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    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.

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    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! 

  • 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.

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    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. 

  • Illustration of a woman with a pencil, guitar, mountains and other thoughts above her head.

    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. 

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    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.

  • Jay Lopez

    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.

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    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."

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    Teenage girls' self-esteem is a product of past experience

    Jan 30, 2023 9:30 am

    A study led by Beckman researcher Karen Rudolph and doctoral student Haley Skymba is among the first to demonstrate that past experiences with bullying, friendlessness, and other forms of social exclusion directly impact teenage girls' perceptions of self-worth and belonging. Making this connection is a critical first step in designing intervention programs to improve teenagers' mental health.

  • 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.