Student Resources
Grad school application mentorship program
In graduate school, our personal identities can play a significant role in our experience, and this includes the experience of applying to graduate school in the first place! Every year, I see lots of people on social media asking for advice, and others offering to give advice, but it isn’t clear how often those people find each other. A friend and I have set up a program to match grad school applicants with people who share similar identities and have volunteered to provide general advice or review application materials such as personal statements. Thank you to folks who volunteer to review materials, and best wishes to applicants!
If you want to give advice to someone applying to grad school, sign up to be a grad school application “mentor”.
If you are (considering) applying to grad school, sign up to be a grad school application “mentee”. (If you don’t hear back within a week, send me a message.)
GRE (Graduate Record Exam)
If you are applying to graduate school, you might be considering whether you want to, are able to, or are required to take the general GRE, a GRE subject test, or both. Depending on your discipline, there might be lists out there that specify which programs require the GRE(s) and which ones don't. Here are some that I know about, but if you have additional lists to add, please let me know!
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Biological and Biomedical Sciences
Chemistry — open for editing
Physics
Public Health
Finding Research programs
If you are specifically interested in finding a place where you can do astrochemistry research, whether as an undergrad, a grad student, or a postdoc, here are a few lists you might want to check out! Please note that these lists aren’t necessarily up-to-date. Let me know your favorites, and I’ll add them here!
General
Email lists for UK Education and Research communities (JiscMail)
Astrochemistry
Astrophysics & Astrochemistry (astrochemistry.eu) group list
The Comprehensive Astrochemists’ List (tcal)