Sessions For: Rackham Graduate School

Do you want to organize your research more efficiently and meet deadlines with less stress? Are you looking for easy ways to plan and manage your academic projects? Join this workshop created just for master’s students at U-M. Explore smart project management techniques that help you balance research, classes, and assignments. Learn how to break goals into manageable parts and use tech tools to keep everything on track. Practice building a project charter to see your project’s path, set milestones, and spot obstacles before they slow you down.
This workshop is tailored exclusively to master’s students at the University of Michigan. If you have any questions please reach out to rackhampdeworkshops@umich.edu.

In this fast-paced, ever-changing, increasingly globalized world, we need to be able to understand how to work effectively with many different types of people to reach our goals. In this workshop, we will focus on cultural intelligence (or CQ as it is often called) to assess your own cultural values and behavioral preferences while understanding where others may be coming from. Participants will have the opportunity to practice how to navigate cultural misunderstandings that may occur within your research or a major project team and develop plans for how to continue building your cultural intelligence.


This workshop is open to all master’s, PhD., and postdoctoral scholars at the University of Michigan. If you have any questions, please reach out to rackpdeworkshops@umich.edu.

Rackham/Sweetland Workshops, co-sponsored by the Rackham Graduate
School, cover a host of topics designed to help graduate students in
various aspects of writing.

Join us for an engaging, interactive workshop designed to empower research teams through active listening and effective conflict resolution skills. Participants will reflect on the value of incorporating multiple viewpoints in research, discovering how diverse perspectives fuel innovation and strengthen outcomes. Through guided activities, attendees will also gain practical tools and hands-on experience to enhance their listening skills, fostering greater collaboration and understanding. The session will explore various approaches to handling conflict, encouraging participants to self-assess their typical style and broaden their toolkit for resolving disagreements constructively. By the workshop’s end, participants will actively demonstrate strategies to manage conflict within research teams, equipping themselves for more productive, harmonious collaborations.


This workshop is open to all master’s, Ph.D., and postdoctoral scholars at the University of Michigan. If you have any questions, please reach out to rackhampdeworkshops@umich.edu.

The MICDE PhD Student Seminar Series showcases the research of students in the Ph.D. in Scientific Computing. Lunch will be served. These events are open to the public, but we request that all who plan to attend register in advance. Planned sessions will be canceled if no one signs up to present.

If you have any questions, please email micde-phd@umich.edu.

Having any savings rate when living on a graduate student stipend is a huge financial accomplishment. You are eager to make the best use of that limited flow of money, but you might be stuck in analysis paralysis. Should you save up cash? Should you pay down debt (even student loans)? Should you invest—and is that possible during graduate school? During this workshop, you will apply an eight-step framework to your own individual finances to identify your next singular financial goal and learn how to pursue it.
Important for Registrants:
Please visit this page for important preparation instructions before the workshop.

Bio: Emily Roberts is a personal finance educator specializing in early-career Ph.D.s. Through her business, Personal Finance for Ph.D.s, she equips graduate students and postdocs to make the most of their money. She gives seminars at universities and for associations; interviews graduate students and Ph.D.s on her podcast; and creates courses and workshops on taxes, investing, and more. Emily holds a Ph.D. in biomedical engineering from Duke University and lives in San Diego with her husband and two children.

Supporting the Washtenaw County Advisory Council on Reparations
Join University of Michigan students and faculty from the Rackham Reparative Justice Research Group as they showcase research projects in history, political science, education, climate science, public policy, and social work. The projects collectively offer a more complex and wide-ranging view of historical and present-day systemic harms to Black residents in Washtenaw County and point the way to potential pathways for repair, justice, and opportunity today and in the future.

Each year, during National Graduate and Professional Student Appreciation Week, the Rackham Graduate School joins universities from across the country to host events designed to support and recognize graduate students. The week is aimed at highlighting the great contributions and high value that graduate and professional students bring to our community. This year’s events feature great food, networking, wellness activities, professional development, and a chance to relax with therapy dogs. Join us for a week of celebration and connection!

The Poetry & Poetics Workshop is a Rackham Interdisciplinary Workshop committed to providing a forum in which faculty and graduate students can exchange works-in-progress and explore recent work in the fields of poetry and poetics. For more information, please visit our website. If you have any questions, please contact Renee Wehrle (rewehrle@umich.edu) or Kelly Wenzka (kwenzka@umich.edu.).

Rackham Student Government (RSG) invites all U-M graduate & professional students from Ann Arbor, Dearborn, and Flint to explain the core idea of their research and its significance in a 3 Minute Thesis (3MT) with a general audience in mind.

The final (in-person) round will take place at the Rackham Amphitheatre from 6:30–8 PM. All finalists will present their 3MT to a panel of judges. Winners of the RSG 3MT Competition will be awarded with a prize, and refreshments will be provided in the Assembly Hall from 8–9PM.

Sponsored by the Rackham Partnerships for Access, Community, and Excellence (PACE) team, the PACE Fellowship recognizes accomplished doctoral students and faculty mentors who have demonstrated commitment to program climate and student success. Join this workshop to learn more about the PACE Fellowship and how to navigate the application process.

Celebrate the 2026 Bouchet Graduate Honor Society inductees! Join us for remarks from Dean Solomon and Three-Minute Thesis presentations from our new class of inductees. This event is hybrid. Refreshments will be served.

We are pleased to invite the campus community to the Rackham Graduate Student AI Working Groups Symposium on May 4, 2026, with a poster session from 2:00 to 3:30 p.m. and a keynote address by Professor Latanya Sweeney, Daniel Paul Professor of the Practice of Government and Technology at the Harvard Kennedy School, from 4:00 to 5:00 p.m. These aspects of the symposium are open to the U-M community. This event showcases cutting-edge graduate student research on AI, highlighting opportunities for cross-disciplinary collaboration, ethical reflection, and creative applications of emerging technologies. Attendees will have the chance to explore innovative projects during the poster session and hear insights from a leading expert in AI.

Developed by the MORE Committee, this workshop helps enhance the mentoring relationship between the student and faculty mentor by facilitating the development of shared expectations. Mentors and mentees work independently in separate sessions to identify their own objectives and styles, and consider strategies for dealing with possible challenges. Then, student-faculty pairs work together to develop a written mentoring plan as a means of codifying some of the most important elements (needs, goals, mutual expectations) of a two-way mentoring relationship. Among Rackham doctoral students who have written mentoring plans, 83 percent find those plans useful.
Registration and attendance at the same workshop are required of both the faculty and the student. Separate registration for faculty is available at: https://myumi.ch/2r6kn.

Developed by the MORE Committee, this workshop helps enhance the mentoring relationship between the student and faculty mentor by facilitating the development of shared expectations. Mentors and mentees work independently in separate sessions to identify their own objectives and styles, and consider strategies for dealing with possible challenges. Then, student-faculty pairs work together to develop a written mentoring plan as a means of codifying some of the most important elements (needs, goals, mutual expectations) of a two-way mentoring relationship. Among Rackham doctoral students who have written mentoring plans, 83 percent find those plans useful.
Registration and attendance at the same workshop are required of both the faculty and the student. Separate registration for students is available at: https://myumi.ch/6167J.