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Committees |
A. Graduate Program Committee consisting of the Graduate Advisor and selected faculty will be appointed by the Executive Committee of the Biophysics Program. Function: to aid in design of the student's course curriculum, to help in the choice of rotations, and to review the scholastic and research performance of students at the end of each year. B. An individual Proposal and Research Committee will be formed when the student has chosen a dissertation advisor, who will henceforward be the chair of this committee. It will include at least two other Biophysics faculty members considered to be the most appropriate. Additional University faculty members may be included. This committee will be chosen by the research advisor and the student subject to these guidelines. The Program Graduate Advisor will be an ex-officio member of this committee until the student as defended his/her research proposal and has advanced to candidacy (see below). The committee will meet at least once a year. It will direct the student's academic and research program throughout his/her graduate career. This committee will meet with the student to give its advice and consent for entry into the writing phase of the dissertation. The student is responsible for providing written notice of committee composition and all committee meetings to the program Graduate Advisor. Function: to evaluate the student's ability to formulate a research problem and the student's formal educational background in Biophysics. C. An individual Dissertation Defense Committee will be composed of the Proposal and Research Committee plus two additional members. At least three committee members must be faculty members associated with the Biophysics Program. The University requires that the thesis examining committee, with the advisory professor as chair, consist of not fewer than four members of the GSAS faculty, one of whom must be from another department and serves as a representative of the Graduate Committee. (The GSAS faculty are those faculty who are tenured or tenure-track). Function: to provide the final evaluation of the student's dissertation work, including oral and written performance. continue to information on Course Work >>> |