Graduate Studies Newsletter
Graduate student forums break barriers
Suleyman Vural was talking about his homeland. The UNMC graduate student in biomedical informatics had his audience captivated. He was speaking in front of roughly 30 students who have turned out to learn more about Turkey, and Vural was happy to share his love of, and pride in, his culture with them. Vural’s presentation, which […]
Feb 15, 2016
Writing Center offers new resource for UNMC
In January, the Writing Center @ UNMC held its grand opening in a newly refurbished space on the sixth floor of the McGoogan Library of Medicine at Wittson Hall. The Writing Center @ UNMC is a pilot project, said Cheryl Thompson, Ph.D., assistant vice chancellor for academic/student affairs. Personnel from UNO’s established writing center will […]
Feb 15, 2016
Top 7 New Year’s resolutions for graduate students
With 2016 under way, here are some of the resolutions graduate students might be struggling to keep. These are worthwhile goals, so stick with it! Grow your skillset: A new research technique. Mentoring skills. Communication skills. Pick one new skill (or more) and develop a specific plan for how you will hone that skill. Devoting […]
Feb 15, 2016
International Student Association seeking members
In her first two weeks at UNMC, graduate student Raheleh Miralami attended new student orientation, international student orientation (because she is from Iran) and an employee orientation (because she is a research assistant). The outpouring of information was enough to fill an Olympic-size swimming pool. “It left my head spinning,” Miralami said. But what if […]
Feb 10, 2016
Catching up with: Srustidhar Das, Ph.D.
In May, Srustihdhar Das, Ph.D., was the recipient of the 2015 Thomas Jefferson Ingenuity Award. Graduate Posts caught up with Dr. Das, who is now a postdoctoral fellow in the lab of Eduardo Villablanca in the Translational Immunology Unit at the Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden, to talk to him about his post-UNMC career. You now […]
Oct 20, 2015
First transferable skills workshop highlights writing
G. Travis Adams, Ph.D., opened up his dissertation again about a week after submitting it. Flipping through it, he found a note in brackets — to himself. “Hey, summarize this,” Dr. Adams had written to himself — and then submitted and defended the dissertation, leaving the note in the text. “Did I still get my […]
Oct 20, 2015
UNMC gets cancer research training grant renewal
For seven weeks in 2014, Jennifer Black, Ph.D., was all about grant-writing. Seven hundred pages later, Dr. Black, the Eppley Institute and UNMC had been awarded a renewal of their longstanding National Cancer Institute “Cancer Biology Training Program” T32 Grant — an award to support the nation’s best graduate students in the field of cancer […]
Oct 20, 2015
New interdisciplinary graduate program approved
This month, the Board of Regents approved the Interdisciplinary Graduate Program in Biomedical Sciences (IGPBS), a new umbrella Ph.D. and training program that will reorganize six current UNMC basic science Ph.D.-granting programs. About IGPBS The current Ph.D. programs being united under the IGPBS are those directed by the College of Medicine’s basic science departments and […]
Oct 13, 2015
Convocation: ‘Wouldn’t have missed this for the world’
The railway cars that line the first floor of the Durham Museum never move, but they have become a familiar backdrop as the graduates of UNMC Graduate Studies begin their own journeys. For the third time in two years, the Durham Museum was the setting as Ph.D. and M.S. graduates, joined by their beaming mentors, […]
Jun 15, 2015
Dr. Kielian is Distinguished Graduate Student Mentor
Tammy Kielian, Ph.D., Kommineni Professor of Pathology, is the type of mentor whose words stick with you, even years later. “One funny story is that at a recent meeting, one of my former students told me that while she was working on her poster she heard my voice inside her head saying that the font […]
Jun 15, 2015
