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John Godfrey

Rackham Announces Revised Academic and Professional Integrity Policy

Sooner or later, just about every grad student encounters an issue that raises concerns about academic and professional integrity. Understanding and complying with these standards is a critical part of every graduate student’s professional preparation. Thorny problems can arise about the standards for properly citing source materials, ideas and information, or for correctly handling and reporting research data and fully and accurately representing investigative results. Students also can face issues that require them to understand and comply with standards of professional integrity. Rackham has recently completed a lengthy revision of its policy that defines serious violations of academic and professional integrity and that presents disciplinary procedures that will be followed when allegations of such violations occur. Rackham’s revised policy will also point you to University-wide policies as well as those of your school or college. If you have questions, feel free to contact me, or Rackham’s Resolution Officer, Darlene Ray-Johnson.

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John Godfrey

Rackham Students Win 2012-13 Fulbright Grants

For the sixth time in the past eight years, more Fulbright grants for research and study overseas have been awarded to students from the University of Michigan than from any other university. Fourteen Rackham students are among the forty U-M grantees for 2012-13; thirteen will conduct doctoral research and one will take up a teaching assistantship. Nurolhoda Bandeh-Ahmadi, Ph.D. Anthropology. India: Anthropology and Sociology in India Meghanne Barker, Ph.D. Anthropology. Kazakhstan: Children as Animators, Puppets as Social Beings in Contemporary Kazakhstan Elizabeth Boulter, Ph.D. Near Eastern Studies. Germany: History, Guilt and Suffering in Neo-Assyrian Royal Self-Representation (721 - 631 B.C.E.)…

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John Godfrey

Who Is Raoul Wallenberg?

Saturday, August 4, 2012, marks the 100th anniversary of the birth of Raoul Wallenberg. The annual Wallenberg Medal and Lecture [http://www.wallenberg.umich.edu/index.html], organized by the Rackham Graduate School, honors his memory. Raoul Wallenberg The scion of one of Sweden’s pre-eminent families, Wallenberg came to the University of Michigan in 1931 to study architecture. He lived in boarding houses on Haven, Hill and Madison streets and breakfasted in the Michigan Union. He rode his bike everywhere. He watched football in Michigan Stadium and enjoyed canoeing in the Huron. He sat under the trees of the Law Quad to sketch its ornate Gothic…

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John Godfrey

Changes for Submitting Dissertations

While writing a dissertation may always be challenging, submitting it to Rackham is becoming easier. As of August 1, all dissertations will go digital. All doctoral students will now submit their dissertations electronically to Deep Blue, the University Library’s permanent digital archive. With paper a thing of the past, no student will be charged a fee for submitting a dissertation. Students also will no longer need to deliver dissertation evaluation forms to committee members just before the defense—committee members will now submit them to Rackham online. In addition, deadlines for completing all dissertation requirements have been pushed back by about…

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John Godfrey

Rackham Students Win Fulbright U.S. Student Grants

For the fourth time in five years, students from the University of Michigan have won more awards from the Fulbright Student Program of the U.S. State Department than students from any other U.S. institution. Seven Rackham students are among the 29 U-M 2011-12 grantees; six are receiving funding to support their research and study abroad, and one has won a teaching assistantship. Jacqueline Doremus, Ph.D. Economics. Republic of Congo: Strategic Implications of Independent Forest Monitoring Kathryn Sederberg, Ph.D. German Languages and Literatures. Germany: Surviving the “Zero Hour”: Women’s Writing in Postwar Germany 1945 Rohit Setty, Ph.D. Educational Studies. India: Shaping…

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