We are delighted to offer an innovative graduate program in the life sciences to students who are seeking an alternative to traditional programs. The increasing pace of change and the accelerating growth of knowledge demand that scientists be adept at assimilating and integrating information and ideas from disparate disciplines to be successful. In response, we have established the Integrative Biosciences Graduate Program that is designed to expose students to a broad range of concepts and technology in the life sciences. A unique aspect of this program involves dual preceptors who will expose students to complementary viewpoints and encourage students to pursue problems at the interface between traditional disciplines. With over 300 faculty participants at the University Park Campus, The Milton S. Hershey College of Medicine and the Geisinger Medical Center, Integrative Biosciences offers students a wide range of choices for graduate study in the life sciences at Penn State.
Fellowships are available for qualified students.
With this mission, in November 1996, the Faculty Senate and The Penn State Board of Trustees approved the LSC's new doctoral program. There are nearly 300 participating faculty from 38 departments housed in the Colleges of Agricultural Sciences, Engineering, Health and Human Development, The Liberal Arts, Earth and Mineral Sciences and the Eberly College of Science at University Park campus, the College of Medicine at the Milton S. Hershey Medical Center and the Sigfried and Janet Weis Center for Research in Danville. Thirty-nine percent are international students from P.R. China, Canada, New Zealand, Sweden, Germany, Ukraine, Yugoslavia, Romania, Peru and India. Sixty-one percent are U.S. citizens who come from colleges and universities in Pennsylvania, Minnesota, New Jersey, New York, California, Colorado, Massachusetts, Virginia, Ohio, North Carolina, Utah and New Hampshire. These students are training for traditional academic tracks as well as non-traditional career paths.