 On behalf of this year's recipients for the Rackham Predactoral Fellowship, I want to extend our sincere and heartfelt thanks to the Rackham Graduate School for the financial and intellectual support provided through this award. In a year that has produced so much uncertainty about our research trajectories, teaching conditions, and career pathways, the Rackham Predactoral Fellowship provides a welcome degree of stability for the 2021-2022 academic year. This fellowship also gives us one of the most precious resources a graduate student can have – time. When we are pulled in so many different directions, whether working in the classroom or the lab or volunteering with campus or community organizations, it is a true gift to have uninterrupted time to think deeply and critically about the research questions that brought us to U of M and to produce rigorous solutions to the problems we tackle in our various disciplines. For many of us, this award also signals that our time at the University of Michigan is coming to an end. I hope that I can speak for my fellow awardees when I say that these past years as a U of M graduate student have been among the most intellectually engaging, professionally challenging, and personally transformative of my life. The Rackham Predactoral Fellowship recognizes that the work we do as teachers, scientists, and scholars matters. Regardless of where our professional paths lead us, we will always be part of the Rackham Graduate School community. Thank you again to all who make this fellowship possible, and congratulations to this year's recipients.