<p>I heard that this is a new concentration.
<a href="http://www.scrb.harvard.edu/node/7%5B/url%5D">http://www.scrb.harvard.edu/node/7</a></p>
<p>How is it ?
Is it difficult to study and competitive among students ?</p>
<p>Any comments are appreciated.</p>
<p>I am wondering the same.</p>
<p>I’m a grad student in one of the SCRB labs, and I can’t really comment on the difficulty and competition in the undergraduate concentration, but I know my advisor and the other professors have worked really hard to make a cutting-edge, exciting, innovative concentration. </p>
<p>The SCRB lab classes are exposing students to techniques like stem cell culture and mouse surgery that aren’t done at the undergraduate level anywhere else in the country, and the quality of the faculty teaching these classes is breathtaking.</p>
<p>My advisor is teaching a course this semester, and the students are learning about the development and regeneration of the mammalian nervous system. They hear lectures from the professors (who are both top people in their field), with guest lectures from experts and patients, then present and discuss scientific papers in discussion sections. Their tests are primarily problem-based – they want students to be able to apply what they’ve learned in class to novel issues in the nervous system.</p>
<p>many thanks, Molliebatmit.</p>
<p>Yes, Dr. Douglas Melton is also one of the greatest professors in this field.
So it looks many science students are interested in this new concentration</p>
<p>Are there any comments from students taking a course like
SCRB 10. Human Developmental and Regenerative Biology – (New Course)
or parents in this concentration ?</p>
<p>I apologize if this is answerable elsewhere, but about how many students are currently involved in the undergraduate SCRB concentration?</p>
<p>Dr. Melton has a child with type 1 diabetes. </p>
<p>As a parent of a child who has long suffered from this incredibly misunderstood disease, which is not at all the same as type 2, I thank anyone who is thinking of going into this field.</p>
<p>I am thrilled that Harvard has set up this new major, and hope that it produces a cure someday.</p>
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One of the undergrads in my lab says the numbers will be available in a few weeks – they don’t have to decide until the 18th of this month.</p>
<p>She says there are about 50-60 people in SCRB 10, the introductory SCRB class, this semester.</p>
<p>^Thanks! I figured the total would not be large considering the concentration’s nascent state in addition to the fact that very few have yet to declare.</p>