17. SEMINARS

17.1.  NeuroGSP 797 Seminar Course

Students are required to register for 797 every quarter it is offered unless an exception is granted by the NGSP committee.

17.2.  NGSP Sponsored Seminars

Students are required to attend all NGSP sponsored seminars including Hunt-Curtis Frontiers in Neuroscience seminars.

17.3.  Senior Student Seminars

Starting in their 4th year all students should present one 30 minute seminar annually during their remaining tenure in the program.

• Generally there will be two groups of two speakers per quarter (four students), and seminars can be presented in either the Department of Neuroscience seminar program, or any other dedicated program in the home department of the student's research advisor. Our intention is that these presentations be made to as broad an audience as possible, like a true colloquium, therefore research focus-area seminars generally do not count towards this requirement.


• Whichever departmental seminar program is chosen, the seminars should be advertised as typical seminars for that program, and cross-listed with all other neuro-related seminar programs to maximize attendance. The Program Administrator will assist in advertising seminars.


• Attendance of NGSP students is required.


• Must be a minimum of three faculty present per speaker: 1) research mentor, 2) faculty colleague working in the same or related sub-discipline, and 3) one more NGSP faculty member outside the subdiscipline.


• Student presenters are "hosted" by their research mentor. It is the mentor's job to make sure the seminar is properly posted, and to lobby colleagues to attend. As there will typically be two back-to-back seminars, the lobbying effort will tend to be distributed to two faculty. This means that in principle there will be at least six faculty present at each of the dual seminar sessions (see point #5 above).


• The NGSP program directors and graduate studies committee will work with student advisors to determine the best quarter for each student to present in order to minimize any undue burden on either the student or his/her advisor. This is intended to be an enlightening, and hopefully fun, experience.