William Lowell Putnam any dramatic changes in the Observatory's staff or location. Thus, an Observatory expedition and possibly a permanent move to South America was postponed, effectively establishing the Observatory in Flagstaff, Arizona. Despite his conviction that he should not make any major changes to the Observatory, Putnam did become embroiled in the controversy surrounding T. J. J. See. See was employed at Lowell Observatory at that time, but was both an extremely unpopular man and also regarded as a bad scientist. Three Observatory employees had already resigned due to See's poor treatment of them, and Douglass began working to remove See from
Lowell State College 9, 1974. These buildings were built in the style of brutalism. The school gained university status in 1959. In 1972, a feasibility study was conducted on merging the school with the nearby Lowell Technological Institute. In 1975, the schools merged to form the University of Lowell. The name was changed in 1991 to the University of Massachusetts Lowell when the institution joined the University of Massachusetts system. Today, the school's campus is known as the South Campus of UMass Lowell. Lowell State College Lowell State College was a public college located in Lowell, Massachusetts, United States. Founded in 1894 as