Event Types
Location
Diversity at Work: Google Shares Inclusive Practices
Diversity at Work is an ongoing series of workshops hosted by Rackham’s Professional Development DEI Certificate Program where...
GRIN Speed Mentoring
GRIN is organizing a speed mentoring workshop where mentees go around and meet different mentors from various backgrounds within a...
Mental Health Task Force Coffee Hour
Join our Task Force Chair for informal conversation and coffee regarding the task force work and a conversation about mental health. This is...
Ph.D. Pathways: Interviewing for Jobs Beyond the Professoriate
Interviewing for a job beyond the professoriate can differ greatly from the academic job search process. This workshop will focus on helping...
Michigan University-wide Sustainability and Environment (MUSE) Conference 2020
The 4th MUSE Conference will be held February 20-22, 2020 at the UM Rackham building in Ann Arbor....
Biopolitics or Deconstruction
Derrida’s "La vie la mort" and the question of life
Please join us at our upcoming conference - Biopolitics or Deconstruction: Derrida’s La vie la mort and the question of life....
Rackham North: Navigating Difficult Conversations
As a graduate student or postdoctoral fellow, you have likely already engaged in a number of difficult conversations throughout your life....
Michigan University-wide Sustainability and Environment (MUSE) Conference 2020
The 4th MUSE Conference will be held February 20-22, 2020 at the UM Rackham building in Ann Arbor....
Biopolitics or Deconstruction
Derrida’s "La vie la mort" and the question of life
Please join us at our upcoming conference - Biopolitics or Deconstruction: Derrida’s La vie la mort and the question of life....
Social Justice and the Power of Oppression
In this workshop, participants will be prompted in high levels of thinking about their own identities, communicating across identities,...
Michigan University-wide Sustainability and Environment (MUSE) Conference 2020
The 4th MUSE Conference will be held February 20-22, 2020 at the UM Rackham building in Ann Arbor....
Write-Together
Write-Together sessions provide structure, space, and time for graduate writers working on writing at any stage, from papers to theses to...
So We’re Biased. Now What?: Personalizing and Mitigating Unconscious Bias
Many of us are committed to DEI, and accept the extensive evidence from scholarly studies in psychology and neuroscience demonstrating that...
Identifying Your Transferable Skills Workshop
Are you a graduate student who struggles with identifying the skills and strengths that you have gained through academic and professional...
Rackham North: Racial Microaggressions
Racial microaggressions can be uniquely harmful to their targets, and yet we often times find ourselves skirting around this subset of...
Connectivity, Mobility, and Scale in the Ancient Western Mediterranean: A Symposium
Friday events are free & open to the public. Saturday events are by RSVP-only and intended primarily for graduate students and faculty...
Write-Together
Write-Together sessions provide structure, space, and time for graduate writers working on writing at any stage, from papers to theses to...
Meals with Faculty
The Spectrum Center, Rackham Graduate School, and the Division of Student Life invites any and all LGBTQ+ graduate students to our new Meals...
Negotiating a Job Offer in the United States
Many job seekers are afraid of negotiation. According to a national survey, over 60% of recent graduates don’t negotiate a job offer,...
Food Grown by Students for Students: Trip to Campus Farm
The University of Michigan Campus Farm at Matthaei Botanical Gardens is an authentic living-learning laboratory available to all students at...
Rackham North: Investing Fundamentals
As you transition from student to professional, you are finally able to start saving. But how? In this session, Andrea Darden—financial...
Dance Around the World: Bollywood
Join GRIN (Graduate Rackham International) as we dance around the world. Every month we will explore a new region of the world through...
Interviewing for Positions in Industry
Designed for those applying to positions in industry, this interactive workshop will provide you with a high-level overview of the interview...
Writing Cover Letters
Rackham/Sweetland/ELI Workshop Series
Your cover letter is usually the first impression you make on a prospective employer. In this workshop we will review the essential elements...
Write-Together
Write-Together sessions provide structure, space, and time for graduate writers working on writing at any stage, from papers to theses to...
Leveraging the Michigan Experience: An Interactive Conversation with Professor Brian Burt About the Journey After Graduate School
Have you been thinking about what’s next after graduate school? What about the preparation that goes along with finishing your degree:...
Rackham North: Writing a Diversity Statement for the Faculty Job Search
Increasingly, hiring committees are interested in how prospective faculty job candidates will contribute to diversity, equity, and...
Jean Feerick Workshop
Jean Feerick (John Carroll University) will present a workshop for graduate students in which we'll considers what role those of us in...
Ph.D. Pathways: Cover Letter Writing for Ph.D. Students
Cover letters are an essential part of the job search process. However, crafting them is often very difficult for people to do. The...
Rackham Public Scholarship Career Trek: Kresge Foundation
Rackham Public Scholarship treks provide graduate students with brief experiences of one to several days to learn more about the workplaces,...
Genius Passion Pathways: Charting Non-Linear Career Pathways
Tonya M. Matthews, Ph.D. is a thought-leader and convener in STEM education and engagement, organizational equity and inclusion, and...
Rackham North: Big-Picture Time Management
You probably have a heard a lot of life hacks to help you use your time more efficiently, but what about think about how you manage your...
Write-Together
Write-Together sessions provide structure, space, and time for graduate writers working on writing at any stage, from papers to theses to...
Write-Together
Write-Together sessions provide structure, space, and time for graduate writers working on writing at any stage, from papers to theses to...
Behind Walls, Beyond Discipline: STS and the Carceral State
Keynote speaker: Keith Breckenridge, University of Witwatersrand
Science and technology lie at the heart of the carceral state. Matters of modern law and order rely on state-of-the-art technoscience as...
Rackham North: Research-Based Strategies for Overcoming Imposter Syndrome
Have you often succeeded at an academic task even though you were afraid you wouldn’t do well? Do you dread others evaluating your work?...
Behind Walls, Beyond Discipline: STS and the Carceral State
Keynote speaker: Keith Breckenridge, University of Witwatersrand
Science and technology lie at the heart of the carceral state. Matters of modern law and order rely on state-of-the-art technoscience as...
Write-Together
Write-Together sessions provide structure, space, and time for graduate writers working on writing at any stage, from papers to theses to...
Rackham North: Designing Your Curriculum Vitae
Do you need a Curriculum Vitae (CV), but all you have is a resume? CVs are required to apply to research and academic positions, and very...
Write-Together
Write-Together sessions provide structure, space, and time for graduate writers working on writing at any stage, from papers to theses to...
Rackham Graduate Exercises
Rackham Graduate Exercises is the official commencement ceremony for all master’s and doctoral graduates and candidates who receive their...
MORE Mentoring Plan Workshop
This workshop helps to enhance the mentoring relationship between the student and research faculty mentor/advisor. During the workshop,...
MORE Mentoring Plan Workshop
This workshop helps to enhance the mentoring relationship between the student and research faculty mentor/advisor. During the workshop,...
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