Annual MCB Graduate Program Retreat:

A full-day retreat is held at the Haffenreffer Estate of Mount Hope, a thirty-minute drive from campus, each year during the week before the start of the fall semester. This forum provides an opportunity to reconnect and exchange ideas across the program. New students and faculty members are introduced to the community at the beginning of the retreat. The morning session consists of research seminars delivered by both faculty members and students. In the afternoon, all students not speaking in the morning session are expected to present a poster on their work. Faculty members serve as judges in a poster contest, in which prizes are awarded. The students presenting the three “top” posters are invited to present their work in oral format at the retreat the following year. Scientific sessions are interspersed with meals and opportunities for social interaction, including a much-anticipated annual volleyball tournament.

Our 23rd Annual Retreat will be held Wednesday, August 31, 2011.

The chair of this year’s retreat committee is Professor Eric Morrow, and the co-chair is Professor Erica Larschan. We anticipate that this will be an exciting day of science and fun, and that the volleyball tournament will be more competitive than ever. Start getting your teams organized. More details will be announced early in the summer.

Directions to the Haffenreffer Museum From Providence

Take Route 195 E to Exit 2 in MA (Warren/Newport exit). Follow Route 136 S about 7.5 miles (through Warren and into Bristol). Turn left onto Tower St. (there are Haffenreffer Museum signs on both sides of Rte 136 at Tower St.) and follow the road about 1 mile onto the Haffenreffer property. (Approaching the Tower St. turnoff, you pass the King Philip Inn and the Riviera Restaurant on your right. Rte. 136 interesects Franklin St. on your right, and Tower is the 3rd left after the Franklin St. intersection.)