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Annual Progress Report for Graduate Students and Advisors
(including form to be completed by student)
Each student will meet with a representative of the Graduate Coordinating Committee in the spring
semester to review progress and identify any concerns. Students who expect to graduate over the
summer should still have a meeting in the spring.
The purpose of this meeting is to:
1) Encourage the student to think critically about their own progress (or lack thereof) and goals for both
the immediate and long-term future.
2) Increase a sense of accountability on behalf of graduate students, and motivate students moving at a
slow pace to increase their productivity and involvement in the program.
3) Remind students that to be a truly successful graduate student, one should (ideally) demonstrate
success in multiple areas (research, funding, teaching, service), and provide examples for how to do that.
4) Provide a clear paper trail in case situations arise in which there is confusion or disagreement about a
student's progress.
The annual meeting also provides an opportunity for students to raise any concerns, and provide
feedback about the program and their graduate experience.
In preparation for progress review meetings,
• The student writes a report about their progress and submits it to their advisor and committee for
review and comments. This should occur in the first half of the spring semester. Instructions and
template for the student report are available at the program website, or from Lisa Buchalski.
• The advisor reviews and signs the student’s report, and then also fills out an evaluation describing
his/her view of the student's progress. Instructions and template for the advisor report are available
at the program website, or from Lisa Buchalski. Reports must be submitted at least one week before
scheduled meetings, normally by mid-April.
The advisor’s evaluation must include a summary report from a recent committee meeting; for
first-year students, this meeting should include discussion of the research proposal. Thus, the
research proposal and the committee meeting should be completed before the spring review.
• Instructors for whom the student has served as a teaching assistant provide comments on their
teaching. (If instructors have previously provided feedback as part of fellowship or other
applications, they can just send a copy.) Comments must be submitted at least one week before
scheduled meetings. There is no template for this evaluation; email to Lisa Buchalski is fine.

It is the student's responsibility to request comments from instructors for whom they've taught.
All reports and comments will be submitted to Lisa Buchalski, who will help schedule a review meeting
for each student with a member of the GPC (who is not their advisor), normally between mid-April and
mid-May. Following the meeting, comments and suggestions from the committee will be forwarded to
the student and advisor, and all review documents will be shared with the student’s committee unless
there is a specific reason/request they should not be.
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Spring progress review meetings are mandatory for all students in the program, including those who
expect to graduate by the end of the summer. Students whose paperwork is incomplete or who have not
yet had a meeting by the specified deadline (usually the end of May) will have their registration put on
hold at the Graduate School, unless there are documented extenuating circumstances that warrant a
delay.

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ANNUAL PROGRESS REPORT FOR GRADUATE STUDENTS
TO BE FILLED OUT BY THE STUDENT IN CONSULTATION WITH THE ADVISOR
(JUNE 2021 TO MAY 2022)

Name:

UNH ID:
Academic Progress

Biological Sciences Option (IOB or MB): ______

Masters or Ph.D.: _________

Date of entrance into program:

Expected completion date:

Advisor: ____________________________________
Graduate committee members (list institution for non-UNH members):

Most recent contact with graduate committee (date): __________
Next planned committee meeting (date): ___________
For Ph.D. students:
Date or expected date of candidacy exams: _____________ Passed ? _______
Date or expected date of dissertation proposal approval: __________________
Date or expected date of dissertation defense: __________________________

Current GPA: ________
Coursework (indicate course number, semester and grade for completed classes):
a. Core course: BIOL 901 ___________
b. Competencies:
Experimental design/analysis/statistics: _________________
Scientific writing/communication (required only for students who started before Fall 2017): ___________________
c. Additional courses required or recommended by committee:

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Address all of the following items separately, in a typed document. Attach a current CV and submit it to
your advisor and committee members. After obtaining your advisor's signature, submit the final
document to Diane Lavalliere in the department office.
1.

Attach an updated CV (maximum 2 pages). Make sure to include current grants and
publications to date. If you have presented at a meeting or conference, please include citation
information as well as the location and dates.

2.

Mentoring of undergraduate research students
List the names of any undergraduates you have supervised as research assistants, and describe
the activities in which you mentored them.

3.

Teaching
Please list courses you taught during this academic year as either a teaching assistant or a lead
instructor. Make sure to include the semester, course number, course title, number of sections
taught, and number of students in each section. Indicate roughly how many hours/week your
teaching duties for each course required (including prep, time in class/lab, grading, and meeting
with students).
Also list classes in which you gave at least one guest lecture, making sure to distinguish
these from the classes you taught as a TA.

4.

Service
Please list any service you have provided to the department, college, university, profession,
public groups, etc. This might include, but is not limited to, the following: organizing or hosting
departmental seminars (not just attending them), serving on departmental committees or as a
student representative to a committee, service to university student groups (including Grad
Student Senate), outreach activities, giving talks to non-professional audiences or school

students, refereeing manuscripts for professional journals.

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5.

Honors, awards, and funding applications
Please list all honors and awards you received during the year, as well as grants and fellowships
you have applied for and their outcome (funded, declined, or pending). Indicate the amount
awarded whenever applicable.

6.

Statement of professional goals
A brief statement describing the type of career you hope to pursue after earning your degree,
and any other professional goals you hope to achieve.

7.

Goals and achievements for the past academic year
Describe your academic goals for the previous year, and your progress toward achieving those
goals. Note areas in which you experienced any difficulty. If you feel you are not making
significant progress, explain why. Please include perceived departmental/university obstacles
that hinder your progress.

8.

Goals for the next academic year
Describe your academic goals for the coming year, and how you plan to achieve them. Include

your research plans for the coming year, as well as a projected timeline if appropriate.

9.

Data check-in

a. Where/how are your data stored?
b. Where/how are your data backed up?
c. If you were unexpectedly abducted by aliens, who would be able to access your data? Do they know
where to look? Are the data in a form that would make sense to them?
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Annual Progress Report for Graduate Students
Student Name
(typed):

UNH
ID:
Signatures

Student:

Your signature below indicates that you have discussed the contents of this
progress report with your advisor and shared it with your committee
members.

Student
Advisor:

Date
Your signature below indicates that you have discussed the contents of this
progress report with the student.

Advisor

Date

GPC representative present at meeting

Date

Comments/notes from meeting: Please indicate if any portion should NOT be shared with the student.
The default assumption is that the student and advisor (as well as the Grad Coordinator) will have
access to these notes. They may also be shared with the student’s committee.

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