, a member of the Corporation of MIT and future President of Harvard University, became the third trustee of the Lowell Institute.
www.lib.neu.edu /archives/collect/findaids/a26findprint.htm   (1982 words)

  
 Vol. 9.7 - Retreat to the Ivory Tower: MIT's closure of the Lowell Institute School
The Lowell Institute was set up according to the will of local philanthropist John Lowell, who died in 1836 leaving a quarter of a million dollars to set up an institute which would provide free lectures to the citizens of Boston.
The school was founded in 1903 as the Lowell Institute School for Industrial Foremen to provide an opportunity for working people to get an education in the technology that was then coming into the workplace.
Provost Wrighton and President Charles Vest have received many letters from Lowell Institute School students, past and present, that make it clear that the image of MIT in the community and the workplace is greatly enhanced by the existence of the school within MIT.
web.mit.edu /activities/thistle/v9/9.07/9lowell.html   (1544 words)

  
 LOWELL INSTITUTE - Online Information article about LOWELL INSTITUTE   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
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Augustus Lowell, who in turn was succeeded in 1900 by his son See also:
Smith, History of the Lowell Institute (Boston, 1898).
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 Cost cutting forces Lowell to move
Last year's decision to move the Lowell Institute School from MIT to Northeastern University effective July 1, 1996 created much controversy among MIT faculty and the Cambridge community.
After months of negotiation, the final contract was signed mid-September by Northeastern President John A. Curry and John Lowell, the sole trustee of the Lowell Institute (an educational funding group) and a grandson of its founder.
But the moving of the Lowell School came as a shock and a disappointment to many MIT administrators connected with the school.
www-tech.mit.edu /V116/N0/lowell.100n.html   (1083 words)

  
 Financial Aid
The Lowell Scholars Program, funded by the Lowell Institute, provides scholarship assistance to students who are taking Lowell Institute School courses and who are ineligible to receive employer-funded tuition reimbursement or tuition assistance.
The recipient is selected by the Director of the Lowell Institute School and is announced at the annual Awards Banquet.
The Lowell Institute School and University College scholarships and awards that follow are available to students who have been accepted as degree candidates and are in good academic standing.
www.coe.neu.edu /Depts/SET/lis/financial.html   (1780 words)

  
 Lowell Institute School comes to NU   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
"Looking back, this is where the Lowell School should have been in the first place," Lowell, the sole trustee of the Lowell Institute, which partially subsidizes the school, said at the official dedication ceremony last Wednesday.
Now considered the part-time evening division of engineering technology, the Lowell Institute School has quickly made its presence felt, according to Charles Finn, director of both the Lowell Institute School and the School of Engineering Technology.
In a room full of people grateful for the school's survival, none was more appreciative at the dedication than Kathryn Millis, president of the Lowell Institute School Alumni Association, who went on to earn her bachelor's degree at Northeastern and is now working on her doctorate at MIT.
www.voice.neu.edu /961212/lowell.html   (485 words)

  
 STH | News | Archive | Lowell
On March 23 Boston University School of Theology and the Lowell Institute present the 1999 Lowell Lecture, "The Virtues and Joys of the Comparative Mirror," by Dr. Rita M. Gross.
In the Lowell Lecture, she will discuss why comparative knowledge of religion is necessary in contemporary theological education as well as suggest how knowledge about world religions can be most effectively integrated into theological education.
The 1999 Lowell Lecture will be held on Tuesday, March 23, at 7:30pm in the 12th Floor Law Lounge of the Boston University School of Law (directly behind the School of Theology).
www.bu.edu /sth/news/archive/lowell.html   (179 words)

  
 MIT to close Lowell Institute School - MIT News Office
The cooperative program between the Lowell Institute and MIT began in 1903 and was one of the few sources of non-degree technical courses, which today are provided by technical institutes, community colleges and other educational organizations.
The Lowell Institute School was established to provide technical education to Boston area residents, many of whom worked in the textile mills.
When the school first opened as the Lowell Institute School for Industrial Foremen, people paid the equivalent of two bushels of wheat to take a course.
web.mit.edu /newsoffice/1995/lowell-0111.html   (486 words)

