Well, my first major graduate school requirement has beenassigned to me for the spring semester. I will be giving my “first required seminar” to the department.  I am both excited and nervous already.  Because of this I feel it’s only appropriateto give a little overview of how my graduate school outline looks. I originallywas going to post a new “Under the Hood” featuring my topic for the seminar(and what will eventually become my thesis work) but I want to have a largebackground before I write that post so that I can accurately paraphrase,because in reality I would bet none of you really care.  But I appreciate all the site views andsupport for my blog regardless!

Anyway, if you go onto the Purdue IPPH website it has linksfor the curriculum and requirements but the links just lead to underconstruction pages.  So I will do my bestto fill you.  The Pharmaceutics Ph.D.program is considered a five year program so I will break it down into thosefive years and what is expected.

Year One –

Year Two –

Year Three –

Year Four –

Year Five (and Beyond) –

So as you can see there are essentially five big milestonesfor the graduate curriculum (bold).  I amexcited because I am finally getting to start on the first one!  I guarantee you will be hearing much more aboutall of these as they come and go.

As for my First Required Seminar, that involves an hourpresentation to all the professors and students in the department.  It is the stepping stone into givingpresentations at conferences and preparing for the grind of publishing anddefending work during and after graduate school.  Needless to say, this might be the leastsignificant presentation I ever give professionally, but it will definitelykeep me up a few nights in the near future!