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Welcome to the Ph.D. News Webpage. This Webpage site contains items of interest to Ph.D. students at University of Texas at Austin.
Current Week Events of General Interest to Ph.D.s Wednesday, Aug 18, Jester Auditorium, iSchool Orientation for new students. Wednesday, Aug 18, Scholz Garten, PCS/Archives social. Friday, Aug 20, 3:30-4:30 PM, SZB 556, Ph.D. Orientation. We're starting an Orientation for new doctoral students this Friday, August 20, and it would be great if faculty and current students can attend. It will be an open format Q&A from 3:30 - 4:30pm in SZB 556. A happy hour will follow at the Scholtz Garten (1607 San Jacinto). Some possible topics for discussion are class selection and the program of work, annual reviews, and publishing. The agenda is not restricted to these topics , so please feel free to contribute your own ideas, keeping in mind that the focus is on helping new students understand the ins-and-outs of our doctoral program. Lisa Kleinman would appreciate it if you could let her me know if you'll make it to the Q&A, Happy Hour, or both. We look forward to seeing everyone as the new semester begins. Friday, Aug 20, 16:30 PM, Scholz Garten, Ph.D. social. (See above.) If you can't make the orientation, please come to the social anyway. Scholz Garten is at 1607 San Jacinto a couple of blocks south of UT. Friday, Aug 20, and Saturday, Aug
21, 8-10 PM,
Northwest Hills United
Methodist Church, Austin Choral Symposia, Viva la Opera
II. For the Austin Choral Symposia's summer 2004 event, Viva la Opera
II, the tremendous success of last summer's Viva la Opera!
Famous Opera Choruses will be followed up with another mesmerizing
and exciting journey into great opera excerpts from works by Mozart,
Puccini, Verdi, and other great composers.
Please make plans to join us for another fun and exciting opera experience.
It's going to be a blast! Featured artists are: The Northwest Hills United Methodist Church is located at Far West Blvd. & Hart Lane. Advanced tickets are $13 for adults and $10 for seniors (62+) and students. Tickets at the door are $15 for adults and $12 for seniors (62+)and students .Children 9 and under are free. To purchase tickets or for more information please visit the Texas Choral Consort Website.
Future Events - Mark Your Calendar Tuesday, Aug
24, 8-10
PM, South Mall, Gone to Texas Celebration.
Over 100 years ago, as adventurers pulled up stakes seeking a fresh start, three
letters etched on old homestead doors revealed their destination--GTT...Gone
To Texas. Each August on the evening before fall classes begin, students
are invited to celebrate their fresh start at the foot of the Tower with
live music and a broad spectrum of presentations from across the campus.
Join us for this Texas-size welcome! And, as you head out the door, let
'em know you've GONE TO TEXAS! In case of inclement weather, the Gone
To Texas campus wide event will be relocated
to Gregory Gym.
Among the attractions: For more information please visit the Gone to Texas Website. Wednesday, Aug 25, First day of Classes for the 2004-2005 Academic Year. Let's have fun. Thursday, Aug 26, 5:30-7:30, UT Alumni Center, GSA Annual graduate student Barbeque. The Graduate Student Assembly cordially invites graduate students to attend their fall barbecue on August 26th. Fuschak's Pit Bar-B.Q. will cater the event with a combination brisket and sausage plate with side dishes. Baked potatoes will be available for vegetarians. The Gulf Coast Playboys will perform their style of Cajun, Zydeco, Louisiana Blues and Tex-Mex music. Booths for student organizations and university offices will be on hand to provide information for new and returning students.This barbecue is fast becoming an annual event for the GSA. It attracted approximately 1500 graduate students last year and we expect more this year. Please mark your calendar and mention it to any new graduate students who might not have heard about it.You will also receive informational fliers in early August. Students may bring their families. For more information on the BBQ please visit the GSA website as the date approaches or contact Melissa. Saturday, Aug 28, [New date--i messed up],
see times below, Auditorium shores, Keep
Austin Weird 5K & Free Concert . The 2nd annual "KeepAustinWeird
5K" celebrates
the truly unique spirit of our great city. The race is sponsored by a
who's who of local Austin businesses--the people, the places and the
things--that Keep Austin Weird. It's another great way for these businesses
to thank Austinites who support them and at the same time benefit Austin's
crown jewel, the Barton Springs Pool. This year's race will be capped
at 6,000 runners. Make sure you register early as last years event went
way over expectations. A celebration of Austin and it's uniqueness, the
event will entail much more than just running, and we expect many more
non-athletes than your typical 5K. This is guaranteed to be a great time
for all. In addition to being one of Austin's only evening runs, music,
food and drink will follow as well as a great number of contests (including
a free Miata for a month). Please join us again for the 2nd Annual Keep
Austin Weird 5K. The race is a great way to showcase your Austin roots
in front of thousands of loyal (and weird) Austinites. After all, the
Keep Austin Weird campaign is truly about supporting local businesses.
