Michael Rossi

Education 

B.S., Biology, Xavier University, 1983 
Ph.D., Biology, University of Kentucky, 1990 
Post-doctoral training, University of Florida, College of Medicine

Other 

I am the coordinator of the M.S. program in Cellular and Molecular Biology at the University of New Haven. The program was licensed by the State of Connecticut Department of Higher Education in January of 1995. We have about sixty full-time students enrolled in the program with about 50% being international students from a variety of countries. People employed in the New Haven area's biotechnical and pharmaceutical industries make up most of our part-time enrollment. The students attending part-time take advantage of the "evening only" class schedule which allows them to continue their full-time employment in the field. The entire graduate program at the University of New Haven is on an accelerated schedule with three full trimesters a year. This allows full-time students to complete the Cellular and Molecular Biology program in about 16 months and part-time students to complete the degree in three years. For more information on the M.S. program, check our program page, or you can get official catalog descriptions at http://www.newhaven.edu/4724/.

In addition to coordinating the program, I currently teach MB 606 Genomics and MB 617 Cell and Tissue Culture Techniques in the Fall and MB 607 Cellular Biology in the Spring. My research students are examining the role of the Akt pathway in response to chemotherapeutic treatment of a variety of cancer cell types.