Graduate Programs

So the graduate programs here, we basically have two departments in the college. We have the Drug Discovery department, and we also have the Health Outcomes Research and Policy department. I'm in the Health Outcomes Research and Policy option, which we refer to HORP here. They really create a firm foundation where you take all sorts of courses. So you'll learn about Pharmaco, Epidemiology, Program Evaluation, Social and Behavioral theory, Health Economics, Grant Writing. There's really all these sorts of classes that you'll take, and it really helps get you started, and really figure out what do you want to do after you graduate.

The four programs are Health Outcomes Research and Policy, Pharmaceutics, Medicinal Chemistry, and Pharmacology. I am focused on a Pharmacology. My research typically is in neuroscience. So in graduate school, their curriculum is very rigorous, but it's very enriching. It's not going to be easy, but everyone is so supportive, everyone helps you out when in any way possible. If you have needed a friend to talk to or just need a professor to review any lab notes or anything like that they are very helpful. And the senior graduate students, they also serve as mentors as well.

When you're actually in the program, you'll identify a major advisor and that's who will work with you, you know, as your dissertation chair. So that person is really the faculty person that will be there to support you through your journey and really help you through the dissertation process, and then make it to graduation.