Neuroscience Graduate Program

Second-Years Enter their Dissertation Lab
On October 15, we celebrated our second-year students choosing their advisors and marked their transition into their dissertation lab with our annual White Coat Ceremony.
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Our Newest Graduates
Drs. Yu Han, Willie Curry, Zhaojin Li, and Katharine Beča all join our proud list of alumni after successfully defending earlier this summer.
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Patrick Mullen to Receive this year's Parsons Award
NGP Student, Pat Mullen is this year's winner of the Rodney L. Parsons Anatomy and Neurobiology Award
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Explore the Neuroscience Graduate Program
Learn about all the opportunities that await when you join our community.
Wisdom from a Senior Graduate Student
Megan Perkins, a sixth-year graduate student in Dr. Margaret Vizzard's lab, offers advice to incoming graduate students, just starting their journeys
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Welcome to the Neuroscience Graduate Program

The Neuroscience Graduate Program at the University of Vermont is a multidisciplinary, Ph.D. granting program that has more than 50 faculty mentors across 9 departments and 4 colleges. This program emphasizes rigorous training in neuroscience-related research and prepares students for a variety of science related careers in addition to tenure-stream academic careers. We provide training in multidisciplinary research and scientific survival skills so that our graduates are effective Stewards of Neuroscience.