& Molecular Biology
Graduate Program
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Department of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology Graduate Program |
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Year 2 Fall Semester
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Selection of a thesis mentor Students are expected to have selected a mentor in whose laboratory they want to do their dissertation research by the beginning of the second academic year. It is the student's responsibility to ask faculty member to act as a mentor and dissertation advisor. The final choice of a laboratory is a mutual one to which both student and mentor must agree. Continuation in the Ph.D. program is contingent upon a student's acceptance into a mentor's laboratory. The mentor and the student together will choose a dissertation topic and decide on future coursework which best fulfills the student's goals. Selection of a mentor requires approval by the operating committee. A form needs to be filled out, in which the mentor states that he/she has the financial means to support the student's stipend after the second year. (The department pays the stipend for the first year of graduate school.) There are no longer any restrictions as to the number of students per mentor, but before choosing a lab a student has to inquire if the mentor has the funds to support his/her stipend. Both primary or secondary faculty can be chosen as mentor by the student.
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