Peng Zhao's List: Application

• Debra Stewart, president of the Council of Graduate Schools in Washington DC, says that there is typically a year-long lag between the start of a recession and the application peak. She thinks that applications could continue to rise over the next year as students apply for graduate study in 2010.
• Berkeley, told Nature that its applications for doctoral programmes in those fields climbed by almost 7% from last year
• Berkeley awards the greatest number of science and engineering doctorates in the United States, according to the latest comprehensive data from the National Science Foundation.

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• University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, the second-largest awarder of US science and engineering doctorates, saw overall application numbers climb by 16%.

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• whereas those for physics actually declined slightly.
• Janet Weiss, dean of Michigan's graduate school, says that applications from domestic students increased more than those from students abroad.
• the relative dearth of domestic students getting science and engineering doctorates. The number of such degrees granted to US citizens and permanent residents peaked in the mid-1990s, fell back again until 2002, and has climbed slowly since.
• Over that same period, the number of doctorates granted to foreign students has grown by more than 70%. Although the number of foreign students dropped in the years after the 2001 terrorist attacks, it has risen in recent years.
• The trend in domestic students this year was also apparent at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, another top-five school for science and engineering doctorates. Domestic applications rose by 25%, whereas foreign ones rose by 13%.

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• The Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge, the third-largest awarder of science and engineering doctorates, received 9,475 doctoral applications this year, a 6% increase. During the previous four years, the growth in applications had held steady at about 4% a year

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• most universities are unlikely to expand the number they enrol because they lack the resources to support more graduate students. The application surge "is happening right at the same time that most universities are undergoing the most serious financial constraints they have faced in decades and decades",

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• The economic stimulus package currently working its way through Congress is likely to inject billions of dollars into the budgets of the scientific agencies, which will no doubt be welcome to researchers (see Nature 457, 364–365; 2009). But without careful planning and sustained follow-up funding, that sudden infusion of money could end up worsening the career crisis rather then easing it. Indeed, it could readily become a replay of what happened after the budget of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) was doubled between 1998 and 2003, when the extra money drew in new scientists who then foundered when the budget virtually flat-lined in subsequent years.
• The career crisis is especially stark in the biomedical fields, where the number of tenure-track and tenured positions has not increased in the past two decades even as universities have nearly doubled their production of biomedical doctorates.
• doctoral programmes should build better career counselling and training into their curricula from the start. Reform-minded deans have long championed this change but faculty members have resisted, in part because they cling to the archaic prejudice — implicit at times — that students who leave academia are failures.

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• Tips

   

  The best I/O Journals in my humble opinion are the Journal of Applied Psychology, Journal of Organizational Behavior, Personnel Psychology, Work & Stress, and Organizational Research Methods.

   

  A strong background in research methods and statistics is essential for sound I/O skills, whether you plan to be a practitioner, a consultant, or pursue academia.  

   

  Most of the real skill in I/O is built through doing I/O.  I never really knew about job analysis until I had completed a few job analyses.

   

  Because I/O was built upon personality, cognitive, behavioral, social, and experimental psychology, a better understanding of the building blocks will result in a better understanding of I/O.  

   

  Fruitful areas of research in I/O include the role of personality and emotions in the workplace, the power and leadership process in organizations, computer modeling of organizational processes, globalization issues, and examining organizations from a cross-cultural perspective.

  • I may be required to take several I/O courses!

• The current annual stipend for doctoral students studying  at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory is $29,500 per year (and is reviewed annually).

  • However, biology oriented...

