by Marc Williams | Jul 7, 2017
Home » Barbour Scholar Spotlights » Alumnae » Page 5 Veena Sahajwalla vividly remembers her interview for the Barbour Scholarship program. She remembers sitting in the interview room, feeling nervous, and being asked what impact she wanted to have on the world –...
by Marc Williams | Jul 7, 2017
Home » Barbour Scholar Spotlights » Alumnae » Page 5 Since January of 2016, Zhen Zeng-Liao (1994) has held what she calls her “dream job” as Executive Director of Community Center Shanghai—a position that draws on the wide range of skills she developed while earning...
by Marc Williams | Jul 7, 2017
Home » Barbour Scholar Spotlights » Page 5 Born in Hong Kong, Cheri Chan (2007) attended British boarding school and then began her journey as an international student at Cornell University in 2000, where she majored in Biological Sciences with a minor in Cognitive...
by Marc Williams | Jul 7, 2017
Home » Barbour Scholar Spotlights » Alumnae » Page 5 As the Program Director of the Office of Postdoctoral and Graduate Affairs at the Gladstone Institutes, Dr. Sudha Krishnamurthy (2010) says that the most rewarding part of her career is working with graduate...
by Marc Williams | Jul 7, 2017
Home » Barbour Scholar Spotlights » Alumnae » Page 5 Meera was drawn to U-M even while completing her master’s degree in Control Systems in India. She was studying the research of Professor Semyon Meerkov, a renowned U-M faculty member, for her masters’ thesis; she...
by Marc Williams | Jul 7, 2017
Home » Barbour Scholar Spotlights » Alumnae » Page 6 A fourth year graduate student, Parinaz hasn’t been home to Iran since she arrived at U-M. “I have a single-entry visa. If I go back, I have to re-apply for a new visa, and I know people who do that, but it is a...
by Marc Williams | Jul 7, 2017
Home » Barbour Scholar Spotlights » Alumnae » Page 6 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....
by Marc Williams | Jul 7, 2017
Home » Barbour Scholar Spotlights » Alumnae » Page 6 Shweta is from India and completed her undergraduate degree in nearby Singapore. “It was close to home and a great school for science. I knew I wanted to go to grad school and study genetics, and I was reading...
by Marc Williams | Jul 7, 2017
Home » Projects » Page 10 “U.S. bridges were designed to serve for 50 years. Most of them were built 50-60 years ago.” Uh oh. Since many of the bridges are passing their useable service time, Yilan’s research on how we can effectively monitor the structural health of...
by Marc Williams | Jul 7, 2017
Home » Projects » Page 10 Zhibek had a very mathematical childhood. Born in Kazakhstan to parents who both studied physics in college, she was interested in math from an early age. “It was a big part of our family. We spent some of our free time together solving...
