Graduate Study

The CBD does not grant degrees. Its faculty, students, and postdocs come from a variety of traditional and new interdisciplinary programs throughout the university. Students wishing to participate in the CBD should apply to one of the related departments listed below and include in the application a statement of interest in the CBD. Those interested in involvement with the CBD as a Postdoctoral Fellow should check the pages of the related programs for employment opportunities. Positions sponsored directly by the CBD will be announced on this site if they become available.

Traditional departmental programs associated with the CBD are:

• Boston University Main Admissions Page
• Department of Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering Graduate Program.
• Department of Biomedical Engineering Graduate Program.
• Department of Manufacturing Engineering Graduate Program.
• Department of Mathematics Graduate Program.
• Department of Physics Homepage.
• Department of Psychology Homepage.

Related interdisciplinary programs are:

• Program in Mathematical and Computational Neuroscience (PMCN).  This is a new non-degree program recently established under an award from the Burroughs Wellcome Fund. Its mission is to facilitate the transition of those trained in mathematics and physical sciences to work in the neurosciences. Ph.D students associated with the PMCN get degrees in Neurosciences (see PIN below) or the Department of Biomedical Engineering. Postdocs associated with the PMCN can be in the Departments of Biology, Biomedical Engineering, Mathematics or Psychology. The senior faculty of the PMCN includes six members of the CBD, and CBD activities are central to the PMCN program.

   

• Program in Neuroscience (PIN). The PIN is a newly established Ph.D granting program that brings together a large number of faculty from the Charles River and Medical campuses of Boston University. PIN is designed to have both computational and experimental components.

   

• Bioinformatics. This is a degree-granting doctoral program. Students in this program can also participate in CBD activities. There are four Ph.D students currently in the Bioinformatics Program who are also members of the CBD.