Academics and appointments

Course enrollment deadlines - to avoid late fees, you need to make sure you register for your classes before the deadline.

Candidacy timeline - a useful flow chart that summarizes the steps you must take to complete candidacy.

Research Commons - a campus community where graduate students, faculty, and postdoctoral researchers can connect with experts for support at any stage in the research lifecycle.

Graduate Associate and Fellow appointment dates - confirm the exact start and end dates of your GRA, GTA or fellowship appointments.

Minimum credit hour requirements - confirm the minimum and maximum number of credit hours that you should register for based on whether you are a Graduate Associate or Fellow and whether you are pre- or post-candidacy.

Health and wellness

Office of Student Life - offers multiple programs and services that enhance the student experience including engagement, health and wellness, community, campus living, academic, administrative and career support.

Counseling and Consultation Service - provides individual and group mental health services, psychoeducational workshops and outreach programming to currently enrolled undergraduate, graduate and professional students, as well as spouses/partners of students who are covered by the Student Health Insurance Plan.

Student Health Services - open to all students enrolled at Ohio State University, the Wilce Student Health Center, Student Life Student Health Services (SLSHS), is an accredited outpatient facility providing a variety of health care services..

Disability Services - collaborates with and empowers students who have disabilities in order to coordinate support services and programs that enable equal access to an education and university life.

RUOK? Buckeyes - an anonymous interactive screening program designed to identify students at-risk of suicide and encourage them to get help.

Professional development

MCDB LinkedIn group - connect with MCDB alumni across the world!

The positive aspects of being a PhD student (pdf) - there are challenges and difficulties in graduate school, but this  article highlights the positive elements of the PhD experience.

Mentoring Up (pdf) - an important article for graduate students on the mentor-mentee relationship

National Research Mentoring Network (NRMN) - an outstanding resource providing researchers across all career stages in the biomedical, behavioral, clinical, and social sciences with the evidence-based mentorship and professional development programming.

Complete your own Individual Development Plan (myIDP) - prepared by the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) and the Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology (FASEB), myIDP is a unique, web-based career-planning tool tailored to meet the needs of PhD students and postdocs in the sciences.

Student governance and engagement

Council of Graduate Students (CGS) - the official student government for the 10,000+ graduate students at Ohio State University. The Council directly serves and supports graduate students and is an advocate for issues of importance to graduate students.

MCDB Graduate Student Organization - a student-run body that organizes social, professional development and outreach for the MCBD student body, including recruitment activities, hosting seminar speakers and planning the IGP symposium.