Form Gsbs70: Authorization to Schedule Defense Trac Meeting (Terminal Trac)

Graduate School of

Biomedical Sciences

FORM GSBS70: AUTHORIZATION TO SCHEDULE DEFENSE TRAC MEETING (TERMINAL TRAC)

Please submit form via uploading to Blackboard Learn for BBS 865 (preferred), or hand deliver to S1-824.

Use this form for the Authorization to Schedule Defense TRAC meeting

Instructions to Student:
Please bring this form with you to the TRAC meeting and give it to the TRAC chair. When authorization is given, please obtain additional signatures and return the form to the GSBS office as directed above. Submission of this form completes all requirements for BBS 865 (TRAC) for the academic year.

Note: The TRAC chair may delay authorization until specific benchmarks are met (for example, until a paper is submitted or accepted, until specified result(s) are verified). Authorization is intended to allow the student to focus exclusively on preparation of the dissertation, and should not be granted if continued experimental work is necessary to validate the thesis argument.

If authorization is delayed, the TRAC chair should not sign and date the form until the specified benchmarks have been met. The student should not submit the form until the TRAC chair has completed it.

Instructions to TRAC chair:

Please complete the checklist and return completed, signed form to student for submission. Optional: provide additional comments.

Checklist:

The TRAC certifies that:

The data, published and unpublished, are sound, complete, and adequate for a dissertation
The committee is satisfied that the student’s publication record, including submitted manuscripts, is adequate for completion.
The student may cease experimental work and focus on preparing the dissertation.
The committee provided written feedback regarding modification to the thesis abstract and outline.
The committee provided written feedback regarding modifications to the unpublished data.

Additional comments (optional): Attach separate page if necessary

Date of Terminal TRAC Meeting

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Name (Please Print) / Signature / Date
Student /
Thesis Advisor
TRAC Chair
Graduate Program Director
Program

Form of the Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences

University of Massachusetts Medical School

Last Updated: 2/6/2018

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