Some friends go to yoga classes together, others play Scrabble. Graduate students Tess Veuthey and Samuel Thompson wrote a column for Nature together.
Nature published the pair's work in its "Career Column" in September. Their well-written article offers practical advice for other PhD students and postdocs on how to structure meetings with a faculty mentor.
Two recent UCSF Graduate Division alums have been chosen as Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) Hanna Gray Fellows: D’Juan Farmer, PhD (Biochemistry & Molecular Biology, 2017) and Shan Meltzer, PhD (Neuroscience, 2017).
UC San Francisco graduate student Theo Roth is first-author on a paper that appeared in Nature this month. Around the same time – alongside stories about investigations into election tampering by the Russians, the weather, and other news of the day – news of Roth's research also appeared in the
Reuben Saunders, a 2nd-year graduate student in the Tetrad program at UCSF, has been named a Hertz Foundation Fellow in Global Health and Development as well as receiving a related, rare opportunity — a summer internship at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.