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November 20, 2024
Student Research Publication on Public Health
Larisa Ozeryansky, a doctoral candidate in the Individual PhD program, recently had an article published in the journal BMC Public Health, based on her Fulbright research at the Norwegian Institute of Public Health. In this article, she analyzed trends in the health of Ukrainian refugees arriving in Norway according to their time of arrival, with…
October 29, 2024
IPhD Fall Gathering
With research interests spanning the social sciences, humanities, sciences, engineering and medicine, students in the Individual PhD program spend much more time in the home departments of their primary faculty advisors than they do with each other. Because of this, meeting over lunch in the Fall quarter each year provides a valuable opportunity to meet…
July 9, 2024
Kimberly Perkins: 2024 IPhD Graduate
Could adopting a safety-centered approach to improving cultural inequities in the aviation industry increase both safety and diversity in the field? For Kimberly Perkins (IPhD ‘24), this was not an abstract question but one born from years of personal experience as a pilot. Just 5% of professional pilots are women and only 6% are not…
July 2, 2024
Ginger Farrell: 2024 IPhD graduate
How can psychological interventions like the use of mental imagery help improve outcomes for foreign language learners? For Ginger Farrell ‘24, addressing research questions like this required an interdisciplinary approach. The Individual PhD (IPhD) program offered the ideal environment for such exploration. Under the guidance of Prof. Paula Nurius from the School of Social Work—and…
November 6, 2023
IPHD Fall Luncheon
By its very nature, the Individual PhD program–whose students design their own fields of study in conjunction with an interdisciplinary committee of faculty–can make community-building a challenge. It’s reasons like this that make the annual fall luncheon is so important. Over a delicious meal of zuppa, insalata, and pasta at Piatti in University Village, students…
June 26, 2023
Rie Tsujihara: 2023 IPHD graduate
Rie Tsujihara’s own experience as a Japanese immigrant who moved to California with her family during high school provided the impetus for her research on second language acquisition. It was then she realized, first, that the grammar and phrases she had learned in school were not enough for functional communication and, second, that language and…
May 22, 2022
Interdisciplinary Individual PhD Research Talks & Lunch May 4th, 2022
The Interdisciplinary Individual PhD Program hosted a Research Symposium May 4, 2022. Returning to its on-campus format for the first time since 2019, this year the Symposium included in-person and online presentations, allowing for robust and dynamic exchanges among students and faculty. Presentations by seven of our current students highlighted the range of intellectual inquiry…
November 29, 2021
IPhD Annual Student-Faculty Lunch
On November 17 the IPhD Annual Student-Faculty lunch was held at Piatti’s in University Village. Several new and returning students, their Committee Chairs, IPhD Program Chair, Mark Zachry, and Program Specialist, Whitney Bennett, gathered (Covid compliantly!) to hear about student doctoral projects and faculty fields of expertise. In addition to sharing a pleasant lunch, the…
November 3, 2021
Annual IPhD Student-Chair Lunch – Nov 17th, 11:30 – 1:30pm
Over lunch, we will have the opportunity to meet each other in person and to hear about research happening in the program. Students will share an introduction to their research and faculty chairs will have an opportunity to share how their expertise aligns with their advisee’s research projects.
October 11, 2021
Ronnie Thibault: Activist With a Capital A
The IPhD program makes possible projects that couldn’t happen in a single department: such as Ronnie Thibault’s research on how global development, nonprofit, and awareness marketing campaigns influence public perceptions about the populations they are intending to help.
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