Graduate Research

Graduate students in the lab are part of UMass Lowell’s Biology M.S. or Applied Biology Ph.D. programs. See Expectations of graduate students for what I expect of graduate students in the lab.

Program handbook

The department and Graduate School handbooks set out your program’s official requirements:

M.S. handbook: TBD
Ph.D. handbook: TBD

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Which parts of those handbooks are most important
Where lab practices go beyond the program’s requirements

Timeline and milestones

I will work with graduate students to assemble an advisory committee and a complementary set of mentors, and to develop, discuss, and maintain an Individual Development Plan (IDP). IDPs are updated each August/September (see the Annual schedule).

Publication goals for M.S. and Ph.D. students are described under Manuscripts.

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To be written. A table for each degree could work well here.

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Year-by-year milestones for M.S. and Ph.D. students (coursework, forming the committee, proposal, qualifying exam, committee meetings, defense)
Program deadlines and paperwork
When to start applying for fellowships and funding

Templates

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To be written. Templates could live in the lab_utilities repo and be linked here.

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Thesis/dissertation proposal template
Committee meeting report template
IDP template