Resources for members of the GSBSE community:

• Detailed program information
  Detailed information about the GSBSE program including requirements and general timeline.

• GSBSE Handbook (pdf)
  

• GSBSE Student-Student Mentoring Program (pdf)
  

• GSBSE Logo (.jpg, 300dpi, 698KB)
  
  
• Student Registration Deadlines:
  
  • Fall - July 30
  • Spring - December 15
  • Summer - April 30

• How to register for USM Classes
   
• First Year Student Rotation Notification Deadlines: Students need to let Laura Hall know where they are doing a rotation by the following deadlines so that the Institutions they are going to are prepared for their arrival.
  
  • 1^st rotation – July 30
  • 2^nd rotation – November 30
  • 3^rd rotation – April 30

• Faculty Class Notification Deadlines:  Faculty must let the GSBSE office know by the following deadlines what classes they are planning to teach, providing a description of the class, the number of credits, and the preferred days/times for the class.
  
  • June 30 for Fall classes
  • November 15 for Spring classes

• Track-specific Requirements:
  • Cellular & Molecular Biology - Track Leader:  Dr. Calvin Vary
  • Neuroscience - Track Leader: Dr. Robert Burgess
  • Biomedical Engineering - Track Leader: Dr. Rosemary Smith
  • Toxicology - Track Leader: Dr. John Wise Sr.
  • Functional Genomics - Track Leader: Dr. Keith Hutchison
  • Required Courses Table - sample course schedule for each track

• Forms
  • Committee Meeting Summary Form
    Required form to be filled out for each thesis committee meeting.
  • Graduate School Forms
    Link to all other Graduate School forms.
    
  • Travel Award Application Submission Form
    The GSBSE program provides funding to students for travel to meetings or conferences or for travel or purchases associated with the student's dissertation research. Travel Award Application Details.  Before traveling, please be sure to read and follow the UMaine travel policy on the OBBS website at:  http://umaine.edu/obbs/travel/travel-information-forms/
    
    
• Manage your GSBSE website profile
  Click the link to login and manage your profile. If you are a GSBSE faculty member, you need to associate your profile with the Tracks, Research Areas, and Institutes that you are affiliated with in order for your profile to show up in these areas of the website. If you lost your password or haven't set up your page yet, click on the "password reset" link and enter your email address and a password will be sent to you. If you do not receive a password, contact Laura Hall (gsbse@maine.edu).
  
  
• Student Navigator
  The Student Navigator is a place to keep all of your Graduate School files and communications with your thesis committee. The site is only accessible to you and your committee. Please keep it updated with committee meeting forms, your comprehensive exam proposal, any papers you publish, meetings you go to, grants you write, drafts of your thesis, etc. Some default "Milestones" are created for you, however you can create any new Milestones you want for papers, meetings, or even data to show your committee. The more information you can give your committee, the better they can help you with your research project now and when they need to write you letters of recommendation in the future.

• GSBSE Discussion Board 
  The GSBSE Discussion Board can be used for any communication between just students, just faculty, or between both faculty and students (open discussions). When you start a new topic you can auto-subscribe people to the topic so they will receive an email anytime there is a post to that topic. You can also subscribe yourself to any topic that is presently on the site, as well as post responses to any of the topics. Current topics include a listing of labs looking for rotation students, and several courses are using this site.
  

• GSBSE Committees
  
  
• Video-conferencing
  Contact information for setting up a video-conferenced meeting or class.

• Fogler Library
  Link to the UMaine library containing access to eJournals and other library resources.

• MaineStreet log in
  
  
• UMaine IT Resources
  UMaine Information Technologies contact and resource information, including FirstClass client and Blackboard.