The Environment
THE DEPARTMENT
We offer a dynamic graduate program in modern microbiology, virology, and immunology, one with exposure to a broad range of disciplines in the basic biomedical sciences - a program that prepares students for a career in research and teaching. You will be encouraged to work independently and creatively, to think critically, and to reach your full potential both professionally and personally. Department faculty are committed to developing strong mentoring relationships with graduate students. We will give you individual attention and guidance every step of the way.
Weekly department lab meetings provide a relaxed, highly interactive setting in which you can follow work being done in all of the various research labs in the department. The departmental lab meeting provides an enjoyable opportunity for you to stay in touch with a broad range of research areas beyond your own specific area of study. Additionally, you will have the opportunity to meet researchers from other research institutions through the country, and, in fact, the world, who are invited to the department to participate in our department's weekly seminar series. Each week, following the seminar, several students are selected to have lunch with the visiting researchers.
The Department includes 14 primary faculty members and 11 who have joint appointments with our department. All of these mentors are located at Loyola's Health Sciences Campus, about 10 miles west of downtown Chicago. The department research environment encompasses 12,500 square feet of contiguous space in the Center for Translational Research and Education (CTRE). Twelve of the fourteen faculty mentors' labs are located in contiguous space on the second floor of CTRE and one other mentor's lab is located on the third floor. The labs of all the joint-appointee mentors are located on campus in nearby buildings connected by a bridge to the CTRE building. This physical closeness facilitates collaborations and other scientific interactions.
Because the increasingly complex problems facing medical science today often require a multidisciplinary response, our department regularly collaborates with researchers from several disciplines, including biochemistry, cell biology, and neuroanatomy. In addition, we are active in the Molecular Biology (one of our major research areas), Cancer Biology, and Neuroscience programs. These interdisciplinary programs draw their faculty and students from all of the basic medical science departments and provide a link to other research programs at Stritch.
THE HEALTH SCIENCES CAMPUS
The Department of Microbiology and Immunology is a department of Loyola University Chicago's Stritch School of Medicine, and is located on the Health Sciences Campus within the Loyola University Medical Center in Maywood, IL, about 10 miles west of downtown Chicago. LUMC opened in 1969 and is Loyola's largest campus. It sits on 70 acres adjacent to, and affiliated with, the Hines Veterans Administration Hospital.
The Stritch School of Medicine teaches graduate and medical students and conducts research in many different areas. Its graduates hold prominent academic, industrial, and clinical positions throughout the United States. The emphasis at the university is on development of the total person, intellectually, physically, and emotionally. Students are encouraged to participate in nonacademic activities on campus and to enjoy the many cultural, sports, and recreational attractions of nearby Chicago.
The campus is the focus of many activities and support services including: A state-of-the-art Center for Health and Fitness provides students with a wide variety of exercise options, including: variable resistance equipment, an extensive array of free-weights, a 25 yard four lane swimming pool, a water exercise pool, an indoor running track, regulation sized basketball and racquetball courts, saunas, steam rooms, and whirlpool.
Two cafeterias provide an assortment of eating options on campus.
The Student Counseling Service offers confidential psychological and related services.
The Health Science Library offers you a full range of information and educational services. In addition to extensive book, journal, electronic resource, and medical collections, the Library and the Learning Resources Center provides services such as in-house and electronic reference services, interlibrary loans, information management education seminars and consults, medial support, and outreach programs.
THE UNIVERSITY
Loyola University Chicago, is a private university founded in 1870 as St. Ignatius College. It is Chicago's only Jesuit Catholic University and one of the largest of the 28 Jesuit colleges and universities in the United States. Recognizing Loyola's excellence in education, U.S. News and World Report has ranked Loyola consistently among the "top national universities" and "best values" in its annual publications.
It is comprised of four campuses: Lake Shore, Water Tower, Health Sciences and the John Felice Rome Center in Italy.
Lake Shore serves as the main residential and undergrad campus, and is home to more than 3,000 students. It is set along the shores of Lake Michigan.
Water Tower is home to the School of Business Administration, School of Education, Loyola Law Center, School of Professional Studies, School of Social Work, Institute of Pastoral Studies and the College of Arts and Sciences newest affiliate, the School of Communication, Technology and Public Service. It is the site of Chicago's newest museum, the Loyola University Museum of Art (LUMA), which opened in October 2005. In the fall of 2006 it will also be the home for the new Water Tower Student Center and Residence Hall.
Loyola University Medical Center is home to Loyola University Health System, which includes Loyola University Medical Center and 17 off-site facilities. It is located on a 70-acre campus in Maywood, a suburb west of Chicago. It is the home of the Stritch School of Medicine and approximately 150 basic science graduate students and 500 medical students.
The John Felice Rome Center is located in Rome, Italy and was established in 1962. It provides more than 400 students a year with the cultural advantages of studying abroad, making it one of the largest centers in Western Europe for international education in the arts and sciences.
