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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;background:yellow;mso-highlight:yellow">REMINDER</span><span style="font-size:14.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Dear Biomed students and faculty advisors, <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">It is time for the yearly progress reports. Annual Research Progress Evaluations (ARPEs) are typically due at the end of spring, but due to COVID-19 graduate division has approved a later deadline. This year the evaluations are due no later
than <b>September 15, 2021</b>.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Please schedule the ARPE meeting (virtually) with your guidance or dissertation committee this spring or summer.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">If you are just completing Year 1, work with your major professor/PI to form your guidance committee (your PI plus 2 additional faculty). Schedule the ARPE meeting with your guidance committee once it has been established. If you have not
confirmed your home lab, please reach out to Dr. Sika Zheng to discuss your options for completing the ARPE.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Attached is the new ARPE form (word doc), fillable-PDF, and general instructions for completing the form. The one-page research summary is now incorporated into the form. You should be able to edit the fillable fields if you need more or
less space. <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">The fillable-PDF will be uploaded to the Biomed website by next week.
<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><i><span style="color:#002060">Note:</span></i></b><i><span style="color:#002060"> for students who have already met with their committee and used an older version of the ARPE, these forms still satisfy this requirement. There is no
need to resubmit.<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><br>
<b>Following are temporary guidelines due to the COVID-19 campus closure:<o:p></o:p></b></p>
<ul style="margin-top:0in" type="disc">
<li class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left:0in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo3">During campus closure use Zoom or other video conference application to schedule ARPE meeting.
<o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left:0in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo3">Students should fill out the data for the
<i>Academic Progress and Professional Development sections (pages 3-7)</i> and distribute electronic copies to the committee for review prior to the meeting (at least one week).<o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left:0in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo3">After meeting, the form can be routed electronically for signatures. Electronic signatures will be admissible in lieu of wet signatures.<o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left:0in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo3"><b>Once the student and committee have signed the ARPE, the major professor/chairperson should email the form to the BMSC graduate advisor, Dr. Sika Zheng,
<a href="mailto:Sika.Zheng@medsch.ucr.edu">Sika.Zheng@medsch.ucr.edu</a>.<o:p></o:p></b></li><li class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left:0in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo3">Dr. Zheng will submit to me, Hermila Torres,
<a href="mailto:hermila.torres@medsch.ucr.edu">hermila.torres@medsch.ucr.edu</a> for final processing and reporting to the Graduate Division. <o:p></o:p></li></ul>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Please let me know if you have any questions.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><br>
Best Regards,<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">Hermila Torres</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black"><br>
</span><span style="color:black">Program Coordinator (Student Services Advisor)<br>
Biomedical Sciences Graduate Program<br>
UCR School of Medicine<br>
<a href="mailto:hermila.torres@medsch.ucr.edu" target="_blank">hermila.torres@medsch.ucr.edu</a><br>
<a href="mailto:biomedsci@medsch.ucr.edu" target="_blank">biomedsci@medsch.ucr.edu</a><br>
Webber Hall 1143<br>
Office: (951) 827-4540<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><i><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:black;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in;background:white"><o:p> </o:p></span></i></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><i><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:black;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in;background:white">Biomedical Sciences staff are adhering to COVID-19 restrictions and working remote until further notice. We ask for your patience
during these uncertain times.</span></i></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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