Panel Session on the Use and Format of Qualifying Exams Across Campus

In keeping with policies resulting from COVID-19, this program will be only offered via Zoom.

12:00 pm -1:30 p.m., Wednesday, April 14, 2021, Via Zoom

During this program, Division Directors from across campus will share their experiences with the use of qualifying exams within their PhD programs in a panel format. This may include the purpose, structure, and intended outcomes of the qualifying exams, how the qualifying exams are assessed, and how the results of the qualifying exams impact the graduate student.

Learning Objectives: At the end of this program, participants will be able to:

Describe experiences with qualifying exams within PhD programs across campus
Identify practices within the use of qualifying exams from other PHD programs across campus that can be incorporated into or modified for ESOP’s graduate program

Target Audience: This program is designed for Division Directors, faculty, staff, preceptors and fellows who support graduate education.

Registration: For non-UNC affiliates, registration is $15.00. (UNC Affiliates are considered to be faculty, staff, trainees, students, preceptors and residents who currently work for the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill or support its students.)

REGISTRATION DEADLINE: Friday, April 9, at 5 p.m.

Presenter Information

Beka Layton, PhD, Director of Professional Development Programs, Biological & Biomedical Sciences Program, UNC School of Medicine

As the Director of Professional Development Programs, Rebekah Layton is responsible for designing and evaluating Training Initiatives in Biological and Biomedical Sciences (TIBBS) career development programs in support of 1000+ biological and biomedical science trainees. Dr. Layton is a graduate education researcher with a focus on career and professional development programs and outcomes for PhDs, working with such national collaborations as NIH Broadening Experiences in Graduate Training (NIH BEST), the Graduate Career Consortium (GCC), and the AAMC Graduate Research on Education and Training (GREAT) Group.

Panel Moderator Information

Michael Jarstfer, PhD, Assistant Dean for Graudate Education & Associste Professor, UNC Eshelman School of Pharmacy

As Assistant Dean for Graduate Education, Mike Jarstfer is the Director of Graduate Studies for Pharmaceutical Sciences PhD Program and in this role advances innovative approaches to enhance graduate training. The Jarstfer lab is interested in targeting telomere biology for aging disorders and cancer treatment strategies and exploring the mechanism of oxytocin in controlling social behavior.

Panelist Information

Wolfgang Bergmeier, PhD, Director of Graduate Studies & Professor of Biochemistry & Biophysics, UNC School of Medicine

Wolfgang Bergmeier is director of graduate studies for the department of Biochemistry and Biophysics. He is also a member of the UNC Blood Research Center. His lab employs a multidisciplinary approach to investigate how stem cells turn into a unique blood cell, the Platelet, and how altered platelet function contributes to human disease.

J. Mauro Calabrese, PhD, Director of Graduate Studies & Associate Professor, UNC School of Medicine

J. Mauro Calabrese is Director of Graduate Studies for the Pharmacology Curriculum and an associate professor in the Pharmacology Department and Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center. His lab studies how gene expression is regulated in the nucleus by long noncoding RNAs.

Rebecca Fry, PhD, Director of Graduate Studies, Associate Chair for Strategic Initiatives, Carol Remmer Angle Distinguished Professor in Children's Environmental Health & Research Professor, UNC Gilling School of Global Public Health

Rebecca Fry is Director of the Institute for Environmental Health Solutions and the Carol Remmer Angle Distinguished Professor in Children’s Environmental Health in the Department of Environmental Sciences and Engineering at UNC-Chapel Hill. Her lab focuses on understanding how environmental exposures to toxic substances are associated with human disease. With a particular focus on genomic and epigenomic perturbations, her labs use toxicogenomic and systems biology approaches to identify key molecular pathways that associate environmental exposure with diseases. A current focus in the lab is to study prenatal exposure to various environmental contaminants including arsenic, cadmium, and perflourinated chemicals. Dr. Fry aims to understand molecular mechanisms by which such early exposures are associated with long-term health effects in humans. Ultimately, Dr. Fry’s lab aims to identify mechanisms of contaminant-induced disease and the basis for inter-individual disease susceptibility

Event FAQ

A Zoom link will be provided prior to the session via a confirmation Outlook invitation. If your login to Zoom is different from your name, please send an email to susan.charamut@unc.edu with details.

By registering you are automatically agreeing to:

1. Grant the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (the “University”) the irrevocable right and permission to use photographs and/or video recordings of me on University and other websites and in publications, promotional fliers, educational materials, derivative works, or for any other similar purpose without compensation to me.

2. Agreeing that such photographs and/or video recordings of me may be placed on the Internet. Understanding and agreeing that I may be identified by name and/or title in printed, internet or broadcast information that might accompany the photographs and/or video recordings of me. Waiving the right to approve the final product. Agreeing that all such portraits, pictures, photographs, video and audio recordings, and any reproductions thereof, and all plates, negatives, recording tape and digital files are and shall remain the property of the University.

3. Releasing, acquitting and forever discharging the State of North Carolina, the University, its current and former trustees, agents, officers and employees of the above-named entities from any and all claims, demands, rights, promises, damages and liabilities arising out of or in connection with the use or distribution of said photographs and/or video recordings, including but not limited to any claims for invasion of privacy, appropriation of likeness or defamation.

If you wish to decline this permission please contact – cipher@unc.edu.

Date: Apr 14, 2021 12:00 PM - 01:00 PM

Registration closes on Apr 09, 2021 05:00 PM

Activity Type

Knowledge

Please choose a Fee Type from the Drop Down Menu Below:

I am a

Wed, Apr 14, 2021

Registration closes on Apr 09, 2021 at 05:00 PM