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Building Professional Relationships: The Power of Community, Step 1 of 5

December 21, 2011 | By Paula D. Wishart, Professional Development, Rackham Graduate School

Take a moment to think about the words “power” and “community.” I often find graduate students meeting with me saying both of those elements are lacking from their life, and wondering why – often feeling like they can’t get traction in their professional goals. You will gain traction if you put the locus of control back where it should be – in yourself. Instead of saying my advisor doesn’t know anyone in my field of…

Finding a Mentor

December 20, 2011 | By Pat McCune, Senior Project Manager, Rackham Graduate School

A few weeks ago, Ellen Meader, who works closely with the faculty committee behind Mentoring Others Results in Excellence (MORE), posted on the topic of improving communication with your faculty mentor. My guess is that many readers wondered how to even find a mentor. For some students it seems to occur effortlessly from the first year on. For most, though, that’s not the case. Here are some suggestions based on the research I’ve done for…

Rackham’s Reading Room Named One of the Best Places to Study

December 19, 2011 | By Jeff Mengyan, Senior Audio Visual Customer Service Assistant, Rackham Graduate School

AnnArbor.com just named Rackham’s Reading Room one of the “eight great places to study” on U-M’s campus. The Reading Room is just one of the spaces in Rackham dedicated to graduate student use and we invite you to check them out this week as you prepare for exams or need to just do some writing. The study halls are located on the second floor of Rackham and are open Monday through Friday from 8:00am –…

Tonight: Art Night at UMMA

December 16, 2011 | By Lauren Harroun, Education Program Coordinator, University of Michigan Museum of Art

The University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) participated in Art Night for the first time in 2001.The following year UMMA invited Rackham students to help celebrate Art Night with snacks and jazz in the galleries. One of the early years saw over 600 students in the main gallery in the original building. It has always been a festive night and we look forward to continuing the tradition. While the original UMMA facility underwent an…

Piled Higher and Deeper Comics: Feelings

December 16, 2011 | By Wendy Ascione-Juska, Annual Giving Officer, Rackham Graduate School

We’re up to 900 registered for the screening of The PHD Movie on January 24, 2012. Don’t miss out on getting a signed copy of one of his books after the event! Help us get to 1,000 – register today! "Piled Higher and Deeper" by Jorge Cham www.phdcomics.com

Get Involved: The University Has a Lot to Offer

December 15, 2011 | By Kathryn Prater Bomey, Master’s Student, School of Natural Resources and Environment

As grad students, it’s probably a safe bet to say we’re all deeply involved in our individual programs – whether we are graduate student instructors, research assistants, student government representatives, or simply committed students. However, it’s important not to lose sight of the university as a whole and all it has to offer: musical performances, athletic events, networking opportunities, skill-building workshops, interesting lectures, career advising, casual nights out. Some require tickets, of course, but many…

Sonnet: On the Poetry & Poetics Workshop

December 15, 2011 | By Julia Hecker Hansen and Rachel Feder, Ph.D. Students, English Language and Literature

Sonnet: On the Poetry & Poetics Workshop The form of our community has much to do with formal poems -- our workshop considers ghazals and their history, theories of lyric, meter, visual- ity and voice. And logic. We aspire to transcend disciplines and histories, but stay historicist in our designs! We bring in scholars to present their work, and share our own by circulating drafts: it’s the in progress we like most, the risk of…

Candidacy Survival Guide: Tips From the Presently Submerged

December 14, 2011 | By Hong Tran, Ph.D. Student, Chemical Biology

Author’s note: Most Ph.D. students have to go through a candidacy examination sometime during their second year. In science, this means writing a proposal and then defending it in front of a committee in the form of an oral presentation. For my program in particular, I have to write and defend on my own project. Tips for surviving second year trauma candidacy from someone currently going through the experience: Start as early as possible. This…

Accepting Nominations for the Student Mental Health Advocate Award

December 13, 2011 | By Trish Meyer, Program Director for Outreach and Education, U-M Depression Center

To recognize outstanding student leadership in the area of campus mental health, the University of Michigan created the Student Mental Health Advocate Award. You may nominate a college student (undergraduate or graduate) to receive this award, which will be presented at the 2012 Depression on College Campuses Conference, March 7-8, 2012. In 300 words or less, please give the student's name, major, college/university, and describe how this student has helped to create a healthier and…

A Reflection from Shakespeare

December 13, 2011 | By Rodney Caruthers II, Ph.D. Student, Near Eastern Studies

As the fall semester reaches its denouement after getting blue books, studying for final exams, preparing presentations, and polishing that very last research paper, another opportunity arises just before the New Year arrives, a moment to reflect. The usual modus operandi of life is plenty of business and/or busyness. Sadly, because of this we are often left with very little time to reflect on the significance of what has transpired, what we want to transpire,…

For Rackham Students with Extraordinary Emergency Financial Needs

December 12, 2011 | By Darlene Ray-Johnson, Ombudsperson, Rackham Graduate School

Last week I wrote about Rackham’s Emergency Fund. I want to follow up by noting that, at some time during your graduate career, you may experience a significant financial emergency that does not meet the eligibility requirements for the Rackham Graduate Student Emergency Fund or exceeds the $2,500 limit of the fund. You may need assistance with living expenses after the unexpected loss of employment or departmental funding; or to replace personal items, such as…

What to Do When the Bar’s Off-Limits: Balancing Faith and Grad School

December 12, 2011 | By Ebony Reddock, Ph.D. Student, Health Behavior and Health Education

For this month’s blog entry, I wanted to write about my experience of balancing faith and grad school. While it’s not the most talked about issue on campus, there are many students who embrace different faith practices and make them a central part of their everyday lives. And while it can be difficult navigating grad school while doing so, I have found that embracing and walking in faith has been the most critical element in…

Announcing the Barbour Scholarship

December 9, 2011 | By Erin Cain, Senior Fellowships Officer, Rackham Graduate School

The Barbour Scholarship was established for women of the highest academic and professional caliber from the area formerly known as the Orient (encompassing the lands extending from Turkey in the west to Japan and the Philippines in the east) to study modern science, medicine, mathematics and other academic disciplines and professions critical to the development of their native lands. The scholarship is available to international students within any graduate program in any school or college…

An Office Hour of One’s Own

December 9, 2011 | By Bessie McAdams, Ph.D. Student, English

Many of us don’t have the luxury of understanding office hour politics only from the point of view of the student’s chair. Many of us are called upon to switch chairs sometimes and to, unfortunately, deal with the other side of the story. Hard as it can be to enter such a space as the student—and it absolutely can seem monumentally intimidating when all the books are staring at you from the shelves and there’s…

Grad School and ADHD

December 8, 2011 | By Jax Sanders, Ph.D. Student, Physics

According to the National Institute of Mental Health, 4.1% of the U.S. adult population has Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder. I’m one of that 4.1%; in August, I was diagnosed with ADHD, primarily inattentive. Like most adults diagnosed with ADHD, I had ADHD as a child, but my symptoms did not become problematic until I was under so much stress that my coping mechanisms were no longer sufficient. In my case, that stress was graduate school,…

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