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Mike Galczynski has three passions: teaching, baking and traveling. Somehow, he has found a way to satisfy all three through his academic and professional pursuits. As an engineer and science education doctoral student, he teaches innovative engineering courses to undergraduates at UMD, including ones in Greece and Iceland last year.

All of us have had some sort of connection to music.  And concerts have always been the crossroads where different people gather to hear sounds that speak to them.  A kind of organic diversity soup, if you will.

Michelle Beadle Holder (’16, Sociology) is an Assistant Research Professor in the Department of Health Sciences at the University of Missouri. Her research examines the role that religious organizations play in narrowing the gap in health disparities in African American communities.

Brian Burt ('06, Higher Education), assistant professor in the School of Education at Iowa State University, is the recipient of a five-year, $569,702 NSF Faculty Early Career Development Program (CAREER) award, which supports early career development activities of teacher-scholars who are most likely to become the academic leader

Almost two years after the Council of Graduate Schools' 2016 report on Holistic Review in Graduate Admissions, graduate programs across the enterprise underwent holistic admissions training with national thought-leaders