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rnpatricia.bsky.social
The Dept. Of Ed. proposed loan policy change excludes nursing from the definition of “professional degree” limits access to federal student loans for postbaccalaureate nursing programs. It also implies: that nursing is not recognized as a professional discipline.
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The Department of Education’s newly proposed loan policy change—which excludes nursing from the definition of “professional degree” programs—is more than a bureaucratic oversight. It devalues the largest, most trusted segment of our nation’s healthcare workforce and jeopardizes the pipeline of future nurses who are already struggling to afford the cost of advanced education
November 19, 2025 at 5:37 PM
sawh1970.bsky.social
The Countdown to #2025SHA has officially begun! Mark your calendars for the @sawh1970.bsky.social member/grad student breakfast & the annual address/reception by Crystal Sanders, Associate Professor of Af-Am Studies/History @ Emory University!

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Friday, November 7th @8am is the beloved SAWH Member & Graduate Student Breakfast. Tickets need to be purchased in advance (https://thesawh.org/.../member-grad-student-breakfast-at.../ ) Friday, November 7th @4:30 pm is the Annual Address and Reception. Crystal R. Sanders, Associate Professor of African American Studies and History at Emory University will be speaking about “’In Pursuit of ‘Their Highest Potential’: Black Women Southerners, Segregation Scholarships, and Postbaccalaureate Education during the Age of Jim Crow.”
October 13, 2025 at 2:47 PM
evoldir.bsky.social
Recent grads in Biological or Environmental Science! Consider UTEP ROADS Postbaccalaureate program for research training & mentoring. Apply by March 1, 2026. More info: https://www.utep.edu/science/ramp/
RaMP
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October 9, 2025 at 5:52 AM
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Looking to boost your professional skills? Whether you're in community college, undergrad, postbac, grad school or are a postdoc, ASM's October free webinar series has something for you! Explore sessions by educational/career stage and register today asm.org/webinars/pro...
BOOST YOUR SKILLS WITH ASM'S FREE PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT WEBINAR SERIES Upcoming October 2025 Webinars For Community College, Undergraduate, & Postbaccalaureate Students October 2 | Guiding Principles for High-Impact Poster Design. For All Trainees and Postdoctoral Scientists October 7 | Navigating Uncertainty in Research. For Graduate Students and Postdoctoral Scientists October 16 | AI in Scientific Writing and Publishing. Register Today!
September 25, 2025 at 3:34 PM
ndntacocat.bsky.social
And I could not be more thrilled to pass the golden acorn spoon to Chef Crystal Wahpepah who will be the next Cal Poly Humboldt Rou Dalagurr Food Sovereignty Lab's Chef in Residence for the new school year. All my new children are going to learn so much & I know they are overjoyed to welcome her.
Image of the flyer announcing: Native American Studies - Cal Poly Humboldt Rou Dalagurr Food Sovereignty Lab & Traditional Ecological Knowledges Institute Welcome FSL Chef-in-Residence Crystal Wahpepah Indigenous Foods Festival Workshop • Date: October 11th, 2025 (during the Indigenous Foods Festival) • Location: Food Sovereignty Lab • Time: 11:00 - 11:50 a.m. • Register: hum.link/Z6N There is a limit of 20 students per workshop. Workshops are limited to CPH Students or Extended Education enrollees. Priority registration will be given to NAS majors and/or minors; ITEPP or INSEP Students; Rou Dalagurr Youth Council Members; enrolled students in NAS 333: Food Sovereignty Lab Course; and Huwighurruk - Tribal Health Postbaccalaureate Program students. Find out more info on our website! nasp.humboldt.edu/fsl Check out her website! wahpepahskitchen.com
September 17, 2025 at 8:35 PM
acerbicotter.bsky.social
Oh no: we have SEVERAL McNair scholars "Policy experts added that funding for the McNair Postbaccalaureate Achievement program, a TRIO service focused on graduate students, also has yet to be distributed."
September 15, 2025 at 12:43 PM
heatherdsnell.bsky.social
The Snell lab is seeking a Postbaccalaureate researcher and Postdoctoral associate to join our team. More details here:
www.snelllab.org/contact-2
Contact | Snell Lab
www.snelllab.org
September 10, 2025 at 5:18 PM
positivesubway.bsky.social
While messing around on the College Navigator I stumbled upon the fact that only 6% of the students at Fairfield University are getting a Pell Grant. 6%!

