GradLIFE Podcast Graduate College (UIUC)

This episode is part of our special GradLIFE series AI at Illinois, where we delve into the impacts of artificial intelligence technologies on our graduate students' research, teaching, and thinking.On this episode, Bri Lafond (Writing Studies doctoral candidate and Graduate College Career Exploration Fellow) sits down with Clara Belitz (School of Information Sciences) and Ali Zaidi (Computer Science) for a dynamic conversation about how AI has the potential to affect a lot of different aspec...

Joe Mirabelli (PhD, '23, Educational Psychology) has spent years studying how graduate students experience and cope with stress. In this conversation, Joe sits down with John Moist to discuss what he's learned about how graduate students excel in grad school. ______Show Notes: Joe Mirabelli in Research Live! 2023Educational Psychology at IllinoisJennifer Cromley, Professor, Educational Psychology @ IllinoisResearch Live! @ UIUCGradLIFE: Joe Mirabelli | Lessons Learned from a PhD Student who S...

When you're in graduate school and doing awesome work, it's not uncommon to experience imposter syndrome: doubting your abilities and feeling like a fraud in your work. In this episode of the GradLIFE podcast, John Moist sits down with Lisa Abston (Assistant Dean for Diversity, Equity & Inclusion here in the Graduate College) and Darrien Watson (fourth-year PhD student in Recreation, Sport, and Tourism) for a discussion that ranges from the emotions of graduate study and experiences ...

If you can, cast your mind back to high school. For some of us, it's been a little longer than others. You might think of the sound of chattering classmates in the hallway, or maybe of studying late for an important test. Adolescence is a particularly challenging time that comes with many difficult emotions, and it's never been easy to be a teenager. But here at the University of Illinois, researchers have demonstrated that past experiences with bullying, friendlessness, and other forms...

SAGE graduate student podcasters Abby (Social Work) and Sebastian (Labor and Employment Relations) interview each other about choosing their research fields and Illinois for graduate education. How “virtual everything” affects their grad school ups and downs and teaches them a few tricks.

It has been a year of COVID. Our graduate student podcasters share their funniest Zoom stories and how they have been navigating this new landscape. Burning Man expert Caitlin Brooks (Recreation, Sport, and Tourism) speaks about mourning canceled ethnographic dissertation fieldwork and the power of community in times of isolation.