In this annual
contest, each dance must be based on a scientist's Ph.D. research, and the scientist must be part of the dance. Biomedical engineer Joel Miller has won
Best Ph.D. Dance of 2011. The crowning ceremony will be held at
TEDxBrussels in Belgium on November 22, 2011. No word yet on whether the winning choreography will be performed.
Previously danced here.
posted by Laminda
on Oct 23, 2011 -
18 comments
The
Three Minute Thesis (3MT) competition challenges higher degree students (PhD and MPhil) from Australia and New Zealand to communicate their research in three minutes to a non-specialist audience. Contestants are judged according to communication style, comprehension and engagement criteria. Here's the 2011 Winner, Matthew Thompson (
University of Queensland):
Suspects, science and CSI.
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posted by paleyellowwithorange
on Oct 17, 2011 -
31 comments
PhDChallenge.org proposed a
challenge: To have the phrase "I smoke crack rocks" included in a peer reviewed academic paper. The winner is Gabriel Parent from Carnegie Mellon, who included it in his
paper [PDF].
posted by reenum
on Dec 16, 2010 -
54 comments
One psychology professor, looking at the oversupply of PhDs for a very limited number of academic jobs, thinks that programs should simply
stop admitting PhD students, and has decided not to add any others to her own lab.
posted by grouse
on Aug 18, 2010 -
119 comments
The Real Science Gap: “There is no scientist shortage,” declares Harvard economics professor Richard Freeman, a pre-eminent authority on the scientific work force. Michael Teitelbaum of the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, a leading demographer who is also a national authority on science training, cites the “profound irony” of crying shortage — as have many business leaders, including Microsoft founder Bill Gates — while scores of thousands of young Ph.D.s labor in the nation’s university labs as low-paid, temporary workers, ostensibly training for permanent faculty positions that will never exist.
posted by ennui.bz
on Jun 14, 2010 -
80 comments
There is a
potential crisis (PDF) looming in business education. Unlike many other fields in higher education, demand for qualified faculty well outstrips supply. The result is a strong job market and
high pay (PDF).
In response to this potential shortage a number of things are being done. The accounting profession has recently started a program designed to increase the number of professors in the field called the
Accounting Doctoral Scholars Program. This program provides fellowships of $30,000 a year for 30 students. The
AACSB has created a
website to promote getting a PhD in business.
The
PhD project is designed to increase the number of minority PhD business professors.
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posted by bove
on Oct 16, 2008 -
32 comments
The Mathematics Genealogy Project. A service of the
Department of Mathematics at
North Dakota State University, the project intends to "compile information about ALL the mathematicians of the world. [...] It is our goal to list all individuals who have received a doctorate in mathematics." Seven generations from one of my recent professors back to
Gauss, six back to
Felix Klein (of
Erlangen Program and
bottle fame), eight back to
Jacobi, and nine back to
Poisson and
Fourier, then
Lagrange, then
Euler, then
the Bernoulli brothers, then
Leibniz, and then it blew up at infinity.
posted by gramschmidt
on Dec 21, 2004 -
5 comments
Can't seem to finish your thesis? Then this site may be for you. It's a support group for those of us who just can't seem to write up and finish off that Ph.D./Masters degree. It'll either give you hope and motivation or it'll make you more complacent. "Well, I guess I'm not the only one who's taking a long time; I won't stress out about it anymore".
posted by percine
on Jul 14, 2002 -
15 comments