  
 Our Association - Independent Unniversity Alumni Association at Lowell - Indpendent University Alumni Association at ...
The purpose of the Association is to advance the interest and prestige of the University of Massachusetts at Lowell, to foster cooperation and understanding among students, faculty, administration, trustees, and alumni of the University thereby resulting in a unified University Community.
The Lowell Alumni Association is governed by the IUAAL Board of Directors which includes four (4) Officers, the Past President, 12 Directors and 4 members of the Nominating Committee.
Over the years, hundreds of students (and most recently numerous UMass Lowell campus departments) are receiving scholarships and grants from the oldest alumni group on the Lowell campus of UMass.
www.iuaal.org /association.htm   (883 words)

  
 Lowell Academy Hairstyling Institute in Lowell, MA - Beauty Schools Directory
Since 1933, Lowell Academy Hairstyling Institute has offered quality education and is recognized as one of the leading cosmetology schools in the Northeast.
Lowell Academy's main objective is offering beginning courses in cosmetology and manicuring to prepare students to become hairdressers and nail technicians.
Lowell Academy continually updates their courses with new techniques to provide students with state-of-the-art instruction while providing support for their personal and professional growth.
www.beautyschoolsdirectory.com /schools/lowell_academy   (443 words)

  
 University of Massachusetts Lowell Center for Lowell History
The Boston and Maine Railroad Collection housed at the Center for Lowell History is not the official archive of the BandM Railroad, but rather materials gathered by the BandM Railroad Historical Society, a group of very dedicated enthusiast.
Lowell Institute for Savings 1829-1992 was one of the earliest savings banks established in the United States.
The Center for Lowell History has purchased the manuscript records of the US Population Census on microfilm for Bristol, Essex, Middlesex, and Suffolk Counties 1790-1930 (1890 was destroyed).
library.uml.edu /clh/GenRes.Html   (1181 words)

  
 Network of Small Telescopes Discovers Distant Planet- 2004 Press Release   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
This is a joint announcement from the Astrophysical Institute of the Canaries (IAC), National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR), Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics (CfA), Lowell Observatory, and California Institute of Technology.
The W.M. Keck Observatory is operated by the California Association for Research in Astronomy, a scientific partnership of the California Institute of Technology, the University of California, and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA).
Founded in 1894, Lowell Observatory pursues the study of astronomy, conducts pure research in astronomical phenomena, and maintains quality public education and outreach programs.
www.lowell.edu /press_room/releases/recent_releases/TrES-1_rls.html   (1453 words)

  
 Lowell Institute   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
The Lowell Institute School, an evening technical program run by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology for 94 years and known for offering low-cost courses to community residents, will be moving to Northeastern in 1996.
Along with the program comes a five-year commitment from The Lowell Institute to provide at least $200,000 a year in tuition subsidies to students who don't receive tuition reimbursement from their employers.
Baer said the university anticipates establishing an endowment for the Lowell Institute School in the future.
www.voice.neu.edu /950914/lowell.html   (421 words)

  
 The Marshall Institute - Dr. Lowell Wood
Lowell Wood served as a Commissioner of the EMP Commission, bringing to this task nearly four decades of experience in the technical aspects of national security.
During the Cold War, EMP was one of several high-technology topics that engaged his professional attention.
A long-time member of the professional staff of the University of California’s Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, he is also a Visiting Fellow of the Hoover Institution at Stanford University.
www.marshall.org /experts.php?id=113   (84 words)

  
 UMass Lowell Francis Cabot Lowell Alumni Awards
The Francis Cabot Lowell Alumni Awards and the Francis Cabot Lowell Alumni Award for Recent Graduates recognize and celebrate the outstanding achievements of our alumni each year.
Lowell, Lowell Technological Institute, Massachusetts State College at Lowell, Lowell State College or University of Lowell.
Nominations for the awards can be made throughout the year by writing a letter of recommendation and/or completing a form available through the Office of Alumni Relations.
www.uml.edu /advancement/alumni/francis_cabot/default.html   (334 words)

  
 The Harvard Crimson :: News :: Lowell Institute Has Fifth Birthday; Niemans Discuss 'American Ideas'
Yesterday marked the fifth anniversary of the Lowell Institute Cooperative Broadcasting Council's efforts in the field of adult education.
The Council was formed in the spring of '46 when the presidents of Harvard, MIT, Boston University, Tufts, Northeastern and Boston College met with Ralph Lowell '12, trustee of the Lowell institute to discuss plans for the joint use of commercial broadcasting facilities in the Boston area.
The Lowell Institute's Cooperative Broadcasting Council yesterday inaugurated a new program over WHDH and WHDH-FM.
www.thecrimson.com /article.aspx?ref=185408   (386 words)

