The Cost of a Mango in January
Alexa White, a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, investigates sustainable agriculture and has earned recognition for her wider efforts in support of environmental justice.
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Student Spotlights
How We Make Artificial Intelligence Safer
Artificial intelligence is rapidly being implemented across a wide range of industries, but it still has many vulnerabilities that leave it open to attack. Rackham computer and information science Ph.D. student Abderrahmen Amich is developing new lines of defense.
Narrating Nubia
Rackham student Anawar Mahagoub Ali Mohamed’s journey to understand the pyramids in his own backyard and his village’s place in the ancient Kingdom of Kush.
SROP Participants Shine at National Academic Conferences
With financial support from Rackham, Summer Research Opportunity Program students presented at two national academic conferences in the fall 2023 semester. Three students went on to secure research awards.
Climate Disaster: When the Smoke Clears
Rackham student and sociologist Joyce Ho’s research seeks to understand homeowners’ experiences and insurance companies’ responses in the aftermath of forest fires in northern California.
SROP Perspectives: A Day in the Lab
2023 U-M Summer Research Opportunity Program participant Isabela Tatem shares her experiences with the program and with supporting research in a Michigan Chemical Engineering lab.
Research for Public Understanding
Anan Ghrayeb wins 2023 3MT® competition with his presentation on origami-inspired robots.
SROP Perspectives: Mentorship and Community
U-M Department of Psychology Ph.D. student Janae Sayler discusses her experiences as a Summer Research Opportunity Program (SROP) participant and how the program’s commitment to mentorship and community building helped her get into grad school.
SROP Perspectives: Transforming the Academy
U-M Department of Political Science Ph.D. student Caroline Lindey discusses her experiences as a Summer Research Opportunity Program (SROP) participant and how the program creates powerful change for individuals and for academia.
Sympathy for the Devil: How Children See Villains
Each year during Halloween, children dress up as some of the movies’ iconic villains. New research from Rackham developmental psychology Ph.D. student Valerie Umscheid reveals that they are capable of looking past these characters’ wicked deeds to the moral complexity beneath the surface.