General Information: Graduate Handbook for KSU - Check here for answers to most of your questions about the policies of the KSU Graduate School

Specific Information for Biology graduate students

• The Graduate Stipend Increase
• Financial support and teaching responsibilities
• Guidelines for MS Degree and Final Exam (html or Rich Text Format for importation into a word processor) - Fall 1988
• Generalized Timetable for Ph.D. students prior to the preliminary examination
• Guidelines for Ph.D. prelim exam (html or Rich Text Format for importation into a word processor) - Jan. 1994
• Guidelines for Ph.D. Final Exam (html or Rich Text Format for importation into a word processor) - Jan. 1994
• Curriculum for Microbiology students
• GAC Policies adopted 12/98
  • English Language Proficiency
  • Support for students of Ancillary Faculty
  • Support for students originally admitted as GRAs
  • Transitions from MS to Ph.D. degree programs
  • Graduate student support from Division funds
• March 2000 memo from the graduate school reenrollment thresholds for graduate students (GTA and GRA appointments)
• Feb 2001 memo about stipend increase and teaching requirement for Biology Graduate Students

Forms to be turned in with Biology Program of Study

• Major Professor agreement (html or Rich Text Format for importation into a word processor)
• Tentative schedule for completion of the degree (html or Rich Text Format for importation into a word processor)
• Coursework resumé (html or Rich Text Format for importation into a word processor)
• Blank Curriculum Vitae (html or Rich Text Format for importation into a word processor)
• Tentative Research Plan (html or Rich Text Format for importation into a word processor)
• Program of study guidelines, other information, and electronic access to various documents required by the KSU Graduate School 
• Graduate Handbook

Paper copies of these forms are also available from Becki Bohnenblust in the Biology Division Office. All of these forms, including the Program of Study, should be submitted to Becki Bohnenblust when completed. DO NOT SEND THESE DIRECTLY TO THE GRADUATE SCHOOL. They must be approved by the GAC and signed by Dr. Rintoul and Dr. Spooner before they can be forwarded to the graduate school.

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Academic Institutions

You can usually find a link to colleges/departments on their respective College/University homepage. Just use one of the links below to locate the institution and go from there.

• American Universities
• Canadian Universities
• Community Colleges
• International Universities

Professional Societies

• Scholarly Societies Project - This site provides links to over 1,000 professional society webpages and gophers. It includes an alphabetical list, lists by subject, and links to many journals.

Sites of Interest to Biologists

At KSU

• ADVANCE Institutional Transformation project - coordinated campus effort to achieve institutional transformation by increasing the participation and advancement of women faculty in the science, mathematics and engineering disciplines.
• Bioinformatics
• Biology Research Microscope and Image Processing Facility - If you're interested in visualizing biological materials at the subcellular, cellular, and tissue levels
• Center for Basic Cancer Research
• Center for the Understanding of Origins
• Conservation Genetic and Molecular Ecology Lab  
• Ecological Genomics in Kansas - This research initiative aims to link responses of living systems to environmental change at the genetic level
• Ecosystem Ecology Laboratory
• EPSCoR - Experimental Program to Stimulate Competitive Research.  Kansas State University and Emporia State University have collaborated to establish three focus groups, which performed ground-based experiments to examine the effects of gravity and the lack thereof on critical cell biology areas.
• Functional Genomics Consortium
• Glycomics Center
• GROW - Girls Researching Our World. A network of partners bringing middle school girls into science, math, engineering and technology.
• K-State Herbarium  
• The Herman Lab - information on the control of cell polarity in C. elegans
• Laboratory for Plant Molecular Systematics - information on plant systematics research at K-State 
• Kansas GAP Analysis - information on regional assessment of the conservation status of native vertebrate species and natural land cover types
• Konza Environmental Education Program - Science-based education program
• Lipidomics Research Center
• Lipid Signaling/Lipidomics Group  
• Molecular Cellular and Developmental Biology Program
• Molecular Virology at K-State
• Parasitology Laboratory - information on Cryptosporidium research here at KSU
• Stable Isotope Mass Spectrometry Laboratory (SIMSL)
• Tribolium Genetics Program - information on Tribolium genetics 

Elsewhere

• American Fisheries Society
• Association for the Advancement of Sustainability in Higher Education (AASHE) - Member organization of colleges and universities in the U.S. and Canada working to create a sustainable future
• American Society for Microbiology (ASM) - Office of Education and Training - career information and fellowship opportunities in the biological/microbiological sciences at the undergraduate, graduate, and post doctoral level 
• Baylor College of Medicine Human Genome Sequencing Center - Links to data related to sequencing, biological databases, search tools, etc.
• Biosciences: Index - Comprehensive collection of links at Harvard Biological Laboratories.
• Community of Science Web Server - The COS World Wide Web server contains information about scientific expertise, funded scientific research, and funding opportunities for research
• Dictionary of Cell Biology
• Eisenhower National Clearinghouse for Mathematics and Science - K-12 math and science education
• GenScope - Multi-level Science: Genetics from DNA to Populations
• Howard Hughes Medical Institute
• Introduction to Phylogeny - University of California Museum of Paleontology
• NASA Homepage
• National Center for Biotechnology Information
• National Institutes of Health (NIH)
• Natural Resource Related Sites
• Software for Biology
• U.S. National Library of Medicine (NLM)

WWW Information at K-State

• Information Technology Policies at K-State
• Tools for World Wide Web Publishing
• Creating Your Own Home Page at K-State

WWW Search Engines - Here are a few of the most popular search engines on the web.

• Excite
• Google
• HotBot
• WebCrawler
• Yahoo