Student Life
While the NIH/Oxford/Cambridge Program requires its students to be highly self-directed as they engage in their academic research including many hours spent in the lab, the program also offers students access to an impressive array of personal enrichment and professional development opportunities. Each year, students and their mentors along with guests and distinguished scientific leaders gather for the program's annual Colloquium.
Click here to view our Colloquium photo gallery.
Other student activities include participation in a monthly Journal Club [48KB PDF] and access to programming supported by the International Biomedical Research Alliance, a philanthropic organization that supports the program in many exciting ways. For instance, at the close of the 2007 Colloquium held in Cambridge, IBRA, in collaboration with the Lasker Foundation, sponsored a two-day UK-based leadership program. Students traveled together from Cambridge to Down House, home of Charles Darwin and site of his work for more than 40 years. The group then traveled to London where they had a unique opportunity to meet leaders whose work significantly impacts the current and future course of science policy in the UK. Students visited Parliament to meet with members of the House of Lords and House of Commons, engaging in discussions with the nation's top leaders of prominent science, technology and innovation initiatives. For a more general sense of life at Oxford and Cambridge, check out the You Tube links below.
Pembroke College Cambridge University
The Cambridge Tradition (2007)
Oxford University Student Interviews
Current students have designed and manage web sites that reflect other dimensions of student life (see links below).
