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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...
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...
Postcard from the Field: Nicaragua
A view of Masaya Volcano, one of Nicaragua's many active volcanoes. I am studying the relationship between the upper respiratory tract microbiota and influenza infection. This summer, I worked with the Centro Nacional de Diagnóstico y Referencia at the Nicaraguan...
Meet the Bloggers: Deanna Montgomery
Hi there! My name is Deanna, and like many of you, I spend a lot of time pretending I have it all together. I’m a third-year Ph.D. student in Medicinal Chemistry - and no, you’re not the first person to ask me what that means. My short answer is “chemistry as applied...
Student Spotlight: Ziyong Lin
Ziyong studies aging, specifically age related changes in human cognition, a field she’s been interested from a young age. “I grew up in China with my grandparents, and living in an Asian community where there is a positive association with aging made me very...
Postcard from the Field: Liberia
Students of West Point, Monrovia: Abraham, Vivian, Patience, Jacqueline, Lorpu and their peers. I am studying how social programs, services and policies moderate the life trajectory of orphans and vulnerable youths infected or affected by the Ebola virus disease (EVD)...
An Alumnus Says Asking for Help and Collaborating Is a Sign of Strength
Towards the end of finishing my doctoral work I needed to complete a thermal analysis to help validate my research results. With my degree being in computational electromagnetics, this was far from easy. I had to learn how to use new software in addition to learning a...
Postcard from the Field: Tijuana
Ryan Firebee drone | "Todos somos migrantes" ("We're all migrants") mural by Teak and Adrián Juárez Omet in Pasaje Rodríguez, Tijuana | Colonia Postal, Tijuana What is a drone? What does it do and how does it work? What political goals are pursued in drone design...
Public Scholarship in the Age of the Internets
I’ve been having a lot of conversations with fellow graduate students, both at Michigan and elsewhere, fellow classicists and non-classicists, and there’s been a topic of conversation that comes up a lot: in one form or another, many of us want to grow up to be some...