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What?  Who? Role?
Chair of Plant Sciences Dr. Eleanore Wurtzel
  • Coordinates admissions to the Plant Sciences Doctoral Subprogram
  • Coordinates First Level Exam
  • General Program planning
  • Chair of the Plant Sciences Advisory Committee which deals with exams, admissions to the doctoral program, faculty membership.
  • Member of the Executive Committee of the Biology PhD Program
  • Coordinates plant sciences program activities on a CUNY-wide basis.
Graduate Deputy Chair Dr. Dwight Kincaid
  • The administrative connection between the doctoral student and the university. See the Graduate Deputy Chair for advice and signing of forms. 
  • Each CUNY campus that participates in the Biology Doctoral Program has their own Graduate Deputy Chair to advise students on the campus.
  • Member of the Executive Committee of the Biology PhD Program
Director of Graduate Studies, CUNY-NYBG Dr. Larry Kelly
  • Liaison with the CUNY Plant Sciences Advisory Committee, Plant Sciences Chair, and the Lehman Graduate Deputy Chair
  • Administrator for the NYBG students
  • Liaison to CUNY students who need access to NYBG facilities and resources.
  • Facilitator of graduate student support at the NYBG
Chair, Dept. of Biological Sciences, Lehman College Dr. Joe Rachlin
  • Assigns adjunct teaching and coordinates graduate student support in the Lehman Department of Biological Sciences.

last edited 09/05/2007