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Symposium Advances Grad Student and Postdoc Success
Last week, the Graduate School sponsored its second annual Invest in Your Future, Summer Edition Student Success Symposium. With three concurrent tracks focused on writing, career planning, and developing professional skills, the symposium aimed at propelling graduate students, and postdocs into a productive summer.
Researching Kayapó Partnerships in Amazonia
By Anna De Cheke Qualls In 2015, doctoral student Matthew Aruch was traveling in a boat from the Pinkaiti Research Station in Brazil to A’ukre village in the Kayapó Indigenous Territory (TIK) of Pará, Brazil. The vessel was filled with people from all walks of life, and yet there was lots of lively, and harmonious conversation.
Teach, Bake, Travel
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.