| | | Be it enacted by the People of the State of Maine as follows: |
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| | | Sec. 1. P&SL 1865, c. 532, §9-B is enacted to read: |
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| | | Sec. 9-B.__Graduate school of biomedical sciences.__The Board of Trustees of | | the University of Maine System shall establish a graduate school | | of biomedical sciences, referred to in this section as "the | | school," to educate and train students in basic and clinical | | fields of biomedicine and the biosciences in accordance with the | | following: |
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| | | A.__The Board of Trustees of the University of Maine System | | shall establish the school in partnership with the Jackson | | Laboratory, the Maine Medical Center Research Institute and | | the Mount Desert Island Biological Laboratory, referred to | | in this section as "partner institutions." |
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| | | B.__The mission of the school is to administer a graduate | | education and fellowship program that is open on a | | competitive basis to its partner institutions, other Maine | | biomedical research institutions, Maine private education | | institutions and the University of Maine System. |
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| | | C.__To attract the most highly qualified graduate students | | from around the country and around the world, the school | | shall make every effort to ensure that the stipends offered | | by the school are sufficient to compete with the fellowship | | offers of the leading universities in the United States. |
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| | | D.__The Board of Trustees of the University of Maine System | | shall administer the school with the aid of an advisory | | committee composed of one representative from each of the | | partner institutions; one representative from the University | | of Southern Maine; one representative from the University of | | Maine System; and one representative from another research | | institution or institution of higher education in the State. |
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| | | E.__The school shall serve as the coordinating entity for | | interdisciplinary or interinstitutional graduate programs, | | including but not limited to doctoral programs in functional | | genomics, the Institute for Molecular Biophysics, | | cooperative doctoral programs in biochemistry and the Maine | | Institute for Human Genetics and Health. |
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| | | F.__The school shall work towards developing a college of | | allied health professions. |
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