• 尤其是查找某个作者发表了哪些SCI收录的论文及被引用了多少次的方法。具体的来说，进入SCI数据库（WOS）, 这是它的主页网址：http://apps.isiknowledge.com/WOS_GeneralSearch_input.do?product=WOS&search_mode=GeneralSearch&SID=4CKgOAf843Jpb6joALn&preferencesSaved= 在主页正中可以看到一个“author finder”，单击，进入作者查找页面，网址为http://apps.isiknowledge.com/OutboundService.do?action=go&mode=afService&SID=4CKgOAf843Jpb6joALn&product=WOS，然后在第一个方框里面输入作者的姓（中国人为汉语拼音），例如检索王晓东的，则姓为：wang， 第二个方框输入名的首字母X，第三个方框输入D，如果是单名就不需要输入第三个方框了。然后点击next，确认作者姓名的缩写，next，选择研究的领域，我们一般选择“LIFE SCIENCES & BIOMEDICINE”，next，选择作者单位，完成即可。
• 右侧的说明可以看到总被引频次，h指数等统计指标。此外，由于有些人通过大量不适当的自引来提高指标，可以通过点击右侧的去除自引看他引次数有多少。
• 一般的教授是什么水平呢？我查过一个博导，被引次数九十几次，估计国内教授差不多就是这么多吧！做的好的，例如哈佛的年轻的助理教授，一般是五六百多次，正教授，一般是五六千次。据说国内院士是一千多次，但我没有查过。我查到不多，样本量太少，数据不一定准确，有兴趣的可以自己查查。
• 查一个科学家的手中基金数量也很有帮助。当然是越多越好。对于查美国NIH的funding，我们还是很容易做到的
   http://crisp.cit.nih.gov/crisp/crisp_query.generate_screen
   输入姓名之类即可
   每个funding的数目和内涵都可以google到。一般来说，像样一点的lab起码要一个以上R开头或者P开头的grant
• NIH的钱找具体金额我用google还没有找不到的，你可以加上诸如“dollars”作为关键词。NSF起码我认识的人里拿到的不多。其实还有美国国防部也有一部分，比如我认识一个做炭疽的。HHMI要上HHMI网站上找。很多具体疾病也有相应的funding，比较著名的有American Heart。还有有些NIH的钱是很多教授分的，不是每个分钱的都有名字。其他美国农业部，CDC之类也有一些自己相当规模的资助。所以总的来说，起码我不认为有什么方法可以轻易查到一个美国教授手里所有的钱，甚至我自己的导师我都没有办法了解，除非我直接问他。
• IH的钱找具体金额我用google还没有找不到的，你可以加上诸如“dollars”作为关键词。NSF起码我认识的人里拿到的不多。其实还有美国国防部也有一部分，比如我认识一个做炭疽的。HHMI要上HHMI网站上找。很多具体疾病也有相应的funding，比较著名的有American Heart。还有有些NIH的钱是很多教授分的，不是每个分钱的都有名字。其他美国农业部，CDC之类也有一些自己相当规模的资助。所以总的来说，起码我不认为有什么方法可以轻易查到一个美国教授手里所有的钱，甚至我自己的导师我都没有办法了解，除非我直接问他。
• 你不需要查整个数字字母组合，只要查从第一个字母到后面两个数字的这一段就好了
   比如这个5P01AI045897-090007 ，俗称 P01，是program project 的简称，是多个PI(principle investigator)联合申请的大grant，总共起码是几百万
   另外常见的如R01，一般一百万5年，是NIH指出最大规模的grant
   R21，一般20万三年给高风险项目，R15好像是3年15万给同时需要教书的PI
   其实就几个常见的，看多了就记得了

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• "A good number [of endowments] are seeing about a 30% decline since last year."
• Harvard University announced in December that its endowment, the world's largest and worth $36.9 billion at mid-year, had dropped 22% from that amount by the end of November — with worse expected to come. As of mid-December, the world's second-largest endowment, that of Yale University, had fallen 25% since mid-year, when it stood at $22.9 billion.
• In some ways, the big universities have been a victim of their own success. As endowments experienced double-digit increases nearly every year through the 1990s and 2000s, universities have become ever more dependent on them in their overall budgets
• Harvard has put a partial hiring freeze in place. Stanford University in Palo Alto, California, will trim its budget next year by 5% by postponing new construction, controlling salaries and cutting some jobs.

