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9 Summertime Perks & Services for U-M Graduate Students
Maybe you’re sticking around in Ann Arbor this summer, and maybe you’re wondering what to do with less structured days or a limited budget. If that sounds like you, check out this list of things that you’re still eligible to take advantage of over the summer as an...
Student Spotlight: Linda Hagen
Linda’s first visit to scope out graduate programs at U-M was a doozy. “I spent a year in the social psychology program on scholarship from my undergraduate institution in Germany and I really loved getting a glimpse of graduate student life. I was the same age as...
The Mellon Immersive Experience: Exploring the Practice of Engaged Humanities
Last semester, I participated in a daylong Mellon Immersive Experience at the Michigan Humanities Council to assist with the Heritage Grants review process, and to learn more broadly about the organization’s strategies for promoting public humanities work around the...
Student Spotlight: Gustavo Serratos
Gustavo is a big advocate for graduate student involvement on campus, and he knows what he’s talking about. As a first year Master’s student living in Northwood, he says, “I was one of those students who went from my school to Northwood and back. I didn’t really have...
An Interview with Associate Dean Tabbye M. Chavous, Winner of “Cornerstone Award”
Associate Dean Tabbye M. Chavous recently received the “Cornerstone Award” at the Black Celebratory, one of many intimate, identity- and culturally-based graduation celebrations on campus. “The Black Celeb is a truly joyous event” she says, “All of the graduates’...
2016 Bouchet Inductees Recognized at Yale, Celebrated at Rackham
In early April, seven of our Bouchet inductees were able to travel with us to Yale to be inducted at the formal ceremony on April 1. Four members presented their work during the Edward A. Bouchet Conference that followed the next day. A highlight of the conference was...
I came to Michigan to study Southern accents…or so I thought
I came to University of Michigan to study Southern dialects in the media. That's right. I left the South after spending the first 25 years of my life split between South Carolina, Georgia, and North Carolina in order to do research on Southern dialects. The usual...
Let’s Talk About Prelims, Part 2: Lessons Learned and Others’ Experiences
As April comes to a close as I finish writing this post, I’ll have had about two months of reflecting on my prelim experience. If I had the knowledge I have now about the process, I would’ve done some things a little differently. I feel like I waited until the last...
Let’s Talk About Prelims, Part 1: A Quick Summary
As of March 7, 2016, I passed my preliminary exam and will officially be a Ph.D. candidate Fall 2016. I took notes throughout my experience for the purpose of writing this post, and I’ve included some visuals to break up the text to really convey how this experience...
Slightly Odd Things to Do in Southeast Michigan
As the summer approaches, I will once more be headed to Greece to do my fieldwork. But for those who will be in Ann Arbor and will (hopefully) have a bit more free time than usual, here are some delightful-yet-quirky things to do I have discovered over the past year....