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<p style="background:white"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">BPHY </span>
<span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:#201F1E">Graduate Students,</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p style="background:white"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:#201F1E">Spring Quarter is in full swing, and now is a good time to check your Degree Audit to ensure you are on track to your degree. This applies to MS and PhD students.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p style="background:white"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:#201F1E">Are you planning to advance to candidacy or defend your dissertation this Spring or Summer Quarter 2022? If yes, please let me know the proposed date so I can get it on my calendar.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p style="background:white"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:#201F1E">PhD Advancement to Candidacy:</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:#201F1E"> check the Graduate Division website for the procedures and forms to nominate the committee, etc.
All degree requirements need to be done before you will be advanced. </span><span style="color:#201F1E"><a href="https://graduate.ucr.edu/regulations-and-procedures#doctoral" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">Regulations and Procedures | Graduate
Division (ucr.edu)</span></a></span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p style="background:white"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:#201F1E">PhD Dissertation Defense:</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:#201F1E"> check the Graduate Division website for the timeline, policies, and procedures for the defense process,
graduation, etc. </span><span style="color:#201F1E"><a href="https://graduate.ucr.edu/graduation-procedures" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">Graduation Procedures | Graduate Division (ucr.edu)</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="background:white"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:#201F1E"> If you have questions about your specific situation, please let me know and we can review it together in a zoom or in person meeting</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">.</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:#201F1E"> </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p style="background:white"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:#201F1E">Thank you,</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<b>Fidel Rivas</b><o:p></o:p></p>
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Student Services Advisor<o:p></o:p></p>
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CNAS Graduate Student Affairs Center<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><a href="mailto:fidelr@ucr.edu">fidelr@ucr.edu</a> | (951) 827-5688<o:p></o:p></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b>Plant Biology (PLBL), Environmental Toxicology (ENTX) & BioPhysics (BPHY)<o:p></o:p></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><a href="https://doodle.com/mm/fidelrivas/fidel-rivas-bookable-calendar">https://doodle.com/mm/fidelrivas/fidel-rivas-bookable-calendar</a><o:p></o:p></b></p>
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