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 Education at the MBL
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 very summer the MBL scientific community swells nearly tenfold. About 400 of these summertime laboratory dwellers are the students who come from around the world for instruction at the MBL. These students represent more than 200 medical schools, universities, and research institutions.
MBL courses are known throughout the life sciences for kick-starting research careers. No single university can provide a faculty comparable in quality or number to those who teach MBL courses.
The MBL chooses its faculty from the best at all universities, fielding an all-star team of instructors who typically present material too new to be in the textbooks. The unmatched faculty of MBL courses helps the Laboratory attract the students who will be the leading researchers of tomorrow.
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"The best scientists in the world are looking over your shoulder to help you learn and perform techniques," a Harvard Medical School student recently said of the MBL's courses. "That's something that can't be duplicated anywhere else." To assure that the courses stay on the cutting edge, the MBL limits even the most successful course directors to five years at the helm.
With an all-star faculty teaching all-star students, it is perhaps not surprising that several course alumni have gone on to win Nobel Prizes. Princeton's Eric Wieschaus, winner of the 1995 Nobel for medicine or physiology, considers his summer as an MBL student an essential step in his career.
"I left the embryology course with a deeper appreciation of the richness of developmental phenomena," he recently recalled, "and the conviction that I could study embryos for the rest of my life."
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Training the Next Generation
"Woods Hole is to scientists what Paris is to artists.
It's a special place where people with similar interests roam together to feed and grow off of other people's ideas and ultmately create something greater than anyone could ever do alone. It was wonderful to be in such a community, to be able to discuss ideas with some of the greatest minds."
- 1994 Parasitology Student
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"After week one, you will have sleep deprivation. As the course goes on, you'll be working 18, 20 hours a day. At some point you'll just have to stop and get some sleep. But you'll do first-class science."
- Mark Mooseker, Director, physiology course
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Preparing the Next League of Researchers
The MBL offers six state-of-the-art courses in physiology, neurobiology, parasitology, embryology, neural systems and behavior, and microbiology, as well as 10 short courses in a variety of disciplines. Like summer research, these courses help to catalyze excellence and knowledge worldwide when participants return to their home institutions.
"I learned more at the MBL in eight weeks than I have since I left there in the summer of 1989," a graduate student recently said after attending his second summer course.
The MBL is now initiating an undergraduate program that will strive for the same level of excellence that has long characterized the Laboratory's graduate and post-graduate courses. The new program will bring. students from top-flight liberal arts colleges to spend a semester in Woods Hole studying environmental issues with the scientists at the MBL's Ecosystems Center.
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