Joining the LabI am not currently recruiting graduate students, postdoctoral researchers, or visiting scholars. Exceptions include folks who have secured their own funding. Some information below...
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Graduate Students
I am not currently recruiting graduate students. If you are an NMSU student interested in pursuing a degree in my lab in future years, please reach out to see how we can build a relationship in the meanwhile.
Before you contact me about completing your PhD in my lab, please ask yourself the following questions:
All students admitted to the program will be supported by a combination of teaching and research assistantships. Please note that NMSU does not offer full tuition waivers to graduate students, though tuition will be provided if extramural funding allows. For more information on graduate school at NMSU, including tuition structure, please visit: https://gradschool.nmsu.edu/index.html.
Before you contact me about completing your PhD in my lab, please ask yourself the following questions:
- Why are you interested in pursuing a PhD?
- What research questions do you want to address? Why?
- What are your long-term career objectives? How will a position in my lab help you meet those objectives?
- What fellowships have you applied for or will you apply for?
All students admitted to the program will be supported by a combination of teaching and research assistantships. Please note that NMSU does not offer full tuition waivers to graduate students, though tuition will be provided if extramural funding allows. For more information on graduate school at NMSU, including tuition structure, please visit: https://gradschool.nmsu.edu/index.html.
Expectations
If you are considering joining my laboratory, please review this paragraph and reflect on your expectations of an advisor/mentor. If you are joining the lab as a PhD student, I expect that you: come up with your own research questions; design and lead your experiments; analyze data as experiments are conducted; and work on publications as you conduct research. If you are joining the lab as a MS student, we can develop questions and experimental plans collaboratively; you will still conduct research and analyses independently, but with more support and oversight than if you were a PhD student. I expect professionalism and a good work ethic of all students. Throughout your tenure in my lab, I will provide guidance, constructive criticism, and suggestions to help you develop professionally. I expect you are open to that mentoring. We will meet weekly for mandatory (1) one on one meetings and (2) team meetings. Prior to one on one meetings, you will provide updates via this template. This will help guide our discussion during the time we have each week. You will also provide updates, with supporting slides, to teams during team meetings. I will be available for additional conversations about publications, professional development, or to go through data, as needed.
More specific expectations are outlined in this agreement that we will sign upon your arrival. Please note that prior to work in the laboratory, you will proceed through a two-week onboarding process in which you complete institution and lab-specific safety training, as well as instrument training. You will not be able to work in the lab until you have been signed off on this onboarding. For both safety and science reasons, we work normal or close-to-normal business hours (i.e., within the hours of 8 am – 6 pm) in the lab and field. Work outside of these hours must be approved.
More specific expectations are outlined in this agreement that we will sign upon your arrival. Please note that prior to work in the laboratory, you will proceed through a two-week onboarding process in which you complete institution and lab-specific safety training, as well as instrument training. You will not be able to work in the lab until you have been signed off on this onboarding. For both safety and science reasons, we work normal or close-to-normal business hours (i.e., within the hours of 8 am – 6 pm) in the lab and field. Work outside of these hours must be approved.
Diversity
We recognize the value of diversity on project teams. Diversity fosters different kinds of inquiry and approaches to problem solving, generating innovations that have the power to solve some of the most pressing challenges facing our society today. The link between demographic diversity and innovation is well founded; yet, the novel contributions by individuals from diverse demographic groups are devalued and discounted, in part from the lack of underrepresented groups in certain career roles. Increasing diversity and inclusion is a complex, multifaceted aim that we believe needs to be addressed honestly and openly and as our team evolves. The Corcoran Lab commits to:
● making the lab a trusting place to have complex and sometimes difficult conversations about diversity and inclusion
● to implement education on unconscious bias
● take specific actions to promote diversity and equity on our teams, including multidimensional mentoring
We welcome all members regardless of race, religion, ethnicity, gender, orientation, age, or belief -- and we work to provide opportunities to those from groups that have historically been excluded.
● making the lab a trusting place to have complex and sometimes difficult conversations about diversity and inclusion
● to implement education on unconscious bias
● take specific actions to promote diversity and equity on our teams, including multidimensional mentoring
We welcome all members regardless of race, religion, ethnicity, gender, orientation, age, or belief -- and we work to provide opportunities to those from groups that have historically been excluded.