Overview
The primary responsibility of a student is to strive toward the attainment of their intellectual property as a scientist. The student should be receptive and attentive to advice from mentors, ask for help when needed, and work diligently.
An Effective Student:
- Pursues scientific goals with intensity, motivation and creativity, working with integrity in all aspects of graduate training.
- Takes ownership of their training, with guidance from the Thesis Advisor and Thesis Committee.
- Reads relevant scientific literature.
- Thinks intentionally and often about short-, mid-, and long-term training and development goals.
- Meets regularly with the Thesis Advisor to provide updates on the results of activities, experiments, and progress in general.
- Initiates meetings on a regular basis with their Thesis Committee and will initiate meetings as needed or desired with members of the committee individually for guidance regarding research and professional activities.
- Strives to be a good lab citizen, for example by taking part in shared laboratory responsibilities, using laboratory resources carefully and frugally, and working collegially and respectfully with all laboratory personnel.
- Attends and participants in laboratory meetings, and recognizes that seminars, journal clubs, and other professional activities encouraged or required by the Thesis Advisor and Thesis Committee are important to training.
- Maintains a detailed, organized, and accurate laboratory notebook.
- Complies with all institutional policies, including safe laboratory practices, responsible conduct of research, experimental design and transparency as it relates to reproducibility and individual development plans.
- Discusses policies on work hours, sick leave, and vacation with the Thesis Advisor.
- Takes ownership of professional development, through completion of an IDP annually and with guidance from the Thesis Advisor and the Thesis Committee.
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