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Alumni Spotlight: Anne Curzan
Along one wall in Anne Curzan’s office is a bookshelf containing hundreds and hundreds of books whose titles all seem to contain permutations of the words “English Language.” Opposite the wall of bursting bookshelves hang plaques and posters documenting marathons and...
Alumni Spotlight: Nate Marshall
This summer, Nate Marshall @illuminatemics taught at a summer writing institute for young people in Chicago. It is work he loves, and it requires a lot of him. But there are several other big things, things that Nate has given a lot of himself to, in the eaves of...
Alumni Spotlight: Marti Bombyk
“Children and families,” “anti-poverty,” “community organizing,” “feminism,” “experiential education”--no single keyword encapsulates the breadth of Marcia "Marti" Bombyk’s accomplishments and motivations. Marti was a distinguished student at Michigan (A.B. 1974;...
Student Spotlight: Dimitrios Pavlounis
Dimitri laughs and says, “For fun, I do kind of the same things I do for work but with friends and drinks involved. I read, watch movies, hang with my colleagues, and play video games.” He almost makes grad school sound easy! Far from it, though, and while his...
Student Spotlight: Alaina Neal
“I come from a home where my parents always emphasized the importance of education. My dad would always say that everyone in the family had a job to do, and that school was my job. If I ever wanted to make anything of myself, get out of his house and be successful...
Student Spotlight: Briana Dye
“I applied to many grad schools but it was the diversity of research in the PIBS program at U-M that attracted me,” says Briana. The fact that she’s a three hour drive from her family in Canton, Ohio is a nice perk of attending graduate school in the Midwest, and...
Student Spotlight: Rattima Sirihorachai
My experience as a Ph.D. student in Nursing at Rackham represents an exciting chapter in my life. I feel that I am very fortunate to be a part of U-M and have learned so much since I began my graduate studies. Although there were challenges and difficulties as an...
Student Spotlight: Kelly Slay
“For me, the Ph.D. is so much more than a Ph.D. It has been a spiritual journey, and my Christian faith is central to it, it’s like everything to me. I feel like with different things, whether it’s just a test or assignment, I look at things differently. God is...
Student Spotlight: Chris Valdez
“I knew right away that I was really interested in doing research.” As an undergraduate at the University of Texas at San Antonio, Chris gravitated to the research spotlight sections at the end of his premed physiology textbook chapters, calling them a ‘healthy...
Student Spotlight: Trish Koman
Trish’s field is air pollution policy research. She served as an environmental scientist at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency for over two decades, developing federal policy focused on air pollution and most recently diesel emissions from marine ports. She...