Looking back, Jessica Saad doesn’t take for granted how much UMass Lowell —and community health especially— helped prepare her for life outside of college.

Exercise science major and UML women’s soccer player Nadja Andersen is building a strong foundation in health and human performance.

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.

Thomas Sherriff was the lead author on a paper about functional movements of firefighters.