Changing Research Groups

Experience has taught us that despite our rotation system for choosing a mentor, not all mentor-mentee matches are successful in the long-term. If a student has consulted with their thesis committee chair (provided they are sufficiently advanced to have one), their Director of Graduate Studies, and the Chair of the Department, and come to the decision that changing mentors will allow them to thrive in their graduate studies, the student and DGS should contact Senior Associate Dean Walter Chazin.  Once approved, the BRET Office will provide financial support to the student during the transition to a new group. Specifically, the BRET office will support students who matriculated through the IGP or QCB, to conduct one 4-week rotation in the laboratory of a faculty member on the Open Lab List that has expressed an interest in considering the student for pursuit of their thesis research. If this rotation proves to be unsuccessful, the student should arrange a meeting with Senior Associate Dean Chazin at least one week before the end of additional rotation to consider options.

Effective 1/1/2022