by Sheila Waterhouse | Oct 11, 2016 | Student Spotlights
Gail was inspired by the students she read about in Rackham’s Predoctoral Fellowship announcement this spring. She was impressed by the depth of their research and the unique accomplishments of some of the best and brightest doctoral trainees in the country. She is...
by Sheila Waterhouse | Oct 7, 2016 | News
“Whatever you do, do it with passion and the idea of making a contribution.” Rackham alumnus David He shared his career path and lessons learned along the way with Rackham students last week in the first session of the new Alumni Conversation series. Dr. He earned his...
by Sheila Waterhouse | Oct 6, 2016 | News
The University of Michigan has received a $1 million gift from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to endow four postdoctoral humanities positions in the Michigan Society of Fellows, one of the most prestigious postdoctoral fellowship programs in the country. Additional...
by Sheila Waterhouse | Oct 6, 2016 | News
It was an extremely empowering summer in our department at the Rackham Graduate School, and we’d like to thank all of you for contributing to it. Our team grew by 50% for 10 weeks as we added two U-M students to our roster, both focusing on different aspects of the...
by Sheila Waterhouse | Oct 1, 2016 | Student Spotlights
Coming to U-M has helped Emily develop her Canadian identity. She explains, “I’m slightly more patriotic since coming to the U.S., possibly because by living in a different country, I see national identity that I didn’t realize I had and am now becoming more aware...
by Sheila Waterhouse | Sep 8, 2016 | Alumni Spotlights
“I told my mom from age 5 that I was going to be a math professor.” Babette fulfilled that early childhood goal – and then some. Currently an Association Professor and Director of Graduate Studies for the College of Natural Sciences and Mathematics at California...
by Sheila Waterhouse | Sep 8, 2016 | Alumni Spotlights
Business can be a force for good. And it should be. With this conviction in mind, Margaret co-founded Apex CoVantage in 1988, to pursue business for the right reasons, in the right way, challenging norms, and channeling the resources generated by the business to...
by Sheila Waterhouse | Sep 8, 2016 | Student Spotlights
Michigan has hundreds of acronyms, and one of our favorites at Rackham is SROP. The Summer Research Opportunity Program is a program for undergraduates from diverse backgrounds to come to U-M for intensive research and an introduction to graduate school. Natalie knows...
by Sheila Waterhouse | Sep 8, 2016 | Alumni Spotlights
Carl de Boor is extremely humble about his accomplishments over the course of his long career in mathematics. “My contribution is relatively small; I was at the right place at the right time. I saw what needed to be done. Any competent person would have done the...
by Sheila Waterhouse | Sep 8, 2016 | Student Spotlights
Ask Shira to explain her research and she lights up. Her voice and face animate. She starts speaking faster, and her excitement is contagious, which has a little something to do with the nondescript conference room we’re in. Shira studies academic space, work space,...
