By Katya Hrichak “We aren’t an island,” said Malika Grayson, M.S. ’14, Ph.D. ’16, at the Aug. 18 Summer Success Symposium. “We want to make sure that, although we have…

By Katya Hrichak Emily Donald, a doctoral student in history, planned to go to Thailand this summer. Instead, she remained in Ithaca. Like many scholars at Cornell and around the…

By Katya Hrichak This story also appeared in the Cornell Chronicle. Two doctoral alumnae have been named 2020 Mellon/American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS) Public Fellows. They are Yagna Nag…

By Katya Hrichak Three doctoral students have been selected to receive 2020 Ford Foundation Fellowships: Macy Castaneda and Drea Darby received predoctoral competition fellowships, and Victoria Ortega received a dissertation…

By Katya Hrichak Five Cornell doctoral candidates have been selected for induction into the Cornell chapter of the Edward Alexander Bouchet Graduate Honor Society. Cornell’s newest Bouchet scholars are: Korie…

By Katya Hrichak This story also appeared in the Cornell Chronicle. Lara Fresko Madra, a doctoral candidate in the history of art, archaeology and visual studies, has been selected as…

By Katya Hrichak A version of this story appeared in the Cornell Chronicle. The Graduate School Office of Inclusion and Student Engagement (OISE) and the Graduate and Professional Student Diversity…

By Katya Hrichak “If I had been asked two years ago how I would prepare for my thesis defense, I would not have said furniture rearrangement, lighting, and doing sound…

By Katya Hrichak Nearly 120 participants Zoomed into the career panel discussion, “Careers in and Beyond Academia,” during the Graduate School’s Summer 2020 Pathways to Success Series on June 3.…

By Katya Hrichak Reports of Zoom fatigue fill the news, bound up in the desire of many to return to life pre-pandemic. For some Graduate School staff, however, the use…