by Postcards from the Field | Jul 22, 2016 | Student Voices
The Campus of Rice University I study the evolutionary dynamics of the strains of bacteria that compete with each other. Under the supervision of Professor Matthew Bennett, in the department of the Biosciences at Rice University, I am creating novel mathematical...
by Postcards from the Field | Jul 15, 2016 | Student Voices
Roza in Delhi, India. After a hard day's work in sweltering Delhi, the faithful are excited and well prepared to open one of the last Roza (fasts) of Ramazaan with their families, inside the historic Jama Masjid of Delhi, India. – Taha Abdul Rauf, Doctoral...
by Jallicia Jolly | Jun 15, 2016 | Student Voices
When I used to think of fundraising and philanthropy at the university level, I thought of transactions. I viewed these as largely unidirectional. A vacant monetary exchange from which passion and excitement were contingent upon the receipt of a “gift,” which ideally...
by Kush Patel | Jun 2, 2016 | Student Voices
Last semester, I participated in a daylong Mellon Immersive Experience at the Michigan Humanities Council to assist with the Heritage Grants review process, and to learn more broadly about the organization’s strategies for promoting public humanities work around the...
by Hayley Heaton | May 18, 2016 | Student Voices
I came to University of Michigan to study Southern dialects in the media. That's right. I left the South after spending the first 25 years of my life split between South Carolina, Georgia, and North Carolina in order to do research on Southern dialects. The usual...
by Amy Yu | May 9, 2016 | Student Voices
As April comes to a close as I finish writing this post, I’ll have had about two months of reflecting on my prelim experience. If I had the knowledge I have now about the process, I would’ve done some things a little differently. I feel like I waited until the last...
by Amy Yu | May 5, 2016 | Student Voices
As of March 7, 2016, I passed my preliminary exam and will officially be a Ph.D. candidate Fall 2016. I took notes throughout my experience for the purpose of writing this post, and I’ve included some visuals to break up the text to really convey how this experience...
by Elina Salminen | May 2, 2016 | Student Voices
As the summer approaches, I will once more be headed to Greece to do my fieldwork. But for those who will be in Ann Arbor and will (hopefully) have a bit more free time than usual, here are some delightful-yet-quirky things to do I have discovered over the past year....
by Rachel Cawkwell | Apr 27, 2016 | Student Voices
This semester I’ve taken the plunge into becoming an amateur actor. My only formal acting experience was appearing in my elementary school’s annual fifth grade musical. As the mayor’s wife in The Music Man, I was able to capitalize on my talent for singing...
by Jimmy Brancho | Apr 19, 2016 | Student Voices
Last month, I had the opportunity to attend the American Chemical Society (ACS) national meeting in San Diego. The ACS meeting happens twice a year, once on the west coast and once on the east, and about 20,000 chemists from all over the world come to participate. The...
