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  Graduate School–Newark 2012–2014 Programs, Faculty, and Courses Behavioral and Neural Sciences 112 Doctoral Dissertations  

Doctoral Dissertations


All behavioral and neural sciences (BNS) students must form a thesis committee that is comprised of their adviser, a chair of the committee (not the adviser), and at least two other BNS faculty members within six months of passing their candidacy exams. The committee should meet with the student every six months to offer advice and monitor progress. In their third year, all BNS students must develop a thesis proposal and present it to the BNS faculty and students. Formulating a thesis proposal early in the thesis research phase allows the student to obtain valuable input from the thesis committee towards developing a rigorous research plan and a defined thesis project. The initial thesis committee will be responsible for providing the student with advice during their dissertation research phase of the program.

When the student is ready to graduate, a reader from outside the university will be added to the committee. The outside member of the thesis committee must not be the student's future postdoctoral fellowship sponsor.

The written thesis may be presented in one of two forms: 1) the "classic" form consisting of an introductory chapter, method and analysis section, detailed experiments--results and conclusions, overall conclusion, and bibliography; or 2) the "compendium" form consisting of an introduction, three or more published (or in press) full-length papers, general discussion, and bibliography.

The written thesis must be submitted to the committee three months before the anticipated graduation date. The thesis committee will provide feedback on this document within one month and provide the student with a list of comments. The student will use these comments to revise the thesis, and provide a point by point response to the comments. The student will submit this response together with the revised thesis to the committee. The committee will decide whether further modifications are necessary, if so, a second round of revisions will follow.

Once the committee has decided that the student has adequately addressed all comments, the student can schedule the formal oral defense. At the oral defense the student presents the work in a public lecture, followed by an oral examination by the thesis committee.

 
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