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My Summer Project: The Impact of the Barbour Scholarship
I spent this past summer as an intern for Rackham Graduate School working on programming around the Barbour Scholarship. U-M Regent Levi Barbour endowed this scholarship in 1917 after meeting three women in Japan and China, who were educated at the University of...
Student Spotlight: Ishita Das
“All the grad students seemed normal, like they enjoyed being in grad school.” That was Ishita’s first impression when she interviewed at U-M with PIBS (the Program in Biomedical Sciences). She explains, “The Michigan environment was so welcoming. It stood out a lot...
Student Spotlight: Eli Fahrenkrug
Imagine buying solar cells for your home at Target. The research Eli Fahrenkrug is developing could make that a reality. His dissertation research has developed a process that could lead to mass produced, affordable solar energy, reducing the cost of manufacturing to...
Into the Field: Mixing Memory with Method
I’ve returned to Ann Arbor after a year and a half in Greece, and I still struggle to settle back into my usual triage of office, library, home. It seems fitting, then, to pay homage to fieldwork, complete with some maternal advice, of course. Fieldwork is a very...
Student Spotlight: Laura Amtower
Laura is in her thesis year at U-M, undertaking a self-directed project called Playscape at an Ann Arbor elementary school. Building on her dual undergraduate degrees in art education and studio art, she is combining her passions for creative pedagogy in a year-long...
Explore Michigan: Say yah to da U.P. eh!
Fall has arrived in Michigan! It came in quickly this year, like a November gale blowing off the coast of one of the Great Lakes. Since fall is one of the shortest seasons in Michigan, the time to go out and enjoy the season is now! Very soon the leaves will be gone...
New Rackham Dean Carol A. Fierke
Dear Friends and Colleagues, As the new Dean of the Rackham Graduate School, I am very excited to work with graduate students, faculty, staff, and alumni to continue to innovate and improve graduate education and to recruit the best scholars to the University of...
Gaining Perspective: The Mellon Fellowships at Rackham
Graduate students find different ways to make ends meet during the summer. With dissertations and job searches on their minds, summer can be fraught with the need for funding, experience, and time to conduct research and continue writing. Tough choices often lead to...
Student Spotlight: Elaina Breznau
While most of her peers were undergraduate students, Elaina was climbing 20,000 foot peaks in South America, scuba diving in the Bahamas, backpacking the Australian outback, and traversing the globe in search of adventure. In the process, she gained a different...
The Parents of Anthro-History
Like all graduate programs, the program in Anthropology and History has a distinct culture. In recent years, the small Anthro-History department has also had a plethora of families in their midst, a fact that has shaped their bonds as a community and strengthened...