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Meet the Bloggers: Jallicia Jolly
I was 15 years old when I discovered my love for words. My arms swung loosely and bones shook on the Brooklyn spoken word poetry stage. As I faced the fear of performing untold stories, the gates of my heart opened. Etched along the walls of my mind, were the tales of...
Exploring the Atomic City
Just when you’re about to lose attention from your project in the utter significance of the atomic city - Los Alamos, NM - or the stunning beauty of the tent rock canyon, the excitement of working with top researchers in the field of materials physics reels you back....
Alumni Spotlight: Babette Benken
“I told my mom from age 5 that I was going to be a math professor.” Babette fulfilled that early childhood goal - and then some. Currently an Association Professor and Director of Graduate Studies for the College of Natural Sciences and Mathematics at California State...
Alumni Spotlight: Margaret Gupta
Business can be a force for good. And it should be. With this conviction in mind, Margaret co-founded Apex CoVantage in 1988, to pursue business for the right reasons, in the right way, challenging norms, and channeling the resources generated by the business to...
Postcard from the Field: Uganda
The dirt turns everything red, but the walk to my office is always worth the view. I am a Ph.D. student in the School of Nursing and I am examining the real world impact of computerized training for child survivors of severe malaria in Uganda. To do this, I am looking...
Alumni Spotlight: Carl de Boor
Carl de Boor is extremely humble about his accomplishments over the course of his long career in mathematics. “My contribution is relatively small; I was at the right place at the right time. I saw what needed to be done. Any competent person would have done the...
Student Spotlight: Shira Schwartz
Ask Shira to explain her research and she lights up. Her voice and face animate. She starts speaking faster, and her excitement is contagious, which has a little something to do with the nondescript conference room we’re in. Shira studies academic space, work space,...
Student Spotlight: Natalie Davis
Michigan has hundreds of acronyms, and one of our favorites at Rackham is SROP. The Summer Research Opportunity Program is a program for undergraduates from diverse backgrounds to come to U-M for intensive research and an introduction to graduate school. Natalie knows...
Dissertation Writing Groups Are Not Committees
There are many great things about dissertation writing groups. I started making a list when I sat down to draft this post—here’s a sampling: Dissertation writing groups are an excuse to eat really good french-fries (yes, I thought of french-fries first…) an escape...
Postcard from the Field: Yukon
Me in front of Mt. Logan on the St. Elias ice fields. I'm working in the Kluane region of the Yukon Territory in Canada. I research the behavioral ecology and evolution of North American red squirrels as part of the collaborative Kluane Red Squirrel Project. Our...