Philosophy Chair Nicholas Evans and Criminology Assoc. Prof. Neil Shortland are researching the future of artificial intelligence in warfare and policy under a pair of Department of Defense Minerva Grants worth $4.2 million, leading teams that include paid student researchers and other UML and outside faculty.

Assoc. Prof. Neil Shortland and a pair of graduate students will research how exposure to misinformation online can lead people toward extreme behavior.

Three criminology professors have a federal grant to study police who join far-right extremist groups that engage in domestic terrorism, while one has another grant to study former and active-duty military personnel in such groups.

Students gain professional experience and expert education through UMass Lowell’s close partnership with The Washington Center for Internships and Academic Seminars.

A pair of federal grants totaling over $2 million will examine right-wing terror and the ethics of testing soldiers with artificial intelligence.

Prof. Arie Perliger's vast database and years of study come together in "American Zealots."

Asst. Prof. Neil Shortland has won a $420,000 National Science Foundation CAREER grant to study how police, firefighters, doctors and others make critical decisions in emergencies – and whether they can learn to make better ones.

Operation250, which began as a student project to combat terrorism, is the subject of a $1 million U.S. government grant to develop and evaluate its program for teaching children, teenagers, parents and educators about online safety, hate sites and terrorist recruitment tactics.

Tawakkol Karman, the first Arab woman, the first person from Yemen and the second Muslim woman to win the Nobel Peace Prize, was on campus to deliver the keynote address at the university’s 23rd annual Day Without Violence. She is UML’s 2018 Greeley Scholar for Peace Studies.

Nicola Benyahia travels around the world, speaking about her experience as part of the Families for Life organization she helped found to raise awareness about extremism on the internet. She was the keynote speaker at a UMass Lowell conference Friday about online recruitment by extremist groups.

Assoc. Prof. Sukesh Aghara, director of UMass Lowell’s Nuclear Engineering Program, shares his perspective on what we can expect to see in the geopolitical landscape in the coming year.

Four social science professors, led by Asst. Prof. Neil Shortland, have won a $794,000 Department of Defense grant to study the interaction between personality and messaging in online terrorist recruitment and counterterrorism efforts.

Arie Perliger, director of security studies at UMass Lowell, says the recent violence in Charlottesville and elsewhere “is just the tip of the iceberg.”

The attack in Charlottesville, Va., in which a man named James Alex Fields Jr. used his Dodge Challenger as a weapon against a crowd of protesters, underscores the growing violence of America’s far-right wing.

Neil Shortland of the Center for Terrorism and Security Studies has won a $531,000 grant to study military decision-making jointly with HEROES, the Army’s Natick Soldier Center and researchers at Tufts University and the University of Liverpool.

Q&A with Neil Shortland, the program manager at the UMass Lowell Center for Terrorism and Security Studies,

The 2017 DifferenceMaker awards celebrated 10 ideas designed to make the world a better place.

Five students who created a counterterrorism program won a trip to Washington and third place in an international competition. The Peer to Peer: Challenging Extremism contest taps college students’ savvy to help the Department of Homeland Security counter extremist messaging and recruitment, using social media.

A group of 10 undergraduate students are working on an internship project sponsored by the Department of Defense called Peer 2 Peer -- a program that enlists the help of university groups in countering violent extremist organizations online.

Led by lecturer Neil Shortland, 15 criminal justice majors examine the differences between European and American approaches to terrorism during study abroad program in Portugal.

The U.S. National Security Agency and Department of Homeland Security have recently designated UMass Lowell a “National Center of Academic Excellence in Cyber Defense Research” in recognition of the university’s intensive cyber-security research and academic programs.

Greeley Peace Scholar Sanam Naraghi-Anderlini talks about the importance of working with women and other peace activists to counter violence, extremism and terrorism.