From the PREP at Purdue:

"We are busy preparing to launch out first year at the Purdue PREP for Translational Biomedical Sciences.  We have been fortunate to have received additional internal funding to expand the number of participants we can accept."

Send questions or your application to [email protected].

Also,,,Discovery PREP at The Ohio State University still is reviewing applications. But hurry!

Join the UC Davis Coastal and Marine Sciences Institute and PREP@UC Davis for a virtual viewing and panel discussion of Picture a Scientist.

James Fraser at UCSF is recruiting folks to spend one or more years working in his structural biology lab, with a 50:50 research:lab management split. See application information here and his twitter page for additional info. And of course, his web page contains boatloads of detail.

Congratulations to PREP 2020-2021 cohort members Maribel Anguiano and Arthur Flores, recipients of the NSF GRFP Fellowship! Their independent reaction: "OMG."

And congratulations to Kaitlynn Gov, who received an Honorable Mention!

We are thrilled beyond belief, proud of them, and grateful to the mentors (Joanna Chiu, Jamal Lewis, and Jodi Nunnari, respectively) who helped nurture them

Dr. Jackson Gross, an aquaculture cooperative extension specialist and faculty member at UC Davis, visited the lab of Dr. Crystal Rogers to learn about vertebrate development, comparative embryology, and the importance her colony of axolotls. PREP@UCD scholar Connor Christensen studies axolotls for his project in 2020-2021, and alumnus and current BMCDB student Colton Baumler has joined the Rogers lab for his PhD research. 

For those of you looking for a pre-PhD postbacc program, IM-PREP at the University of Utah just got funded and is accepting applications until 15 April 2021. Check it out.

And yes, there is no eye candy associated with this article. I don't want to violate copyright on their images and besides, I am shocked, simply shocked, that none of the images that I found included one with a snowy midwinter backdrop of the Wasatch Range just east of Salt Lake City.

The 2020-2021 Cohort of PREP@UCD scholars all have grad school admissions offers! They have worked hard and their mentors have provided tremendous support in a challenging year.

We are SO excited and proud and happy.

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Due to a campus switch in website platforms, PREP@UCD staff decided to switch to the platform used for official campus websites. Because of the somewhat precipitous nature of the timing, we haven't yet had an opportunity to recreate all our old blog posts. We still intend to do this.

Same for images.

Check back in a few weeks...we hope that things look different!

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Today, our scholars presented their research at the PREP@UCD Fall Poster Symposium to great acclaim by all attendees. The poster session, held online with variations on Mike Morrison’s Better Poster format, replaced our normal presentations at ABRCMS. Scholars supplemented their posters with a three-minute elevator speech, followed by Q&A between the presenter and the audience.

From a judge:

It was the best poster session that I have been to.