FREE CONCERT lineup includes: The race is at 5 PM. For further information and registration for the race please visit the event Website. Sunday, Aug 29, [new date-i messed up], see times below. Waterloo Park, The Austin Chronicle Hot Sauce Festival. In the fourteen years since its inception, what started as a friendly test between Austin and San Antonio has become one of the largest annual contests in the world, the Austin Chronicle Hot Sauce Festival. Free to the public, the event draws upwards of 15,000 spectators and more than 300 entries every year. This year the Austin Chronicle Hot Sauce Festival will take place on Sunday, August 29 at Waterloo Park. Join KGSR's Bryan Beck as he MC's the 14th Annual Hot Sauce Festival featuring many notable attractions, especially the outstanding musical performances from the 2003/2004 Music Award Winner for "Best Kid Band" Misspent Youth and local favorites The Greencards, Ghandaia and Li'l Cap'n Travis. But the biggest draws are the salsas. More than one hundred gallons of hot sauce are consumed at the event every year. Area restaurants show off their hot and spicy foods at booths, and vendors from across the Southwest set up shop to sell hot and spicy cookbooks, fresh peppers, and chili pepper memorabilia. For further information please visit the festival Website. The Line-Up: Wednesday, Sep 1, 4:45-6 PM, ACES 2.302, Dr. Ray Mooney, All You Really Need to Know About Computer Science Was Learned: Thursday, Sep 2 , 6:30 - 8:30 PM, UT Club, TX Ex Business Network, Dwayne Goetzel, Intellectual Property: Copyright and Trademark Law. Intellectual property is an asset any business and/or individual should protect and, as applicable, register with agencies such as the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. Dwayne Goetzel is an intellectual property lawyer with Meyertons, Hood, Kivlin, Kowert & Goetzel, P.C. (formerly with Conley Rose). Mr. Goetzel's presentation will address copyright and trademark law, providing general legal information designed to assist businesses in intellectual property matters. Pre-pay discount for registrations prior to 12 p.m. on August 2, 2004 are $12 for Texas Exes members and $15 for non-members; registrations after 12 p.m. on August 2, 2004 or at the door will be charged $15 and $18 respectively. For more information please visit the event Website or contact Walt Esquivel. Monday, Sep 6, Labor Day --no classes. Wednesday, Sep 8, 7-9 PM, TAY2.106, UT Student Chapter ACM Meeting. Come and find out what the Association for Computing Machinery has to offer students for the coming fall Semester! We'll give you a quick recap of last year, an introduction to the new Senior Officers, and quickly go over the events we'll have this year! And to top it off, FREE PIZZA! For more information please visit the UTACM Website or contact Ryan Cornelius, President, UTACM. Friday, Sep 10, 5-7 PM, Dog
& Duck, SLA Social.
Special Library Association members and nom-members interested in special
libraries are invited to share in good conversation.
