Rackham Graduate School

  1. February 13, 2024

    Mark Moldwin to lead new Office of Postdoctoral Affairs

    Mark Moldwin, professor of climate and space sciences and engineering in the College of Engineering, will lead the new Office of Postdoctoral Affairs, supporting postdoctoral fellows across U-M.

  2. November 10, 2023

    Thirteen named senior fellows in Michigan Society of Fellows

    The Michigan Society of Fellows is welcoming its newest cohort of 13 senior fellows, who will join the 16 who were appointed in years past to help create a spirited intellectual community.

  3. October 19, 2023

    Rackham outlines graduate faculty values, responsibilities

    The Rackham Graduate School Executive Board has adopted into its bylaws a statement of values, privileges and responsibilities of the Rackham graduate faculty, Dean Mike Solomon announced Oct. 18.

  4. October 12, 2023

    Rackham, OVPR create office to support postdoctoral fellows

    U-M is establishing a new Office of Postdoctoral Affairs that will serve as a hub to support more than 1,400 postdoctoral fellows who work across the university.

  5. March 29, 2023

    Engineering future careers for doctoral candidates

    Guided by data from a doctoral student survey and focus groups, mechanical engineering faculty worked with experts at the Rackham Graduate School to help prepare engineering Ph.D. students for a range of careers.

  6. March 24, 2023

    Rackham announces 12-month funding for Ph.D. students

    The Rackham Graduate School will implement a new funding model in which all Rackham Ph.D. students on the Ann Arbor campus receive 12 months of stipend support.

  7. February 22, 2023

    Reviving the lost work of a groundbreaking Black composer

    Ph.D. candidate Bryan Ijames followed his ear, his heart and some scholarly detective work to resurrect a forgotten piece by composer Samuel Coleridge-Taylor that will be performed March 16 at Hill Auditorium.

  8. January 23, 2023

    Staff members assess Rackham DEI certificate program

    U-M staff members explored how a Rackham certificate program is contributing to learning and student success by training graduate students to work in diverse environments.

  9. February 23, 2022

    Rackham to stop using GRE test in its Ph.D. admissions

    The Rackham Graduate School will discontinue using the Graduate Record Examination general test in Rackham Ph.D. admissions decisions, beginning with the 2022-23 admissions cycle.

  10. December 14, 2021

    $5M Weill gift supports graduate student fellowships at Ford School

    A $5 million gift from Joan and Sanford I. Weill and the Weill Family Foundation to the Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy will support three graduate fellowships in perpetuity.