Graduate Students

Learn about students pursuing advanced degrees at UMass Lowell.

Graduate Student Profiles

Maureen Kelly

Civil & Environmental Engineering, Structural Engineering

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.
Patrick Martin

Political Science & Public Administration

Honors student Patrick Martin is studying political science to change drug policy.
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.
Qurat Ann

Criminal Justice & Criminology

A chance encounter with a professor led to an amazing research opportunity. Now Qurat Ann is researching the pros and cons of sex offender registration laws as she pursues a Ph.D.
Bridget McSherry

Accounting

Bridget McSherry seized every opportunity she could while earning her bachelor’s and master’s degrees in accounting at UMass Lowell, and now she’s ready to begin her career at Moody, Famiglietti & Andronico.
Ron Pannell

Human Services Management

In the Master of Public Administration program, Ron Pannell is learning skills he can apply to his job in the Office of Student Engagement at Middlesex Community College – and later, in a housing agency.
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.
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.
Edgardo Pomales-Feliciano

Pharmaceutical Sciences

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

Nutritional Sciences, Public Health

Haylee Dussault was a part of the first class of students in the Master of Public Heath Dietetics program. Shortly after graduation, she passed the registered dietitian exam and landed her dream job.
Zachary Zuber

Exercise Physiology & Physical Therapy

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.
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.
Aaron Stella

Nutritional Sciences & Clinical Laboratory Sciences

Before Aaron Stella graduated from the medical laboratory science program, he had more job offers than he knew what to do with.
Kelechi Adejumo

Environmental and 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.
Sarah Golding

Human Services Administration

Sarah Golding works with young people transitioning to adulthood while coping with mental illness. She says the Master of Public Administration program is giving her the right balance of core administrative skills and deep knowledge to help her advocate for her clients.
Dean Kennedy

Mechanical Engineering

Dean Kennedy always dreamed of a career at Disney. The experience he gained and connections he made while earning his bachelor’s and master’s in mechanical engineering helped make that dream come true.
Karina Cruz

Public Administration

Karina Cruz appreciates the flexibility, small classes and in-depth administrative skills she’s learning, from how to change public policy to managing a diverse workforce.
Rimonda Maroun

Criminal Justice & Criminology

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

Criminal Justice & Criminology

Retired MBTA Transit Police Sgt. Dic Donohue finished his master’s degree in 2012. Less than a year later, he was shot during a police firefight with the Boston Marathon bombers. Now he’s pursuing a Ph.D. in criminology and researching the effectiveness of police training methods.
Daniel Parravano

Finance

Manning School of Business MBA student Daniel Parravano began working as a real estate agent as an undergraduate to help pay his way through school. Now he is ready to make his mark in the world of commercial real estate.
Devon White

Psychology and Disability Studies & Autism Studies

Devon White, a recent graduate of the Autism Studies program, is helping to run a new, affordable and comprehensive autism treatment center in Kuwait. She says great faculty mentors and all the research opportunities she got, starting as an undergraduate, prepared her for the post.
Tyler McMillan

Public Administration

Tyler McMillan teaches guitar and plays in a band. He’s earning his M.P.A. degree in public arts and humanities so he can start a nonprofit recording studio – and more.
Daniel Howell

Public Health

When Daniel Howell interned at the City of Lowell Health Department, he helped run a forum addressing opioid abuse.
Marcus Lithander

Applied Psychology and Prevention Science

Marcus Lithander was already designing online courses when he heard Asst. Prof. Yana Weinstein, co-founder of The Learning Scientists, speak at a conference in Stockholm. Six months later he arrived in the U.S. to pursue his Ph.D. with her and do research on effective learning strategies.
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.
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.
Gabrielle Davis

Peace and 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.
Lisa Dana

Education

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

Political Science & Security Studies: Homeland Defense

Gackson Wheeler found his path to the crossroads of politics and the possibilities the Air Force offered at UMass Lowell, and he calls it one of the best decisions he’s ever made.
Matthew Olson

Education

Matthew Olson, dean of humanities and social science at Middlesex Community College, says there is a direct connection between the doctorate he earned in Leadership in Schooling and his current job.
Sean Patterson

Sound Recording Technology

For this sound recording technology grad, it’s all between the ears.
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.
Michelle Palladino

Nutritional Sciences & Public Health

Once Michelle Palladino started taking courses in nutrition as an undergraduate, she knew right away that she wanted a career in the field of nutrition and dietetics.
Atthaphon Mumi

Entrepreneurship

With a dissertation on social media’s role in the entrepreneurial process, Thailand’s Atthaphon Mumi became the first graduate of the Manning School of Business’ Ph.D. in entrepreneurship program.
Mindasari Daniar

Nutritional Sciences & Public Health

Mindasari Daniar's upbringing in Indonesia inspired her to study nutrition. She now works at Massachusetts General Hospital in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit and is pursing her Master of Public Health degree.
Kyleigh Clark-Moorman

Criminology

Kyleigh Clark-Moorman is interested in how best to prepare inmates to rejoin their communities. She’s gotten a broad range of research and teaching experiences in the doctoral program in criminology.
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.
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.