INFO 102 - Translate Your FAES Coursework into a Hood College Graduate Degree

Course Description

Please join the FAES Academic Programs team on Tuesday, January 20, 2026 from 12pm to 12:30pm ET for a Virtual Information Session to learn more about our partnership with Hood College!

The link to attend the Information Session will be sent to you via email on January 20, 2026.Note you will have to register through Teams to join this event.

Join us on January 20 at 12pm for a virtual information session featuring Dr. April Boulton, Associate Provost and Dean of the Graduate School at Hood College in Frederick, Maryland. Learn about flexible graduate degrees at Hood College and how your FAES coursework can count toward a Hood College degree or certificate. Upon acceptance to Hood College's master’s or certificate programs in bioinformatics, health informatics, project management and other areas, students may submit their official FAES transcript for course-transfer review by the program director. Approved FAES courses can be combined to meet Hood College requirements. Final approval must be issued by program chair for any course transfer.

To read about our the Hood College Graduate School and our guest, Dr. April Boulton, please visit the Hood College web site.

Join FAES for the Following Upcoming Events:

Organoids and Organotypic Slice Cultures: A New Way to Tackle Human-Specific Pathology in AD/ADRD?

February 24 from 11:45 – 1:00 pm ET (must arrive by 12PM)

Location: FAES Learning Labs Classrooms

Speaker: Elise Marsan, Ph.D., Investigator, Center for Alzheimer's and Related Dementias, NIA; Ph.D. from Sorbonne Universities; Neuroscientist

This talk presents human iPSC-derived multicellular organoids and organotypic slice cultures from primate brain as innovative models to study neurodegeneration in Alzheimer’s and related dementias. These systems enable investigation of primate-specific neurons and circuits, revealing cellular and molecular mechanisms underlying selective neuronal vulnerability in AD/ADRD-affected brain regions.

Virtual Information Session: FAES Spring Session B Programming

March 5, 2026 from 12 – 12:30PM ET

Location: Online Synchronous

Join the FAES Academic Programs Team to learn more about our Spring Session B courses, workshops, and our scholarship program.

Leukocytes on the Move: The Chemokine System Directs Traffic

March 12, 2026 from 11:45 – 1:00 pm ET (must arrive by 12PM)

Location: FAES Learning Labs Classrooms

Speaker: Joshua Farber M.D. Chief, Inflammation Biology Section, NIAID

The immune system must be ubiquitous and mobile. The chemokine family consists of a family of more than 40 chemotactic proteins that regulate leukocyte trafficking. My talk will include an overview of this family and present some of my laboratory’s recent data on chemokines in human T cell trafficking and cancer.

FAES Educational Webinar Series: Redefining Education: Microcredentials and the Rise of Skill-Based Learning

April 15, 2026, 12PM – 12:30PM ET

Location: Live-Online

Speaker: Angela Cosani, Bioscience Core Skills Institute (BCSI) (BIOL 002)

Skill-based microcredentials are reshaping education and workforce development. In this session, the Bioscience Core Skills Institute explores how verified competencies provide clearer signals of learner readiness, support industry-aligned training, and better meet the needs of biomedical and biotechnology employers. Learn how microcredentials transform career pathways and help educators adapt curricula for emerging workforce demands.

By registering for this event, you agree to allow FAES to take photographs of you during the event and to use these photos for promotional purposes, including on our website, social media, and marketing materials, without further compensation. You understand that you have no right to review or approve the final use of these images.

The Foundation for Advanced Education in the Sciences (FAES) at NIH seeks to foster education and research in the biomedical sciences by providing instruction at the cutting edge of biological science and its evolving applications. Our goals also include responding to the educational and cultural needs of the NIH community and projecting FAES educational assets globally. All courses and workshops are open to the public. NOTICE OF NONDISCRIMINATORY POLICY AS TO STUDENTS FAES admits students of any race, color, national and ethnic origin to all the rights, privileges, programs, and activities generally accorded or made available to students at the school. It does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, national and ethnic origin, sex, disability, or age in administration of its educational policies, admissions policies, scholarship programs, and other school-administered programs.