Graduate Council

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

• December 13, 2022