UMass Lowell Profiles

Get to know some of the students who make up UMass Lowell’s diverse and hardworking community.

Featured Profiles

Prachi Dhavale

Plastics Engineering

Being from a different country, Prachi's career portfolio was very different from the one required in the US. The services provided by the Career & Co-op Center helped her customize her portfolio for the industry she wanted to apply to.
Peter Larsen

Biology & Biotechnology

The Honors College offered Peter Larsen a chance to explore outside his major, giving him a true liberal arts education and changing his career plans. Then DifferenceMaker helped him realize his dream of providing unique and inexpensive prosthetic hands to kids.
Maggie Davenport

Mechanical Engineering

An honors seminar and fellowship sent Maggie Davenport to Haiti, where she’s working on sustainability projects.
Krystal Quezada

English - Journalism and Professional Writing

Local, regional and international experiences have prepared Krystal for life after college.
Michael Boyer

Community Health

Just as the University experienced its own transformation, so did Michael Boyer who started as an exercise physiology major, changing to community health after taking epidemiology and community health courses.
Keana-Grace Danier

Business Administration - Marketing, Management

Participating in the 2017 Miss Massachusetts USA pageant helped bolster business student Keana-Grace Danier’s confidence and drive, which she sees helping her future sales career.
Malinda Reed

History & English

Student trustee Malinda Reed is considering a career in human rights and immigration law after studying the history of Greek immigrants in Lowell.
Renoel Amogawin

Criminal Justice

Renoel Amogawin says community service, sociology classes and work on faculty research are preparing him for a career in immigration enforcement.