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• Ph.D. Candidate Named a Woodrow Wilson Dissertation Fellow

  Ph.D. candidate Danica Savonick (English) is one of 10 doctoral students nationwide to receive a Woodrow Wilson Dissertation Fellowship in Women’s Studies. Read more

• Video Games in the Classroom: History Ph.D. Student Comments in Quartz

  Video games have increasingly become part of the classroom curriculum. But do they make learning more effective or just more fun? Ph.D. student Luke Reynolds (History) reacts in a new Quartz interview. Read more

• Ph.D. Snapshot: John Michael Zayac (Earth and Environmental Sciences)

  Profile of John Michael Zayac, Ph.D. student in Earth and Environmental Sciences. Read more

• Q & A with Marilyn Puder-York on Alumni Mentoring

  Ahead of the Office of Career Planning and Professional Development's Alumni Roundtable, the GC spoke to Marilyn Puder-York about the advice she would offer to students who are thinking about careers, particularly in non-academic settings. Read more

• Student Awarded Ford Foundation Predoctoral Fellowship

  Ph.D. student Mae Miller (Earth and Environmental Sciences) was awarded a highly competitive Ford Foundation Predoctoral Fellowship, which provides three years of financial support to students whose research, teaching, and service promote diversity. Read more

• Ph.D. Candidate James Armstrong Opens New Play at Detroit Repertory Theatre

  James Armstrong, a Ph.D. candidate in Theatre, is thrilled that his play Capital has recently opened at Detroit Repertory Theatre this spring. During the play's rehearsal process, he was in... Read more

• GC Study Shows Drop in Drunk-Driving Crashes After App Car Services Launched

  A working paper by doctoral student Jessica Peck (Economics) suggests that the arrival in New York City of digital app-based car services like Uber led to a significant decrease in drunk-driving related car accidents.
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• Let Sleeping Dogs Lie (So They Can Learn): Julie Hecht on Dogs, Memory, and Sleep

  Ph.D. student Julie Hecht (Psychology), who writes the “Dog Spies” blog for ScientificAmerican.com, published an essay on recent scientific findings about the function of dogs’ sleep.
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• Psychology Student Receives $150K Grant to Research HIV Infection Rates

  Ph.D. student Raymond Moody (Psychology) has been awarded a $155,000 grant from the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) for his dissertation research on the psychological factors driving HIV infection rates among gay and bisexual men in the United States.
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• Student Study: Improving Welfare of Captive Birds of Prey

  Doctoral student Melissa Nelson Slater (Psychology) coauthored a new study published in Zoo Biology about how olfactory enrichment, or using scent cues, can improve the welfare of birds of prey in zoos. Read more