Making it Official
The name change officially took place March 1, 2004. While it will be several months before we complete the many things that are involved in changing the University's name, we are excited to be able to celebrate our identity as Rosalind Franklin University of Medicine and Science now.

Graduation Day
Students graduating in the 2003/2004 academic year will be conferred a degree from Rosalind Franklin University of Medicine and Science. However, they will also be offered the option to receive a diploma with the Finch University of Health Sciences/The Chicago Medical School name. Graduates will have the opportunity to request the other diploma via an online form on the new web site, which will be launched in May 2004. Additionally, there will be an option for former students to request a diploma that reflects the new name of the University.

Honored Around the World
We are the only medical university in the United States named after Rosalind Franklin. Internationally, King's College in London, where Dr. Franklin worked, has named an educational building in her honor and Birkbeck College in London has a Rosalind Franklin laboratory. In addition, The UK MRC Human Genome Mapping Project changed its name in 2003 to the MRC Rosalind Franklin Centre for Genomics Research (RFCGR).

A First
We are the first medical university in the U.S. to be named in honor of a female scientist.