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...
by Sheila Waterhouse | Aug 17, 2015 | Student Spotlights
“In terms of the community at U-M, I’m constantly inspired by everything we have going on here. There is so much interesting work being done all over campus, much of it interdisciplinary. That is unique to Michigan. It’s crazy how much innovation is happening at the...
by Sheila Waterhouse | Aug 8, 2015 | Student Spotlights
Some people just don’t want to leave Ann Arbor. That’s the case with David Mickey-Pabello: he’s been a Michigan student for the bulk of a decade. During that decade, he’s evolved from undergraduate to master’s student to Ph.D. candidate, and he’s picked up a few...
by Sheila Waterhouse | Jul 31, 2015 | Student Spotlights
“Sometimes I wish I could take U-M and plug it into a much warmer climate.” Many a graduate student has had the same sentiment, particularly during some of the cold winters we’ve experienced the last couple of years. Born and raised in Houston, Texas and a graduate of...
by Sheila Waterhouse | Jul 22, 2015 | Student Spotlights
Jacqueline has lived in France on and off for a few years and finds some interesting comparisons between Paris and Detroit. She notes, “In Paris, immigrants live on outskirts of the city, but in Detroit they concentrate in inner city landscapes. I try to incorporate...
by Sheila Waterhouse | Jul 10, 2015 | Student Spotlights
As an undergraduate at the University of Michigan, Scott De Orio found his passion for studying sexuality during a yearlong study abroad program in Freiburg, Germany. “I had no idea what kind of a career I wanted for myself,” he explained, until he took a gender...
by Sheila Waterhouse | Jul 2, 2015 | Student Spotlights
For his first two years in grad school, Chen joked with his advisor Professor Vineet Kamat that he only went to three places: his apartment, his lab, and Kroger. That was before his girlfriend, Shasha Li, a junior high school classmate who he’s been dating since their...
by Sheila Waterhouse | Jun 27, 2015 | Student Spotlights
“Graduate school is its own special world. Writing the dissertation is both a challenge and a blessing—you have to be in charge of your own progress. The day to day is up to you. Once I really get it down pat it will be a skill I’ll always use. It’s also really...
