The Bridge to the Doctorate Program (terminal master's to doctoral bridge) served 102 educational institutions in 23 partnerships.
Hauser also leads the Rochester Bridges to the Doctorate program at RIT, which prepares deaf and hard-of-hearing individuals for doctoral degrees in the biomedical sciences.
His primary courses of study in the Doctorate program included Economics, Industrial Management and Operations Management.
Page, whose father was a professor of computer science at Michigan State University, received a computer engineering degree from the University of Michigan (1995) and entered into the doctorate program at Stanford, where he met Brin.
During the summer, the students participate in the Program for Research Integration and Support for Matriculation to the Doctorate Program.
Interviews with Hauser, Blick, and Contreras were conducted via Skype with interpreting assistance from Nikki Cherry, program coordinator and interpreter for the Rochester Bridges to the Doctorate program.
In addition to the Rochester Bridges to the Doctorate program, Hauser spends much of his time preparing interpreters to meet the growing needs of his students.
These issues are among those Hauser aims to address with the Rochester Bridges to the Doctorate program, which is supported by a grant from the National Institute of General Medical Sciences.
Directors of programs like the National Science Foundation's Bridge to the Doctorate program and the Alliance for the Advancement of African-American Researchers in Computing have long hoped to see this kind of result, he notes.
A highlight of the personal series are forty-five letters, mostly those of Lane, written during a period when Kohl was finishing the doctorate program at Hopkins, searching for an academic position, and later conducting research in Italy.
