Celebrating a new academic year
The Graduate School welcomed nearly 640 new students this fall, selected from an extraordinarily competitive pool of approximately 11,300 applicants. Incoming students hail from colleges and universities across America and around the world. About 360 are from the United States, but new students have joined the Graduate School from as far away as New Zealand and Singapore, with the largest international cohort—numbering 102—from the People’s Republic of China. Orientation included a formal matriculation ceremony in Sprague Hall and, for the first time, small group training sessions for all entering students on topics related to professional ethics, such as academic integrity and sexual misconduct. Graduate student leaders and the academic deans facilitated the sessions.
Alumna named provost of the University of Washington
Ana Mari Cauce ’84PhD (psychology) has become provost and executive vice president of the University of Washington, where she served as dean of the College of Arts and Sciences from 2008 to 2011. Cauce holds faculty appointments in American ethnic studies; Latin American studies; gender, women, and sexuality studies; and in the School of Education. She maintains an active research program, focusing on adolescent development with a special emphasis on “at-risk” youth. As provost she is the university’s chief academic officer, overseeing the educational, research, and service missions of all UW’s schools and academic units. She also works closely with the president on strategic planning and long-term decision-making.
Studying the unintended consequences of “remittances”
Susanna Fioratta ’09MPhil (anthropology) studies remittances, money sent home by migrant workers to provide their families with economic security. Her fieldwork took her to two small African towns in Guinea and to the city of Dakar, Senegal, which is both a transit point for migrants and a destination for many Guineans. In all three settings, she immersed herself in the life of her subjects, doing what anthropologists call “participant observation.” To her surprise, she found that sometimes the remittance safety net has become a source of conflict over diverging understandings of Islam, pitting Guineans who remain at home against those who travel abroad.
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