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Ed Brennen In the countless hours that senior peace and conflict studies major Austin Thoren has spent studying in the O’Leary Learning Commons mezzanine, he never gave much thought to the empty cement terrace just outside the room’s floor-to-ceiling windows. “There was never anything going on out there, so I didn’t really pay attention to it,” he says. When students return to campus this fall, they’ll discover quite a bit going on outside the windows: a new rooftop garden of flowers, herbs and vegetables brimming from 500 neatly arranged containers. It’s the latest addition to UML’s Urban Agriculture Program, a collaboration between the university’s Office of Sustainability and the Lowell-based urban farming nonprofit Mill City Grows. 

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