Graduate Studies Newsletter
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
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
E-submission in place for theses, dissertations
Graduate Studies students can prepare to help save a lot of trees. Beginning this semester, Ph.D. and M.S. students will utilize electronic submission for their theses and dissertations. Formerly, the projects had to be delivered in hard copy. Now, theses and dissertations will be submitted in electronic form and will be warehoused in UNMC’s Digital […]
Jun 15, 2015
7 things grad students get instead of summer break
Once you graduate from college, you can kiss goodbye the concept of getting three months off in the summer. Although there are some exceptions (for example, if you are a teacher or lecturer), by and large the fun is over. Graduate students should take some consolation in the following benefits of working full time toward […]
Jun 12, 2015
Praesto Award ‘not a solo effort,’ Dr. Schiller says
It seemed like a lucky break that Alicia Schiller, Ph.D., had the time to show up to the Graduate Studies Honors Convocation Ceremony to pick up her Praesto Award, given to the most outstanding or exceptional graduate for the academic year. In addition to earning her Ph.D. in cellular & integrative physiology under the mentorship […]
Jun 3, 2015
Convocation by the numbers
Dr. Davies, left, honors Soumitra Bhuyan as a Graduate Student of Distinction. Some facts about the honors convocation: The event was held at the Durham Museum, which is housed in Omaha’s former Union Station. Attendees celebrated the accomplishments of 5 M.S. graduates and 30 Ph.D. graduates, hailing from 8 states and 9 countries (including the […]
Feb 23, 2015
MSIA’s flexibility helps students forge path
Regina Robbins, Ph.D., came to UNMC with a bachelors in psychology, a master’s in Christian spirituality and a master’s in Spanish language. She was planning to study yoga, spirituality and wellness. By the time she left with her Ph.D., she had: discovered the meaning and importance of public health. gained deep appreciation for and practice […]
Feb 15, 2015
