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Graduate education policies
The goal of the Huck Institutes is to develop new approaches to graduate education, improving the quality and quantity of faculty in the life sciences, encouraging interdisciplinary research, and strengthening the infrastructure supporting research and educational endeavors.
Recognizing the increasing importance of the life sciences to its research and training missions, Penn State has established the Integrative Bioscience (IBIOS) Graduate Program, administered by the Huck Institutes of the Life Sciences, to encourage excellence and innovation in both teaching and research. The Integrative Biosciences (IBIOS) Graduate Program serves as an "incubator" for new, innovative graduate training programs (Options).
To further promote interdisciplinarity and innovativeness of research and graduate education in the life sciences at Penn State, the Huck Institutes is supporting development of novel interdisciplinary graduate groups, which may generate new options within existing graduate programs, new interdepartmental programs, or options under the Integrative Biosciences degree program.
The research objective of the new graduate groups is to support interdisciplinary and inter-unit research within the University in cutting-edge areas of the life sciences.
The educational objective of the new graduate groups is to encourage innovative teaching of graduate students and increase their exposure to and experience with different career options available to scientists, as well as prepare them to function both as independent scholars and as parts of problem-solving teams. These graduate groups will have access to all Huck Institutes-sponsored functions available to existing programs and will, in addition, have access to Huck Institutes-funded graduate fellowships.
All relevant graduate programs of the Colleges and Intercollege Graduate Degree Programs participating in the Huck Institutes will have the opportunity to participate in Huck Institutes-sponsored functions. These will include coordinated graduate student recruitment, seminars, workshops and symposia. In addition, all departments of participating colleges will have access to Huck Institutes-subsidized shared technology facilities and electronic resources.