by Vitor Machado Lira | Jan 19, 2016 | Student Voices
Last week we heard from Mayank Vikas who attended the COP 21 climate talks in Paris. But things were moving so fast at the conference that the attendees from the University of Michigan had a whole other team back in Ann Arbor to support them: Ground Control. Bonnie...
by Bonnie Applebeet | Jan 15, 2016 | Student Voices
A little while before I started writing this blog post, I decided to get real with my Facebook friends. I asked them: Yes, I too have participated in the existential hand-wringing that has become so central to the experience of the humanities doctoral student. These...
by Elina Salminen | Jan 12, 2016 | Student Voices
Last semester, I mentioned how I’d been exploring the implications and applications of my education to the real world through community-based learning and engaged pedagogy. Moving forward, my goals are to expand my thinking about university teaching and research on...
by Mayank Vikas | Jan 8, 2016 | Student Voices
The 21st Conference of Parties (COP) under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, 1992 (UNFCCC) was recently held in Paris from November 30 to December 11, 2015. The COP was attended by over 40,000 delegates which included representatives from more...
by Shweta Ramdas | Jan 4, 2016 | Student Voices
Keep my notes organized, and not use cookie-smeared napkins as convenient parchment to write down important bits of information during seminars. Do a better job of explaining to my family what it is I do, and how exactly I spend my time. Start convincing my 4-year old...
by Shweta Ramdas | Jan 4, 2016 | Student Voices
Keep my notes organized, and not use cookie-smeared napkins as convenient parchment to write down important bits of information during seminars. Do a better job of explaining to my family what it is I do, and how exactly I spend my time. Start convincing my 4-year old...
by Elina Salminen | Dec 14, 2015 | Student Voices
Most of us in academia, and maybe especially those of us in the darker recesses of the Humanities, are well familiar with the hand-wringing around the pertinence of our research to the “real world.” Obviously, the skills often touted in conversations around this –...
by April Wesolowski | Nov 20, 2015 | Student Voices
I spent this past summer as an intern for Rackham Graduate School working on programming around the Barbour Scholarship. U-M Regent Levi Barbour endowed this scholarship in 1917 after meeting three women in Japan and China, who were educated at the University of...
by Elina Salminen | Nov 2, 2015 | Student Voices
I’ve returned to Ann Arbor after a year and a half in Greece, and I still struggle to settle back into my usual triage of office, library, home. It seems fitting, then, to pay homage to fieldwork, complete with some maternal advice, of course. Fieldwork is a very...
by Jeff Lowe | Oct 30, 2015 | Student Voices
Fall has arrived in Michigan! It came in quickly this year, like a November gale blowing off the coast of one of the Great Lakes. Since fall is one of the shortest seasons in Michigan, the time to go out and enjoy the season is now! Very soon the leaves will be gone...
