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Student Spotlight: Timeka Williams
Timeka’s research focuses on race, gender, media and spirituality and the ways in which Black women engage with media as content creators and as audience members. New media represents a unique frontier, with low barriers to entry for Black women to present their own...
Ph.D. Student Unearths Community Awareness
Colin Quinn’s anthropology research has taken him far from campus to the gorgeous landscapes of the Romanian countryside where he’s uncovered the artifacts he’s sought – and some unexpected treasure as well. Ph.D. research can be a laborious endeavor, and the rewards...
Graduate Student Professional Development at Rackham Graduate School
How did you get your first job after graduate school? The complex job market for Master’s and Ph.D. graduates can be daunting. Rackham Graduate School now offers graduate students more resources dedicated to professional development and career exploration. A doctoral...
Stretching the Student Dollar
Not all of us come with the kind of privileged backgrounds of "Gossip Girl," who might actually not be attending graduate school in the first place! I thought a blog post on how to survive on a student budget might be helpful for students in graduate school. Here are...
Stumbling Through the GSI Experience
I was left red-faced one afternoon last semester. It was after an office-hour session in which a student had pointed out some mistakes I had made while grading his assignment, making no effort to hide what he thought of me. As a first-time GSI, such moments presented...
Open Sesame
When the semester gets to a point where I find myself unable to face my books any longer, I shut down my laptop (along with the 20 or so unread tabs on my browser) and stroll over to one of my favourite places in Ann Arbor--the Dawn Treader Book Shop. Housed between a...
Day in the Life of a Neuroscience Graduate Student (and New Dad)
Hello my name is Chris Valdez. I am a 4th year Neuroscience Ph.D. candidate here at the University of Michigan. My hometown is San Antonio, Texas and I am very happy to have moved up here to be part of this excellent university. At first the move was difficult for my...
10 Tips for Incoming Graduate Students
The undergraduate student I mentored for the last 1.5 years just graduated this past spring and is going on to begin graduate school this fall. He asked me what are some tips for things he should know before entering graduate school…probably not realizing exactly how...
The Graduate Student Summer: Fostering a Balanced Summer Self
For those of us who grew up in the American public school system, it is hard to forget those blissful days when the ring of the final bell on the final day of school meant three months of blissful summer freedom. Yes, many of us still had “work” to do over the summer:...
A First-Timer’s Ann Arborian Summer
I’m beginning to realise that Ann Arbor celebrates its summers with a vengeance. It’s as if a battle has been waged with the winter and we have emerged victorious. And as much as I wish that I didn’t have to deal with the never-ending winter, it makes me so much more...