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Tag: Graduate school
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2021 Rising Graduate Scholars: Meet Felipe Blanco
Academia is where Felipe Blanco, a third-year public administration Ph.D. student at the University of Nebraska at Omaha (UNO), feels he is meant to be.
March 25, 2021
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2021 Diverse Rising Graduate Scholars: Meet Danielle Baker
Danielle Baker has long been concerned with human trafficking â the process whereby individuals are forced to endure inhumane abuses such as being forced into sexual slavery or subjected to organ removal and selling. But her mission to promote awareness about the growing multibillion-dollar industry has grown even stronger in the wake of recently losing someone close to her who was trafficked.
March 23, 2021
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2021 Rising Graduate Scholars: Meet Vinicius Rios
Dedicated to swimming, Vinicius Rios had hopes of reaching the Olympics. That passion led to a swimming scholarship at West Virginia University Institute of Technology (WVU Tech). But, after not realizing his swimming dreams, Rios shifted his focus to business and marketing. However, his true interest was in videography and photography.
March 22, 2021
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2021 Rising Graduate Scholars: Meet Amanda Parks
The daughter of mental health professionals â a mother who is a licensed clinical social worker and a father who heads a behavioral health care organization â Amanda Parks says she was âtaught at a young age to use my voice to uplift those who may be voiceless as a result of what I now know to be oppression.â She is currently using her voice and training to advocate for Black and Brown children and their families as a doctoral student in clinical psychology at Virginia Commonwealth University.
March 22, 2021
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2021 Rising Graduate Scholars: Meet Jaylon Uzodinma
Jaylon Uzodinma knew he wanted to design aircraft since he was eight years old. A kid âinfatuated with speed,â he read a book in his third-grade class called How Things Work with a diagram of the inside of an airplane. That was the âfirst momentâ he saw the career path lying ahead of him.
March 19, 2021
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2021 Rising Graduate Scholars: Meet Cherish Taylor
For Cherish Taylor, having the opportunity to spend her 11th and 12th grade summers at the Massachusetts Institute for Technology exploring engineering and science opened new horizons and provided a foundation for her future research.
March 18, 2021
COVID-19
Graduate Schools Make Adjustments to Meet COVID-19-Related Challenges
Graduate schools flipped in-person courses to a remote model when the nation entered quarantine mode in March 2020. In recent months, many institutions have transitioned to in-person or hybrid course models, but the challenges posed by COVID-19 continue.
March 16, 2021
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2021 Rising Graduate Scholars: Meet Bria Macklin
Bria Macklin began her career in chemical and biomolecular engineering during her senior year in high school at Baltimore Polytechnic Institute when she interned in a lab at Johns Hopkins University. There was just one problem: âInitially, high school was a struggle for me because I always dreamed of being an actress,â says Macklin.
March 15, 2021
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2021 Rising Graduate Scholars: Meet Nzinga Mack
Nzinga Mack grew up with anatomy and physiology textbooks lying around the house. She had older siblings working in medicine. From an early age, she thumbed through the pages, fascinated. She thought she would become a doctor too, but she ultimately fell in love with research.
March 15, 2021
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2021 Rising Graduate Scholars: Meet Yang âEileenâ Chen
The journey between undergrad and graduate school doesnât have to be immediate and direct, like a conveyor belt that carries students from one degree to the next. The journey might instead take years full of unexpected twists and turns. And often, that may be for the best. Such is the case with Yang âEileenâ Chen, whose mantra is âit is never too late to learn.â
March 15, 2021
Opinion
Am I Too Diverse for Academia?
When I turned 7 years old, my friends found it rather strange that my family cooked a pig underground for my backyard birthday party. In high school, my friends were shocked to learn that only one of my parents had a high school diploma. And, in college, I had to explain to friends that it was an endearing greeting when my relatives closely sniffed their cheeks.
October 22, 2020
Latinx
Graduate School Enrollment on the Rise
Graduate school applications and first-time enrollment are on the rise with the largest increases in mathematics and computer sciences.
October 9, 2019
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