Graduate Students Gather for Mentoring for Social Justice and Community-Building Orientation

In September, the five graduate student mentors participating in the 2022-23 cohort with the Mentoring for Social Justice and Community-Building Project gathered with program staff for a day-long mentor orientation on Douglass campus.

Congratulations to Courtney McDermott, a Ph.D. student in Dr. Manny DiCicco-Bloom’s lab, on receiving the prestigious NIH Blueprint Diversity Specialized Predoctoral to Postdoctoral Advancement in Neuroscience (D-SPAN) Award. Courtney is the first Neuroscience student at Rutgers University to achieve this award!

We asked Courtney to discuss her current research and goals, and share her grant application experience: 

By: Sonal Gahlawat

Research in industry. Sounds chic and full of hopes and whatnot. But what does it look like? Do they spend all of their time doing experiments on the bench? What about work-life balance? I am sure you want answers to your hundreds of questions about bench positions in industry, so you're in the right place.

Call for Applications: Rutgers Equity Alliance for Community Health (REACH)