  • Stanford locates in Palo Alto
• half of the 371 college and university presidents who responded reported freezing new hiring. In addition, 22% reported freezing salaries, and more than two-thirds were planning to raise tuition fees for the next academic year. Their manoeuvres stem partly from falling endowments, but also from concerns such as greater difficulty in raising funds and declining student enrolment numbers.
• The endowment phenomenon is largely American, where there is a long tradition of private fund-raising in higher education. In Europe, the only two universities with multibillion-dollar endowments are Oxford and Cambridge
• That is also the case for small universities in the United States, which are worried about budget cuts at the state level because their endowments won't be bailing them out. The 1,600 private US institutions have a median endowment of only $16 million, according to 2007 data
• Most public universities have similarly small endowments, with the exception of a handful of monster-sized ones, such as those of the University of Texas and the University of California systems.
• Nearly a year ago, in a very different climate, universities were facing scrutiny in the US Congress. Representatives wanted to know why college tuition fees kept rising even though some universities, bolstered by successful endowments, seemed to be getting richer. They proposed legislation that would mandate state universities to spend 5% of the value of their endowment assets each year — for instance to reduce tuition fees — as is the case for private foundations.

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• The same technologies that allow scholars to probe the structures and functions of the human brain are also causing profound alterations in the structures and functions of psychology departments. Curricula, hiring patterns, budgets, and tenure-and-promotion expectations are all shifting rapidly.
• Curricula, hiring patterns, budgets, and tenure-and-promotion expectations are all shifting rapidly.
• "The individual investigator who has a great idea and can follow that idea with a couple of graduate students over a 10-year period — that era is probably gone,"
• As the director of Chicago's Center for Cognitive and Social Neuroscience, he oversees large federal grants, several laboratories, and a small army of graduate assistants. Mr. Cacioppo "is almost like the manager of a corporation," Mr. Kraut says. That sort of role is familiar in departments of biology and physics. But for psychologists, it is something new under the sun.
• Roughly half of the young scholars recently hired to tenure-track positions in Mr. Cacioppo's department had extensive graduate-level training in magnetic resonance imaging and other tools of neuroscience. "But that's not a requirement for us," says Mr. Cacioppo, who emphasizes that his department continues to hire people with more-traditional training. The important thing, he says, is that the two groups are encouraged to communicate and collaborate with each other.

• Jennifer Crocker, a professor of psychology at the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor, has received grant money from the institute since 1998 to support her studies on how people pursue a sense of self-worth (and the sometimes-destructive effects of that pursuit). But she has been told that her grant will not be renewed after it expires in March, because the institute no longer finances basic behavioral research.

    

  In an e-mail message to The Chronicle, Ms. Crocker says that she respects the mental-health institute's right to set its own priorities. But she says that its recent overwhelmingly biological emphasis is a mistake.
• Ms. Darling says that she gladly includes physiological measures when appropriate. But in the current climate, she feels compelled to add biological components to each and every grant proposal, even if they don't really fit the particular study.

• George A. Alvarez

    

  Position: assistant professor of psychology, Harvard University (hired in 2008)

    

  Training: Ph.D., Harvard, 2005; postdoc at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology

    

  Research questions: How do our visual processing systems interact with our systems of attention and working memory? How many visual objects can we track at the same time?

• Cindy Lustig

    

  Position: assistant professor of psychology and neuroscience, University of Michigan (hired in 2004)

    

  Training: Ph.D., Duke University, 2001; postdoc at Washington University in St. Louis

    

  Research questions: How does aging affect cognition? What are the flaws of typical �memory training� programs for elderly people? How does Alzheimer�s disease affect the brain�s memory-retrieval systems?

• Angus W. MacDonald III

    

  Position: associate professor of psychology, University of Minnesota-Twin Cities (hired in 2003)

    

  Training: Ph.D., University of Pittsburgh, 2001; postdoc at the University of Pittsburgh

    

  Research questions: How does schizophrenia affect activity in the prefrontal cortex? Do addictions and other compulsive behaviors reflect a failure of top-down control, or flaws in the brain�s system of processing rewards?

