INTRODUCTION

The Graduate Program in Neuroscience offers students an outstanding opportunity for graduate training in a rapidly growing joint program of the Graduate School of Rutgers University and the Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences of the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey-Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, both located in Piscataway/New Brunswick, New Jersey.

The Graduate Program in Neuroscience currently includes approximately sixty faculty members and forty-five graduate students. Students may avail themselves of a wide variety of research facilities available on the combined campuses of Rutgers University and the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey.

Faculty and student members alike are dedicated to fostering and maintaining excellence in research and study. Beginning on their first days in graduate school, students receive intensive training in modern research techniques in the laboratories of faculty members whose research interests span a broad range of modern biological investigation.

A major goal of the Graduate Program in Neuroscience is to prepare students--in the classroom and in active research laboratories--for careers of independent research in universities, medical schools, governmental facilities and industry.