UMass Lowell Profiles

UML faculty sprang into action to help clear a path for Naw Moo Moo Paw’s arrival from her native to Myanmar to come to UMass Lowell to pursue a Ph.D. in Global Studies.

An interest in genomics took Caryn McCowan ’11 from researching spiders to working at a canine genetics company.

Sandi DeRuntz invented ZipperBuddy, an aid for people with disabilities, through an interdisciplinary class and DifferenceMaker.

A born entrepreneur who was tuning up old lawn mowers and selling them online at the age of 6, Louis Cirignano made the most of his opportunities at UMass Lowell. He’s using his degree in business administration to launch a financial management app that he developed through the DifferenceMaker program.

As she begins her career at Fidelity, Yeaharne Hout sees how transformative her UML experience has been.

A lost internship during the pandemic led David Levine to a promising career path at accounting firm LGA.

Ever since moving to Lowell from the Philippines with his mom as a child, Andre Ragel has embraced a sink-or-swim attitude – one that carried the business administration major through a busy first year on campus.

Thavaleak Prum came to UML to pursue her dream of transforming people’s lives through research.