Meet the Graduate School Team
The Graduate School staff invites you to contact us for information about any of our graduate programs. We are open Monday through Friday from 8:00 AM until 5:00 PM mountain standard time. If you pay a visit to campus, please stop by our office in the Davidson Honors College, lower/garden level, Room 002.
Graduate School

Grace Held
Admissions Coordinator

Kendall Kihn
Program Manager

Paul M. Lukacs
Senior Associate Dean of Research and Graduate Studies & Faculty Research Fellow

Kelly Speer
Office Manager

Scott Whittenburg
Vice President for Research and Creative Scholarship & Graduate School Dean

Ke Wu
Professor and Associate Dean of Graduate School
Graduate School Research Assistants

Niche Brown
Niche Brown is a graduate student in Interdisciplinary Studies. She assists Dr. Wu in improving graduate student outreach. She has a B.S. in Life Science with a focus on Environmental Health Sciences.

Dylan Decker
Dylan Decker is a currently a PhD Student in Clinical Psychology at the 猎奇重口. His research interests pertain to mental health and American Indian communities. Dylan also worked as an EMT in the Navajo Nation Emergency Medical Service.

Gabriella Graceffo
Gabriella Graceffo is in her final year of graduate school, completing her PhD in Interdisciplinary Studies (English and Psychology), which built on her MFA in Poetry and MA in Literature she previously received from UM. Her research focuses on the representation of trauma in literature.