Students are expected to engage in ongoing research throughout their academic career. It is through their research that many students develop some beginning clinical skills as well as integrate their academic knowledge with their practical experiences. Students will be paired with a faculty mentor beginning in their first year (although most students choose to work with the same faculty mentor throughout their tenure, some students do change mentors as their interests change and develop). The expectation is that students will produce a written product (in the format of a journal article suitable for publication) by the end of the second year. For either the dissertation or this second year research project, and certainly both when possible, students are expected to collect original data. As a faculty, we believe that the experience of designing a research project and seeing it through from initial IRB approval to data collection to completed results and analysis is essential to earning a Ph.D.

Research Projects

		Second Year Research Project
		Doctoral Dissertation