National Graduate Student Appreciation Week runs April 3-7 this year, affording the perfect time to celebrate the more than 5,000 graduate students who daily enrich the Baylor campus community. In this Baylor Connections, Sara Dolan, Associate Dean for Professional Development in the Graduate School and longtime psychology professor and researcher, shares how graduate students impact teaching, research and scholarship at Baylor, and examines their impact long after their last class at Baylor.
Fighting Stress in Mind & Body
When Annie Ginty, Ph.D., shares that her research within Baylor’s Department of Psychology and Neuroscience focuses on stress, the subject’s ubiquity builds an almost instant connection point with others. Most people immediately joke that they would make excellent subjects for her research thanks to the pressures they feel in their daily lives.
Annie Ginty, Ph.D.
“Stress is something that happens in all of our lives,” Ginty says. “It’s a fascinating topic because there are actually big individual differences in how people experience stress and misconceptions about the way it impacts people.”