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Department of Pharmaceutics & Pharmaceutical Chemistry
College of Pharmacy
301 Skaggs Hall
30 South 2000 East
Salt Lake City, UT 84112
phone: (801) 581-7831
fax: (801) 581-3674






Student Information - Seminars

Student Seminar Policy

The Department policy requires that students working toward a Ph.D. degree must present three Department seminars prior to their dissertation defense. Of the three required seminars, one may be replaced by either:

  1. A poster / oral presentation at a national meeting.
  2. Two poster / oral presentations at local or regional meetings.
Please note that each student must present a minimum of two Department seminars.

Seminar Schedule

Departmental seminars are held on Monday afternoons from 4:00-5:00, during the academic school year months (i.e., September through June). The general method of assigning seminar dates for the Department is as follows: all students beyond their first year of graduate training will be scheduled to provide a seminar each academic year. A seminar number will be arbitrarily assigned to each student. Open dates in the seminar schedule will be filled in numerical order. The seminar calendar may be lengthened or shortened to accommodate the number of seminar-eligible students in the Department.

Tentative Schedule

A tentative schedule will be distributed in the month of January of each year. This schedule will be posted on the Department Calendar. This tentative schedule will list seminar assignments for the next academic year.

Seminar Evaluation

In addition, at least 3 faculty members need to evaluate a student's seminar. You can download the Seminar Evaluation Form here.

Seminar Waiver

Students may request a seminar waiver for scheduled seminars under certain circumstances. Waiver requests must be made at least 2 months prior to the assigned seminar date (contact the seminar coordinator), and approved by the student's faculty advisor.  Additionally, the department chair will be notified of any student seminar cancellations.

Exchange of Seminar Dates

Seminar dates may be exchanged between students as desired. Notification of a date-exchange must be delivered to the seminar coordinator no later than two weeks before the earlier of the two exchanged dates.