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The Richard Gilder Graduate School offers graduate training, post-doctoral fellowships, and undergraduate training programs at the Museum, through free-standing programs and through partnerships with universities.

Graduate training is fully embraced by the Museum’s joint mission of science and public education and is a vital and defining characteristic of the institution. Offering advanced scientific instruction in the disciplines covered by the Museum meets the critical need to prepare the next generation of the finest researchers, teachers, and policy-makers both in the United States and worldwide.

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The Richard Gilder Graduate School is the umbrella for all university-level training at the Museum. In addition to housing free-standing programs, the Richard Gilder Graduate School leads the oldest and largest alliances of their kind in graduate education in partnership with a select group of university partners—beginning with a formal partnership between the Museum and Columbia University in 1908 (and, informally, since the 1890s) and more recently with the City University of New York (CUNY), Cornell University, New York University (NYU), Stony Brook University, and formerly with Yale University.

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In addition, the Richard Gilder Graduate School's graduate degree programs offer unique opportunities for students to participate in the Museum's broader educational enterprise, which includes educational programming for all ages and award-winning exhibitions, as part of their course of study.

Ph.D. Program Information

Degree Program Ph.D. Degree (Comparative Biology) What makes the Ph.D. program in Comparative Biology at the Richard Gilder Graduate School unique? Article Fellowships Fellowships for graduate students and postdoctoral researchers across disciplines.

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Featured Richard Gilder Graduate School Faculty

Dr. Nathalie Goodkin

Professor and Curator, Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Division of Physical Sciences. Dr. Goodkin’s research is focused on understanding and using coral geochemistry to reconstruct ocean-atmosphere interactions, climate behavior, and pollution histories over the past 500 years.