Fall Graduate Student Retreat Draws Emerging Poverty Researchers
Fall 2012
From September 23-25, 2012, the Center hosted a graduate student retreat attended by eight faculty and 25 students engaged in poverty research from a variety of disciplines. With Lake Tahoe as a backdrop, faculty provided advice and workshops on grad school success and the career market, while eight students gave presentations on their dissertation work to a crowd of enthusiastic and supportive colleagues. The retreat was a wonderful beginning to a new year!
Faculty presented two tracks for the students: 1) Success in Graduate School, and 2) Post-Graduate/Career Advice. These presentations included, The Life of a Paper, Finding an Advisor, Making Progress on the Dissertation, Getting the Most out of TA/RA Opportunities, Academic and Non-Academic Careers, the Job Market, Work-Life Balance, and a roundtable discussion on Big Research Questions in Poverty Research.
Students from Economics, Education, Human Development, Law, Nutrition, Psychology, and Sociology were nominated by our research affiliates to participate. Students presented their own work-in-progress for feedback and practice:
- “Three Strikes Laws, Family Planning and Welfare Reform”, Joe Cummins (Economics)
- “Charter School Accountability in California: A Look at the California Charter School Association’s Academic Accountability Report Card”, Sherrie-Lynn Reed (Education)
- “Defining and Measuring Poverty: Policy Implications of a Multidimensional Measure for the U.S.”, Anupama Jacob (Visiting Graduate Scholar, UC Berkeley)
- “The Ties that Bind: Rethinking How Social Relationships Shape Health”, Elyse Kovalsky (Visiting Graduate Scholar, Northwestern)
- “Early Life Exposure to Cigarette Smoke: Is the Human Capital Damage Permanent? Evidence from the Cigarette Tax Hikes”, David Simon (Economics)
- “Health Care for All? Care Inequities for Children across Diverse Subpopulations”, Ethan Evans (Sociology)
- “Economic Pressure and Romantic Relationship Functioning: Intergenerational Transmission and Couple Resilience”, April Masarik (Human Development)
- “The Relationship between Concentration of English Learners in Schools and English Learner Academic Achievement”, Renatta DeFever (Education)
Thank you to the Office of Graduate Studies for supporting the event, and we look forward to our next retreat planned for September 2013!
