The pursuit of new knowledge — graduate students begin their journey

Alistair Barber, director of the neuroscience graduate program at Penn State College of Medicine, helped students with their white coats during the Graduate Student Oath Ceremony held at the University Conference Center on Friday, August 23, 2019.

Sixty-nine incoming graduate students at Penn State College of Medicine, representing the disciplines of biomedical sciences, anatomy, neuroscience, epidemiology and public health marked the start of their studies by participating in the annual Graduate Student Oath Ceremony on Aug. 23 at the University Conference Center.

The students promised during the ceremony to uphold the values of integrity, professionalism and scholarship throughout their academic careers. Symbolic of their initiation into the community of biomedical scientists, first-year biomedical sciences graduate students donned white lab coats. Public health students, who don’t put on a white coat, received a commemorative gift.

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