Louder Than Frank is a band made up entirely of UMass Lowell students. Spadafora received the award in San Francisco at International Convention of the Audio Engineering Society that he was attending with 23 other UMass Lowell students. James Powers was recently presented with the Robert S. Loya Memorial Scholarship for his achievements in percussion. Powers, a major in music education, performs and teaches percussion across the state. In memory of Robert S. Loya's love of percussion music, his family has established a scholarship in his name at UMass Lowell.
Powers is the first to receive the scholarship.