Connecticut

University of Connecticut Health Center
Neuroscience Program

Contact:

Eric Levine PhD
Program Coordinator
University of Connecticut Health Center
Neuroscience Program
263 Farmington Avenue
Farmington, CT 06030-3405

Telephone: (860) 679-2145
Fax: (860) 679-3693

E-mail: eslevine@neuron.uchc.edu
WWW: http://neuroscience.uchc.edu

Program Established: 1982

Number of Faculty: 36
Number of Students: 24

U.S. Citizens: 60%
Female: 50%

Graduates In Last Five Years: 10
Faculty Supervising Graduate Student Theses: 11
Years Taken To Complete Program: 5

Written Description Of Program:
The Neuroscience Graduate Program emphasizes an interdisciplinary approach to research with the goal of understanding the normal function and disorders of the nervous system. The interdepartmental program currently has 36 faculty and 24 predoctoral students, and encompasses experimental approaches spanning molecular and systems neuroscience, including areas of cellular, molecular, and developmental neurobiology; neuroanatomy, neurophysiology, neurochemistry, neuropharmacology, and neuropathology.

How Or Where To Apply For Admission:
http://grad.uchc.edu/prospective/admissions.html

Annual Tuition And Fees:
Covered by stipend.

Stipend/Assistantships and Financial Assistance: $ 25,000
Graduate Research Assistantships
Students admitted to the Ph.D., and M.D./Ph.D. programs are eligible for institutional graduate research assistantships. For 2004/2005 the stipend is $25,000 for 12 months. The assistantship also includes excellent health benefits and a waiver of tuition and the majority of fees.

Last revised November 2006
http://www.andp.org/programs/graduate/unitedstates/connecticut/uconn-neurosci.htm

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