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Engineers establish UMass endowment.(News)
Plastics News, February, 2008
Byline: Frank Antosiewicz
Two plastics engineering alumni are contributing $1 million each to set up an endowment fund at the University of Massachusetts at Lowell to create two professorships in the study of environmentally friendly plastics.
UML also announced that Advanced Electron Beams Inc. of Wilmington, Mass., is making an undisclosed donation to fund electron beam research and that the state will provide $4 million in funding to expand the Massachusetts Medical Device Development Center, also known as M2D2.
Mark Saab and Jim Dandeneau, graduates of the plastics engineering department, are funding research of green plastics at UML. Each gift also enabled the school to gain a $500,000 match from Nantucket Conservation Foundation,...
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