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Announcing the Barbour Scholarship

December 6, 2012 | 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…

Rackham Interdisciplinary Workshops: InSPIRE

November 30, 2012 | By Ethan Hyland, Ph.D. Student, Earth and Environmental Sciences

This article is the first in a series about Rackham’s Interdisciplinary Workshops. Rackham currently supports 44 interdisciplinary workshops for 2012-13 (with more still forming), and has funded the interdisciplinary workshops with 1.5 million dollars over the course of the last nine years. RIWs range across the arts, humanities, social sciences, natural sciences, medicine, physical sciences and more. The longest-running RIW is the Complex Systems Advanced Academic Workshop (CSAAW), which has been meeting since 2003. Dr.…

Who is Eligible to Participate in Winter Commencement?

November 26, 2012 | By Donna M. Huprich, Director, Academic Records and Dissertations, Rackham Graduate School

Ph.D. and D.M.A. recipients who completed all requirements by November 13th may participate. Ph.D. and D.M.A. recipients who previously completed all requirements in a previous term (Summer 2012 or before) may also participate. Remember to R.S.V.P. since those participating will be “hooded” during the ceremony. You should have already received an e-mail asking you to register for commencement. Please e-mail oard.questions@umich.edu with any questions or if you want to be added to the list of…

Bouchet Graduate Honor Society Call for Applications

November 14, 2012 | By Larry Rowley, Diversity and Mentoring, Rackham Graduate School

Greetings graduate students and postdoctoral fellows! It is my pleasure to announce that the U-M Chapter of the Edward Alexander Bouchet Graduate Honor Society is currently accepting applications for membership for the 2012-2013 academic year. Named for the first African American doctoral recipient in the United States (Physics, Yale University, 1876), the Edward Alexander Bouchet Graduate Honor Society (Bouchet Society) recognizes outstanding scholarly achievement and promotes diversity and excellence in doctoral education and the professoriate.…

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November 9, 2012 | By Natalie Bartolacci, Program Manager, Rackham Graduate School

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Rowley Goes To Rackham!

November 6, 2012 | By Larry Rowley, Diversity and Mentoring, Rackham Graduate School

Hello everyone! I’m delighted and excited to be joining Rackham this academic year as an Academic/Research Program Officer with responsibilities for Diversity and Mentoring initiatives (e.g., Bouchet Honor Society, MORE, and Faculty Allies) in Graduate Student Success (GSS). The University’s and Rackham’s commitment to building and sustaining a diverse graduate student body and future cadres of faculty members is without peer. Likewise, the level of resources that Rackham dedicates to preparing the best and brightest…

Rackham Students Win 2012-13 Fulbright Grants

November 6, 2012 | By John Godfrey, Assistant Dean, Rackham Graduate School

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…

Teaching RCR Certificate Program at the University of Illinois

October 19, 2012 | By Peter Hitchcock, Associate Dean, Rackham Graduate School

Are you passionate about teaching? Are you engaged in thinking about research ethics? Would you like to create a course that teaches the responsible conduct of research at the U-M? The Rackham Graduate School is seeking two Ph.D. students to participate in a graduate certification program in Teaching the Responsible Conduct of Research hosted by the National Center for Professional and Research Ethics (NCPRE; see www.csl.illinois.edu/ethics-center) at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Upon completion…

Maria Gunnoe to Receive 22nd Wallenberg Medal

October 18, 2012 | By Wendy Ascione-Juska, Annual Giving Officer, Rackham Graduate School

Environmental activist Maria Gunnoe will receive the 22nd Raoul Wallenberg medal on Tuesday, October 23, at 7:30pm in the Rackham Auditorium. After the medal presentation, Ms. Gunnoe will deliver the Wallenberg lecture. The lecture is free and open to the public. Maria Gunnoe is a fearless advocate for environmental and social justice. From her home in Boone County, West Virginia, she has fought for years to protect communities from devastating mountaintop removal coal mining and…

Meet the Deans: Peter Hitchcock

October 17, 2012 | By Peter Hitchcock, Associate Dean, Rackham Graduate School

Hello! I am one of four Associate Deans, and my role at Rackham is to provide administrative oversight for graduate programs in the biological, biomedical and health sciences. In addition, I help coordinate campus-wide resources for training in the responsible conduct of research and scholarship, and I help provide support and resources for the 1400 postdoctoral research fellows working at the University of Michigan. Outside Rackham, I am a faculty member in the Departments of…

New Extended Rackham Building Hours

October 17, 2012 | By Susan Campos, Facilities Manager, Rackham Graduate School

At the request of Rackham Student Government, the Rackham Building (including the 2nd floor study rooms) will remain open until midnight during the week. The new hours will begin today, Wednesday, October 17, 2012. The front doors to the building will lock at midnight and the lower level lobby doors will lock at 9:00 pm. The East Lounge The Reading Room The West Lounge The East Lounge The East Lounge is a place to relax…

Rackham’s Program Review: Your Participation Is Important

September 25, 2012 | By Shelly Conner, Assistant Dean, Rackham Graduate School

One of my roles as Assistant Dean is to oversee the Rackham Program Review. Rackham reviews all of our graduate programs over a four-year cycle. If your program is reviewed this fall, I encourage your participation and here’s why: We need to hear from you! The participation of graduate students is essential for us to receive an accurate picture of what graduate programs do well, and where to focus efforts to improve. Through the program…

Dean’s Welcome

September 19, 2012 | By Janet A. Weiss, Dean, Rackham Graduate School

Welcome to a new academic year! All of us at the Graduate School are happy to see you, whether you are here for the first time and still finding your way around, or returning for advanced courses or research. Our blog will keep you posted on opportunities and events open to the graduate community as we go through the academic year. In 2012 we have been celebrating the founding of the Graduate School in 1912.…

NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Recipients at Michigan

August 9, 2012 | By Pat McCune, Senior Project Manager, Rackham Graduate School

This year 46 students here at the University of Michigan were offered one of the Graduate Research Fellowships sponsored by the National Science Foundation in the most recent competition. Some of them enjoyed public notice by their departments or lab groups earlier in the spring. I’d like to give credit to all for their notable achievement. This highly prestigious award recognizes and supports outstanding graduate students who are pursuing research-based master's and doctoral degrees in…

Who Is Raoul Wallenberg?

August 3, 2012 | By John Godfrey, Assistant Dean, Rackham Graduate School

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…

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