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Student Spotlight: Sophie Hunt
“I remember college being a life changing time, so I’m excited to teach at a college and give other students the same experience. My experiences drew me to humanities and social science classes because they made me think in new ways about my place in my country and...
Postcard from the Field: Houston, TX
The Campus of Rice University I study the evolutionary dynamics of the strains of bacteria that compete with each other. Under the supervision of Professor Matthew Bennett, in the department of the Biosciences at Rice University, I am creating novel mathematical...
30 Years of Supporting Diversity and Graduate Excellence: The Summer Research Opportunity Program (SROP)
2016 SROP participants on the front steps of Rackham. This summer marks the 30th anniversary of the Summer Research Opportunity Program (SROP), one of the University of Michigan’s most dynamic recruitment efforts intended to prepare students from underrepresented...
Postcard from the Field: Delhi, India
Roza in Delhi, India. After a hard day's work in sweltering Delhi, the faithful are excited and well prepared to open one of the last Roza (fasts) of Ramazaan with their families, inside the historic Jama Masjid of Delhi, India. - Taha Abdul Rauf, Doctoral...
Student Spotlight: Michael Parmelee
Michael performed in a dance company in Kalamazoo for two seasons after completing his undergraduate degree at Hope College, but it wasn’t fueling him in the ways he needed. He explains, “I felt I wasn’t satisfying my artistic desire and hunger.” Coming to U-M fixed...
‘Arts of Citizenship’ Becomes ‘Rackham Program in Public Scholarship’
The Rackham Graduate School is pleased to announce that the Arts of Citizenship program will be renamed the Rackham Program in Public Scholarship as of August 2016. Arts of Citizenship was founded in 1998 to promote sustainable campus-community collaborations in the...
Student Spotlight: Kennedy Turner
Kennedy Turner, Ph.D. Candidate, Sociology and Public Policy, Rackham Merit Fellowship Kennedy first came to U-M the summer after her junior year at Howard University to spend seven weeks in the Public Policy and International Affairs (PPIA) Institute, a program...
Student Spotlight: Maryam Arbabzadeh
Maryam Arbabzadeh, Ph.D. Candidate, Natural Resources and the Environment, Predoctoral Fellowship Maryam was studying electrical engineering at home in Iran when she got the itch. Many of her classmates were applying to big universities abroad, mostly in the U.S. and...
A Banner Year for Rackham Merit Fellowships
The Rackham Merit Fellowship (RMF) has been one of the Rackham Graduate School’s largest and most successful innovations for enhancing student diversity, and thereby the quality of the intellectual environment in graduate education at U-M. By offering financial...
2016 Predoctoral Fellows and Distinguished Dissertation Awards – The Best Ph.D. Students On Campus and Off
Spring is award ceremony for us at Rackham. There are no red carpets, no paparazzi, no fashion do’s and don’ts. But we do have ceremonies to acknowledge some of the most stellar doctoral students on campus at the Predoctoral Fellow reception. Read about the...