• Samuel M. McClure

    

  Position: assistant professor of psychology, Stanford University (hired in 2008)

    

  Training: Ph.D., Baylor College of Medicine, 2003; postdoc at Princeton University

    

  Research questions: Which brain systems are involved in our decisions to choose immediate rewards or to defer gratification? When we observe and imitate what our peers do, which brain systems are activated?

• Ladan Shams

    

  Position: assistant professor of psychology, University of California at Los Angeles (hired in 2003)

    

  Training: Ph.D., University of Southern California, 1999; postdoc at the California Institute of Technology

    

  Research questions: How does the brain integrate information from its visual, auditory, and other sensory systems? What roles does that multisensory integration play in learning?

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• Perhaps when women’s verbal skills (spec writing, investigation/interviewing, ‘language’ programming), organizational skills (network administration, policy management, user management), nurturing skills (patching, testing, perfecting…), and proficiency at documenting procedures…er… writing algorithms…are recognized as valuable to a CS program, then a better balance might be achieved.

  • How critical these commenter's minds are!
    They are used to challenge the author!
    Get used to it!
    Valuable habit!
• The skills of women have nothing to do with the lack of enrollment in the program. It isn’t that women aren’t being accepted, it’s that women aren’t interested
• a bad advertising campaign by the computer science departments
• The upward curve represents a new investment tipping point that typically will signify a new technology adoption curve
• If about 65 percent of students receiving computer science degrees were white, then adding the 15 percent of Asians brings the total to 80 percent. That means other racial groups comprise the remaining 20 percent and non-whites comprise 35 percent of CS graduates. I’m not seeing where there is a “discouraging lack of racial and ethnic diversity.”

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• About 2/3 or more of the international students in Australia are simply doing an immigration scam and contribute little or nothing to academic life. They are concentrated in a few courses such as accounting, commerce and IT.
• Often their English is no better when they graduate than when they started.
• Many arts and science courses have almost no international students.
• There is nothing special about this “Internationalizing” university campuses or adding value to academic life
• From a humanistic perspective, the Mexican workers and/or workers from Latin America crossing the US border to find “manual labor” is no different than the workers from over-crowded nations seeking “knowledge labor” via universities in Australia and US that are blessed by major corporations and supported by liberal government visa policies.

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• Churchland is the author of Neurophilosophy and Brain?. She is currently on the faculty of the University of California at San Diego and she was a featured speaker at the annual meeting of the Society for Neuroscience in 2008
• We also talk about the evolving relationship between philosophy and neuroscience.

• Although we have no minimum score requirements, median GRE scores of current students are in the 70th-80th percentile range.  Median GPA is 3.70.
• Importance of nonobjective criteria: previous research activity, high; work experience, high; extracurricular activity, medium; clinically related public service, low; letters of recommendation, high

• has now advised us that we should be planning for a 30% decrease in the value of the endowment on June 30, 2009, the end of our fiscal year, rather than the 25% we have been using in our budget projections for next year.

  • 2009-06-30 to 2010-06-30 is another FY(fiscal year)
• emphasizing that it will take multiple years to restore a decline of 25% in endowment value. With the prospect of a 30% decline in value by June 30, 2009, followed by the likelihood that next year will see no rebound in earnings, we must begin detailed planning for that multi-year budget reduction process now
• a reduction of similar magnitude will be required in the 2010-11 academic year, which means another 8% cut in endowment spending on top of this year's reduction.
• There is no question that this overall two-year target of $170 million in savings will be difficult to achieve, as the first round of cuts eliminated the majority of things that were relatively easy to forego. The steady growth in both faculty and staff that we have enjoyed over the last 10 years will end, and the University will have to contract in size.