This will probably win them a blue ribbon under the current regime but when things are back to normal they need to be shamed for this, that’s bad
A graph from Fairfield’s profile available here: https://nces.ed.gov/collegenavigator/?q=Fairfield+university&s=all&id=129242#expenses The text of the screenshot is to follow, but it will likely not render well: Fairfield University 1073 N Benson Rd, Fairfield, Connecticut 06824-5195 General information: Website: Type: Awards offered: (203) 254-4000 fairfield.edu/ 4-year, Private not-for-profit View on Google Mars Bachelor's degree Postbaccalaureate certificate Master's degree Post-master's certificate Voctors degree - research/scholarship Doctor's degree - professional practice Campus setting: Suburb: Large Campus housing: Yes Student population: 6,289 (4,968 undergraduate) Student-to-faculty ratio: 12 to 1 IPEDS ID: 129242 Expand All Collapse All • GENERAL INFORMATION • TUITION, FEES, AND ESTIMATED STUDENT EXPENSES • FINANCIAL AID UNDERGRADUATE STUDENT FINANCIAL AID, 2022-2023 Full-time Beginning Undergraduate Students • Beginning students are those who are entering postsecondary education for the first time. TYPE OF AID NUMBER AWARDED AID PERCENT AWARDED AID TOTAL AMOUNT OF AID AWARDED AVERAGE AMOUNT OF AID AWARDED Any student financial aid' 1,291 98% Grant or scholarship ai 1,261 95% $32,630,659 $25,877 Federal grants 81 6% $516,892 $6,381 Pell grants 81 6% $448,142 $5.533 orar toderal 45 3% $68,750 $1,528 State/local government grant or scholarships 13 1% $52,960 $4.074 Institutional grants or scholarships 1,258 95% $32.060,807 $25,486 Student loan aid 712 54% $6,966,183 $9,784 Federal student loans 706 53% $3.836,961 $5,435 loans student 111 8% $3.129,222 $28,191 • ' Includes students awarded Federal work study aid and aid from other sources not listed above. All Undergraduate Students scholarship ald' TYPE OF AID NUMBER AWARDED AID PERCENT TOTAL AMOUNT AWARDED AID OF AID AWARDED AVERAGE AMOUNT OF AID AWARDED Degree/certificate-seeking Grant or scholarship ald' 4,310 92% $108,114.811 $25,085 Pell grants 325 7% $1,765,505 $5,432 Federal student loans 2,264 …
August 28, 2025 at 5:27 PM
flscitriguy.bsky.social
Senate appropriations report... On training and diversity of the biomedical workforce. Hope they decide to reassert the 3 equal branches of government philosophy...
Page 127: of NIGMS bridging programs that support historically underserved students and researchers to pursue STEMM studies and become the nation's next generation of researchers, including programs such as the Bridges to the Baccalaureate Research Training Pro-gram, Bridges to the Doctorate Research Training Program, Postbaccalaureate Research Education Program [PREP], Advancing Research Careers [ARC] program, and Maximizing Opportunities for Scientific and Academic Independent Careers [MOSAIC] pro-gram. The Committee is extremely concerned that NIH terminated many of these programs in 2025, and directs NIH to reestablish them. The Committee urges NiH to expand the size of existing training programs that bridge different educational or career stages and establish these programs at institutions that have historically received low levels of funding support from NIH, including Minority Serving Institutions and institutions that are eligible under the Department of Education's Strengthening Institutions Program. The Committee urges NIH to set clear mentorship and support standards for students participating in these programs. The Committee urges NIH to encourage and provide more guidance to participating institutions to account for sufficient staff and out-reach, budget and other training-related expenses in grant applica-tions. Finally, the Committee directs NIH to provide a report on these activities within 90 days of enactment. Page 129: Increasing Diversity in Biomedical Research.-The Committee strongly supports opportunities for the nation's next generation of researchers and efforts to enhance diversity in biomedical research. Early-stage researchers, particularly those from groups underrepresented in biomedical research, spend longer periods of time in postdoctoral positions with lower salaries, receive inadequate mentorship, and are offered fewer opportunities for professional ad-vane ment, tests er neention tate to thee tous. riskier projects and have contributed to research that has generated positive outcomes for the benefit of society. Grant programs offering support and opportunities for researchers at key career transition points requiring little or no preliminary data, are critical to ensuring innovative scientists from diverse backgrounds succeed in biomedical research. Therefore, the Committee is concerned that NIH terminated a number of longstanding research training and career development programs that play a vital role in building the next generation of the biomedical research workforce. These programs provide critical funding for graduate students and postdoctoral scholars, and the termination of these programs has caused an immediate and harmful impact on the ability of academic medicine to attract and retain the best and brightest scientists. Page 129, continued: To maintain these programs, the Committee provides not less than $13,100,000 to continue the Maximizing Access to Research Careers [MARC] program; not less than $18,800,000 to continue the Post-Baccalaureate Research Education Program; not less than $21,300,000 to continue the Undergraduate Research Training Initiative for Student Enhancement program; not less than $6,400,000 for the Bridges to Doctorate program; not less than $15,500,000 for the Initiative for Maximizing Student Development program; and not less than $20,800,000 for the Institutional Research and Academic Career Development Award to train the next generation of scientists while enhancing the diversity of the biomedical research workforce and enabling promising scientists to briefing to the Committees on Appropriations on the training and career development programs that have been terminated since December 2024, and a justification for the termination of each pro-gram. Such report shall include the amount NIH spent on each program in fiscal year 2024, and a comprehensive list of awards associated with each program, including the grant number, institution and the total cost of each award.
August 4, 2025 at 6:37 PM
propelscholars.bsky.social
National PROPEL, along with Solving for Science, is thrilled to announce another the two awards of $10,000 each to two postbaccalaureate programs to support postbac education nationwide:

