This month, we highlight Tripke Travel Grant recipient Mirtha Garcia, a fourth-year doctoral candidate in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences who has had a lifelong passion for sociocultural anthropology.

On March 31, the Graduate College hosted its annual “Celebrating Excellence” event to recognize the success of

"No individual or nation can stand out boasting of being independent. We are interdependent." Martin Luther King, Jr. One day, back in graduate school, my advisor asked me to come into her office and share some of my research with a visitor, who was a well-known scholar in my field. I was nervous, but I managed to give him a demo of my work. He asked me questions and we had a nice exchange.

Education for American Civic Life

The Teagle Foundation seeks to elevate the civic objectives of liberal arts education through faculty-led efforts within the curriculum grounded in the issues that define and challenge American democracy. Successful proposals are expected move beyond mere additions to the course catalog and reflect an approach to integrative learning that serves the student body and can be sustained beyond the life of the grant.

This is a $400,000 grant opportunity.