New spending approved by the University Board of Trustees Jan. 27 will provide all first year Ph.D. students in science and engineering with fellowships in place of research grants or teaching ...

What does it take to turn ambition into action? First-year graduate student Grace Delice might know a thing or two. Before most students begin their day, Delice is already clocking in for her ...

In 1992, the Study of Mathematically Precocious Youth (SMPY) initially surveyed 714 first- and second-year graduate students (48.5% female) attending top 15 ranked U.S. universities for STEM fields.

Thrown back into the strange microcosm that is academia, I am wondering what sort of environment I signed up for when I entered the first year of my PhD at the University of Connecticut. Right off the ...