by Anonymous | Mar 1, 2016 | Student Voices
There came a point for me, during my fourth year, when things just bottomed out. I wasn’t teaching or taking classes, since I had just become a candidate, which meant I had a year of fellowship to get going on my dissertation. I’d been struggling for a while with a...
by Postcards from the Field | Feb 26, 2016 | Student Voices
Me with Hypsiboas faber, the Blacksmith tree frog I study the effects of current and historic habitat fragmentation on amphibian genetics and disease. This involves fieldwork in the state of São Paulo, Brazil. This year my fieldwork is focused on sampling frogs from a...
by Katelyn Gaither | Feb 22, 2016 | Student Voices
February is notorious for its history of already-forgotten New Year’s resolutions. Many times, fitness goals are the first to fade, especially for busy folks. That said, Recreational Sports wants to keep you on track to achieve your 2016 fitness goals! Haven’t started...
by Jimmy Brancho | Feb 19, 2016 | Student Voices
When I came to graduate school to study chemistry, I suspected that I would have to expand my skill set to succeed. Experimental design has a tendency to draw from many different areas of expertise. It’s not enough to be a good chemist; you have to be a good chemist...
by Postcards from the Field | Feb 17, 2016 | Student Voices
Sunset on the Mekong River, looking towards Laos. Nong Khai, Thailand, June 2015. My research is on Thai migrant workers in Israeli agriculture. I spent the summer doing research on the background of these workers and studying their language in Isaan (Northeast...
by Jeff Lowe | Feb 12, 2016 | Student Voices
A few weeks after arriving in Ann Arbor for graduate school, nearly four years ago, the strangest thing happened to me. I was walking to the public library downtown to return a mystery novel, book in hand, when I was approached by a kid. He and his friend had been...
by Amy Pistone | Feb 10, 2016 | Student Voices
We have to do a better job dealing with mental health in the academy. We really, really have to. The most recent information suggests that almost half of Michigan students, at the graduate and undergraduate level, have felt overwhelming anxiety or severe sadness or...
by Amy Yu | Feb 2, 2016 | Student Voices
During my last two years of undergrad, whenever I mentioned I was applying to graduate school, the most consistent response I got was a comment or joke about how I’d essentially be living in lab, even from friends who didn’t know much about graduate school in biology....
by Susanne Quallich | Jan 29, 2016 | Student Voices
On paper, my plan for data collection is very streamlined and very direct- after all, I had to justify my process to my committee and get it approved. I am recruiting patients for my data collection from my own clinical practice, since this is what inspired my...
by Kristen Choi | Jan 22, 2016 | Student Voices
Human trafficking is an important human rights problem that occurs both domestically and internationally. From what little research has been done on human trafficking in Ethiopia, we know that the most common form of trafficking is of women for domestic labor. It is...
