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Sea Urchins Are Struggling to ‘Get a Grip’ as Climate Change Alters Ecosystems
 When driving through a rainstorm, traction is key. If your tires lack sufficient tread, your vehicle will slip and slide and you won’t have the grip needed to maneuver safely. When torrential rains hit nearshore, shallow water ecosystems, sea…
Professor, Graduate Student to Examine Impact of Food Assistance on Maternal and Infant Health
Sarah Hamersma, associate professor of public administration and international affairs, and graduate student Mitch McFarlane, have received a $75,000 grant from Tufts University to support their examination of the impacts of food assistance on maternal and infant health. The funding…
From Academic Advising to Multicultural Affairs: Practicums Help School of Education Students Explore Higher Education Careers
Far from asking students to fend for themselves with little oversight, the mentoring and self-reflection at the core of student practicums in the School of Education’s M.S. in Higher Education program give students the tools to understand the college workplace—and…
Audie Klotz Receives 2023 Wasserstrom Prize for Graduate Teaching
Audie Klotz, professor of political science in the College of Arts and Sciences (A&S) | Maxwell School, is the 2023 recipient of the Willian Wasserstrom Prize for Teaching of Graduate Students. A&S Interim Dean Lois Agnew will formally confer the prize…
An Intuitive Approach to Physics Research: Get to Know Graduate Student Marshal Ohana Benevides Rodrigues
Most people think of Neapolitan ice cream when they hear vanilla, chocolate and strawberry, but Ohana Benevides Rodrigues G’22 uses vanilla, chocolate and strawberry to explain one of the main features of the complex world of neutrinos—tiny, nearly massless, chargeless…
‘My Poetry Is a Record of What Happened’ Says Palestinian MFA Student Mosab Abu Toha G’23
The title poem in the debut collection of Mosab Abu Toha G’23 begins with a plea that the surgeon repairing his punctured eardrum save the things he cherishes: his mother’s voice, songs in Arabic, poems in English, chirping birds. “When…
A&S Graduate Student Advocates for Access to Unsanitized History of Kenya and Beyond
Joy Nyokabi Karinge was home in Kenya when she discovered that her grandfather had been tortured, detained and disenfranchised by the British for his part in the Mau Mau war in Kenya, a Kenyan revolt against British colonial rule in…
35 Teaching Assistants Recognized for Outstanding Contributions
The Graduate School is recognizing 35 teaching assistants for outstanding work and valued contributions to the educational experience at ºÚÁϲ»´òìÈ. Outstanding Teaching Assistants are honored for excellence in their work as classroom teachers, laboratory or studio instructors and recitation…
Maxwell School Ranks No. 1 for Public Affairs in 2024
ºÚÁϲ»´òìÈ’s Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs is ranked No. 1 overall in a survey of its peers and is highly ranked in 10 subspecialties, according to the 2024 U.S. News & World Report Best Public Affairs School…
Human Development and Family Science Graduate Students Present Research at Prestigious Child Development Conference
Five graduate students from the Department of Human Development and Family Science in the Falk College recently presented their work at the Society for Research in Child Development Biennial Conference in Salt Lake City, Utah. Linghua Jiang, Qingyang Liu, Sanum…