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Rackham Student Helps Rewrite Michigan History
Anthropology Ph.D. candidate Brendan Nash helped identify a 13,000-year-old Paleoindian camp in St. Joseph County, now thought to be the earliest archaeological site in Michigan.
Rackham Student Finds Time Outdoors Improves Youth Physical and Mental Health
In a new study, Rackham public health student Astrid Zamora finds spending time in nature has significant mental and physical health benefits for teenagers and young adults.
Welcome to the New Academic Year
Dean Mike Solomon highlights ways that Rackham and program faculty and staff can support you in 2021–22 and at every stage of your graduate education.
Twenty Rackham Students Awarded Fellowships by MICDE
The Michigan Institute for Computational Discovery and Engineering fellowships fund the work of current and prospective students in scientific computing.
Why Did the Bumblebee Cross the Road?
Bees and other insects are crucial for the reproduction of many plant species, but roads often impose obstacles to this vital function. Rackham students Gordon Fitch and Chatura Vaidya studied this problem and proposed some solutions.
Rackham Assistant Dean Receives President’s Award
For nearly three decades, Assistant Dean John Godfrey has been an unwavering advocate for international students.
Announcing the 2021 Rackham Public Scholarship Grants
The Rackham Program in Public Scholarship supports publicly engaged scholarship through mutually beneficial projects created between Rackham students and community partners that co-create public goods based on community-needs and interests.
Rackham Student Headed to Tokyo Olympics
Statistics Ph.D. student Mason Ferlic will join Team USA at the 2020 Summer Olympics to compete in the 3,000-meter steeplechase.
Evening the Scales
Some of the most widespread sources of information on the planet, Wikipedia’s articles are praised for their neutrality, but show significant biases in whom they cover. Rackham political science student Samuel Baltz spent most of 2020 working to change that by writing an article on women in political science every day.
Time Travel with Typewriters
With support from the Rackham Program in Public Scholarship, Rackham alumna Meghan Forbes created a program that uses a retro strategy to encourage children to write: giving them access to typewriters.