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More than 85,000 Rackham alumni all over the world bring their talent and training to the problems they encounter and can claim important accomplishments within their professional and personal lives.

Alumni Updates from the Graduate School Blog

Jill McDonough

Director of Development and Alumni Relations, Rackham Graduate School

Make an Impact: Support Graduate Students

January 12, 2012, Filed Under: Alumni Updates, Rackham Centennial

To celebrate a century of support for Michigan’s graduate students, the Graduate School will provide special awards to be distributed in 2012. These awards are intended to connect donors with scholarly endeavors that are significant and particularly meaningful to them. The Centennial Awards offer a wide range of giving opportunities, from helping to fund conference and travel grants, to research grants and dissertation fellowships. More information on how you can support a graduate student with a gift to the Centennial is available.

Wendy Ascione

Annual Giving Officer, Rackham Graduate School

Master’s Alumna Leaves Legacy Gift to Rackham

August 23, 2011, Filed Under: Alumni Updates

Elena Sliepcevich earned her master’s in education from the University of Michigan in 1949 and a doctorate in physical education—the first woman to do so—from Springfield College in 1955. She went on to a distinguished career in health education at Southern Illinois University. Before she passed away in 2008, she had established a trust to benefit the causes that were most important to her, including the University of Idaho, from which she graduated in 1939…

Wendy Ascione

Annual Giving Officer, Rackham Graduate School

Distinguished Dissertations Receive ProQuest Awards

August 23, 2011, Filed Under: Alumni Updates

Recipients of the ProQuest Distinguished Dissertation Award More than 750 dissertations were published by Rackham Ph.D. candidates in 2010. The top eight received the ProQuest Distinguished Dissertation Award at a special ceremony this spring. Read more about these outstanding authors and their research.