Satisfactory public seminar and defense of an approved doctoral dissertation based on laboratory or field research. Tuition Policy: Doctoral students are eligible to receive tuition scholarships for a period of four years. Students must be admitted into candidacy by the end of their third year of study, and are expected to complete the 66 credits required for the degree by the end of their fourth year of study. The Department of Environmental Health Sciences will provide tuition scholarships to eligible doctoral students for a maximum of 66 credits as often as possible. Doctoral students are encouraged to follow this timetable: Beginning of 2nd semester of study: Dissertation Advisor End of 2nd semester of Preliminary Examination Beginning of 3rd semester of study: Dissertation Committee formed Beginning of 4th semester of study: Qualifying Examination Part I End of 5th semester of study: Qualifying Examination Part II End of 5th semester of study: Research Tool Requirement completed End of 6th semester of study: Admission to Candidacy Preliminary Examination: All PhD students, regardless of previous experience or degrees, are required to take a Preliminary Examination. This exam is administered to first year students at the end of the second semester of study and to students with advanced standing at the end of the first semester of study. The purpose of this exam is to test the student’s ability to critically analyze data and to effectively communicate their ideas. The exam will be oral and based on a paper selected by the examination committee that spans, to the extent possible, the disciplines represented in the core curriculum, which includes environmental health, toxicology, environmental chemistry, epidemiology, and statistics. Students will also be responsible for material covered in core courses and laboratory rotations. The Preliminary Examination committee will consist of members from the Environmental Chemistry, Toxicology and Environmental and Occupational Health research areas. The committee will provide their recommendation (Pass/Fail) to the GACC after all students have completed the exam. If appropriate, the committee will recommend a retake of the exam, and will provide conditions that must be satisfied to pass the exam. The GACC will review each student’s overall progress through the first year as well as the Preliminary Exam result, and will make one of the following recommendations to the EHS Department Chair: The student should be permitted to continue in the PhD program; The student should be required to retake the examination. In this case, the student will be informed that can be only one re-examination, and that this must occur within three months of the initial examination; The student should be dismissed from further in the PhD program.
Satisfactory public seminar and defense of an approved doctoral dissertation based on laboratory or field research. Tuition Policy: Doctoral students are eligible to receive tuition scholarships for a period of four years. Students must be admitted into candidacy by the end of their third year of study, and are expected to complete the 66 credits required for the degree by the end of their fourth year of study. The Department of Environmental Health Sciences will provide tuition scholarships to eligible doctoral students for a maximum of 66 credits as often as possible. Doctoral students are encouraged to follow this timetable: Beginning of 2nd semester of study: Dissertation Advisor End of 2nd semester of Preliminary Examination Beginning of 3rd semester of study: Dissertation Committee formed Beginning of 4th semester of study: Qualifying Examination Part I End of 5th semester of study: Qualifying Examination Part II End of 5th semester of study: Research Tool Requirement completed End of 6th semester of study: Admission to Candidacy Preliminary Examination: All PhD students, regardless of previous experience or degrees, are required to take a Preliminary Examination. This exam is administered to first year students at the end of the second semester of study and to students with advanced standing at the end of the first semester of study. The purpose of this exam is to test the student’s ability to critically analyze data and to effectively communicate their ideas. The exam will be oral and based on a paper selected by the examination committee that spans, to the extent possible, the disciplines represented in the core curriculum, which includes environmental health, toxicology, environmental chemistry, epidemiology, and statistics. Students will also be responsible for material covered in core courses and laboratory rotations. The Preliminary Examination committee will consist of members from the Environmental Chemistry, Toxicology and Environmental and Occupational Health research areas. The committee will provide their recommendation (Pass/Fail) to the GACC after all students have completed the exam. If appropriate, the committee will recommend a retake of the exam, and will provide conditions that must be satisfied to pass the exam. The GACC will review each student’s overall progress through the first year as well as the Preliminary Exam result, and will make one of the following recommendations to the EHS Department Chair: The student should be permitted to continue in the PhD program; The student should be required to retake the examination. In this case, the student will be informed that can be only one re-examination, and that this must occur within three months of the initial examination; The student should be dismissed from further in the PhD program.