Shabnam Sedaghat (left), a dental medicine student at the University of Pennsylvania, receives her registration material for the 2nd National Conference on Graduate Student Leadership (NCGSL) from Sarit Smila, a doctoral student in the Department of Philosophy in Arts & Sciences, as Elaine Berland, Ph.D., associate dean of the Graduate School of Arts & Sciences and conference director, looks on. Because of the success of the first-of-its-kind NCGSL in 2003, which WUSTL convened, the University was asked to convene it again with the Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation. Some 55 delegates from 19 participating universities in the foundation’s Responsive Ph.D. Initiative attended the conference Nov. 18-20 and exchanged ideas about important issues in doctoral education with the goal of bringing ideas and promising practices back to their own campuses. The proceedings will be available in print and online this spring.