Simone Gbolo, a doctoral student in Higher Education at the University of Minnesota, was recently awarded the Graduate Student Enrollment Management Research Grant for her proposal, "Developing Pipelines: Partnerships and Programming to Increase Diversity in Graduate Education" by NAGAP, the Association for Graduate Enrollment Management.

After an extensive internal search and series of interviews with an amazing set of finalists, Scott Lanyon, vice provost and dean of graduate education, has appointed Dr. Yoji Shimizu,  as the new associate dean for graduate education and director of the Office for Diversity in Graduate Education (ODGE)