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Announcing the 2016-2017 Rackham Predoctoral Fellowship Winners
The Rackham Predoctoral Fellowship is one of the most prestigious awards granted by the Rackham Graduate School. Doctoral candidates who expect to graduate within six years since beginning their degrees are eligible to apply, and the strength and quality of their...
Alumni Spotlight: Alfredo Gutierrez
“Our favorite destination is always the next one,” Alfredo Gutierrez says of the extensive travel he and his wife Luz Maria undertake. One of the trips Alfredo frequently makes is back to his graduate alma mater in Ann Arbor. As a former member of the Rackham Board of...
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...
Recognizing Global Academic Excellence: The 2016-17 Barbour Scholars
From left to right: Po-Ju Chen, Wenyu Gu, Airan Liu, Ziyong Lin, Avish Kosari Eight new graduate students joined the ranks of women celebrated as Barbour Scholars at the University of Michigan over the last century. This new cohort, hailing from Taiwan, China, Iran,...
How I Learned to Embrace Living in a College Town Post-Undergrad
As graduate students, we have a love-hate relationship with the undergraduates, though we often express the hate more fervently than the love. Most of the undergrad-focused comments I hear from my fellow graduate students are critical, at best, and I would be lying if...
Student Spotlight: Elaine Wah
From her first foray in programming with a “Learn Visual Basic in 21 Days” tutorial that she and her twin sister completed during one summer vacation while in elementary school, Elaine has been around computers from an early age. Inspired by her father, a faculty...
How I Get – and Give – Good Advice in Graduate School
Mentoring, as a concept, is something that gets discussed fairly often in academic circles. A friend recently posted this article on social media, which focused on advice for white faculty members looking to mentor scholars of color. The article from Dr. Kerry Ann...
Tips for Developing a Professional Online Presence OR You Are Already Kind of a Robot
Co-authored with Meredith Kahn, Women’s Studies and Publishing Services Librarian The first time I updated Facebook, I accidentally posted my comment ten times. Literally. At the time I had approximately five friends, so it didn’t really matter, but even now, I...
Student Spotlight: Sarah Seelye
Sarah was older than the average graduate student when she applied to U-M. With an M.S.W. already in hand, she had been working as a program evaluator for a homeless program in Louisville that housed individuals with severe mental illness or substance abuse issues....
How to Stay in Touch with Your Creative Side While in the Lab
Step 1) Set up the expensive lab equipment. Step 2) Put the solutions on the samples. Step 3) Wait for things to happen. Step 4) Write things down. Take some pictures. Step 5) Collect data. Did it work? What does it mean? Step 6) Lather, rinse, repeat. Working in a...