  • well, we will be in the tougher second round cuts - the 2010 FY
    contract in size...
• In the meantime we will continue to move forward with designs and approvals for the highest priorities in the plan: the new home for the Lewis Center for the Arts, the Neuroscience Institute and the Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment.

  • Neuroscience Institute... seems little relation with cognition...

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• $25,000, up to the modular limit of $250,000
• for 1 - 5 budget periods, each normally 12 months in duration.

• This school is actually one of the best schools when it comes to experimental psychology programs. UCSD is located in one of the most beautiful cities in the nation that is known for its mild, warm weather and has an amazing city transit system.
• This school is located in Berkley, which is around forty-five minutes from San Francisco, an area where housing can sometimes be very expensive. You may consider on-campus housing as a cheaper alternative to renting in the city. The city bus and trolley system in San Francisco is state of the art and can save you a lot of gas money if you don’t live right near the school
• The psychology department of the University of Pennsylvania is actually the oldest in North America and first opened its doors in 1887 and since that date has produced some of the top psychological scientists in the world.
• This department has a very wide range of psychology classes in applied fields and really stands out in this area.

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• The University of Minnesota is an enormous school with over 51,000 students and 3,100 professors.

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• This university boasts an impressive selection of psychology classes such as biological, clinical, developmental, quantitative, and industrial-organizational.

  • UIUC
• UIUC spares no expense so the facilities and programs are top of the line in every aspect. This is a very large school and currently has over 40,000 students enrolled.
• The University of California Los Angeles has long been known to be one of the best schools in the nation and their psychology department is top notch
• UCLA was founded in 1919 and has more applicants per year than any other school in the United States. The psychology program at UCLA specializes in the psychology, cognitive sciences, and psychobiology fields
• Traffic can be a factor if you attend UCLA so the school highly encourages you to use public transportation as much as possible.
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  Yale University is one of the big three along with Stanford and Harvard and is extremely well known as top of the line school. Yale is located in Connecticut
• The psychology program at Yale specializes in research of behavioral neuroscience, clinical psychology, cognitive psychology, developmental psychology, and social/personality psychology.
• The University of Michigan offers an amazing psychology program and is home to a tremendous amount of psychological research.
• The psychology department offers degrees in almost every area of psychology and many of the professors here have been honored for excellence and contributing to new knowledge in the psychology area.

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• Stanford is the home to 17 different research labs for the psychological study and 5 professors in this department have won awards in 2009 already.
• There are currently just under 15,000 students enrolled at Stanford University in 2009.

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• The program in Cognitive Psychology is concerned with basic research in perception, human learning and memory, consciousness,
• as well as with applications of this basic research to everyday settings.
• Students are encouraged to read widely both in the cognitive area and in related disciplines, such as computer science, linguistics, philosophy, and statistics.
• Students are encouraged to study and do research with multiple faculty members, and to develop their own program of research in an area of their choosing.

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• The goal of the I/O program is to continue to enhance its national reputation as a center of scholarly excellence in I/O psychology by conducting high-quality basic and applied research.

  • the gaol is to enhance RESEARCH reputation
• The program has a major emphasis on academic research-based training with the objective of placing students in academic careers

  • student training focuses on ACADEMIC
• Since 2000, approximately 40% of our graduates have obtained academic positions and 60% have secured applied jobs. Recent academic placements have included Northern Arizona University, DePaul University, Tulane University, University of Oklahoma, University of Wisconsin-River Falls, the State University of New York at Albany, and Southern Methodist University. Recent applied placements have included Merck & Co., Inc., PepsiCo, U.S. Department of Agriculture, U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory, Xerox Corporation, State Farm Insurance, Home Depot, and Personnel Decisions International. Over the last decade, all of our students have accepted jobs immediately upon graduation.
• 5 full-time core I/O faculty and 2 affiliated faculty with a student/faculty ratio of approximately 4:1
• averaged GRE (verbal + quantitative) scores of 1233 and an undergraduate grade point average of 3.86.

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