Graduate Council

Members

• Sydney Murphy (Dean) (Chair) 
• Erin Norcross (Advanced Biomedical Education) (Assistant Dean for Academic Affairs) ex officio
• Jan Williams (Experimental Therapeutics & Pharmacology) (Assistant Dean for Student Affairs and Recruitment) ex officio 
• Angela Duck (Nursing)
• Amol Janorkar (Biomedical Materials Science)
• Brian Akerley (Microbiology and Immunology)
• Candace Howard (PhD Biomedical Sciences - Imaging Track)
• Casey Boothe (MS Biomedical Sciences)
• Christopher Spankovich (Audiology)
• Denise Cornelius (Clinical Investigation)
• Edward O. Watson (Counsel)
• Eric George (Physiology and Biophysics)
• Eric Vallender (Neuroscience)
• Eva Bengten (Cell and Molecular Biology)
• George Booz (Experimental Therapeutics and Pharmacology)
• John Clemmer (Physiology and Biophysics)
• Joshua Speed (Physiology and Biophysics)
• Katie Hall (Nursing)
• Kevin Freeman (PhD Biomedical Sciences - Neurobehavioral Sciences Track)
• Lorena Amaral (Experimental Therapeutics and Pharmacology)
• Michael Hebert (Cell and Molecular Biology)
• Nathan Tullos (Clinical Anatomy)
• Nicole Anderson (Cell and Molecular Biology)
• Paula Warrington (Neuroscience)
• Sarah Faucette (Audiology)
• Susana Salazar Marocho (Biomedical Sciences)
• Tim Dasinger (Clinical Anatomy)

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

• TBD