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An Introduction to Linked Open Data

By Katy Meyers On June 2, 2014 · Leave a Comment

Katy Meyers is a PhD candidate at Michigan State University in the Department of Anthropology. You can follow her @bonesdonotlie and read her blog Bones Don’t Lie.

If you’ve done any digital work—and who isn’t doing digital these days—then you’ve probably heard the term “linked open data” tossed around. “Open data,” as […]

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[Summer] Is Coming

By Laura B. McGrath On May 30, 2014 · Leave a Comment

Laura B. McGrath is a doctoral candidate in English Literature at Michigan State University. Follow her on twitter @lbmcgrath.

I get nostalgic as summer arrives each year; I remember neglecting my homework to go play outside, so excited for the lawn sprinkler. And when school was finally over, well, life just couldn’t get […]

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Scheduling Summer Writing

By Kelly Hanson On May 28, 2014 · Leave a Comment

Kelly Hanson is a PhD candidate in the Department of English at Indiana University, Bloomington. She loves grad school because even though she gets older, her dissertation just stays the same age. You can follow her on Twitter at @krh121910.

Summer is upon us here in Southern Indiana, and in between barbeques and […]

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Please Take Care of Yourselves – Proposing a Common Theme for All Graduate Students

By Kaitlin Gallagher On May 27, 2014 · Leave a Comment

Kaitlin Gallagher is a PhD Candidate specializing in Biomechanics in the Department of Kinesiology at the University of Waterloo in Canada, and a permanent author for GradHacker. You can follow her on twitter at @KtlnG.

All good things must come to an end. I’ve had a wonderful time writing for GradHacker over the past […]

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Open Thread: Should You Blog Your Dissertation Research?

By Emily VanBuren On May 23, 2014 · Leave a Comment

Emily VanBuren is a PhD student in history at Northwestern University. You can find her on Twitter at @emilydvb or at her blog, dighistorienne.

I’m wrapping up the second year of my PhD in history, and it’s been a big one. This year, I figured out what I’m writing my dissertation about. […]

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Wired for It

By GradHacker On May 21, 2014 · Leave a Comment

Our featured guest post this week has been written by a PhD student in the humanities.

My graduate school recently invited an alumna with an MA in professional counseling to talk to us about careers outside academia. She talked about different reasons for switching fields and the ways we could translate our studies […]

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The Trials and Triumphs of Interdisciplinarity

By Liz Homan On May 19, 2014 · Leave a Comment

Liz Homan is a doctoral candidate in the Joint Program in English and Education at The University of Michigan. You can find her on Twitter at @lizhoman or on her blog, Gone Digital. This post is adapted from a previous post on the Rackham Graduate School Blog, April 2014.

Interdisciplinarity is a hip […]

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Life Lessons from Research Abroad

By Justin Dunnavant On May 16, 2014 · Leave a Comment

Justin Dunnavant is a PhD student in Anthropology at the University of Florida. You can find him on Twitter @archfieldnotes or at his blog AfricanaArch.

Last month I came back from a two month research trip to Ethiopia. I conducted archaeological excavations, lab analysis, archival research, and an exploratory survey of potential […]

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Parenting in Grad School

By Andrea Zellner On May 14, 2014 · Leave a Comment

Andrea Zellner is a PhD student in the Ed Psych/Ed Tech program at Michigan State University. She can be found on Twitter @AndreaZellner.

Parenting in grad school can be crazy hard. There is really so much to say about parenting in grad school. I asked the question on Twitter and on Facebook and […]

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Navigating the PhD Application Season

By GradHacker On May 13, 2014 · Leave a Comment

Bill Cotter is a guest author and incoming dual PhD student in Anthropology & Linguistics at the University of Arizona. You can follow him on twitter @cotterw.

You’re fresh off your Bachelors or you’re in the final throes of your Masters and you see it coming over the horizon, PhD application season. You […]

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