Thinking outside the box (and drawing within the lines), Caleb Ruck '22, MLLI, M.A. '24, intercultural communications, turned his thesis titled "Man Plan, G-d Laughs: A Graphic Autoethnography of an Intercultural Communication Student" into a graphic novel. "I utilized various methods, including diary methods and autoethnography, in order to imagine a form of information dissemination that challenges academic conventions pertaining to professionalism, objectivity and exclusivity," explains Ruck. #UMBCgrad