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Researching and Writing During the Summer

April 27, 2012 | By Marie Stango, Ph.D. Student, History

You wouldn’t know it from the weather in Michigan, but it’s springtime here. After a week of 80-degree temperatures, the temperature started cooling down again (we even had snow flurries last week). Today, the weather is warm and humid: certainly reminiscent of summer in Michigan. All of these fluctuations in the weather are making me think about my own plans for the summer. The truth is that I don’t know exactly where I’ll be this…

Grad Student Positions Available for Fall 2012!

April 3, 2012 | By Tom Mull, Human Resources Administrator, Rackham Graduate School

If you are still looking for funding for the 2012-13 academic year, check out the GSSA and GSRA job postings on the Rackham website. Rackham is currently seeking five (5) GSSAs and three (3) GSRAs beginning in Fall 2012. Each position provides tuition, required fees, stipend (at the GEO negotiated GSSA rate for 2012-13), and GradCare health and dental insurance. The Rackham Graduate Student Success Office has the following positions open: GSSA for Summer Institute…

Scholarship and Fellowship Recipients: Understand Your Tax Filing Requirements

March 26, 2012 | By Natalie Bartolacci, Program Manager, Rackham Graduate School

The IRS Tax filing deadline is on Tuesday, April 17, 2012. Federal Government Agencies require students to determine taxation of scholarships and fellowships when filing annual income tax returns. Each year, Rackham Graduate School sponsors a workshop, Tackling Your Taxes,* to help understand the following questions: Are student scholarship or fellowship payments treated as wages for services rendered? If not, to what extent are payments subject to federal income taxes under the Internal Revenue Code? If…

Announcing the 2012-13 Barbour Scholars

March 14, 2012 | By Jill McDonough, Director of Development and Alumni Relations, Rackham Graduate School

The Barbour Scholarships are among the oldest and most prestigious awards granted by the University of Michigan. Levi Lewis Barbour received an undergraduate degree and law degree from U-M in the 1860 s, and he later went on to become a University Regent. As a prominent lawyer and Detroit real estate developer, Mr. Barbour accumulated the means to become a philanthropist devoted to humanitarian and educational causes. Travelling in Asia in the early part of…

How to Do a Literature Review

March 7, 2012 | By Natalie Bartolacci, Program Manager, Rackham Graduate School

Writing a review of the relevant literature is a key component of many kinds of research texts. Although the role and purpose of a literature review (LR) may vary somewhat, depending on whether it forms part of a research article, dissertation proposal, research grant application, or the dissertation itself, it always remains a complicated task. Its complexity derives from an interlocking need to find and assess reading resources, make connections among them, relate them to…

Arts of Citizenship Announces 2012 Graduate Student Summer Internships in Public Scholarship

February 27, 2012 | By Elizabeth Werbe, Program Manager, Arts of Citizenship

Multiple times per month, graduate students in the Arts, Design, and Humanities ask me what opportunities exist to apply their knowledge and skills to careers outside of the academy. In response to this demand, the Arts of Citizenship program is pleased to announce the 2012 Graduate Student Summer Internships in Public Scholarship. These full-time professional development opportunities in southeast Michigan enable graduate students to explore a range of careers, while building valuable relationships and experience.…

Announcing the Yossi Schiff Memorial Scholarship Fund

February 23, 2012 | By Erin Cain, Senior Fellowships Officer, Rackham Graduate School

The Yossi Schiff Memorial Scholarship Fund was established to assist outstanding international students. Yossi Schiff received his bachelor’s degree from the University of Michigan in 2005. Born in Israel and proud of his Jewish heritage, Yossi was an enthusiastic traveler who enjoyed his sojourns in Africa and Southeast Asia. This award honors his memory-his open mind and kind heart, the concern he showed for others, and his passion and curiosity in life. Designed to promote…

Sweetland Center for Writing Fellows Seminar

February 22, 2012 | By Anne Ruggles Gere, Director, Sweetland Writing Center

The Sweetland Center for Writing Fellows Seminar offered in the winter term is designed to bring together faculty (Senior Fellows) and graduate student instructors (Junior Fellows), from multiple disciplines, who share a commitment to integrating writing in their courses. Junior Fellows develop and share course syllabi, confer with visiting speakers, and discuss approaches to incorporating writing across the disciplines in order to prepare a First-Year Seminar that meets the First-Year Writing Requirement. Junior Fellows receive…

