[bioundgrd] TODAY @ noon: Rockefeller Recruiting Visit

[MacKenzie Outlund]

> Come enjoy a light lunch and presentation by Assistant Dean of The Rockefeller
> Graduate Program, hosted by MIT Biology.
> 
> Friday, October 26
> 12-1pm
> 68-121
> 
> The Rockefeller University is a world-renowned center for research and
> graduate education in the biomedical sciences, chemistry and biophysics.  The
> university's Ph.D. Program offers rigorous training and close mentoring by
> faculty.  The graduate program provides outstanding opportunities for
> intellectual growth, is flexible and individualized based on the student's
> needs, and provides full financial support, and housing on the Upper East Side
> of Manhattan.  Rockefeller also offers one of the nation's top M.D./Ph.D.
> Programs with neighboring Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center and Weill
> Medical College of Cornell University.
> 
> Founded by John D. Rockefeller in 1901 as the nation's first institute for
> medical research, the university has a laboratory-based structure that
> encourages interdisciplinary research.  This innovative, collaborative
> approach has been an unparalleled success, contributing to 23 Nobel Prizes --
> including two prizes awarded to Rockefeller graduates, and eight to current
> faculty including Professors Gunter Blobel, 1999; Paul Greengard, 2000; Paul
> Nurse, 2001; and Roderick MacKinnon, 2003.