Recruitment Guidelines for Students and Faculty

Thank You for Participating!

On behalf of the recruitment committee and MCIP leadership, we deeply appreciate your participation in the graduate group's biggest event of the year.

You can RSVP to recruitment here. 

Schedule of Events Student Responsibilities Faculty Interviewer Responsibilities Interview Schedule

This page contains a lot of information. Please read fully and carefully to ensure you are prepared for recruitment!

Changes from Prior Years

The biggest change is that we are having what Alyssa calls a "Tetrad-style recruitment" in collaboration with the Biophysics, BMCDB, and IGG Graduate Groups. The overall program of events will be pretty much exactly the same, but at the Conference Center instead of the Alumni Center. This is not only to save space and funding, but to decrease the amount of time faculty are asked to commit to interviewing prospective students.

Schedule of Events

This schedule is tentative and subject to change!

Sunday, March 1st

Recruits who live out of the area are staying at the Hyatt Place adjacent to the Conference Center. Most of the recruits already live in the Davis area and will be commuting to recruitment.

The exact time and location are TBD (likely ~6pm at Woodstock's), but we will be having a student-recruit welcome event this evening. All students are encouraged to attend.

Monday, March 2nd

7:45am: A small team of students will walk the recruits to the Conference Center
8:00 - 9:15am: Breakfast and welcome remarks from Dean Winey at the Conference Center
9:15 - 10:00am: MCIP orientation presentation in Conference Room B
10:00 - 10:15am: Walk/stretch break 
10:15 - 11:45am: Faculty research presentations in Conference Room B
11:45am - 1:00pm: Lunch (faculty and recruits only) and resource fair at the Conference Center
1:15pm: Students will meet the recruits at the Conference Center and walk them to their interviews
1:45, 2:45 and 3:45pm: Faculty interviews (30 minutes each, 30 minutes between interviews) at faculty offices
4:45 - 5:45pm: Student Q&A at the Conference Center
5:45pm: Student drivers will pick up recruits in University vans and drive to Great Bear Winery
6:00 - 7:30pm: Dinner with Biophysics at Great Bear Winery
7:30pm: Optional social at Dunloe Brewing; student hosts whose recruits want to return to the hotel are expected to walk them back

Tuesday, March 3rd

9:00 - 10:30am: Recruits will have breakfast at the Hyatt and depart! 

Student Responsibilities

After Recruitment

• As soon as possible following recruitment, please complete the recruit(ment) evaluation survey. Your candid feedback is deeply appreciated; please report any "red flags" or recruit misbehavior accordingly, especially since recruits are less likely to mask inappropriate behavior when faculty are absent.