by Marc Williams | Jul 7, 2017
Home » Barbour Scholar Spotlights » Alumnae » Page 4 Miriam Santiago (1975) was a Filipino politician, notable for having served in all three branches of the Philippine government. Miriam earned her law degree from the University of Michigan and had a Barbour...
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 Ming-Cheng Lo (1993), Professor of Sociology at the University of California-Davis, is passionate about supporting underrepresented groups and ensuring that the voices of these groups are included in broad academic...
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...
