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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.
iPhD Student Kimberly Perkins: Piloting Toward Psychological Safety
When people think about safety on airplanes, they’re probably thinking about oxygen masks, pilot training, or airport security. What they’re probably not thinking of, is bias. But that’s what doctoral student Kimberly Perkins wants people to be thinking about. Perkins has seen how cognitive biases impact safety on airplanes, and she wants the industry to pay just…