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  • Orientation 2017 Round-up

    September 15, 2017
    staff and students at the orientation bbq for incoming graduate students

    The School of Graduate and Advanced Studies (GRAD) hosts Orientation Week for first year graduate students before the beginning of the fall term every year.

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  • New Writing Support Tutor for Graduate and Postdoctoral Scholars

    September 11, 2017
    RWIT International Student GRAD Writing Support

    As higher education becomes an increasingly global venture students pursuing advanced degrees tend to look further afield for training and resources in their pursuit of academic excellence. According to a PEW report, international students make up more than half the students being awarded advanced degrees in STEM subjects in the USA.

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  • Becoming Your PI

    September 7, 2017
    members of the george o'toole lab in MCB program

    Dr. Shannon Hinsa-Leasure is a microbiologist and an associate professor of biology at Grinnell College. Her lab is studying whether the use of copper alloys in hospitals can reduce the number of bacteria on surfaces, a major source of hospital-acquired infections and the spread of antibiotic resistance genes from hog confinements into the environment. While earning her Ph.D. in molecular and cellular biology at Dartmouth, Hinsa was a graduate student in the laboratory of professor George O’Toole. When Hinsa was finishing her B.S.

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