PhD Student Resources

Independent Study Form [PDF]

D1: PhD Plan of Study and Supervising Professor Appointment [PDF]

D2: Doctoral Candidacy Examination Report [PDF]

D2A: Candidacy Examination Member Report [PDF]

D3: Dissertation Advisory Committee Appointment [PDF]

D3A: Dissertation Proposal [PDF]

D3B: Annual Review of Doctoral Candidates [PDF]

D4: PhD Final Oral Defense Committee Appointment and Schedule [PDF]

D5: Report of the PhD Final Oral Defense Committee [PDF]

Portfolio Review Form (Years 1-3) [PDF]

Research Apprenticeship [PDF]

IRB Paperwork

PhD Student Travel Request Form

• You should have already filed the D4 (which lists your committee and scheduled date) at least 4 weeks before your final defense, and sent your abstract and title to the PhD Program Manager.

• Application for Degree

• You and your Committee will sign off on the D5, Thesis Approval Form and Completion Form [PDF].

• The Thesis Approval will go with your final dissertation copy to the Library.

• The Completion form must be hand delivered to the Office of Graduate Studies. They will require you to complete the PhD Exit Survey [PDF].

• Please review the Library binding.

• Should you be a Research Assistant you will need to file the RA Exit Process [PDF] upon completion of these steps.

For more information please review the Graduate College site.

The National Science Foundation aims to ensure the vitality of the human resource base of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics in the United States and to reinforce its diversity by offering approximately 1,654 graduate fellowships in this competition pending availability of funds. The Graduate Research Fellowship provides three years of support for graduate study leading to research-based master's or doctoral degrees and is intended for students who are in the early stages of their graduate study. The Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP) invests in the graduate education of diverse individuals who demonstrate their potential to successfully complete graduate degree programs in disciplines relevant to the mission of the National Science Foundation. For more information, please visit the NSF website.

The National Science Foundation STS considers proposals for scientific research into the interface between science (including engineering) or technology, and society. STS researchers use diverse methods including social science, historical, and philosophical methods. Successful proposals will be transferrable (i.e., generate results that provide insights for other scientific contexts that are suitably similar). They will produce outcomes that address pertinent problems and issues at the interface of science, technology and society, such as those having to do with practices and assumptions, ethics, values, governance, and policy. For more information, please visit the NSF website.

These awards provide funds for dissertation research expenses not normally available through the student's university. Follow the proposal preparation guidelines in the SBE Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Grants Solicitation, and the Science, Technology, and Society Program Solicitation. For more information, please visit the NSF website.

The United States needs to educate a globally-engaged science and engineering workforce capable of performing in an international research environment in order to remain at the forefront of world science and technology. The International Research Experiences for Students (IRES) component of the program supports groups of U.S. undergraduate or graduate students conducting research abroad in collaboration with foreign investigators. For more information, please visit the NSF website.

The East Asia and Pacific Summer Institutes (EAPSI) provide U.S. graduate students in science and engineering first-hand research experiences in Australia, China, Japan, Korea, New Zealand, Singapore or Taiwan; an introduction to the science, science policy, and scientific infrastructure of the respective location; and an orientation to the society, culture and language. The primary goals of EAPSI are to introduce students to East Asia and Pacific science and engineering in the context of a research setting, and to help students initiate scientific relationships that will better enable future collaboration with foreign counterparts. All institutes, except Japan,last approximately eight weeks from June to August. Japan lasts approximately ten weeks from June to August. For more information, please visit the NSF website.

The purpose of this individual predoctoral research training fellowship is to provide support for promising doctoral candidates who will be performing dissertation research and training in scientific health-related fields relevant to the missions of the participating NIH Institutes and Centers (ICs) during the tenure of the award. For more information, please visit the NIH website.

The purpose of this individual postdoctoral research training fellowship is to provide support to promising Fellowship Applicants with the potential to become productive, independent investigators in scientific health-related research fields relevant to the missions of participating NIH Institutes and Centers. For more information, please visit the NIH website.

The Science, Mathematics And Research for Transformation (SMART) Scholarship for Service Program has been established by the Department of Defense (DoD) to support undergraduate and graduate students pursuing degrees in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) disciplines. The program aims to increase the number of civilian scientists and engineers working at DoD laboratories. For more information, please visit the Department of Defense.

American Fellowships support women scholars who are completing dissertations, planning research leave from accredited institutions, or preparing research for publication. Applicants must be U.S. citizens or permanent residents. Candidates are evaluated on the basis of scholarly excellence; quality and originality of project design; and active commitment to helping women and girls through service in their communities, professions, or fields of research. For more information, please visit the AAUW website.

The goal of the Informatics Program is to promote the use and development of informatics in an integrative approach towards the understanding of human biological and disease processes. Informatics awards will support career development of scientists engaged in research that significantly integrates cutting-edge information technology with advanced biological, chemical, and pharmacological sciences. For more information, please visit the PhRMAFoundation.

Ford Foundation Fellowship awards are offered at the Predoctoral, Dissertation and Postdoctoral levels. Fellowships are awarded in a national competition. Awards are made to individuals who, in the judgment of the review panels, have demonstrated superior academic achievement, are committed to a career in teaching and research at the college or university level, show promise of future achievement as scholars and teachers, and are well prepared to use diversity as a resource for enriching the education of all students. For more information, please visit the Ford Foundation Fellowships Office.

The ITA is awarded by Drexel's Office of International Programs three times a year: the last Thursday of May (for travel between July 1 - October 31), the last Thursday of September (for travel between November 1 - February 28), and the last Thursday of January (for travel between March 1 - June 30). For more information, please visit Drexel University's Office of International Programs.

The Fulbright program is eager to engage postdoctoral and early career academics, offering opportunities in a range of countries and fields. These awards present an excellent opportunity for recently minted scholars to deepen their expertise, to acquire new skills, to work with additional resources and to make connections with others in their fields. For more information, please visit Drexel University's Fellowships Office.