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ProQuest Distinguished Dissertation Award Winners
Rackham Graduate School is pleased to announce this year’s winners of the ProQuest Distinguished Dissertation Awards.
Mental Health in the Time of COVID-19
A mentor and a graduate student offer their perspectives on maintaining mental health—and a healthy degree of productivity—amid our current challenges.
Animating Public Health
Through a new program, Rackham alum and former Barbour scholar SeoHyun Bae is empowering local people in Ethiopia to help their own communities.
Rackham seeks input from current U-M graduate students who experience disabilities
The focus groups will address the needs of graduate students who experience disabilities.
A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to Her Degree
Linguistics Ph.D. candidate Emily Sabo hopes to advance our understanding of how multilinguals produce and process language. She also really wants to crack you up.
Exploring New Careers for Ph.D. Graduates
Kirsten Elling, Rackham’s new embedded career counselor, talks about resources available to doctoral students, their job-search priorities, and the upcoming Ph.D. Connections conference.
Rackham Alum Wins Dissertation Award
The CCCC James Berlin Memorial Outstanding Dissertation Award honors a graduate whose dissertation improves the educational process in composition studies.
Rackham Associate Dean Talks Rethinking Graduate Education
Rita Chin, Rackham associate dean for academic programs and initiatives, was interviewed about Rackham’s strategic approach to the future of graduate education.
Frosty Reception
There’s no mistaking when it’s cold outside, but how our bodies know that has been an open question. Molecular and integrative physiology Ph.D. student Elizabeth Ronan is working to understand where that chilly feeling comes from.
Rackham Candidacy Ceremony Celebrates Important Doctoral Milestone
One hundred seven students were accompanied by friends, family, and faculty at this winter’s ceremony.