Happening @ Michigan

Teaching Reading and Writing in Access-oriented Institutions

Workshop led by Dr. Christie Toth (University of Utah) and Dr. Brett Griffiths (Schoolcraft College)

Please join Dr. Christie Toth (U of Utah) and Dr. Brett Griffiths (Schoolcraft College), both of whom are graduates of the Joint Program in...

Industry Interview Preparation to Boost Your Confidence

Amy Aines, Damianakes Communications

In this session, you will learn how to develop core answers for five key question categories (Problem Solver, Team Player, Innovator, Work...

Transition to Graduate Writing II

Rackham/Sweetland Workshops on Writing

This workshop offers practical strategies for reading, writing, and revising academic texts while identifying transferable patterns across...

Can ‘Slavic’ Speak for Minorities? — Who Gets to Belong in Eastern Europe? - Talk 5

Crimean Tatars, Colonial Aphasia, and Ukraine’s Decolonial Horizon / Greta Uehling

This talk analyzes Russia’s imperial domination of Ukraine through the longue durée of Crimean Tatar dispossession, arguing that Crimean...

Career Exploration Resources and Strategies for Graduate Students

Career Exploration Resources & Strategies (for Graduate Students)

This workshop will focus on resources you can leverage to explore career options, as well as strategies to best position yourself for a...

Are You LinkedIn? (for Graduate Students)

Building your network is something you can be doing proactively throughout graduate school. Additionally, learning from what others have...

Rackham Interdisciplinary Workshops Focus Group: Graduate Students

Rackham Interdisciplinary Workshops Focus Group

This focus group is for graduate students to share their experiences about working with faculty through the Rackham Interdisciplinary...

Connecting Across Difference: Understanding your Intercultural Development

Connecting Across Difference - Understanding your Intercultural Development

Developing intercultural knowledge and skills is essential to working in ever-changing, global environments whether that be in your work,...

Filing Taxes for Graduate Students

As part of our Financial Education Series, this virtual event is designed to help demystify tax filing for graduate students—an area that...

Appreciative Interviewing: Featuring the Ginsberg Center

Appreciative Interviewing

Participants develop and practice skills to effectively build rapport with, interview, and collect stories or information from communities....

Negotiation Basics for Graduate Students

Negotiation is something that many people feel unprepared for, especially during the job search process. We'll talk through the steps...

Learning to Lead: MMOL for Master's Students

Learning to Lead - MMOL for Master's Students

Do you want to better understand your personal leadership style? Are you ready to lead collaborative research projects more effectively?...

How to Design a Job Talk for an Industry Interview

Amy Aines, CEO Damianakes Communications

Learn how to prepare slides and a narrative that will engage listeners and showcase the significance of your research, thought process,...

Not in Control: Women as Background Characters in Your Favorite Game

Are you a gamer? Have you ever considered what the background roles of female characters in your favorite video games say about our society?...

From Master’s to Doctorate: A Guide to Ph.D. and Other Doctoral Applications

From Master’s to Doctorate: A Guide to PhD and Other Doctoral Applications

Are you a current master’s student or recent alum considering a Ph.D. or another doctorate? Do you want to learn how to effectively...

Pitch Perfect: How to Effectively Network and Build a Strong Pitch for Graduate Students

Pitch Perfect: How to Effectively Network and Build a Strong Pitch (for Graduate Students)

Are you interested in learning how to effectively connect with colleagues and prospective employers? Do you want to learn how to discuss...

What Is My “Academic” Voice?

Rackham/Sweetland Workshops on Writing

This workshop seeks to assist participants in realizing their writing voice and how it relates to academic conventions of formality and...

Break It Down Now: Project Management 101 for Master's Students

Do you want to organize your research more efficiently and meet deadlines with less stress? Are you looking for easy ways to plan and manage...

Art of the Resume Bullet Point for Graduate Students

Hosted by Rackham’s embedded University Career Center career counselors, the topic for this session is resumes. In particular, what are...

Building your Cultural Intelligence

In this fast-paced, ever-changing, increasingly globalized world, we need to be able to understand how to work effectively with many...

Citations Beyond “Playing the Game:” Building a Robust Citation Policy

Rackham/Sweetland Workshops on Writing

In this workshop, participants will bring a personal research project to assess or map out a citation policy that reflects their commitments...

Navigating Intercultural Communication

Join us for an engaging, interactive workshop designed to empower research teams through active listening and effective conflict resolution...

Cover Letters and Resumes for Jobs and Internships for Graduate Students

Cover Letters and Resumes for Jobs and Internships (for Graduate Students)

This workshop is open to all graduate students seeking guidance on cover letters and resumes for positions beyond tenure track roles. It...