Home About News Rackham 2020 Honors and Awards Rackham 2020 Honors and Awards Each year, Rackham is proud to honor exceptional student research and outstanding instructors. Browse the awards below to learn more and see this year's recipients. May 19, 2020 | Rackham Graduate School Categories: News Rackham Predoctoral Fellowships 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 dissertation abstract, publications and presentations, and recommendations are all taken into consideration when granting this award. See this year’s Predoctoral Fellowships recipients. ProQuest Distinguished Dissertation Awards The ProQuest Distinguished Dissertation Award recognizes exceptional and unusually interesting work produced by doctoral students. Each year, Rackham invites faculty to nominate outstanding dissertations produced in their programs. The nomination dossiers submitted are then read and discussed by a review panel of faculty members who identify the finalists. Then, members of the Michigan Society of Fellows read the finalists’ dissertations, review their merits, and select the winners. See this year’s Distinguished Dissertation Award recipients. Outstanding Graduate Student Instructor Awards Through the Outstanding Graduate Student Instructor Awards, Rackham recognizes scholars who have been nominated by their program for teaching excellence. Winners of this award demonstrate superb skill in teaching, mentoring, and advising. They bring creativity, inspirational commitment, and intellectual excitement to the classroom, discussion section, or teaching lab, and communicate this passion with their undergraduate students. See this year’s Outstanding Graduate Student Instructor Award recipients. Barbour Scholars Among the oldest and most prestigious awards granted by the University of Michigan, the Barbour Scholarship offers funding to female students from Asia and the Middle East since 1917. These women bring a myriad of research interests to the community and share a high level of excellence in their work. Their academic endeavors cover a breadth of topics from preterm birth and infant mortality to a better understanding of how we compose and perceive language. See this year’s Barbour Scholars. Bouchet Graduate Honor Society Inductees The Bouchet Graduate Honor Society is a network of preeminent scholars who exemplify academic and personal excellence, foster environments of support, and serve as examples of scholarship, leadership, character, service, and advocacy for students who have been traditionally underrepresented in the academy. Bouchet inductees representing the Rackham Graduate School’s society chapter have all demonstrated significant achievement in these five areas. See this year’s Bouchet Graduate Honor Society Inductees. Tags: award Distinguished Dissertation Awards Outstanding Graduate Student Instructor predoctoral fellowship
Driving Toward Sustainability May 21, 2020 | Rackham Graduate School The COVID-19 pandemic has seen great reductions in travel, a major source of the carbon emissions that drive climate change. Sustainable systems master’s student Nate Hua is working to help the university reduce its own travel impact in the future. COVID-19 Student Spotlights
Rackham Dean to Participate in Research Reengagement Town Hall May 28, 2020 | Rackham Graduate School The town hall will address U-M’s approach to safely ramping up research and scholarship in accordance with public health guidance and state regulations. News COVID-19