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GE2 session with students
More than 600 students from around the world recently participated in UMass Lowell's virtual Global Entrepreneurship Exchange.

08/19/2020

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Here’s how 640 entrepreneurs respond to a pandemic

Scores of undergraduate and graduate students from around the world usually travel to UMass Lowell each July for two weeks of entrepreneurship, innovation and cultural exchange through the GE2 program. When the coronavirus pandemic made that impossible this summer, GE2 Director Ashwin Mehta and his team put together a free, one-week virtual workshop instead.

Criminology and Justice Studies prof. pens ‘American Zealots’

This week’s publication of Prof. Arie Perliger’s latest book comes as the nation is divided by politics, protests and a pandemic. Perliger, director of security studies in UMass Lowell’s School of Criminology and Justice Studies, oversees the largest database of right-wing extremist violent incidents in the U.S., facts and figures chronicling more than 5,000 attacks since 1990.