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May 1 , 2007 Bioinformatics & Computational Biology (BCB) training program director Tim Elston presented an overview of the proposed PhD program to the Graduate Council of the UNC General Administration on April 30, 2007. After multiple questions and some discussion, the Graduate Council voted unanimously to approve the request to plan the PhD program in BCB. The formal proposal for the PhD-granting curriculum was submitted to the UNC-GA in October of 2006, after a series of reviews and committee approvals within various ranks of the UNC-Chapel Hill administration. Since October, all the representative chairs, deans, and administrators of the wider UNC System have had an opportunity to review the proposal and assess the need for such a program in the state of North Carolina. With their initial approval in hand, the BCB proposal now enters the second and final phase in establishing the PhD program. Over the next few months, an expanded proposal outlining all the details of the final curriculum, admissions/recruitment process, administration, and funding of the program will be developed and then reviewed by internal and external committees before final submission to the UNC-GA. The standard timeline for approval would permit students to matriculate in fall 2009; however, a plan to fast-track the approval process has been proposed, which would allow students to matriculate into the PhD program as early as fall 2008. |
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