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When John Papaconstantinou, Ph.D. was awarded the Mary and J. Palmer
Saunders Professorship for Excellence in Teaching in September 2003, he
determined that it would be a tribute to the Saunders Endowment, if the
funds could be used for an original and innovative project of academic
interest. His idea was to invite a group of graduate students in the
University of Texas Medical Branch (UTMB) Graduate School of Biomedical
Sciences (GSBS) to share, in the form of short essays, their thoughts
and ideas about their graduate school experiences ranging from their
entrance interviews, through the various phases of their graduate
training, to the completion of their degree and progression into the
post graduate phase of their careers.
Dr. Papaconstantinou hoped that the project would produce a document
that could be used within the GSBS to facilitate further understanding
of the demands placed upon faculty and students in the biomedical
science graduate training programs. He envisioned that this compilation
of graduate student essays would not only become an important document
for our own graduate school, but it could also potentially be published
and distributed to other academic institutions.
To implement this essay project, Dr. Papaconstantinou, along with Dr.
Lillian Chan, Director of the Graduate Program in Biochemistry and
Molecular Biology, organized a committee consisting of students,
postdoctoral fellows and faculty. Students were nominated by the
graduate program directors to write an essay and were awarded a $100
honorarium when the essay was submitted.
To review the directions to students and essay questions to be answered,
click here.
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