The Dog and Duck Pub is at 406 West 17th Street, at the corner of 17th and Friday, Sep 10, 6-9 PM, Dr. Gracy home, SAA fall potluck. Welcome to all the new students. The first big event that everyone should know about is the fall potluck on September 10 at Dr. Gracy's at 2313 Tower Drive , zip code 78703. We will have a sign up sheet on the SAA bulletin board on the fourth floor next to the computer lab on the first day of classes, so feel free to start filling it out. There is always plenty of good food and good company. We hope to see many of you there. For anyone who has any questions about the iSchool, the program, or anything that you think of, please feel free to email Mary Ann Mardock, SAA Chapter President, or just walk up to her in the halls. If she looks confused for minute, do not be discourage--she says she looks that way most of the time. We are looking forward to a good year here with the Society of American Archivists student chapter. Thanks to all who stopped at the SAA table table at orientation. Mary Anne Mardock looks forward to a year of getting to know all of us, as well those whom I missed on Wednesday (Aug 18).. Saturday, Sep 11 - Sunday, Sep 12, Monday, Sep 20, 8 AM - 5 PM, Thompson Conference Center, Human Subjects Research in Social and Behavioral Sciences: A Paradigm Shift. Social and behavioral sciences research pose numerous ethical challenges for both the researcher and the institutional research review unit. Much of the literature on human subjects research has focused on biomedical research, with less attention given to the subtleties of interpretation of the Common Rule to such areas as program evaluation, oral history, journalism, ethnography and internet research. IRBs are being asked to apply current standards to areas that may require a paradigm shift. Towards that end, The University of Texas at Austin, examines these areas of national concern in order to achieve the highest standard of protection and care for all social and behavioral science research. This conference offers an opportunity to gain a Washington perspective regarding current issues and trends, as well as facilitate a discussion of future directions. This conference is Co-Sponsored by the University of Texas at Austin, the National Institutes of Health, and the Office of Human Research Protection. Student registration is $15.00. Register online by Monday, September 13. For agenda and more information, please visit the conference Website or contact: Elena Mota, Vice-President for Research, University of Texas at Austin, Office of Research Support & Compliance, PO Box 7426, Austin, Texas 78713, Maria, 471-8871, or Lorraine, 370-1660. Sunday, Sep 26, 3-5 PM, Bates, Mary Preston, Great Organ Series. Admission, Great Organ Season Pass $44.00 , $14.00 General Public, $10.00 Student. For fmore information visit the Music Department Events Calendar, call the music events hotline, 471-5401, or contact the music department by phone, 471-0806. Monday, Sep 27, 4:30 - 6 PM, SZB 238, Third Annual Capstone Project Fair. For further information visit the Capstone Website or contact Lee Lacy via email or phone, 471-0170. Monday, Sep 27, 8-10 PM, Bates, UT Symphony. Kevin Noe will direct. General admission is $7.00. For fmore information visit the Music Department Events Calendar, call the music events hotline, 471-5401, or contact the music department by phone, 471-0806. Saturday-Thursday, Nov 13-18, Providence RI, ASIST Conference. The information society, especially after recent world events, is displaying an increasing tension between forces that encourage and discourage integration and cooperation. A major focus of this conference will be on conflicts and solutions involving many national and international information cultures, including social, professional, educational, and technological interests. These themes and others will be explored by plenary and invited speakers and through refereed presentations. Submissions on a wide variety of information and technology topics are solicited, including (but not limited to):
For further information and registration visit the conference Website. Sunday, Nov 21, 4-6 PM, Bates, Choral Arts Society, Romantic Voices. Dr. James Morrow conducts the UT Choral Arts Society in Anton Bruckner, Mass in E Minor, Johannes Brahms Begräbnisgesang, and Leonard Bernstein, Chichester Psalms. Admission is $16.00 General Public, $13.00 Faculty/Staff, and $10.00 Students. For fmore information visit the Music Department Events Calendar, call the music events hotline, 471-5401, contact the music department by phone, 471-0806, or contact Dr. James Morrow via email or phone., 471-0806. Monday, Feb 28, 8-10 PM, Bates, Choral Arts Society, Quintessentially French. Dr. James Morrow directs the UT Choral Arts Siciety in Gabriel Fauré, Requiem, Louis Vierne, Messe Solennelle, and César Franck, Psalm 150. Featuring Judith and Gerre Hancock will be at the organ. Admission is $16.00 General Public, $13.00 Faculty/Staff, and $10.00 Students. For fmore information visit the Music Department Events Calendar, call the music events hotline, 471-5401, contact The music department by phone, 471-0806, or contact Dr. James Morrow via email or phone., 471-0806. Monday, May 2, 8-10 PM, Bates, Combined Concert, Classical Perfection. Mozart Mass in C Minor, ("The Great") and Beethoven Choral Fantasy. Dr. James Morrow conductsthe UT Choral Arts Society, UT Chamber Singers,and the UT Symphony Orchestra in Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Mass in C Minor, K. 427 ("The Great"), and Ludwig van Beethoven, Choral Fantasy. Featuring Anton Nel, piano. Admission is $16.00 General Public, $13.00 Faculty/Staff, and $10.00 Students. For fmore information visit the Music Department Events Calendar, call the music events hotline, 471-5401, contact The music department by phone, 471-0806, or contact Dr. James Morrow via email or phone., 471-0806.
