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Section: Students
Rising Graduate Scholars
An Outside-the-Box Thinker
When Nathaniel Hudson was growing up in the early days of the computer, he enjoyed tinkering with technology and playing video games for hours. But he didn’t know computer science could be a career for him until he took a high school class on web design.
March 16, 2022
Rising Graduate Scholars
A Change Agent
Angie Le’s hunger for knowledge has led her across the globe, from Vietnam to South Korea, and finally to Florida International University (FIU), where she expects to receive her Ph.D. in public affairs in summer 2022.
March 16, 2022
Rising Graduate Scholars
A Difference Maker
For Bryan Jenkins, pursuing his doctorate was about broadening his horizons. He received his bachelor's degree in accounting and his master’s degree in health administration
March 16, 2022
Rising Graduate Scholars
A Scholar for Our Time
Born in New York and raised in Puerto Rico, Luis Miguel Mestre’s educational trajectory was changed by Hurricane Maria in 2017.
March 16, 2022
Rising Graduate Scholars
Marching to a Healthier Tune
As a Mexican-American woman pursuing a doctorate, Nancy Uriegas often reminds herself that she does, in fact, belong in academia.
March 16, 2022
Rising Graduate Scholars
Committed to Giving Back
Melissa Wheeler was propelled toward her doctorate by a professor once telling her that “statistically, you are not supposed to be here,” so she pursued not only a master’s degree in counseling psychology but is now a fourth-year doctoral candidate.
March 16, 2022
Rising Graduate Scholars
An Inquiring Mind
In her Ph.D. research, Rhondene Wint combines wet lab experimentation with computational methods. She points out that her current research investigates the genetic basis of neurogenesis.
March 16, 2022
Rising Graduate Scholars
Finding Representation as First Gen. Graduate in Isolating STEM Fields
When Matthew Culberson realized as an undergraduate at the University of California, Davis (UC Davis) that he wanted to be a chemistry professor, he immediately scoured the college’s website to find a Black chemistry professor.
March 16, 2022
Rising Graduate Scholars
Working Toward Equitable Higher Education
Quatez Bernard Scott has been working in higher education for almost a decade, mostly in multicultural and student affairs. His current position is intercultural specialist at the Bolinga Black Cultural Resources Center at Wright State University.
March 16, 2022
Rising Graduate Scholars
Studying Race and Place
Pamela Zabala has used her experiences as an undergraduate at Bowdoin College in Brunswick, Maine, to inform her research and scholarship as she pursues her Ph.D. in sociology at Duke University.
March 16, 2022
News Roundup
Law School Admission Council Offers Holistic Path to Law School
The Law School Admission Council's new program aims in the future to provide a second alternative for law school admission that will complement the LSAT exam.
March 16, 2022
Latest News
Miami Dade College Joins Movement to Increase Student Democratic Participation
The initiative, Ask Every Student, unites 20 colleges in this democratic mission across the U.S, including seven Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) and Minority Serving Institutions (MSIs).
March 15, 2022
News Roundup
UCLA, Howard Launch Summer Program for Students of Race, Ethnicity, and Politics
The Mark Q. Sawyer Summer Institute will bring together four undergraduate fellows from Howard University to the UCLA campus in June for an immersive, six-week academic research program on the role of race, ethnicity, and politics in society.
March 14, 2022
Students
Study: Positive Teacher-Student Relationships May Lead to Better Teaching
New study affirms that positive teacher-student relationships not only lead to better learning but may also lead to more effective teaching.
March 10, 2022
Community Colleges
Community College Scholars Share How to Make an Equitable Classroom
Community college scholars talked about the data needed for institutional self-introspection, syllabus and pedagogical adjustments, and the patience it takes to make incremental, but meaningful, change.
March 9, 2022
Students
Graduate School Enrollments Trending Upward
Increased virtual learning options among factors driving rising graduate school enrollments.
March 9, 2022
Students
Webinar Addresses Religious Pluralism in Higher Education
At a virtual panel on Tuesday, several higher education leaders shared ways that they foster interfaith literacy at their institutions via curricular and co-curricular initiatives.
March 8, 2022
Students
Amazon Announces Joint Educational Partnership with CUNY
Amazon hourly employees will be able to have their tuition and other select fees covered at eight CUNY schools.
March 8, 2022
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