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| − | Your progress report cover sheet should include the title of the project, your name, the name of your collaborator (i.e. lab partner), your year, your e-mail address, your advisor's name (i.e. instructors), an indication if this is the initial or follow up advisory meeting, the date. | + | Your progress report cover sheet should include the title of the project, your name, the name of your collaborator (i.e. lab partner), your year, your e-mail address, your advisor's name (i.e. instructors), an indication if this is the initial or follow up advisory meeting, the date. |
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Research projects take considerable time to complete, and "progress reports" are a common written form that has developed so others can evaluate intermediate stages of a larger, long-term project. Graduate students write progress reports for their thesis committees. Principle investigators write progress reports for funding agencies to summarize the ongoing successes and difficulties within a funded project. For this assignment, you will submit a progress report that describes the construction of the delta5 plasmid. You should write this report as if you were a 3rd year graduate student and you were submitting the report to your thesis advisory committee in advance of a meeting with them. You can presume they know the overall direction of your project from your first meeting with them and your qualifying exams, but now they would like to hear what progress you've made over the last few months. The following guidelines should be followed for this report. These guidelines have been adapted from the requirements for Harvard's Division of Medical Sciences PhD Program.
Cover Sheet
Your progress report cover sheet should include the title of the project, your name, the name of your collaborator (i.e. lab partner), your year, your e-mail address, your advisor's name (i.e. instructors), an indication if this is the initial or follow up advisory meeting, the date.
Body of Progress Report
- Specific Aims: If the aims have been modified from the original DAC meeting write up, the revised aims should be presented and the reasons for the modifications.
- Studies and Results: The studies directed toward specific aims and the positive and negative results obtained should be presented, as well as any technical problems encountered and how addressed.
- Significance: A brief discussion on the significance of the findings to the scientific field.
- Plans: A summary of plans to address the remaining Specific Aims, including any important modifications to the original plans.
