First Year

Schedule and Calendar for First Year Students:

FIRST YEAR, September - December

- Contemporary PBSB: Cells, Systems, and Quantitative Methods - Modules 1, 2, and 3 (core course 1)

- Quantitative Understanding in Biology I (core course 2)

- PBSB Faculty Research Presentations (seminar course 2)

- PBSB Wednesday Seminar Series (seminar course 2)

- Begin Rotation #1 (by mid-September)

* Please register for a Laboratory Rotation that is associated with your Preceptor. Login to LEARN at https://learn.weill.cornell.edu/ICS to register.
Once registered, please complete an online WCGS Laboratory Rotation Agreement Form with your Preceptor.
INSTRUCTIONS FOR STUDENT - WCGS Laboratory Rotation Agreement Form

- Meeting with Program Director (Aksay, October)

- End Rotation #1 (by late-December)

* Please complete the Laboratory Rotation Evaluation Form online at LEARN with your Preceptor. INSTRUCTIONS FOR STUDENT - WCGS Laboratory Rotation Evaluation Form

- It is MANDATORY for all 1st year students to attend the Tri-Institutional Responsible Conduct of Research (RCR) Course.

FIRST YEAR, January - March

- Contemporary PBSB: Cells, Systems, and Quantitative Methods - Modules 4, 5, and 6 (core course 1 - continued)

- Quantitative Understanding in Biology II (core course 2)

- PBSB Wednesday Seminar Series (seminar course 2)

- Begin Rotation #2 (by early-January)

* Please register for a Laboratory Rotation that is associated with your Preceptor. Login to LEARN at https://learn.weill.cornell.edu/ICS to register.
Once registered, please complete an online WCGS Laboratory Rotation Agreement Form with your Preceptor.
INSTRUCTIONS FOR STUDENT - WCGS Laboratory Rotation Agreement Form

- Meeting with Program Director (Aksay, February)

- End Rotation #2 (by late-March)

* Please complete the Laboratory Rotation Evaluation Form online at LEARN with your Preceptor. INSTRUCTIONS FOR STUDENT - WCGS Laboratory Rotation Evaluation Form

FIRST YEAR, April - June

- Continue courses

- Critical Dissection of Scientific Data (seminar course 3)

- Begin Rotation #3 (by early-April)

* Please register for a Laboratory Rotation that is associated with your Preceptor. Login to LEARN at https://learn.weill.cornell.edu/ICS to register.
Once registered, please complete an online WCGS Laboratory Rotation Agreement Form with your Preceptor.
INSTRUCTIONS FOR STUDENT - WCGS Laboratory Rotation Agreement Form

- Meeting with Program Director (Aksay, June)

- End Rotation #3 (by late-June)

* Please complete the Laboratory Rotation Evaluation Form online at LEARN with your Preceptor. INSTRUCTIONS FOR STUDENT - WCGS Laboratory Rotation Evaluation Form

FIRST YEAR, Summer

- Students join their thesis laboratory and begin research

or

- complete a fourth rotation and decide on a thesis lab (by early September)