The Graduate School of Temple University

1. The Graduate School of Temple University Welcomes You!

2. Key Individuals of the Graduate School • Zeb Kendrick, Vice Provost • Marge Pippet, Assistant Dean • Mike Toner, Director of Enrollment and Data Management • Alice Abner • Cynthia Harmon-Williams • Tara Schumacher • Kathryn Petrich • Christa Viola • Nina Marie Campellone

3. Financial Assistance • Teaching Assistantships • Research Assistantships • Graduate Externship • Academic Internship • Fellowship Awards • Presidential • University • Future Faculty • Dissertation and Project Completion Awards

4. What You See and What You Do Not See

5. Research with Humans or Animals • Regulatory Affairs • http://www.temple.edu/research/regaffairs/index.html • Human Subjects Training (IRB) • http://www.temple.edu/research/regaffairs/irb/index.html • Institutional Animal Care & Use Committee (IACUC) – Requires login to acquire information • http://www.temple.edu/research/login.asp?val=iacuc • Institutional Biosafety Committee (IBC) – research that involves recombinant DNA, infectious agents, and other biohazards http://www.temple.edu/research/regaffairs/ibc/index.html • Environmental Health & Radiation Safety (EHRS) - safe use of radioactive materials, radiation- producing equipment, chemicals and biological substances at the University

6. Policies of the Graduate School • URL to the Policies and Procedures of the Graduate School • http://www.temple.edu/grad/policies/index.htm • URL to Student Forms • http://www.temple.edu/grad/forms/index.htm • URL to Graduate Student News • http://www.temple.edu/grad/news/index.htm

7. Graduate School News Please keep the Graduate School informed of your accomplishments

8. Seven Graduate Students Receive 2014 NSF Graduate Research Fellowships The Graduate School is pleased to announce that seven outstanding graduate students have been selected to receive the National Science Foundation's Graduate Research Fellowship Program (NSF GRFP) awards. These prestigious awards provide a $32,000 annual stipend for up to three years and $12,000 per year allowance for other academic expenses. Congratulations are extended to: Kathryn Devlin Megan Jennings Samuel Markson Kristina Nazimova Steven Schnell Leah Sheline Christiana Teijaro Returning NSF GRFP awardees are: Anna Fineberg Samuel Georgian Vira Oleksyuk Sarah Seligman Kim Reuter

9. Doctoral Candidate in Psychology Selected to Attend the 64th Meeting of Nobel Laureates in Lindau Germany • Steven Simmons has been selected by the scientific review panel of the Council for the Lindau Nobel Laureate Meetings to participate in the 64th Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting. Only the 600 most qualified young researchers worldwide are given the opportunity to be enriched by the unique atmosphere of the Lindau Nobel Laureate Meetings. • Steven's research topic is "Behavioral Neuroscience: Effects of Nicotine on Learning and Memory." His research requires the use of cellular, molecular, and genetic techniques to better understand nicotine's effects on learning and memory in mice. His research also examines molecular intracellular signaling cascades involved in learning and nicotine addiction.

10. Doctoral Candidate in Art History Awarded Prestigious Rome Prize Michelle DiMarzo, a doctoral candidate in Art History, has been awarded the Phyllis G. Gordan/Samuel H. Kress Foundation Pre-Doctoral Rome Prize in the 118th Annual Rome Prize Competition from the American Academy in Rome. As one of 31 recipients, Michelle will receive a fellowship, stipend, and invitation to live in Rome for two years while she researches and writes her dissertation entitled Titian and the Culture of Mid-Century Rome: The Venetian Among the Ruins. Michelle was also awarded a grant specifically for research in Venice by the Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation.

11. First Temple Cohort to Earn A Professional Science Master’s SM Degree

12. The Writing Center Offers Three Programs for Doctoral Students: The Writing Center has instituted three programs for doctoral students. Dissertation boot camp provides a disciplined atmosphere in which dissertation writers can undertake their work. Brown bag lunch seminars are offered on a variety of timely topics.  And dissertation writing groups meet regularly to give dissertation writers a forum in which to share their work-in-progress and receive feedback.