Grad LIFE

Meet Our Fellows: Destiny Williams-Dobosz, NSF Graduate Research Fellow

Jun 9, 2021 4:45 pm

“Why is science so hard for students?” This question has intrigued Destiny Williams-Dobosz, a Ph.D. student in Educational Psychology and NSF Graduate Research Fellow.

Meet Our Fellows: Raquel Escobar, Mellon/ACLS Public Fellow

Aug 17, 2020 12:15 pm

Graduate education prepares you for many ways to positively impact the world around you. For Raquel Escobar, recent doctoral graduate in History, the opportunity to have a broad and active impact on the community comes through a Mellon/ACLS Public Fellowship. The fellowship allows Escobar to marry her scholarly expertise in history, memory and public humanities with a position at the Humanities Action Lab (HAL) at Rutgers University in New Jersey.

Meet Our Fellows: Ford Fellows on Campus

Jul 26, 2017 10:00 am

To increase diversity in higher education, the Ford Foundation offers predoctoral, dissertation, and postdoctoral fellowships. The goal is three-fold – increasing university’s ethnic and racial diversity, maximizing the educational benefits of diversity, and increasing the number of professors who use diversity as a resource for enriching the education of all students.

We talked to three University of Illinois graduate students from across campus who received a Ford Fellowship to learn more about the program.