by beth_barr | Jan 13, 2020 | Beth Allison Barr author, Graduate Student Mentoring
My kids went skiing for the first time this winter. It was cold, really cold, on the snowy slopes of Colorado. Twenty inches of new powder fell that first day, making the slopes soft for my kids as they crashed over and over in beginner lessons. By lunchtime they were...
by beth_barr | Dec 9, 2019 | Beth Allison Barr author, graduate student advice
I still remember finishing my first semester of graduate school. It was December 1997. I had plunged directly from my undergraduate degree into a Medieval History doctoral program at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and I had no idea what I was doing....
by beth_barr | Dec 2, 2019 | Beth Allison Barr author, postdoctoral fellowship program
The Baylor Graduate School already offers doctoral students full tuition waivers, competitive stipends, access to health care (including an 80% insurance subsidy for fully-funded students), and generous travel funding that helped our graduate students to make more...
by beth_barr | Nov 11, 2019 | Graduate Student Association, graduate student guest post
Food insecurity (being able to consistently access or have enough food) on college campuses has been a hot topic in the news and in research studies. This is for good reason- recent estimates from a 2017 study from the Journal of the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics...
by beth_barr | Nov 4, 2019 | graduate student advice, Graduate Student Mentoring, guest post, pedagogy
Today I am so pleased to welcome Leslie A. Hahner to BearTracks. Leslie A. Hahner is an associate professor in the Communication Department at Baylor University. She is the award-winning author of To Become an American: Immigrants and Americanization Campaigns of the...
