Discover Rackham
Announcing the Winners of the 2017 Outstanding Graduate Student Instructor Awards
Through the Outstanding Graduate Student Instructor Awards, Rackham recognizes young 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,...
Finding Reflection Time as a Ph.D. Student – Dogsledding Edition
As Ph.D. students, we tend to have full work schedules and large writing projects to work on during every minute we don’t spend in meetings, on conference calls, running experiments, teaching, or presenting our research at conferences. It can be difficult to find...
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 the dissertations produced in their programs that were outstanding. The nomination dossiers...
Science Isn’t Apolitical
If you work in the natural sciences, it’s likely that you’ve heard that science is apolitical. Numbers, data, hypotheses and theories supposedly exist outside the realm of state and national borders, of boardroom handshakes and stump speeches. In my career as a...
Student Spotlight: Iván Chaar-López
Not many people went to college when they were 5, but Iván did. Granted, he was in kindergarten at a lab school at the University of Puerto Rico. He was ready for a change when it came time for graduate school, but he kept going, finishing his Master’s in History...
Alumni Spotlight: Meera Sampath
Meera was drawn to U-M even while completing her master’s degree in Control Systems in India. She was studying the research of Professor Semyon Meerkov, a renowned U-M faculty member, for her masters’ thesis; she found his work and the whole domain of controls...
An Interview with Professor and Associate Dean Michael Solomon, Newly Elected AAAS Fellow
“It’s all about relationships, continuous learning, and meeting different people,” Michael Solomon summarized when I had the pleasure to interview him about his work, academic interests and outstanding scientific achievements last week. Solomon is a Professor of...
Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion: A White Student’s Perspective
Prelude: In light of recent events, I want to let all readers know that regardless of race, religion, gender, sexual identity, etc., in my opinion, you belong here at Michigan. I believe our diversity makes us stronger, and I think that I speak for most of my...
Student Spotlight: Ashley Hardin
“I grew up loving this place. I’ve always felt at home here.” And that makes sense: Ashley’s been wandering around Ann Arbor since she was a little kid. Growing up only an hour north of Ann Arbor and as the fifth member of her immediate family to attend U-M, she is...
Rackham Alum Gives $1 Million to Support Graduate Students
The Rackham Graduate School announces a $1million gift for initiatives identified by the dean that will support graduate students across campus. The gift comes from Rackham alumna Roz Abrams who received her Master’s degree in Speech from U-M in 1971 and considers her...