GradImpact newsletter highlights what makes the UD graduate experience unique

3:03 p.m., Oct. 15, 2012--The inaugural issue of the University of Delaware's GradImpact newsletter is available online now. The publication showcases UD’s growing graduate enterprise and explores its impact on local, national and global communities.

“Our graduate students work with faculty to tackle society's most demanding problems,” commented Charles Riordan, UD’s vice provost for research and for graduate and professional education. “This newsletter is one vehicle to share our collective progress.”

Campus Stories

From graduates, faculty

As it neared time for the processional to open the University of Delaware Commencement ceremonies, graduating students and faculty members shared their feelings about what the event means to them.

Doctoral hooding

It was a day of triumph, cheers and collective relief as more than 160 students from 21 nations participated in the University of Delaware's Doctoral Hooding Convocation held Friday morning on The Green.

• Doctoral hooding
• Old Swedes
• Summer SAT, ACT prep
• 'Opus 13' pre-sale

Each issue of the newsletter will explore a different aspect of graduate education at UD. Graduate student career development is the theme of this issue, which spotlights several former graduate students who have pursued unusual and notable careers.

Exceptional faculty mentoring is often cited as one of the hallmarks of the UD graduate experience.  Three outstanding instances of faculty-student relationships — and the impact on the students’ career paths — are highlighted in the newsletter.

UD also prepares its graduate students for careers in many other concrete ways. Several are featured in the newsletter, including the writing and communications skills built in Dissertation Boot Camps, the hands-on teaching experience of the Shirley and Fraser Russell Teaching Fellowship and the global travel opportunities afforded by UD travel grants.

New graduate programs are highlighted in the newsletter as well. In this issue, the doctorate in nursing and the master’s degree and certificate in historic preservation are showcased.

GradImpact is distributed to potential graduate students, to UD’s community partners, as well as to UD faculty and administration. A limited number of print copies are available.

The fall 2012 issue of GradImpact can be viewed online.

Photos by Kathy F. Atkinson and courtesy of William Andrews Clark Library, UCLA