Researchers at the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth last month were awarded a patent for technology they say could reduce the costs of fishing vessel monitoring, a cost fisherman say threatens their livelihood, the school announced this week.
Dr. Brian Rothschild, the retired founding head of the UMass-Dartmouth School of Marine Science and Technology, and graduate student Glenn Chamberlain said their on-board 3D camera system would reduce costs, ensure accuracy and expand the scope of what information could be collected.
STATE HOUSE — As the University of Massachusetts student swept the hallways of the Supreme Judicial Court during summer break in the early 1980s, he had no inkling that he would be angling to return to those hallways some three decades later.
If David Lowy does work at Pemberton Square again, it will be with a robe on. Lowy sat before the Governor's Council on Wednesday to make his case to be confirmed as a justice on the state's highest court, citing his experience throughout the state's court system and the lessons he's learned from the bench.
