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 Rackham Graduate School | Aug 3, 2016 | News
Rackham welcomed Dr. Robin R. Means Coleman, Professor in the departments of Afroamerican and African Studies and Communication Studies, as the new Associate Dean for Academic Programs and Initiatives on August 1, 2016. Dr. Means Coleman has worked with Rackham in the...
by Rackham Graduate School | Jul 20, 2016 | Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion, News
2016 SROP participants on the front steps of Rackham. This summer marks the 30th anniversary of the Summer Research Opportunity Program (SROP), one of the University of Michigan’s most dynamic recruitment efforts intended to prepare students from underrepresented...
by Laura N. Schram | Jul 6, 2016 | News
The Rackham Graduate School is pleased to announce that the Arts of Citizenship program will be renamed the Rackham Program in Public Scholarship as of August 2016. Arts of Citizenship was founded in 1998 to promote sustainable campus-community collaborations in the...
by Rackham Graduate School | Jun 17, 2016 | News
The Rackham Merit Fellowship (RMF) has been one of the Rackham Graduate School’s largest and most successful innovations for enhancing student diversity, and thereby the quality of the intellectual environment in graduate education at U-M. By offering financial...
by Sheila Waterhouse | Jun 16, 2016 | Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion, News
What happens when two dedicated alumni, a dean committed to expanding graduate access to marginalized populations, and three of those students enter a conference room? It may sound like the beginning of a joke, but that can’t be farther from the truth. An amazing and...
by Sheila Waterhouse | Jun 16, 2016 | News
Spring is award ceremony for us at Rackham. There are no red carpets, no paparazzi, no fashion do’s and don’ts. But we do have ceremonies to acknowledge some of the most stellar doctoral students on campus at the Predoctoral Fellow reception. Read about the...
by Rackham Graduate School | May 28, 2016 | News
Associate Dean Tabbye M. Chavous recently received the “Cornerstone Award” at the Black Celebratory, one of many intimate, identity- and culturally-based graduation celebrations on campus. “The Black Celeb is a truly joyous event” she says, “All of the graduates’...
by Natalie Bartolacci | May 26, 2016 | Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion, News
In early April, seven of our Bouchet inductees were able to travel with us to Yale to be inducted at the formal ceremony on April 1. Four members presented their work during the Edward A. Bouchet Conference that followed the next day. A highlight of the conference was...
by Sheila Waterhouse | Apr 18, 2016 | Barbour Scholars, News
The Barbour Scholarships are among the oldest and most prestigious awards granted by the University of Michigan, offering funding to female students from Asia since 1917. They are named for their founder, Levi Barbour, who received both his undergraduate and law...