THE CHICAGO AREA
THE DEPARTMENT
We offer a dynamic graduate program in modern microbiology, virology, and immunology, one with exposure to a broad range of disciplines in the basic biomedical sciences - a program that prepares students for a career in research and teaching. You will be encouraged to work independently and creatively, to think critically, and to reach your full potential both professionally and personally. Department faculty are committed to developing strong mentoring relationships with graduate students. We will give you individual attention and guidance every step of the way.
Weekly department lab meetings provide a relaxed, highly interactive setting in which you can follow work being done in all of the various research labs in the department. The departmental lab meeting provides an enjoyable opportunity for you to stay in touch with a broad range of research areas beyond your own specific area of study. Additionally, you will have the opportunity to meet researchers from other research institutions through the country, and, in fact, the world, who are invited to the department to participate in our department's weekly seminar series. Each week, following the seminar, several students are selected to have lunch with the visiting researchers.
The Department includes 14 primary faculty members and 11 who have joint appointments with our department. All of these mentors are located at Loyola's Health Sciences Campus, about 10 miles west of downtown Chicago. The department research environment encompasses 12,500 square feet of contiguous space in the Center for Translational Research and Education (CTRE). Twelve of the fourteen faculty mentors' labs are located in contiguous space on the second floor of CTRE and one other mentor's lab is located on the third floor. The labs of all the joint-appointee mentors are located on campus in nearby buildings connected by a bridge to the CTRE building. This physical closeness facilitates collaborations and other scientific interactions.
Because the increasingly complex problems facing medical science today often require a multidisciplinary response, our department regularly collaborates with researchers from several disciplines, including biochemistry, cell biology, and neuroanatomy. In addition, we are active in the Molecular Biology (one of our major research areas), Cancer Biology, and Neuroscience programs. These interdisciplinary programs draw their faculty and students from all of the basic medical science departments and provide a link to other research programs at Stritch.
THE HEALTH SCIENCES CAMPUS
The Department of Microbiology and Immunology is a department of Loyola University Chicago's Stritch School of Medicine, and is located on the Health Sciences Campus within the Loyola University Medical Center in Maywood, IL, about 10 miles west of downtown Chicago. LUMC opened in 1969 and is Loyola's largest campus. It sits on 70 acres adjacent to, and affiliated with, the Hines Veterans Administration Hospital.
The Stritch School of Medicine teaches graduate and medical students and conducts research in many different areas. Its graduates hold prominent academic, industrial, and clinical positions throughout the United States. The emphasis at the university is on development of the total person, intellectually, physically, and emotionally. Students are encouraged to participate in nonacademic activities on campus and to enjoy the many cultural, sports, and recreational attractions of nearby Chicago.
The campus is the focus of many activities and support services including: A state-of-the-art Center for Health and Fitness provides students with a wide variety of exercise options, including: variable resistance equipment, an extensive array of free-weights, a 25 yard four lane swimming pool, a water exercise pool, an indoor running track, regulation sized basketball and racquetball courts, saunas, steam rooms, and whirlpool.
Two cafeterias provide an assortment of eating options on campus.
The Student Counseling Service offers confidential psychological and related services.
The Health Science Library offers you a full range of information and educational services. In addition to extensive book, journal, electronic resource, and medical collections, the Library and the Learning Resources Center provides services such as in-house and electronic reference services, interlibrary loans, information management education seminars and consults, medial support, and outreach programs.
THE UNIVERSITY
Loyola University Chicago, is a private university founded in 1870 as St. Ignatius College. It is Chicago's only Jesuit Catholic University and one of the largest of the 28 Jesuit colleges and universities in the United States. Recognizing Loyola's excellence in education, U.S. News and World Report has ranked Loyola consistently among the "top national universities" and "best values" in its annual publications.
It is comprised of four campuses: Lake Shore, Water Tower, Health Sciences and the John Felice Rome Center in Italy.
Lake Shore serves as the main residential and undergrad campus, and is home to more than 3,000 students. It is set along the shores of Lake Michigan.
Water Tower is home to the School of Business Administration, School of Education, Loyola Law Center, School of Professional Studies, School of Social Work, Institute of Pastoral Studies and the College of Arts and Sciences newest affiliate, the School of Communication, Technology and Public Service. It is the site of Chicago's newest museum, the Loyola University Museum of Art (LUMA), which opened in October 2005. In the fall of 2006 it will also be the home for the new Water Tower Student Center and Residence Hall.
Loyola University Medical Center is home to Loyola University Health System, which includes Loyola University Medical Center and 17 off-site facilities. It is located on a 70-acre campus in Maywood, a suburb west of Chicago. It is the home of the Stritch School of Medicine and approximately 150 basic science graduate students and 500 medical students.
The John Felice Rome Center is located in Rome, Italy and was established in 1962. It provides more than 400 students a year with the cultural advantages of studying abroad, making it one of the largest centers in Western Europe for international education in the arts and sciences.