GradLIFE Podcast: Recent Episodes
Graduate College (UIUC)
Conversations about the graduate school experience and how to successfully pursue an advanced degree. One conversation at a time.
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 Kyrie Zhou (Information Sciences) to chat about generative AI, education, accessibility, and researching bias in new technologies.
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Show Notes:Kyrie ZhouInformation Sciences at Illinois Kyrie's WebsiteKyrie's PublicationsMadelyn Rose Sanfilippo - School of Information SciencesTed Underwood - School of Information Sciences
Rachel Adler - School of Information SciencesUniversity of Illinois Generative AI Solutions Hub - Office of the ProvostGenerative Artificial Intelligence - Center for Innovation in Teaching and LearningSome Miscellany from the Show:Kyrie's Recent Piece: "Accessible Adventures: Teaching Accessibility to High School Students Through Games"Kyrie's Recent Piece: "The Teachers Are Confused As Well: A Multiple-Stakeholder Ethics Discussion on Large Language Models in Computing Education" GradLIFE is a production of the Graduate College at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. For more information, and for anything else related to the Graduate College, visit us at grad.illinois.edu
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 Kainen Bell (School of Information Sciences) and Antonio Hamilton (English) for a conversation about how AI is impacting conversations around writing, education, and surveillance.
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Show Notes:Kainen BellInformation Sciences at IllinoisCommunity Data ClinicWikimedia FoundationAntonio HamiltonEnglish at IllinoisWriters WorkshopSome Miscellany from the Show:Institute for IP and Social JusticeAlgorithms of Oppression, Safiya NobleGender Shades*, Joy Buolamwini
GradLIFE is a production of the Graduate College at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. For more information, and for anything else related to the Graduate College, visit us at grad.illinois.edu*
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 aspects of our day-to-day lives.
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Show Notes:
GradLIFE Blog | Graduate College, Illinois
AI @ Illinois | GradLIFE Blog
Generative AI Center of Expertise @ Illinois
School of Information Sciences @ Illinois
Clara Belitz @ School of Information Sciences, Illinois
Computer Science @ Illinois
Karrie Karahalios @ Illinois Computer Science
Ranjitha Kumar @ Illinois Computer Science
GradLIFE is a production of the Graduate College at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. For more information, and for anything else related to the Graduate College, visit us at grad.illinois.edu
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.
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Show Notes:
Joe Mirabelli in Research Live! 2023
Educational Psychology at Illinois
Jennifer Cromley, Professor, Educational Psychology @ Illinois
Research Live! @ UIUC
GradLIFE: Joe Mirabelli | Lessons Learned from a PhD Student who Studies PhD Students’ Stress and Coping
GradLIFE is a production of the Graduate College at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. For more information, and for anything else related to the Graduate College, visit us at grad.illinois.edu
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 with feeling like an imposter in academia to some practical tips and strategies for keeping your way when imposter syndrome rears its head.
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Show Notes:
The GradLIFE Podcast is a production of the Graduate College at the University of Illinois. Learn more about the GradLIFE Blog, Podcast, and Newsletter here.
UIUC Graduate College: Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
Some readings (and a listen) on imposter syndrome:
UIUC College of Law Library: How To Survive Law School Without Losing Your Mind
Healthy Illini Podcast - Episode 53: Imposter Syndrome
Harvard Business Review: Stop Telling Women They Have Imposter Syndrome
Inc.: 3 Reasons Imposter Syndrome Is Actually a Professional Superpower, According to a Professor Who Wrote a Book on Spotting Talent
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 of social exclusion directly impact teenage girls' perceptions of their self-worth. Beckman Institute researcher and Professor of Psychology Karen Rudolph and her team think this is a crucial first step in crafting intervention programs to improve teen mental health.
On this episode of the GradLIFE Podcast, Graduate College Communications Specialist John Moist chats with Haley Skymba, a doctoral student at UIUC and Beckman Institute researcher, to talk about her work on Dr. Rudolph's research team. Haley was gracious enough to come in and chat about her research, background, and where she plans to take her work from here.
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Show Notes:
The GradLIFE Podcast is a production of the Graduate College at the University of Illinois. Learn more about the GradLIFE Blog, Podcast, and Newsletter here.
To read more about this research, visit the Illini News Bureau and The Beckman Institute
Dr. Karen Rudolph
Haley Skymba
Click here to access the research featured in this podcast from the Journal of Research on Adolescence.
The Beckman Institute's clip of Haley Skymba is kindly provided from this video.
Learn more about the Family Studies Lab
Check out The Beckman Institute
The research discussed in this podcast was supported by the National Institute of Mental Health of the National Institutes of Health under award numbers MH105655 and MH68444. The content is solely the responsibility of the authors and guests and does not necessarily represent the official views of the National Institutes of Health.
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.
SAGE graduate student podcasters Cat (Physics) and Shelby (Kinesiology) interview each other about choosing their research fields and Illinois for graduate education. How “virtual everything” affects their grad school highs and lows and teaches them a few tricks.
Landscape Designer Saloni Chawla (MLA '18) sits down to talk with us about how she landed her dream job at STIMSON an urban and rural landscape architecture studio with a working farm and a plant nursery, and why she considers it a perfect match with her interests in cultural landscapes and people.
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.
Theatre doctoral student Vincent Carlson performs "You and Your Work," a poem he wrote inspired by boundary setting and conflicting ideas about work ethic.
Training for an actual half marathon, he contemplates how grad school is a marathon and that you have to pace yourself. There is also a tasty discussion about the importance of treats!
SAGE grad student podcasters interview the Counseling Center’s Kamau Grantham, who gives everyone permission to take care of themselves and encourages the practice of self-care, an intentional skill that takes time to figure out. Things get salty as they contemplate the balance of ingredients in chocolate chip cookies. The podcasters continue the discussion with their favorite “mesources.”
SAGE grad student podcasters get to know more about fellow podcaster Abby Valtierra, who is pursuing a master’s in Social Work.
Abby shares some techniques to lower stress in elementary school students, such as a 5-4-3-2-1 mapping exercise, that might also work for grad students. And our podcasters share powerful “mesources” including the importance of positive self-talk.