If you fulfill the above requirements and need to find a faculty member who will serve as your 486 mentor, take a look at the list of biology faculty, along with their research interests. You can also take a look at faculty in health sciences, organized by department. You will contact a faculty member and see if they are willing to mentor you. Provide the faculty member with a copy of the biology 486 guidelines so that they know what is involved.

Here are the guidelines for Biology 486. These guidelines list the requirements for Biology 486 provide an outline for the three semesters.

The guidelines include help with formatting for your proposal and thesis. To further help you, Here is a sample proposal title page. It is .doc file that can be opened in Microsoft Word. At your proposal defense, you will need to bring along a copy of your title page with spaces for your committee to sign. Here is a sample proposal title page with committee signature lines. If you have trouble opening the .doc file, you can use this .pdf version instead. You can open the .pdf file in Adobe Acrobat reader. You can click on the link for Adobe Acrobat below and download that application if you need it.

Here is a sample thesis title page. Here is a sample thesis title page with committee signature lines (.doc file) or .pdf version instead. As in your proposal defense, you will need to bring a copy of your title page with spaces for your committee to sign.