Where Are They Now...
Parastoo Delgoshaei (PhD '17, Civil Engineering) is a National Research Council (NRC) postdoctoral fellow at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST).
Self-Care Critical to Graduate Student Success
One of the headlines that ran in this week’s Inside Higher Ed was ‘Mental Health Crisis for Grad Students.’ The story summarizes fi
Graduate School Exceeds Giving Day Goals
Giving Day 2018, held on March 8, is the University of Maryland’s largest one-day fundraising event. All members of the University of Maryland community—students, faculty, staff, parents, friends and alumni—are invited to give.
Graduate Student Stories Transcripts: Yue Ma
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I will graduate this December. I still love UMD, I think I will miss here, in the future.
I think I got interested in accounting when I was very little, because my mother is also an accountant, so I can get- touch with numbers when I was very little. I can see how big companies operate, by seeing their financial statement, and also, I can connect with different people, and, by building a longterm relationship.
Graduate Student Stories Transcripts: Aakash Aggarwal
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While in my undergrad, I picked up some courses related to signals and systems, and signals in general, and those courses really got me into telecommunications, and then I worked for a big telecommunications multinational, which was based in Sweden. The University of Maryland offered me a good mix of managerial courses, as well as technical courses related to telecommunications. This was one of its kind program, all across the U.S.
Graduate Student Stories Transcripts: Ana Sanchez-Rivera
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I come from Puerto Rico, and I did my master's in Upstate New York, so I needed something a little bit more, uh, in the middle of that, and the weather was important for me.
Graduate Student Stories Transcripts: Dana Arbaugh Varona
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Around the eighth grade, I was kind of like a lackluster student and, you know, like a, a B student. I wasn't that into school or anything. But I had a really amazing experience in my middle school band. And I had a band director that had inspired to do a better job and to push myself to be better and he got me paired up with a professional horn player who attended Julliard and she was a great, you know, positive female role model for me.
Graduate Student Stories Transcripts: Jessica Stern
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When I was looking at grad programs, I really didn't want a place where it was going to feel cutthroat competitive. I wanted a group of people who I could work well with and make friends for life with and I feel like I have that here.