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.

Celebrating Excellence

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

"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.