Nominations for the 2012 Rackham/Sweetland Dissertation Writing Institute

February 16, 2012 | By Anne Ruggles Gere, Director, Sweetland Writing Center

Nominations are now being accepted for advanced graduate students for the 2012 Rackham/Sweetland Dissertation Writing Institute. During the spring term, Institute fellows participate in an eight-week intensive program focused on writing their dissertations. This program is designed to help graduate students who are slowed in the process and can articulate how the Institute will help facilitate the writing of their dissertation. Participants are required to attend the Sweetland Center for Writing for at least six hours…

The Best and Only Choice

February 15, 2012 | By Jax Sanders, Ph.D. Student, Physics

The decision for me to come to the University of Michigan for graduate school wasn’t difficult. Michigan’s was the only offer that came with funding, and in the hard sciences, you don’t pay for your Ph.D. However, I was thrilled to get the offer because Michigan was my first choice. My undergraduate research experience motivated me to apply to U-M. I worked at the LIGO Hanford Observatory for two summers and loved the experience. I…

The Importance of Donor Support: Honor Roll of Donors

February 9, 2012 | By Wendy Ascione, Annual Giving Officer, Rackham Graduate School

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…

Mellon Postdoctoral Fellows Program at Oberlin and Kalamazoo Colleges

February 8, 2012 | By Laura Schram, Instructional Consultant, U-M Center for Research on Learning and Teaching

CRLT and Rackham offer an intercampus mentorship program through which graduate students can meet faculty at nearby colleges and universities, work together on teaching or research, and learn about campus life at places other than U-M. For those interested in more long-term mentoring, there are opportunities for more intensive mentorships at both Kalamazoo and Oberlin Colleges. Many of these mentorships lead to future career opportunities, and are an excellent opportunity for networking. One such career…

Tackling Your Taxes Video Now Available Online

February 8, 2012 | By Natalie Bartolacci, Program Manager, Rackham Graduate School

Although most people don’t think about taxes until April, graduate students should consider as early as possible what will be required to properly prepare your tax documents. The way the IRS views it, students bear the tax burden: Federal Government Agencies require students to determine taxation of scholarships and fellowships when filing annual income tax returns. This workshop will answer such questions as: Are student scholarship or fellowship payments treated as wages for services rendered?…

Research Ethics Training Required by NIH and NSF

February 7, 2012 | By Pat McCune, Senior Project Manager, Rackham Graduate School

Did you know that if you receive research or fellowship funding through the National Science Foundation (NSF) or a fellowship from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) you are required to receive training in the Responsible Conduct of Research (RCR)? If you don’t have appropriate instruction, you—and the University—are at risk of losing that funding. The NIH requires that all undergraduate and graduate students as well as postdoctoral fellows receiving support through any NIH training,…

2012 Research Partnership Program

January 26, 2012 | By Erin Cain, Senior Fellowships Officer, Rackham Graduate School

Last month, Vice President for Research Stephen R. Forrest and Dean Janet A. Weiss announced the 2012 Research Partnership Program, which includes two funding opportunities available to faculty and graduate students. The Spring/Summer Research Grants Program awards grants to faculty members who plan to work with doctoral students on scholarly projects during the spring and summer terms. The grants will provide funding for a doctoral student with a 0.50 GSRA appointment for the spring/summer full…

Make an Impact: Support Graduate Students

January 12, 2012 | By Jill McDonough, Director of Development and Alumni Relations, Rackham Graduate School

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.

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…

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…

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…

What Is Arts of Citizenship?

December 7, 2011 | By Matthew Countryman, Faculty Director of Arts of Citizenship, University of Michigan

What is Arts of Citizenship? And What Opportunities Does It Offer for Graduate Students in the Arts and Humanities? I am delighted to have the opportunity to introduce the Arts of Citizenship Program to the graduate student community. Arts of Citizenship was founded in 1998 to promote public scholarship initiatives in the arts & humanities. With the support of Arts of Citizenship, U-M graduate students and faculty have carried out innovative scholarly projects in collaboration with…

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