On Tuesday, May 9th, Elaina completed her PhD qualifying exams with an "Unconditional Pass." The qualifying exam is a 3+ hour-long oral examination where Elaina had to present her doctoral thesis to a panel of specialized doctors, whose sole purpose was to question everything she knows about Neuroscience. Ask any grad student -- qualifying exams are much harder than defending your thesis.
A clean pass is rare, and is the highest ranking available :)
She is now officially considered a doctoral candidate, and must complete the experiments she proposed in the exam to graduate. Congratulations!!!
And now for a corny picture of a happy Elaina:
3 comments:
Yay Elaina!!! Congrats. How was the trip to Italy? Tell me all about it.
Congratulations, Elaina! Simply brilliant.
Congratulations Elaina! That is awesome!
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