The Biological Sciences Graduate program supports and ensures each graduate student receives the individual guidance needed to achieve their academic goals.
Program Director and Assistant
If, for some reason, you feel you are not getting the guidance you feel you need, please see the Graduate Director before considering any change in advisor. Open communication will help to limit the likelihood of needed change.
- Associate Professor, Biological Sciences
- Graduate Program Director, Biological Sciences
- xiaohut@mtu.edu
- Phone: 906-487-3068
- Office: Dow 505
Links of Interest
Research Interests
- Cancer Genetics and Metabolism
- Mechanisms of Cancer Initiation and Progression
- Functional Genomics and Bioinformatics
- Interactions of Diet and Nutrition with Cancer
Tori Connors
- Department Coordinator
- tconnors@mtu.edu
- 906-487-1628
- Dow 739
Research
To help expedite degree completion, a student should ideally begin conducting degree research with a faculty research advisor no later than during the senior year. Each student will work with a faculty research advisor who is a member of the Department of Biological Sciences graduate faculty. The advisor’s primary responsibility is to supervise the student’s research and academic and professional growth, as well as to work with the student to develop an academic plan for enrolling in the appropriate courses. The academic plan developed by the student and academic advisor will need written approval from the faculty advisor and the Biological Sciences Graduate Program Director.
Intellectual Property
Your Advisor is a member of the faculty with whom you work to design, implement and defend your graduate academic program and thesis. The ideas generated are intellectual property of many (you, your advisor and committee members, and possibly the funding source). Please consider and acknowledge that.