<p>Yes, I mean that they’ve graduated from college and are working in the lab full-time right now.</p>
<p>PI means principal investigator. It’s an NIH term that’s used because it’s a lot faster than saying “the professor in charge of my lab.” :)</p>
<p>Rhodes scholarships are for one-year master’s programs in England. I don’t know of any in the US – there are very few biology master’s programs at US universities in general, especially top-tier ones.</p>