SUNY Oswego's Kimberlyn Bailey earns invitation to Harvard summer program

2016 Mar 25

Kimberlyn Bailey of New York City, a senior philosopy major, has been selected for the summer 2016 program in biostatistics and computational biology at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health.

This experience will precede her two-year research training position working in a computational systems neuroscience lab at the National Institutes of Health.

In the summer program, Bailey said, "I will take two condensed courses in biostatistics and epidemiology, learn about the graduate school application process and do an original research project with a Harvard professor. I cannot imagine a better way to prepare myself for work at the NIH and to build my skills as I look to apply to dual MD-PhD computational neuroscience programs in the next few years."

The program's admissions staff noted that the pool of applicants was "substantially larger than in previous years" and described Bailey's application as "especially strong."

Founded in 1913, Harvard School of Public Health -- now the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health -- grew out of the Harvard-MIT School for Health Officers, the nation's first graduate training program in public health.

Admission to SUNY Oswego, founded in 1861, is competitive. U.S. News Media Group counts SUNY Oswego among the top public regional universities in the North for 2016, and the Princeton Review includes Oswego in its 2016 college guidebook "The Best Northeastern Colleges" and in its national list of "Green Colleges."

A 155-year-old comprehensive college in the State University of New York system, Oswego enrolls about 8,000 students in its College of Liberal Arts and Sciences; School of Business; School of Communication, Media and the Arts; and School of Education.