New Faces

Please welcome the incoming class of 2009:

Amalia Aruda, a former summer student fellow, was an undergraduate at Georgetown University. She will be studying under the supervision of Ann Tarrant.

Skylar Bayer, also an SSF alumna, studied at Brown University as an undergraduate. She will be advised by Lauren Mullineaux.

Kristen Hunter-Cevera earned two bachelor's degrees and her MBA at West Virginia University. Heidi Sosik and I are her co-advisors.

Santiago Herrera-Monroy studied at the Universidad de los Andes, in Colombia. Tim Shank is his advisor.

Amalia, Skylar, Kristen and Santiago are all taking classes up in Cambridge this semester. If you see them there or in Woods Hole, please introduce yourself!

2010 Admissions Schedule

It finally feels like autumn has set in. Before you know it we'll be up to our knees in leaves...and applications to the Joint Program. This year we are trying out an electronic system. Hopefully it will make it easier for potential advisors to review files and will also save on paper. (Keep your fingers crossed.) Thanks in advance to Ann Tarrant and Lauren Mullineaux who will be helping me to evaluate the applications.

Here is this year's admissions schedule (mark your calendars!):

Jan 5: application deadline
Jan 12: application files available to review
Jan 26: first cut (to ~15 files)
Jan 29: Biology Department meeting to match files with advisors

and determine available support and cut list to ~10 files
Feb 11: WHOI Admissions Advisory Committee meeting

(a.k.a. the "pizza meeting")
Feb 12: JCBO meeting
Feb 19: Joint Program Committee meeting (final admissions decisions)
Feb 19: Begin notifying admitted applicants

Open House will be held March 15-16.