What does a rotation involve?
A rotation is done the first semester of your graduate career. Typically for Ph.D. students, two 10 week rotations in two different laboratories within your program will suffice. More rotations can be done with approval. A rotation serves to familiarize a new graduate student with research in a given laboratory, helps them to learn new techniques, and helps them to get to know other graduate students. At the end of a rotation, the student will select the lab they want to permanently belong to.