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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.

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Katherine L. Tucker
Biomedical & Nutritional Sciences

Prof. Katherine L. Tucker has turned her early roots in food and nutrition into a research career. At UMass Lowell, she leads the Center for Population Health and Health Disparities, tackling the problems of nutrition in our society head on.

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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.

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Kate Killion
Public Health – Dietetics

Kate Killion came to UML because it’s the only university in New England that offers a dietetics degree with a public health perspective.

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    These Graduates are Well-RHED

    Forty-seven students graduated with River Hawk Experience Distinction (RHED) cords this year, the most in the program’s six-year history. Students can earn a RHED credential in leadership, entrepreneurship, global engagement, community engagement or sustainability.
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