School of Graduate Studies in Health Sciences
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Members
- Sydney Murphy (Dean) (C)
- Hanna Broome (MD-PhD) (Chief Student Affairs Officer; Associate Dean of Student Affairs and Recruitment) ex officio
- Audra Schaefer (Clinical Anatomy) (Assistant Dean of Academic Affairs) ex officio
- Angela Duck (Nursing)
- Amol Janorkar (Biomedical Materials Science)
- Bettye Sue Hennington (Biochemistry Certificate)
- Brian Akerley (Microbiology & Immunology)
- Candace Howard (PhD Biomedical Sciences - Imaging Track)
- Christopher Spankovich (Audiology)
- Denise Cornelius (Clinical Investigation)
- Edgar Meyer (MS Biomedical Sciences)
- Eric George (Physiology & Biophysics)
- Eric Vallender (Neuroscience)
- George Booz (Experimental Therapeutics & Pharmacology)
- Jan Williams (Experimental Therapeutics & Pharmacology)
- Joshua Speed (Physiology & Biophysics)
- Katie Hall (Nursing)
- Kevin Freeman (PhD Biomedical Sciences - Neurobehavioral Sciences Track)
- Larry McDaniel (Microbiology & Immunology)
- Michael Hebert (Cell and Molecular Biology)
- Paula Warrington (Neuroscience)
- Susana Salazar Marocho (Biomedical Sciences)
Charge
The committee's charge is to establish admission requirements for the graduate program; to establish guidelines for scholastic requirements; to establish eligibility of faculty members for appointment to the Graduate Faculty; to establish policies for the formation of student advisory committees; to determine a student's eligibility for admission to candidacy for a degree; to meet periodically to review academic and research requirements for master's and doctoral programs; to determine dissertation and thesis formats and the mechanisms for administering the final oral examinations; to participate in the implementation of new degree requirements; and to revise and/or eliminate obsolete procedures.
Meeting schedule