Oregon Health and Science University
University of Louisville
August 1, 2025 at 9:39 PM
daphnis-draws.bsky.social
-Educational Opportunity Centers
-Robert E. McNair Postbaccalaureate Achievement
-Student Support Services
-Talent Search
-Training Program for Federal TRiO Programs Staff
-Upward Bound
-Upward Bound Math-Science
-Veterans Upward Bound
July 30, 2025 at 5:48 PM
bakerdphd.bsky.social
To get a feel for the scale of drop this year, here's the trend in the publishing of ed statistics over the past decade along with the types of information we're currently missing
Screenshot of figure 1. Title is: The US Department of Education is far behind in its publication of education statistics. Number of education statistics tables produced in the Digest of Education Statistics. There has been year-to-year variation in the number of education statistics produced in the Digest. Still, the most recent year is an extreme outlier. ED, on average, publishes almost 10 times as many tables of education statistics by June 1 as it has for the 2024 Digest (which is used to create the 2025 COE)—nearly 270 compared with this year’s 27. Even in prior presidential transition years, this scale of drop did not occur. Screenshot of policy brief that reads: The most recent year of tables appears to have no statistics on: private school education; teacher attitudes and mobility; school principals; college degrees conferred (at the state level); financial aid for undergraduate and postbaccalaureate students; and international comparisons of attainment, degrees, and outcomes. These are big, important topics, and we don’t have updated data that we should be able to access. And this is not an exhaustive list.
June 26, 2025 at 12:43 PM
pottslab.bsky.social
🎓 Recent STEM grad? Jump-start your PhD journey with Amgen’s new 2-yr paid Postbaccalaureate Research Fellowship in Thousand Oaks! Work with world-class scientists, publish your findings, and make a real impact for patients.
Apply by July 15 ➡️ amgen.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/Careers/job/...
Postbaccalaureate Fellow - Research
Career Category Research Job Description Join Amgen’s Mission of Serving Patients At Amgen, if you feel like you’re part of something bigger, it’s because you are. Our shared mission—to serve patients...
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June 14, 2025 at 4:09 AM
andrewlwolfe.bsky.social
Our amazing lab team, Spring 2025! A huge congratulations to the lab members about to earn their undergraduate degree, finish their postbaccalaureate program, begin graduate school, and begin medical school.
Wolfe Lab at Hunter College group photo Spring 2025
May 29, 2025 at 8:16 PM
orchardlab.bsky.social
Mikayla did all of this while part of the UT Southwestern-Postbaccalaureate to PhD (PB2PHD) Program. I highly recommend those that want to go to graduate school but need more experience (both bench and coursework) to consider PB2PHD! Thanks @ajdiazphd.bsky.social for leadership on the PB2PHD
May 27, 2025 at 8:24 PM
noamross.net
🚨 Over 700 previously undisclosed #NIH grant terminations were released this week, totaling $1.7B and nearly doubling our count of terminations to >1500.

Diversity supplements for research awards are a huge fraction, as well as service awards and training programs.

