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Delivering Real-World Experiences
Michelle Flanagan
MS in Nursing (Family Health Nurse Practitioner track), Doctor of Nursing Practice
With a passion for women’s health, Michelle Flanagan earned advanced nursing practice degrees to support patients.
Michael McCormack
Medical Laboratory Science
The Medical Lab Science program helped Michael McCormack use his problem-solving skills to land a job learning how diseases occur.
Amina Mohammed
Nursing
Amina Mohammed is the first Youth Poet Laureate of Worcester and a first-year nursing major who loves helping people, especially children.
May Futrell
Nursing
As a young nursing student on hospital duty, May Futrell was struck by the neglect of elderly patients, which ultimately defined her career and helped implement the first graduate program in the U.S. to educate primary-care gerontological nurse practitioners.
Health Sciences News
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Study Looks at How Substance Use Risk Factors Differ Among Asian American Communities
Research Assistant Angela Consentino ’17 of the Center for Population Health at UMass Lowell is partnering with the Greater Lowell Health Alliance and the Cambodian Mutual Assistance Association to better understand how cultural background, migration history, age and socioeconomic factors shape substance use attitudes, beliefs and behaviors. -
International Day of Women and Girls in STEM Inspires the Next Generation
More than 100 local high school students visited UMass Lowell for an International Day of Women and Girls in STEM event that connected them with faculty and student researchers and highlighted the importance of mentorship in supporting women in science, technology, engineering and mathematics. -
Engineering and Physical Therapy Students Collaborate on Augmented Reality for Hand Rehabilitation
A team of engineering and physical therapy faculty and students is collaborating to on research to evaluate the accuracy of how augmented reality technology tracks joint motion and hand gestures.