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Announcing the Winners of the 2018 Outstanding Graduate Student Instructor Awards
Through the Outstanding Graduate Student Instructor Awards, Rackham recognizes scholars who have been nominated by their program for teaching excellence. Winners of this award demonstrate superb skill in teaching, mentoring, and advising. They bring creativity,...
Diversity, Water, and the Future of Work: A Conversation with Earl Lewis
Former U-M Vice Provost and Dean of the Rackham Graduate School Earl Lewis is returning to the University of Michigan as the director of the soon-to-be-established Center for Social Solutions. Lewis spent 15 years at U-M as a faculty member before becoming provost and...
Resources and Support for Your Well-Being
Dear Rackham Students, As we approach the final weeks of the term, I know you are all extremely busy with papers, projects, and exams. Some of you are looking ahead to your prelim or defense. Through your collaborative research and scholarship with faculty, as well as...
Reimagining Computer Design
The Center for Applications Driving Architectures, or ADA, will develop a transformative, “plug-and-play” ecosystem to encourage a flood of fresh ideas in computing frontiers such as autonomous control, robotics, and machine-learning. The center is a five-year project...
Building and Disseminating a Tax Foreclosure Prevention Toolkit in Detroit
Erika Linenfelser (Master's Student, Urban Planning and Urban Design) and Alexa Eisenberg (Ph.D. Student, Health Behavior and Health Education) received a public scholarship grant to work on this project in 2017. You can learn more about their work at...
ProQuest Distinguished Dissertation Award Winners
The ProQuest Distinguished Dissertation Award recognizes exceptional and unusually interesting work produced by doctoral students. Each year, Rackham invites faculty to nominate outstanding dissertations produced in their programs. The nomination dossiers submitted...
It Takes a Village!
Promoting linguistically and culturally competent language services in community settings has been a dream of mine for many years. This dream was forged thorough years of work as a Spanish medical interpreter at the University of Michigan Health System, and as a...
Student Spotlight: Chinbo Chong
Originally from Seattle, political science Ph.D. candidate Chinbo Chong didn’t always think a career in academia was for her, but that all changed when she met someone with a potentially shared experience in the field. During her undergraduate career, she took her...
Student Spotlight: Eric Bettis
When people think of social equity, most don’t immediately think of a city transit system, but for Rackham graduate student, Eric Bettis, the two are directly related. As a second-year Ph.D. student in urban and regional planning at Taubman College, Eric spends the...
Student Spotlight: Yuval Katz
“What does peace mean to you?” That’s what Yuval Katz wants to know. A Ph.D. student in communication studies, Yuval came to the University of Michigan after earning his bachelor’s and master’s degrees from Hebrew University in Jerusalem. “I read about the department...