by anna_beaudry1 | Apr 25, 2022 | dissertation, GPS workshops, graduate student advice, Graduate Student Association, Graduate Student Mentoring, graduate student resources, Graduate Writing Center, interview, life in grad school, STEM, wellness, writing
For our final interview this semester in the How and Where I Write Series (don’t worry, we’ll bring this back in the future!), we sat down with Jasmine Stovall, a fourth-year PhD student in the Biology department. She also completed her MS at Baylor as...
by anna_beaudry1 | Apr 4, 2022 | dissertation, Graduate Student Association, graduate student resources, life in grad school, Research Opportunities, Summer Dissertation Fellowship, writing
The Baylor Graduate School is pleased to announce the third cohort of the Summer Dissertation Fellows. This highly competitive fellowship includes a stipend of $3000 paid over two months (June and July) that enables advanced PhD candidates to focus on writing their...
by anna_beaudry1 | Feb 21, 2022 | dissertation, graduate student advice, Graduate Student Association, graduate student resources, life in grad school, Waco, wellness, writing
You know you’re a real grad student when all the baristas at Pinewood know your name, your subject area, what chapter your currently working on, and you don’t even have to ask them to refill your bottomless single-origin coffee. Like, if you’re not...
by anna_beaudry1 | Feb 14, 2022 | Covid-19, dissertation, graduate student advice, Graduate Student Association, graduate student resources, life in grad school, Uncategorized, wellness, writing
You’ve tried a number of spots around campus, but there are undergrads everywhere (is no place sacred?!?). You’ve tried the GRC, but it’s a little too clinical a vibe for you. You want a quiet space to call your own and to reach that deep-work state...
by beth_barr | May 27, 2019 | Beth Allison Barr author, dissertation
Twenty-three Baylor doctoral students gathered every day last week for an intensive dissertation writing workshop (D-Lab). We met in the Graduate Research Center (GRC) and spent most of our time (from 8:30-3:00) actively writing. But before the hard work began, we...
by beth_barr | Apr 29, 2019 | Beth Allison Barr author, dissertation
Just last week we awarded, for the first time by the Baylor University Graduate School, eleven summer dissertation fellowships to doctoral candidates in STEM, Humanities, and Social Science fields who are currently in the writing stage of their dissertations. The...