Dissertation Guidelines

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Formatting Manual

 

Dissertation/Thesis Committees

PhD Candidates

• The examining committee must contain: 
  • Five graduate faculty members*, one of whom must be from a department other than the student's department. 
    • One additional member of the committee may be from outside the Health Sciences Center.
    • The Dean may serve as a member or may appoint members to the Committee.

MS Candidates: 

• The examinaing committee must contain: 
  • 3 graduate faculty members*, one of whom must be from a department different than the student's department. 
     

*Graduate faculty members must be current LSUHSC faculty that have been nominated by a basic sciences department and approved by the GAC before they are considered official graduate faculty members. More information can be found here: https://graduatestudies.lsuhsc.edu/graduate_faculty_membership.aspx.

Please check this website for the most up to date list of graduate faculty members: https://graduatestudies.lsuhsc.edu/graduate_faculty_members.aspx.  

 

Dissertation/Thesis Forms

Request Form: http://graduatestudies.lsuhsc.edu/docs/Dissertation%20&%20Thesis%20Request.pdf. The request form must be submitted two weeks prior to the defense. 

Report Form: http://graduatestudies.lsuhsc.edu/docs/Dissertation_Thesis_Defense_Final_Exam_Report.pdf 

The deadline to submit dissertations/thesis is always one month prior to the conferral date of a given term. If you have not turned in the report form by the deadline, your graduation date will be postponed until the subsequent semester. 

 

Dissertation/Thesis Publication

After your defense,  you must submit your dissertation or thesis to ProQuest for electronic publication at the following link: https://secure.etdadmin.com/cgi-bin/etdadmin_login?form=etdadmin&request_uri=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.etdadmin.com%2Fcgi-bin%2Fstudent%2Fetd