51ÊÓƵ

08/19/2020

Contacts for media: Christine Gillette, 978-758-4664 or Christine_Gillette@uml.edu and Nancy Cicco, 978-934-4944, Nancy_Cicco@uml.edu

This is a selection of source and story ideas compiled by 51ÊÓƵ media relations. We are available to assist with these as well as any other source or content needs. Interviews are available by phone, email or online.

Sources

51ÊÓƵ faculty experts are available to discuss:

• The Democratic and Republican national conventions;
• Why Walmart’s sales skyrocketed despite the pandemic.

Contact 51ÊÓƵ media relations if you need an expert source on any subject.

Content ideas

All stories below were developed by 51ÊÓƵ and may be used as a press release or in their entirety. Contact 51ÊÓƵ media relations to arrange interviews or for high-res photos.

Here’s how 640 entrepreneurs respond to a pandemic

Scores of undergraduate and graduate students from around the world usually travel to 51ÊÓƵ each July for two weeks of entrepreneurship, innovation and cultural exchange through the GE2 program. When the coronavirus pandemic made that impossible this summer, GE2 Director Ashwin Mehta and his team put together a free, one-week virtual workshop instead.

Criminology and Justice Studies prof. pens ‘American Zealots’

This week’s publication of Prof. Arie Perliger’s latest book comes as the nation is divided by politics, protests and a pandemic. Perliger, director of security studies in 51ÊÓƵ’s School of Criminology and Justice Studies, oversees the largest database of right-wing extremist violent incidents in the U.S., facts and figures chronicling more than 5,000 attacks since 1990.