blog posts Meet the 2024-2025 SAGE Board Members Sep 30, 2024 10:30 am SAGE is a graduate student advisory board and leadership opportunity fostering active engagement with Illinois Graduate College programs and initiatives. Building Scaffolds with Kyle Timmer Sep 17, 2024 11:15 am Kyle Timmer is a PhD student at Illinois working to help your body repair itself after an injury. He sits down with us to chat about science communication, working with stem cells, the ins and outs of lab work, and more. Starting the New Year Strong at the Graduate College Welcome Reception Sep 5, 2024 1:30 pm The Graduate College hosted a Welcome Reception for incoming and returning graduate students at Illinois. Go behind the scenes with us! What's It Like to Compete in Research Live? Hear From Some Winners! May 20, 2024 3:15 pm The winners of this year's Research Live! stunned us with their brilliant presentations and creative projects. We caught up with them a few weeks "post-victory" to hear about their experiences. Celebrating our Graduates at the Spring '24 Doctoral Hooding Ceremony May 15, 2024 11:15 am Doctoral hooding is the end of one journey and the beginning of another. We've got a behind-the-scenes view of this semester's celebrations. One Story: Byron Juma, PhD Student in Recreation, Sport & Tourism Jan 29, 2024 9:15 am Originally from Kenya, Byron has travelled the world in the pursuit of higher education. Celebrating Our Graduates at the December 2023 Doctoral Hooding Ceremony Dec 11, 2023 12:45 pm Doctoral Hooding is the culmination of an academic and personal journey. These are some of our favorite moments from the December 2023 Hooding Ceremony. Exploring Multispecies Relationships by Walking 'with' the Forest in Sri Lanka Dec 8, 2023 3:45 pm Emma Lundin, a U. of I. doctoral student in tourism, spent two months in a rainforest reserve in Sri Lanka shadowing forest guides. Lundin sought to understand how the guides interact with other-than-humans to create tourism experiences. Lessons Learned from a PhD Student who Studies PhD Students’ Stress and Coping Dec 7, 2023 12:00 pm Joe Mirabelli has spent years studying graduate students' experiences with stress. Now he's sharing tips for managing the feelings and stressors of graduate school. Negotiating the Ups and Downs of Graduate School with Your Mentor Nov 7, 2023 12:45 pm Communicating openly with your mentor network can be a challenge. There’s no ready-made script for having effective conversations with a mentor, but building communications within a network of mentors allows you to advocate for yourself, source helpful feedback, and ask for the mentoring you need. Meet the 2023 - 2024 SAGE Board Members Aug 21, 2023 8:15 am SAGE is a graduate student advisory board and leadership opportunity fostering active engagement with Illinois Graduate College programs and initiatives. These Are Some of Illinois Graduate Students' Favorite Podcasts Jul 19, 2023 8:45 am We asked Illinois graduate students for their favorite podcasts. Here are some of their favorites! Fellowship Creates Space for Community-Centered Work Feb 13, 2023 2:00 pm Career exploration is time-consuming. For Heather Ennis, this period of discernment has been a slow, necessary evolution—one that has provided an opportunity for self-reflection about her graduate education in the humanities. HRI Interseminars Spotlight: Toyosi Tejumade-Morgan Nov 9, 2022 8:00 am Toyosi Tejumade-Morgan (Theatre) shares her experiences as a member of the 2022–2023 graduate cohort for “Imagining Otherwise: Speculation in the Americas,” the inaugural Interseminars initiative funded by the Mellon Foundation. Development is a Dance: Tips for a Non-Linear Journey Jun 1, 2022 8:30 am "A baseball scout once told me, 'Development is a dance.' He was talking about how young baseball players don’t improve on a linear path. Some take steps forward and then back, or laterally, before figuring it out." One Story Video: Get to Know Microbiology Ph.D. Student, Katie Frye Sep 10, 2021 5:00 pm Meet Katie Frye a Ph.D. student in Microbiology and a COVID-19 SHIELD: Target, Test, Tell team member. Get to Know Recreation, Sport & Tourism Online Master’s Student, Jay Lopez Sep 10, 2021 5:00 pm Meet Jay Lopez, an online master’s student in Recreation, Sport & Tourism. Jay lives and works in Long Beach, California, with his wife, Emily, and their two young children. Podcast: The Fine Art of Balance Jun 17, 2021 4:00 pm Theatre doctoral student Vincent Carlson performs "You and Your Work," a poem he wrote inspired by boundary setting and conflicting ideas about work ethic. Podcast: Bringing Childlike Approaches to Self-Care Jun 17, 2021 3:00 pm Abby shares some techniques to lower stress in elementary school students, such as a 5-4-3-2-1 mapping exercise, that might also work for grad students. Podcast: A Research Pivot, One Year Later Mar 15, 2021 3:00 pm It has been a year of COVID. Grad student podcasters share their funniest Zoom stories and Burning Man expert Caitlin Brooks shares insights on the power of community in times of isolation. Starting a PhD During a Pandemic Feb 23, 2021 4:45 pm Starting grad school in the middle of a pandemic has not been easy, but the ISE Department has been incredibly supportive! Leadership Award Winners Share What Inspires Their Service Feb 18, 2021 3:45 pm We caught up with the recipient and honorees of the 2020 Graduate Student Leadership Award to ask what inspired them to pursue leadership roles and what is most rewarding about their experience. Their responses are compassionate and inspiring.
