SEAS Ph.D. and Master’s Students Lead Efforts to Support Native Hawaiians
Two SEAS master’s projects on Moloka’i are focused on supporting Land Back efforts and food sovereignty on the least developed and visited of the Hawaiian Islands.
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Student Spotlights
Creating Home, for and with Each Other
Rackham Ph.D. candidate Irene Routté’s public scholarship focuses on how refugee-run organizations and youth councils foster a sense of home for Congolese newcomers to Grand Rapids, Michigan.
Adapting Crops for People and the Planet
Rackham Ph.D. candidate Etienne Herrick-Sutton works with Great Lakes region farmers to identify strategies for improving the environmental and economic outcomes of cover cropping.
Lessons in Cooperation
Rackham Ph.D. candidate Rebecca Wai studies relationships between refugee communities and farmers in Uganda.
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.
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.