September Events

9/18 Academic Reminder- Last day to drop a course without it being recorded!!

9/18 Last Day to Return Textbooks
Today is the last day to return a textbook for the fall semester. Please save your receipt, because you will need it to get a refund or do an exchange.

9/18 Career Services Awareness Event
10 a.m. South Campus Quad
Come and learn about the services and programs provided by the Career Services staff.

9/18 Dance Team Tryouts
7 p.m. Campus Recreation Center
Attention all dancers!!!! Come join the UML Dance Team, a hip-hop performance group that strives to promote school spirit. Everyone is welcome. The Dance Team performs at basketball games, rugby games, annual ASAO Fashion Show, Lowell Spinners, Spring Carnival and other school events. Mandatory practices are held Tuesdays 8-10 p.m. and Thursdays 8:30-9:30 p.m.

9/19 Career Services Open House
10 a.m. Southwick Hall Room 200
Come and see what the Career Services has to offer.

9/19 Student Engineering Society Meeting
11:30 a.m. Kitson 305
Organizational meeting for the newly formed student engineering society, the joint DWC-UML Student Chapter of American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics.

9/19 Physics Colloquium: Raj Mohanty
4:00 p.m. Olney 218
Raj Mohanty of Boston University speaks on "Nanomechanical oscillators for signal processing, computation and spintronics." Refreshments at 3:30 p.m.

9/20 Intramural Registration Deadline
Registration deadline for Campus Recreation Intramural fall first half programs including Co-Rec Softball League, Co-Rec Volleyball League, Flag Football League, Powder Puff Flag Football, Tennis Tournament, Racquetball Tournament, & Squash Tournament. Sign up either as a free agent and be added to a team or submit your own team roster.

9/20 "Real Men Don't Rehearse"
7 p.m. Pollard Library, Merrimack St. Lowell
The Parker Lectures series begins with former Boston Pops and Boston Symphony bass player Justin Locke's memories of his musical career in his talk "Real Men Don't Rehearse." Admission is free.

9/24 Bethany Moreton: "The World's Largest Employer"
Noon 500M O’Leary
Bethany Moreton of University of Georgia speaks on “The World's Largest Employer: Walmart, Politics and Policy in Latin America and the U.S.” Sponsored by Regional Economic and Social Development Center for Industrial Competitiveness. Buffet lunch served.

9/24 The Concussion Crisis in Football
7 p.m. - 9 p.m. O’Leary 222
A panel discussion with Chris Nowinski, former Harvard football player, WWE wrestler and author of "Head Games" (2006); Dr. Robert Cantu, chief of neurosurgery at Emerson Hospital & co-director of the Neurological Sports Injury Center at Brigham & Women's Hospital; Ted Johnson, former New England Patriot linebacker; and Peter Wotton, president of New Hampshire Athletic Directors Association.

9/25 CRC Registration Deadline
Campus Recreation Center deadline for all instructional programs including Hip Hop I & II: students $25, Non-Student Members $40, Non-Members $55; and Tai Chi: Students $40, Non-Student Members $55, Non-Members $65.

9/25 Resume Makeover Marathon
10 a.m. - 3 p.m. Southwick Hall Room 200
Resume makeovers during drop-in hours by Career Services staff.

9/26 Physics Colloquium: Martina Arndt
4 p.m. Olney 218
Martina Arndt of Bridgewater State College speaks on "Chasing solar eclipses - great science and great adventures." Refreshments at 3:30 p.m.

9/27 2nd Annual Sept. 11 Remembrance
12:30 p.m. O’Leary Library, Room 222
"Beyond Belief ," a documentary film by Beth Murphy. When 9/11 terrorists shattered their lives, Susan Retik and Patti Quigley set off on an extraordinary journey to rebuild themselves and the lives of women half a world away. With an introduction to UMass Lowell’s 9/11 Remembrance by Chancellor Marty Meehan and film principals.

9/30 Edith Nourse Rogers Lecture
2 p.m. National Park Visitor CenterUML faculty member Patricia Fontaine of the Graduate School of Education will discuss the life and times of Lowell's legendary congresswoman Edith Nourse Rogers. Admission is free!!