PhD Plus Highlights
Stories highlighting professional development experience and leadership of PhD students and PhD alums in following categories:
- PhD Plus grads: PhD students who completed PhD+ skills series
- PhD Plus liaisons: PhD students who participated in PhD+ liaison program
- PhD Plus interns: PhD students who participated in project based learning and internship program
- PhD careers: alums in diverse careers
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Eniola Afolayan
Eniola was a PhD Plus intern at the Sorensen Institute for Political Leadership, a unit of the University’s Weldon Cooper Center for Public Service in summer 2021
Mary Elizabeth Allen
Mary was a PhD Plus Intern in Office of the Vice Provost for Academic Outreach at the University of Virginia in 2018-2019 under the mentorship of Louis P. Nelson, Vice Provost for Academic Outreach.
Shalmi Barman
Shalmi was an Acquisitions Intern for UVA Press. Prior to completing her internship, she also participated in the PhD Plus Career Design series.
Kathryn Bennington
Kathryn Bennington is a 6th year PhD candidate in the Department of English at the University’s Graduate School of Arts and Sciences. She interned with the Institute for Shipboard Ed
Christina Boltsi
Christina was PhD Plus intern at the University’s Center for Teaching Excellence in fall of 2020 and spring of 2021, to support pedagogical development programs for graduate students, under the mentorship of Adriana Streifer, PhD.
Rebecca Bultman
Rebecca Bultman is a 7th year PhD Candidate in the Religious Studies department. She was an intern for the Weldon Cooper Center for Public Service in the Demographic Research Group for the past year.
Jordan Buysse
Jordan is a PhD Plus intern at Gazelle International, a young nonprofit based in Guilford, CT, through Summer and Fall of 2019, and Spring of 2020 under the mentorship of Nancy L. Ruther, the Principal and Founder of Gazelle.
Johanna Chajes
Johanna internship with the Office of the Executive Vice President and Provost for Academic Outreach. Prior to completing her internship, she participated in the PhD Plus Foundations, Career Design, and Data Literacy skills series.
Sidney Christman Woram
Sidney Christman Woram is a 6th year PhD candidate in the Classics Department and was a Communications Intern at the Weldon Cooper Center for Public Service.
Eliot Davenport
Eliot interned with the American Institute for Indian Studies (AIIS) under the mentorship of Anandi Silva Knuppel.
Sadegh Eghdami
Sadegh was a PhD Plus intern in Center for Coastal Resources Management (CCRM) division of Virginia Institute of Marine Sciences’(VIMS) in Summer of 2020 under mentorship of Dr. Kirk J. Havens, as part of Environment Resilience Summer Internship program.
Hayley Elszasz
Hayley Elszasz is a fourth year PhD candidate in the Department of Politics at the University’s Graduate School of Arts and Sciences. She interned with the Weldon Cooper Center’s Sorensen Institute for Political Leadership.
Melissa Hey
Melissa is a PhD Plus intern at the Office of Undergraduate Research (OUR), University of Virginia during the academic year 2019-2020, under the mentorship of Brian Cullaty, Director of the Office.
Quinn Hirschi
Quinn was a Survey Research Intern in Summer 2021 and a Demographics Research Intern in Fall 2021 at the Weldon Cooper Center for Public Service.
Alexa Jeffress
Alexa was a PhD Plus intern at Gazelle International as a Virtual Learning Liaison in Fall of 2019, and Spring and Summer of 2020 under the mentorship of Nancy L. Ruther, EdD.
Erin Jordan
Erin's internship was with Encyclopedia Virginia under the mentorship of Peter Hedlund. She previously completed the Career Design and Communicating Research PhD+ modules.
Janet Lawler
Janet Lawler is an alumnus of the Department of Politics at the University’s Graduate School of Arts and Sciences. Janet interned with UVA’s Center for Teaching Excellence under the mentorship of Adriana Streifer.
Emily Mellen
Emily was an intern with UVA’s Vice Provost's Office for Global Affairs and currently holds the position of communications assistant at this same office. She also previously completed the PhD Plus Digital Humanities module.
Gopal Midha
Gopal was a PhD Plus intern at Weldon Cooper Center for Public Service at the University of Virginia through Summer and Fall of 2019, under the mentorship of Larry D. Terry, Executive Director of the Weldon Cooper Center.
Megan Miller
Megan is a PhD Plus intern at Center for Survey Research (CSR) at UVA through Summer and Fall of 2019, and Spring of 2020 under the mentorship of Kara Fitzgibbon and Thomas M. Guterbock, Directors of CSR.