by Sheila Waterhouse | Nov 7, 2015 | Student Spotlights
Imagine buying solar cells for your home at Target. The research Eli Fahrenkrug is developing could make that a reality. His dissertation research has developed a process that could lead to mass produced, affordable solar energy, reducing the cost of manufacturing to...
by Sheila Waterhouse | Nov 2, 2015 | Student Spotlights
Laura is in her thesis year at U-M, undertaking a self-directed project called Playscape at an Ann Arbor elementary school. Building on her dual undergraduate degrees in art education and studio art, she is combining her passions for creative pedagogy in a year-long...
by Sheila Waterhouse | Oct 29, 2015 | Student Spotlights
While most of her peers were undergraduate students, Elaina was climbing 20,000 foot peaks in South America, scuba diving in the Bahamas, backpacking the Australian outback, and traversing the globe in search of adventure. In the process, she gained a different...
by Sheila Waterhouse | Oct 19, 2015 | Student Spotlights
Dimitri laughs and says, “For fun, I do kind of the same things I do for work but with friends and drinks involved. I read, watch movies, hang with my colleagues, and play video games.” He almost makes grad school sound easy! Far from it, though, and while his...
by Sheila Waterhouse | Oct 11, 2015 | Student Spotlights
“I come from a home where my parents always emphasized the importance of education. My dad would always say that everyone in the family had a job to do, and that school was my job. If I ever wanted to make anything of myself, get out of his house and be successful...
by Sheila Waterhouse | Oct 3, 2015 | Student Spotlights
“I applied to many grad schools but it was the diversity of research in the PIBS program at U-M that attracted me,” says Briana. The fact that she’s a three hour drive from her family in Canton, Ohio is a nice perk of attending graduate school in the Midwest, and...
by Sheila Waterhouse | Sep 28, 2015 | Student Spotlights
My experience as a Ph.D. student in Nursing at Rackham represents an exciting chapter in my life. I feel that I am very fortunate to be a part of U-M and have learned so much since I began my graduate studies. Although there were challenges and difficulties as an...
by Sheila Waterhouse | Sep 14, 2015 | Student Spotlights
“For me, the Ph.D. is so much more than a Ph.D. It has been a spiritual journey, and my Christian faith is central to it, it’s like everything to me. I feel like with different things, whether it’s just a test or assignment, I look at things differently. God is...
by Sheila Waterhouse | Aug 31, 2015 | Student Spotlights
“I knew right away that I was really interested in doing research.” As an undergraduate at the University of Texas at San Antonio, Chris gravitated to the research spotlight sections at the end of his premed physiology textbook chapters, calling them a ‘healthy...
by Sheila Waterhouse | Aug 24, 2015 | Student Spotlights
Trish’s field is air pollution policy research. She served as an environmental scientist at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency for over two decades, developing federal policy focused on air pollution and most recently diesel emissions from marine ports. She...