grant-watch.us/posts/700-ne...
Table: Top 10 funding programs of new grant terminations Funding Opportunity Numbers,Program Title,Terminated Grants,Grants Value PA-23-189, PA-21-071, PA-20-222,Research Supplements to Promote Diversity in Health-Related Research,191,$768,214,323 PA-20-185, PA-19-056, PA-20-184, PA-20-183,Research Project Grant,109,$290,364,678 PA-21-049, PA-20-251, PA-23-271, PA-21-052,Ruth L. Kirschstein National Research Service Award,76,$5,232,698 PAR-19-218, PAR-21-146,Undergraduate Research Training Initiative for Student Enhancement,58,$45,889,490 PAR-24-031, PAR-19-037, PAR-21-025,Initiative for Maximizing Student Development,38,$43,152,674 PAR-22-220, PAR-20-066,Postbaccalaureate Research Education Program,29,$97,054,509 PAR-21-271, PAR-21-272, PAR-19-343,Maximizing Opportunities for Scientific and Academic Independent Careers,22,$5,529,685 PAR-22-241,NIAID Research Opportunities for New and "At-Risk" Investigators to Promote Workforce Diversity,21,$21,601,155 PAR-21-313,Small Grants for New Investigators to Promote Diversity in Health-Related Research,18,$7,200,840 PAR-23-114, PAR-20-223,Enhancing Science, Technology, EnginEering, and Math Educational Diversity,12,$6,550,142
May 20, 2025 at 7:35 PM
tropicalbotany.bsky.social
I now run a postbaccalaureate training program at LSU. The 10 scholars per year we train are finding their own STEM identities-- they've done fieldwork, met researchers who look like them, gone to conferences, were accepted to grad school, realigned career goals... none of this possible #WithoutNSF.
May 9, 2025 at 10:54 PM
uiucmosaiclab.bsky.social
🎉 Congratulations to Bryana for being accepted into the TRIO McNair Postbaccalaureate Achievement Program!

She will continue working with Dr. Brenda Straka on her independent project, “Exploring Social Exclusion Among Students from Low SES Backgrounds.” 👏✨

#uiuc #socialpsych #uiucmosaiclab
May 9, 2025 at 5:38 PM
andrewlevesque.bsky.social
2) Student Support Services (SSS), Veterans Upward Bound, & the Ronald E McNair Postbaccalaureate Achievement Program...
May 4, 2025 at 3:28 PM
sonhita.bsky.social
It was a pleasure to illustrate @esmolock.bsky.social and bring focus to the important work she was doing for the recently defunded NIH-funded Postbaccalaureate Research Education Program (PREP). As an scientific editor, her story especially resonated with me.

#scienceart #sciencecommunication 🧪
silencedscience.bsky.social Silenced science stories @silencedscience.bsky.social · Apr 25
@esmolock.bsky.social is the Director of Writing Services and Training Grant Development at the University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry. She also co-directed The National Institutes of Health-funded Postbaccalaureate Research Education Program (PREP) until it was recently defunded.
The image shows an infographic about Elaine Smolock, who is described as the former co-director of the NIH-funded PREP (Postbac Research Education Program). The infographic highlights some of Elaine's accomplishments and interests, including: Assisting trainees with writing and grant development Enjoying mystery novels Learning American Sign Language to improve communication skills Coaching youth basketball Believing that "science is more than finding cures. It is fostering curiosity and creativity." Stating that "training programs are CRITICAL to impactful science" and that "trainees are often the driving force of biomedical research, the ones in the lab day & night..." The infographic provides a visual representation of Elaine Smolock's background and contributions in the field of research education.
April 25, 2025 at 12:54 PM
silencedscience.bsky.social
@esmolock.bsky.social is the Director of Writing Services and Training Grant Development at the University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry. She also co-directed The National Institutes of Health-funded Postbaccalaureate Research Education Program (PREP) until it was recently defunded.
The image shows an infographic about Elaine Smolock, who is described as the former co-director of the NIH-funded PREP (Postbac Research Education Program). The infographic highlights some of Elaine's accomplishments and interests, including: Assisting trainees with writing and grant development Enjoying mystery novels Learning American Sign Language to improve communication skills Coaching youth basketball Believing that "science is more than finding cures. It is fostering curiosity and creativity." Stating that "training programs are CRITICAL to impactful science" and that "trainees are often the driving force of biomedical research, the ones in the lab day & night..." The infographic provides a visual representation of Elaine Smolock's background and contributions in the field of research education.
April 25, 2025 at 4:38 AM
megschwamb.bsky.social
The CfA SPARK program offers a one-year postbaccalaureate research opportunity where you will contribute to current and on-going CfA research, and develop essential skills designed to strengthen your graduate school applications and prepare you for a successful career in astrophysics
SPARK: A Postbaccalaureate Internship | American Astronomical Society
Are you a recent graduate passionate about astrophysics and eager to gain hands-on research experience? Are you interested in continuing your education in astronomy graduate school but need additional...
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April 20, 2025 at 5:32 AM
cispt2.bsky.social
ICYMI ; here at NIH we're back to recruiting the next generation of scientists to train in our labs - postbaccalaureate and postdoctoral fellows are sought right across NIH.

Learn more here !

www.training.nih.gov/welcome-to-t...
www.training.nih.gov
April 10, 2025 at 3:39 PM
propelscholars.bsky.social
National PROPEL, along with Solving for Science, is thrilled to announce the two awards of $10,000 each to two postbaccalaureate programs to support postbac education nationwide:

PROPEL NW – University of Washington/Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center
ICARE – University of Iowa
🥳🎉🍾
April 2, 2025 at 8:42 PM