Posts by Wendy Ascione

Wendy Ascione
Annual Giving Officer, Rackham Graduate School

The Importance of Donor Support: Honor Roll of Donors

Every year the Rackham Graduate School receives financial support from many generous alumni and friends. Their contributions help graduate students pursue their educational goals in exciting and innovative ways. As a way to thank and recognize our supporters, we publish an Honor Roll of Donors each year. This year’s Honor Roll can be viewed online. In this year’s Honor Roll, we proudly feature graduate students who have benefitted from the generosity of our donors. Please take a moment to read their stories. These students are preparing themselves to make contributions of enormous promise to their fields of study. The excellence of a great public research university centers on the quality of its graduate programs. Our donors are an essential part of this success!

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Wendy Ascione
Annual Giving Officer, Rackham Graduate School

2012: A Year to Celebrate

The University Record featured an article last week about the 100th anniversary of the founding of the graduate school at U-M in 1912. To mark the Graduate School’s 100th anniversary, Rackham has scheduled an array of activities that showcase the many facets of graduate education at Michigan. All events are free and open to the public. Tonight kicks off the festivities with an evening with Jorge Cham, the creator of PHDComics.com. He will screen his new film, The PHD Movie, and hold a Q & A session afterwards. The evening wraps up with a Centennial celebration in the lobby of Rackham.…

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Wendy Ascione
Annual Giving Officer, Rackham Graduate School

Piled Higher and Deeper Comics: Anatomy of a Winter Break

We have now met (and surpassed) our goal of 1,000 students registered for the screening of The PHD Movie on January 24, 2012. PHD comic books will be available for purchase before and after the event.  Don’t miss your opportunity to get your copy signed by Jorge Cham after the event!!  If you haven’t signed up yet, register today! "Piled Higher and Deeper" by Jorge Cham www.phdcomics.com

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Wendy Ascione
Annual Giving Officer, Rackham Graduate School

Piled Higher and Deeper Comics: Feelings

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  

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Wendy Ascione
Annual Giving Officer, Rackham Graduate School

Piled Higher and Deeper Comics: Why Are We Doing This?

Thanks to a strong showing from our postdoc friends, we now have almost 800people signed up for the screening of The PHD Movie on January 24, 2012. Did we mention there would be giveaways?  Register today!   "Piled Higher and Deeper" by Jorge Cham www.phdcomics.com

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Wendy Ascione
Annual Giving Officer, Rackham Graduate School

Piled Higher and Deeper Comics: “It’s Complicated”

Over 450 of your fellow grad students and postdocs are signed up so far for the screening of The PHD Movie on January 24, 2012. Are you going? Register today!         "Piled Higher and Deeper" by Jorge Cham www.phdcomics.com

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Wendy Ascione
Annual Giving Officer, Rackham Graduate School

21st Raoul Wallenberg Lecture: Aung San Suu Kyi

Burmese activist Aung San Suu Kyi has been named the recipient of the 21st Raoul Wallenberg Medal. Nobel Peace laureate Aung San Suu Kyi has committed her life to the non-violent struggle for democracy and human rights. Since 1988 she has been the leader of the democratic opposition in her native Burma, using non-violent means to resist a brutal regime. She also is a voice of conciliation and unity among the diverse regions and peoples of Burma. She has spent more than 15 years under house arrest for her pro-democracy activities. Released in 2010, she remains in Burma to continue…

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Wendy Ascione
Annual Giving Officer, Rackham Graduate School

Countdown to The PHD Movie: What Year Are You?

Only 103 more days until January 24, 2012 and the screening of The PHD Movie with live Q&A with creator Jorge Cham. If you haven't already, sign up! This event is co-sponsored by Rackham Student Government and the U-M Postdoctoral Association. In the meantime, as the new school year is underway, you might have been asked this question… Piled Higher and Deeper by Jorge Cham

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Wendy Ascione
Annual Giving Officer, Rackham Graduate School

See Piled Higher and Deeper, The Movie!

Due to popular demand, Jorge Cham, creator of the popular PhD Comics, is coming to the University of Michigan campus! On January 24th, 2012, at 7:00pm at the Rackham Auditorium, Cham will screen his new film, Piled Higher and Deeper, which will be followed by an extended question and answer session. Cham will be signing copies of his books, which will also be for sale at the event. The evening will wrap up with a celebration in the lobby of the Rackham building. This free event kicks off Rackham’s Centennial celebration, marking 100 years of the Graduate School. Join us…

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Wendy Ascione
Annual Giving Officer, Rackham Graduate School

Master’s Alumna Leaves Legacy Gift to Rackham

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 with a bachelor’s degree, and several charities in her home state of Montana. Among the beneficiaries of her estate was the Rackham Graduate School Enrichment Fund. Her gift will support research and travel grants for Rackham master’s and doctoral students and enable these promising scholars and practitioners to pursue projects that will enrich our understanding of some of the world’s most complex problems.

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Wendy Ascione
Annual Giving Officer, Rackham Graduate School

Distinguished Dissertations Receive ProQuest Awards

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.

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Wendy Ascione
Annual Giving Officer, Rackham Graduate School

Rackham Centennial Alumni Lectures, Funding Opportunity

The Horace H. Rackham School of Graduate Studies is pleased to offer funding to support the Rackham Centennial Alumni Lectures, to be organized by Rackham graduate programs as part of the Graduate School’s 100th anniversary celebration. The Rackham Centennial Alumni Lectures will showcase the intellectual legacy of the University’s graduate community. Rackham programs are invited to request funding for lectures that meet the following criteria: The lecture will be delivered on the Ann Arbor, Dearborn or Flint campus by an alumnus/a of the graduate program It will be scheduled during October 2012 It will be called a “Rackham Centennial Lecture”…

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Wendy Ascione
Annual Giving Officer, Rackham Graduate School

AGEP Provides Testing Ground for Graduate Scholars

An AGEP participant at a poster session featuring faculty and students from the Michigan Alliance Debby Mitchell sits at her desk and reads aloud an e-mail from a student. “Wow! I just wanted to thank you for allowing me to serve as an AGEP delegate at the institute on teaching and mentoring. It was a wonderful experience. I shared my frustration with you about the outcome of my dissertation defense. Participating in the institute got me recharged and refocused. The entire weekend was truly a blessing.” Mitchell is Rackham’s program manager for the Michigan Alliance for Graduate Education and the…

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Wendy Ascione
Annual Giving Officer, Rackham Graduate School

International Research Awards

Jessica Goldberg, Ph.D. student in Public Policy and Economics, used a Rackham International Research Award to conduct field experiments in Malawi Anthropology students are headed for Bulgaria, Japan and Sierra Leone. Ph.D. candidates in history will be working in the Marshall Islands, Russia and Azerbaijan. A nascent scholar pursuing a joint degree in social work and political science is bound for Haiti. Other than being Rackham students, they have one other thing in common: none of them would be able to make these journeys without a Rackham International Research Award. “Rackham has as its goal supporting the work of truly…

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Wendy Ascione
Annual Giving Officer, Rackham Graduate School

Rackham Alumna Wins MacArthur Fellowship

Shannon Dawdy at work in St. Anthony’s Garden in the French Quarter, New Orleans, 2009 Shannon Dawdy was on a city bus in Chicago, en route to an appointment with her hairdresser, when her cell phone rang. Even though the screen said “unknown caller,” she answered. “The person calling said, ‘This is Daniel Socolow,’ a name that at that time I didn’t recognize,” she recalls. “There was lots of noise on the bus and it was a bad connection. He asked if could get off the bus and call him back, so I stood on someone’s stoop and called him…

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