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Qualifying Exam I consists of the aggregate exam grades in the Core I and Core II courses. Biology G6001 and G6002 must be successfully completed by the end of the student’s first year. Part II - Spring of Second Year Students will prepare a written proposal based on their intended research project, as perceived at that time. The proposal will be in the form of a short postdoctoral fellowship application. The proposal should be 6-10 typed pages in length, and have no more than 7 figures. After submission to a 2-faculty qualifying exam committee, the student will present and defend the proposal before this committee. The proposal must be submitted to the committee at least 10 days before the oral defense of the proposal. The committee will probe the student¹s general knowledge in the area represented by the project, the area represented by the sponsor¹s laboratory, and the areas covered in courses the student has taken. Students should be prepared to describe any procedure proposed in the research plan. Although the structure of the oral examination will be that of a defense of the proposal, the emphasis will be as much on general knowledge in these areas than on the merits of the specific research proposed. The examining committee will be made up of two faculty members and will generally not include the student¹s research sponsor. This committee, plus the sponsor, will constitute the student¹s research progress committee that will meet at least annually with the student thereafter. Students whose performance is judged unsatisfactory on this exam will be given one additional opportunity to take the exam before the Fall of the third year. In this case, a new committee would be constituted for the second exam, consisting of 2 new faculty members plus the sponsor. Should the student pass the second exam, the new committee would continue as the student¹s research progress committee. IMPORTANT Be sure to print this form and take it with you to your Qualifying Exam for your committee to sign. Then return the form to the 600 Office. The link below shows an example of a research proposals that may be useful in preparing the thesis proposal for Qualifying Exam Part II: Sample proposal by Guoying Jiang |
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