  
 University of Massachusetts Lowell Center for Lowell History
The International Institute, as an arm of the YWCA, found that without the funding and cooperation of the manufacturers, their work was going to suffer.
As an independent agency, the International Institute continued to serve the immigrant population of Lowell as it had in the past.
Throughout its 75 years the International Institute has never lost touch with its original mission: to be a friend to a stranger in this country.
library.uml.edu /clh/Inter/In4.Html   (255 words)

  
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 International Institute of Boston
Since 1918, the International Insitute of Lowell has been dedicated to providing vital immigration and citizenship services to immigrants and refugees.
Since its founding, the International Institute of Lowell has offered free or low-cost services to the immigrant community in the Greater Lowell area, the Merrimack Valley, Metro-west and Southern New Hampshire.
The third Taste of Culture was held on Friday, May 6th, 2005 at the Hellenic Cultural Association Hall on Broadway St. in Lowell.
www.iiboston.org /iiLowell.htm   (313 words)

  
 LHI - LHI Lowell   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
The Latin American Health Institute at Lowell has provided public health and social services to the Latin American community living in the Merrimack Valley since 1993.
The Latin American Health Institute/Lowell is centrally located at 9 Central Street in Lowell, MA.
The establishment of the Institute at Lowell addressed the need for culturally competent public health and social services for the growing Latin American population in the city.
www.lhi.org /lhi/viewPage.cfm?pageId=340   (136 words)

  
 TIME.com: Old School Tie-Up -- Nov. 25, 1946 -- Page 1
Boston's venerable Lowell Institute refused to admit its age.
To the Lowell Institute it was one more opportunity to advance the cause of learning which had been the Institute's job for more than a century.
Bostonians, though in decreasing numbers, have attended Lowell lectures ever since the Institute was founded in 1839 by John Lowell (of The Lowells).* John was a successful textile merchant of 32 when his wife and two daughters died unexpectedly.
www.time.com /time/archive/preview/0,10987,852963,00.html   (461 words)

  
 Toxics Use Reduction for Lowell Households   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
This project is part of a larger effort to involve members of these communities in decisions about environmental issues in the city of Lowell.
Development of a Community Training Presentation explaining health risks of chemicals, reasons to minimize use of toxins in the home/garden, recipes for using natural products that are less expensive and just as effective in cleaning and pest control.
The Lowell Community Health Center and the Center for Family, Work and Community are willing to advertise the Program's availability and gather groups for presentations.
www.community.turi.org /household/CBA04.shtml   (291 words)

  
 Lowell Humanities Series - Boston College
Since 1957, the Lowell Humanities Series has brought prominent contributors in arts and letters to speak at Boston College.
It is sponsored by Boston College and the Lowell Institute.
Many past Lowell Humanities Series events are available for viewing via the Web at Boston College Front Row, www.bc.edu/frontrow.
www.bc.edu /lowell   (395 words)

  
 Toxic Use Reduction Institute   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
The Toxics Use Reduction Institute is a multi-disciplinary research, education, and policy center established by the Massachusetts Toxics Use Reduction Act of 1989.
The Institute sponsors and conducts research, organizes education and training programs, and provides technical support to governments to promote the reduction in the use of toxic chemicals or the generation of toxic chemical byproducts in industry and commerce.
The Institute is required to study an "issue" that the law does not require to occur.
es.epa.gov /techinfo/facts/mass/tura-tox.html   (18536 words)

  
 Lowell Britson: ZoomInfo Business People Information   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
Lowell Britson's summary was automatically generated using 1 reference found on the Internet.
Lowell L. Britson is Sales and Marketing Director for the Independent Institute.
Prior to joining the Institute, he served as European Conference Manager for Lippincott Williams and Wilkins, Area Sales Manager for Oxford University Press (Germany), Area Sales Manager for Maxwell Macmillan Publishers (England), Marketing Manager at McGraw-Hill Book Company, Advertising Coordinator at the Stigwood Group, and Editor for Minehart Corporation.
www.zoominfo.com /directory/Britson_Lowell_3328072.htm   (171 words)

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