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Nominations for New CBI Trainees

Dear Training Faculty,
As you know, our training program has been renewed for an additional 3 years. Unfortunately, we received fewer trainee slots than what was requested due to budgetary issues at NIH. I believe that we have worked out a way to appoint at least two, and possibly three, new trainees for the upcoming academic year. Therefore, I am now contacting you to encourage you to nominate second (or third) year graduate students that you feel would be appropriate to participate in our program.

For those students that you wish to nominate, please send the following information directly to me no later than July 1st for appointments beginning Sept 1st.

• A nominating letter explaining why the nominee would be a good fit in our program and discussing the relationship of the proposed thesis project to the Chemistry Biology Interface. You should also state your commitment to allowing the student to participate in the student sabbatical and could suggest possible training sites that would be appropriate (enumeration of suggested sites is optional) A letter from the nominee requesting to be considered for the training program. The nominee should indicate that they are willing to participate in the CBI specific courses and events. The nominee should also explain how their thesis project fits into the CBI program. Undergraduate and graduate transcripts GRE scores
• Any additional information you feel may be pertinent to the selection committee (e.g., copies of manuscripts or abstracts)

Please send this information as a hard copy to me in the Chemistry Department.

The cbi web page (http://www.umich.edu/~michchem/cbi/) provides much information about our program. In particular, the sections on coursework and the CBI handbook should address most questions. I will be out of e-mail contact for most of the remainder of May, but will be able to answer questions sporadically during this period.

After receiving the student nominations, we will convene a selection committee which will set a date to interview potential trainees. It is my expectation that trainees will be appointed for a 20-month period (probably starting in September with the possibility that one student begins training in January). This tenure may be extended if the number of training slots for our program is increased during the next budgetary cycle.

I encourage faculty from all of our parent programs to submit nominations. We are striving to develop a diverse group of trainees, with expertise across the Chemistry/Biology Interface. We also strongly encourage you to consider nominating students from groups that are traditionally underrepresented in the sciences.

Best regards,
Vince