[bioundgrd] TOMORROW: 12pm Lunch with Rockefeller Representative

[MacKenzie Outlund]

Bio Majors,

If you are considering pursuing grad school in biology -- or an MD/PhD --
at any point in your future, please attend an informal lunch meeting and
presentation with Rockefeller University Assistant Dean, Dr. Emily Harms.
Feel free to drop by anytime during the noon hour for information.  Lunch
will be catered by Sebastians.

Thursday, 11/13
12-1pm
68-180

The Rockefeller University is a world-renowned center for research and
graduate education in the biomedical sciences, chemistry and biophysics. The
university¹s 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 student¹s
needs, and provides full financial support, and housing on the Upper East
Side of Manhattan. Rockefeller also offers one of the nation¹s 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 nation¹s 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 Günter Blobel, 1999; Paul Greengard,
2000; Paul Nurse, 2001; and Roderick MacKinnon, 2003.