Graduate Students

Learn about students pursuing advanced degrees at UMass Lowell.

Graduate Student Profiles

Tugba Metinyurt

Community Social Psychology, Applied Psychology and Prevention Science

Tugba Metinyurt came to UML to study community social psychology and learn how to be a force for positive social change in her native Turkey.
Rimonda Maroun

Criminology & Criminal Justice

Rimonda Maroun is doubling up on research and teaching experience as she pursues her Ph.D. in criminology and criminal justice.
Lisa Dana

Graduate School of Education

Superintendent Lisa Dana's length of service in the Danver's public school system is among the longest in the state.
Joshua Santana

Music Education

When music education major Joshua Santana teaches local grade-schoolers to play violin through the university’s String Project, he connects with them because he was once in their shoes.
Kevin Copson

Peace and Conflict Studies

Kevin Copson is using his policy and data analysis skills to help local nonprofits while working at a university-based startup.
Liz Ejaife

Community Social Psychology

A research assistantship helped Liz Ejaife continue into the Master’s program in Community Social Psychology – and gave her valuable research experience.
Covington Bien-Aime

Business Administration

Inspired by the generosity of others after surviving the devastating 2010 earthquake in his native Haiti, MBA student Covington Bien-Aime gives back by volunteering through Organizational Behavior in Action summer course.
Lauren Gary

Psychology, Autism Studies

Lauren Gary transferred to UMass Lowell to study psychology and work with people with disabilities. Thanks to faculty advice, she entered the bachelor’s-to-master’s program in autism studies – and found a job in her field before finishing her undergraduate degree.
Moiz Khan

Business Analytics

Already on track for a successful marketing career in Pakistan, Moiz Khan has shifted gears to pursue a master’s in business analytics from the Manning School of Business.
Gabrielle Davis

Peace & Conflict Studies

Gabby Davis is learning to make peace through community building and putting her studies into practice by organizing events for Made in Lowell, a community nonprofit.
Edgardo Pomales-Feliciano

Pharmaceutical Sciences

Edgardo Pomales-Feliciano is an inaugural member in the new Pharmaceutical Science Master's program at UMass Lowell.
Kelechi Adejumo

Environmental & Occupational Epidemiology

Kelechi Adejumo is looking for ways to improve health in the workplace and at home, combining her scholarly research into musculoskeletal injuries to nursing aides and her hands-on work for the Healthy Homes project.
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.
Maureen Kelly

Civil and Environmental Engineering, Structural Engineering, Honors College

A service-learning capstone in Lowell and Haiti transformed Maureen Kelly’s civil engineering education — and her life. She now works for a firm that supports her ongoing volunteer work in Haiti and her mentoring of current students.
Mehmet Yavuz

Peace and Conflict Studies

It’s a small world: Mehmet Yavuz came to campus from Turkey because he read an article written by a UMass Lowell professor in peace and conflict studies.
Zachary Zuber

Exercise Physiology

Even though many of Zack Zuber’s family members attended UMass Lowell, he wasn’t convinced that it was the place for him – that is, until he visited the campus.
Frank Stegnar

Business Administration

Toronto native Frank Stegnar excelled in the classroom and on the ice as an undergrad at UMass Lowell, so he chose to get his MBA online from the Manning School of Business.