The Applying to Grad School Student Panel was held on April 23, 2021. The event was sponsored by the MIT Biology DEI Council and the Society of Underrepresented Biologists and Biological Engineers (SUBE), and moderated by Shannon Weng, Lilly Edwards, and Leyna Duong. The panelists — Cesar Dominguez, Bertina Telusma, Kristina Lopez, Kwadwo Owusu-Boaitey, Giselle Valdes, Francesca Vaccaro, and Sheena Vasquez — shared their graduate school experience and offered advice for prospective PhD students.

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