Last week, the Psychology Department came together to celebrate the achievements of our graduating students at our annual Awards Celebration. We proudly honored students from our Undergraduate Psychology Program, Master’s in Applied Behavior Analysis and Autism Studies, and Ph.D. in Psychology.

🎓 Congratulations to the Class of 2025 – Psychology Graduates! 🧠💫 We’re so proud to celebrate the incredible achievements of our Psychology graduates! To our graduates: thank you for the energy and insight you’ve brought to our community. www.uml.edu/news/departm...

We hosted our first research symposium on Tuesday May 6th. The event brought together student presenters in our undergraduate program, as well as our PhD and MS in Applied Behavior Analysis (ABA) and Autism Studies programs.

Way to go, @sarahmerrill.bsky.social! 🎧🗣️🎙️💬🔬 bestlives.buzzsprout.com/2432042/epis...

Fall 2025 course registration opened this week! Among the psychology courses available next semester is Dr. Anita Li’s special topics seminar. She will be teaching organizational behavior management to a broad audience. Learn more about our diverse course offerings here: www.uml.edu/catalog/grad...

UMass Lowell’s Psychology PhD was well-represented at the university’s 28th annual Student Research & Community Engagement Symposium! Congrats to graduate oral presentation winner Allie Winstead as well as presenters Michaela, Stephanie, Leyla, Hourie, and Jack! #UMLCRE #goriverhawks

Only 7 days to go before UMass Lowell hosts its first annual Three Minute Thesis Competition Finals, where 10 graduate student finalists will publicly present their diverse research projects in an accessible, compelling way for the chance at big cash prize winnings!

First-year UML PhD student Jack Blake presented posters on organizational behavior management and the gender wage gap alongside first-year ABAAS student Tien Pham and bachelor’s-to-master’s ABAAS student Jonathan Labrie at the 3rd annual meeting of Rhode Island Association for Behavior Analysis!

Hot off the press! Doctoral candidate Stephanie Madden recently second-authored an open-access article about behavioral assessment of Type I diabetes management in a Q1 journal. The Department of Psychology is incredibly proud of Stephanie’s hard work!

Did you know that University of Massachusetts Lowell was recently recognized as a top research institution with R1 classification? Learn more about the APPS faculty and graduate students whose research contributed to this institutional milestone here: www.uml.edu/fahss/psycho...

Did you know University of Massachusetts (UMass) Lowell's PhD program in Applied Psychology & Prevention Science is celebrating its 10th-year anniversary? Learn what makes APPS a unique program of study: 1. Interdisciplinary 2. On-campus 3. Research-intensive 4. Fully funded 5. No GRE requirement