Who We Are Webpage The information on the Ph.D. student Webpage is slowly
growing. Names of all current Ph.D. students have been added. Your
other information is needed to complete it . Please send Don
a jpeg photo, information to post, and a link to your Website whenever
you can. What is this Webpage? Well, as we agreed in spring semester,
2002, we wanted to have a summary page with a list of all Ph.D. students
and links to more detailed information on each of us. The summary
page consist of a photo, name, academic interest, contact information,
and links to other pages. A detail
page repeats the summary information and provides, education,
a brief biography, and specialization. Students information should
be linked to each student's individual Website with their vita, resume,
and any other information they may wish to provide. If there is interest,
we can also add Ph.D. alumni to this list. There is an input form
that might work with your browser. Otherwise you can copy and paste. Research Method and Other Courses of Interest Research Method Courses. There are many research methods courses available in the university that may be suitable for meeting the iSchool Ph.D. research methods requirements. Lisa Kleinman has written an excellent summary that should be of particular interest. She describes her summary as follows, "yo, in case (like me) you were overwhelmed by the number of research methods courses that seemed available at UT, but were suspiciously vague in terms of description -- here is a list that I've compiled with/ course names & descriptions. the doctoral studies committee & your own advisor may be able to make further recommendations as to which would be specifically appropriate for you" (2003 Dec. 15, personal communications). Doctoral Committee recommendations will be posted on this Website as soon as they become available. Research Methods in Information Systems, MIS 381N.26. Earlier, Lisa provided us this information on a this course. "The Information Systems department in the Business School is interested in having more iSchool folk taking their courses. In particular, Ph.D. students may want to consider taking “Research Methods in Information Systems” taught by Alina Chircu. I took this class last year, and it provides an excellent survey of the multitude of different research methods (both qualitative and quantitative) as applied to understanding the effects of information technology. Alina is very flexible about the core focus areas, so if a whole bunch of people want to “study X”, she’ll find a way to incorporate it. If you’re a Masters student, you can take this course if you’re interested in subjecting yourself to reading a ga-zillion journal articles from the latest sexy issues of MIS Quarterly... which ain’t the “Miss Quarterly” that I was hoping for, let me tell you... The course is offered in spring 2004" (personal communications). Information provided by Lisa Kleinman. For more information about the course see the Course Webpage or contact Dr. Chircu" (2003 Oct. 31, personal communications). Graduate School Courses provide a unique opportunity for School of Information Ph.D. students because they provide a multidisciplinary atmosphere of learning. Students from across the campus attend these courses and share experiences and viewpoints form their own departments. Two courses of major interest to our programs are:
Check to Be Sure. Please do not forget however, that not all of the courses listed will be satisfactory to meet any particularly student's Ph.D. program requirements. "Since advancement to candidacy is contingent on faculty approval of a course of work, the student should consult regularly with their committee on matters of course selection" (School of Information, undated, Academic Programs, Ph.D.). Orientations New students (and even old) might appreciate the following
two Orientation Websites: Program Information General iSchool program information and Degree Requirements may be found on the iSchool Academic Programs Description Webpage for the Doctor of Philosophy in Information Studies. Program milestones consist of development and approval of a Program of Work or Study, satisfactory completion of course work and a comprehensive doctoral examination including written, oral, and research components, presentation and approval of a dissertation proposal, research and completion of a dissertation culminating in a final examination consisting of defense of the the dissertation. Administrative progress through these milestones is described in the Checklist for the Doctoral Program (1993). Required content of the program of work or study is provided in the Guidelines for Development of the Doctoral Program of Study (ca. 1993). Lisa Kleinman and Don Drumtra have posted examples of their approved programs of study their Websites. Required content of the Annual Reviews is provided in the Annual Review of GSLIS Doctoral Students (2002) and the Annual Review of Ph.D. Students (draft, 2003). Don Drumtra has posted an an example of an approved Annual Review on his Website. The University of Texas and the UT Office of Graduate Studies provide the latest information on degree and administrative requirements requirements in three publications:
Information on professional associations, student governance organizations, email lists and and other forums of interest to Information school Ph.D. students is provided through the Ph.D. Forums link on the left. Included is information on email lists, Blackboard, Websites and other forums.
Ph.D. Colloquia The Ph.D. colloquia provide Ph.D. students the opportunity to share their work in a friendly environment. If someone would like to take the lead, we could have a Ph.D. Colloquia series sharing our current work with each other and professors who are interested in the Information School Ph.D. program. The last series we had was the Fall 2002 Ph.D. Colloquia Series. If you are interested in leading such a series, please contact Don Drumtra for his experience on leading the 2002 Colloquia Content Manager:
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