Sessions For: Rackham Graduate School

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!

Rackham Student Government (RSG) is proud to present the following events for Graduate and Professional Student Appreciation Week (GPSAW) 2026! Register now to enjoy FREE Zumba, games, and food!

Monday (4/13) – RSG x RELATE 3MT Final Round & Awards*Tuesday (4/14) – RSG Stress Less Zumba (class by Michigan Recreation)Thursday (4/16) – RSG Board Game & Snacks*Thursday (4/16) – RSG Stress Less Zumba (class by Michigan Recreation)Friday (4/17) – RSG Fortune Fragels* ("Fried Bagel")* Event includes free food.
Some events require registration for a specific time slot to ensure we stay within room capacity.

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.

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.).

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.

During Ph.D. Connections, participants will be able to learn from industry experts about an array of careers in an interactive and supportive environment.
The goals of Ph.D. Connections are to enable students and postdocs to:

Increase Awareness: Discover careers available to Ph.D. holders in a variety of industries and sectors.Develop Skills: Learn about skills and key competencies important in different industries.Network Effectively: Develop strategies and connections to explore careers and foster lifelong networking practice.Ph.D. Connections is co-sponsored by the University Career Center, Rackham Graduate School, and the Office of Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies at the University of Michigan Medical School.

Registration Instructions:

Please ensure that you have selected all the sessions that interest you before submitting your registration.
Use the sections below to register for various portions of the conference:
Virtual workshopsNetworking round-tablesNetworking lunchKeynote address

We are pleased to invite the campus community to the Rackham 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 students is available at: https://myumi.ch/6167J.

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.

These sessions will provide an overview of the application process, expected time commitment, and compensation associated with serving as a 2027 King Talks speaker.Interested individuals only need to attend one session.