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    Headed there in the fall for the Program in Biomedical Research.
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    Ann Arbor, MI

    jmillar replied to a topic in City Guide

    Has anyone heard from Munger so far?
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    Ann Arbor, MI

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    I sent in my housing application to Munger about a month ago. I really hope I can get a spot!
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    https://www.researchgate.net
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    I would eventually like to work the CDC/government route. With many jobs I'm looking at, MS is entry level and to move up you need a PhD. I've talked to several people that went in with MS degrees and said they regretted not getting a PhD before as there was no time to do it now.
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    This is very true. Also where your advisor is in their professional career is another factor. Newer professors in my field are expected to publish like crazy. I'm just finishing up my Masters and have 10 papers (6 primary/co-primary) and 3 in submission. Starting a new PhD program in the fall and it will be interesting to see how things change.
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    There are some small research grants like Sigma Xi Grant in Aid of Research that is based only on your research proposal, but this is not a fellowship. Without knowing your exact discipline, it is hard to know what type of grants can be recommended. The closest I can think of right now is the American Heart Association Pre-Doctoral Fellowship: https://professional.heart.org/professional/ResearchPrograms/ApplicationInformation/UCM_443316_Predoctoral-Fellowship.jsp From what I've seen, the fellowships that are more tailored to your research, and not just about funding the person, are more discipline specific.
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    There are some student coop housing options that allow pets: http://www.icc.coop/index.php
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    I was thinking about some of the graduate housing options for the first year, at least until I get a better feel for the area.
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    Did you start in the fall of last year? If so, yes you qualify. If you started earlier (summer term or before), then you do not. This is only if you are a full time student. If you are part time, you can only have completed 24 semester credit hours or 36 quarter credit hours. https://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2016/nsf16588/nsf16588.htm
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    Congratulations!
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    The final decision should show up in fastlane, but I don't know if the explanation would be there. You would not be able to resubmit this cycle.
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    It was many reasons. I wanted to stay in evolutionary biology, but work from a more math/stat perspective. I was able to find a great advisor that got his PhD in Math, but is now a professor in EEB. I was wary at first when UMich said they were so interdisciplinary (everyone says that), but when I got there they really did make an effort to expand ties to many departments. I also wanted to expand my skills in Bioinformatics, and the department is a bit decentralized, so people from many departments work together (every person I interviewed with was in a different department!). They will even allow me to get a masters on the side in epidemiology (and pay for it), so I can bridge my work with public health. I will have great access to data from the medical school to expand disease evolution work. I was also impressed by the support for their students and all the resources available. Placement after school is excellent for both my program and my advisor. Ann Arbor is also interesting as a city in and of itself. It is a college town, but a large one of intellectuals and a lot of the city appears interconnected with the school. Before I visited, I really thought I did not want to go to Michigan. After my visit, where I grilled everyone there about why they came here, and hung out with the previous year's cohort in the city, I got the feeling my problem would be I wouldn't want to leave once my program was finished.
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    This is also great opportunity to ask what it's like to work for the POI and get a better feel for the lab and program.
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    I will have a UMich EEB advisor, but will technically be in Bioinformatics. Some of the classes/seminars will overlap.
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    Thought I would revive this thread. Will be heading to UMich for Fall 2017 for the Program in Biomedical Science (PIBS). Very excited and now starting to look for housing.
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    Same for me, so l spent $135 sending 5 GRE scores.
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    I've received a few of these at different schools (MS at one school, PhD at another). My GRE is sub-par (V 68%, Q 70%, W 55%). At the first school, there was a university wide fellowship for full tuition and it was based off your Statement of Purpose, CV, GPA, and GRE. At the school I'm attending in the fall, I received a RMF which is selected based on the following criteria: http://www.rackham.umich.edu/downloads/fellowships/rmf/rmfGuide.pdf Basically, this is completely dependent on which university you will be attending. And yes, there was nothing extra I could do other than submit a strong application.
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    In the end, I ended up choosing UMich based on program fit, research fit, and feel of the campus. It felt very weird to turn down Emory and Berkeley...
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    Accepted to Emory PBEE!
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    There is information at the bottom of the page about interschool degrees at the graduate level: https://www.calarts.edu/academics/programs-degrees https://www.calarts.edu/sites/default/files/inline-files/2015/07/21/1415catalogpolicies.pdf It really depends on the school. My school offers dual masters in any two programs if you can get the departments to sign off with it. There are several pairings that students often pursue, but I chose a pair never done before. There was no communication between the two, so everything was left up to me. I'm a term away from graduating, but I wouldn't recommend what I've done to other people. You should really ask other people at CalArts their impressions.
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    I just went to the UMich PIBS 1st interview weekend and got an acceptance the Monday after. Not sure when the rest are sent out.
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    If you're interested in Oregon, you may want to look at PSU's Biology program and see if there are professors you might want to work with. The application deadline is February 1st.
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    I could see it going either way. Antibiotic resistance might have been enough to trip it as being health related and something NIH would fund. NSF will often allow for funding of functions of things that have health implications like this of done under bioengineering. I would still go through the appeal to see what they say.
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    What is the degree you are going for? Is it a PhD? Is the specific name of the degree specialized, rather than just Biology? When you wrote your proposal, did you mention these efflux pumps in relation to disease or antibiotic resistance? If so, this might have got you. NSF is becoming more strict and they are encouraging people to apply more to NIH for this type of work. I received a GRFP to work with a bacterial pathogen, but we were extremely careful to leave out any mention of disease or things that could impact human health (ex. antibiotic resistance). We reframed our work to look solely at theoretical genome evolution and why our bacteria was suited to this task (characteristics of this bacteria's particular genome).
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