<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><div><i><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#533e03"><b>[Please Share With Potential Applicants]:</b></font></i></div><div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Dear Colleagues:<br><br>If you know of bright and highly motivated graduating seniors or research assistants at your institution who are interested in pursuing a Ph.D. in neuroscience, we would be obliged if you would pass this email on to them.<br><br>The goal of the Graduate Program in<i> Behavioral and Neural Sciences</i> (BNS) at Rutgers University-Newark is to provide training across all areas of neuroscience as well as to provide intensive instruction within one area of focus so that graduates will be prepared for careers as academicians, educators and research scientists. Students are fully funded by the graduate program (not by individual faculty) for five years with a stipend, tuition and comprehensive health insurance. <br><br>The BNS curriculum offers a wide range of courses that provide both breadth and depth. The program has only a few required courses but many electives so that students may tailor coursework to their individual backgrounds and needs. Students are primarily trained to conduct independent research and to present and discuss their results orally and in written form. Students also gain experience in undergraduate and graduate teaching and mentoring. The recent integration into Rutgers of the former UMDNJ Medical School provides our students with additional clinically-relevant training opportunities.<br><br>The campus of the BNS program is located in Newark, New Jersey, 13 miles from Manhattan, New York City, with extensive public transportation links between the two.<br><br>For more information, and links to faculty profiles and related resources, see:<br><br> <b><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#200055"> </font><a href="http://www.neuroscience.newark.rutgers.edu/"><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#151590">http://www.neuroscience.newark.rutgers.edu</font></a></b><div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#200055"><b><br></b></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#200055">Additional information on our brain imaging center can be found at </font><b><a href="http://rubic.rutgers.edu"><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#2f0076">http://rubic.rutgers.edu</font></a></b><br><br>The admissions link can be reached directly at:<font class="Apple-style-span" color="#151590"> </font><b><a href="http://www.bns.rutgers.edu"><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#2f0076">http://www.bns.rutgers.edu</font></a></b></div><div><br>The deadline for applications is <font class="Apple-style-span" color="#5e0028"><b>December 15, 2013 </b></font>and interviews of the top candidates will take place mid/late February, 2014. Late applications may be considered on a case by case basis.<br><br>Regards,<br><br>Mark Gluck & James Tepper,<div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>BNS Admissions Committee</div></div><div><br></div><div>Ian Creese, </div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Director, Behavioral and Neural Sciences Ph.D Program</div><div><br></div><div>Denis Pare,</div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Director, Center for Molecular and Behavioral Neuroscience</div></div></div><br></div></body></html>