Page-McCaw spearheads improvements to her program’s “direct-admit” process

Andrea Page-McCaw, DGS for CDB, spearheaded improvements to her program’s “direct-admit” process in which prospective students choose an adviser during the application process. “A direct-admit student is particularly dependent on their adviser because of their complete reliance on the adviser’s funding, along with the student’s reduced professional network and decreased potential to change labs,” McCaw said. “Our program is working to create mentoring networks and provide departmental funding to improve outcomes for direct-admit students.”