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Welcome to the Ph.D. News Webpage. This Webpage site contains items of interest to iSchool Ph.D. students at University of Texas at Austin. This week's events are normally posted each Sunday. Special events, additions, and changes during the week are noted in red. Significant future calendar events are posted as they are received. Corrections and comments are always appreciated . Announcements HOORAY! BOB
STRONG SUCCESSFULLY DEFENDED HIS DISSERTATION ON CONGRATULATIONS!! Congratulations
to Beth Letalien The title of
her research is This Week's Events Sunday, April 17, 4-6PM, Bates, Dr. Susan Pence, UT Concert Chorale. The UT Concert Chorale, conducted by Dr. Pence, performs works by Frank Martin, Morten Lauridsen and Eric Whitacre, along with Aaron Copland's "In the Beginning," featuring mezzo-soprano soloist Keeley Rhodes. General admission tickets are $7. For more information please visit the Performance Webpage. Sunday, April 17, 8-10 PM, Bates, Brett Mitchell, University Orchestra. With this concert Brett concludes his four-year tenure as music director of the University Orchestra. Earlier this year, Mitchell was selected as one of nine young conductors to participate in the 2005 National Conducting Institute with Leonard Slatkin in Washington this spring -- during which he will also conduct the National Symphony Orchestra. His final concert in Austin with the University Orchestra features baritone soloist and UT faculty artist David Small singing Gustav Mahler's "Song of a Wayfarer." Admission is free. For more information please visit the Performance Webpage. Monday, April 18, Saturday April 23, and Friday, April 29, Registration for summer and fall courses. See Access Periods in the Course Schedules for specific times. Tuesday, April 19, 11:30 AM - 1 PM, Texas
State Hospital, Adele
Carboni, Records
Management by the Numbers Tuesday, April 19, 3:30-5 PM, SZB 468, iForum, presenter and topic to be announced. For further information please contact Dr. Randolph Bias, iForum Committee Chair, via email or phone, 471-7046. Wednesday, April 20, 5:30-6:30 PM, LBJ Library, 2005 Celebration
of Volunteerism.
The Volunteer and Service Learning Center and the Lyndon Baines Johnson
Presidential Library proudly present the 2005 Celebration of Volunteerism and
Service learning with reception immediately following.
This annual event recognizes the dedicated students,
faculty, staff and UT organizations who have made significant contributions to
the Austin and Central Texas communities through their work as volunteers and
leaders.
Thursday, April 21, 4-5 PM, SZB 556, SAA Town Meeting. We invite all SAA-UT members and curious parties to join us for a public meeting of the minds. We’re interested to know what you would like to see SAA-UT accomplish this year, and we’re willing to trade our own ideas for yours. Some topics on the agenda include: the Introduction of the Board, ideas for Archives Week, and the next Journal Club meeting. So come, have a snack, and let your voice be heard! For more information please visit the SAA Website or contact April Norris, SAA-UT Chapter President. Added Event. Thursday, April 21, 4-6 PM, Little Woodrows, ASIST Happy Hour. Help celebrate Erik's election. for more information, please visit the UT ASIST Website or contact Shannon. Thursday, April 21, 6:30-9 PM, ACE Avaya-Dr. Jeffery Andrews, Broadband wireless access with WiMax/802.16: Current performance benchmarks and future potential. (Broadband wireless access with WiMax/802.16: Current performance benchmarks and future potential. The IEEE 802.16 family of standards, and its associated industry consortium WiMax, promises to deliver high data rates over large areas to a large number of users in the near future. This exciting addition to current broadband options such as DSL, cable, and Wi-Fi promises to rapidly provide broadband access to locations in the world's rural and developing areas there broadband is currently unavailable, as well as competing for urban market share. WiMax's competitiveness in the marketplace largely depends on the actual data rates and ranges that are achieved, but this has been difficult to judge due to the large number of possible options and competing marketing claims. This talk will first provide a brief tutorial overview of 802.16. Then, based on extensive recent studies, we will present the realistic attainable throughput and performance of expected WiMax compatible systems based on the 802.16d standard approved in June 2004 (now named 802.16-2004). We also suggest future enhancements to the standard that could at least quadruple the achievable data rate, while also increasing the robustness and coverage, with only moderate complexity increases. Dr. Jeffrey G. Andrews is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Texas at Austin, in the Wireless Networking and Communications Group (WNCG). He received the B.S. in Engineering with High Distinction from Harvey Mudd College in 1995, and the M.S. and Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University in 1999 and 2002, respectively. He helped develop Code Division Multiple Access (CDMA) systems as an engineer at Qualcomm from 1995 to 1997, and has served as a frequent consultant on communication systems to numerous corporations, startups, and government agencies, including Microsoft, Palm, Ricoh, and NASA. Dr. Andrews serves as an associate editor for the IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications. He also is actively involved in IEEE conferences and is co-chairing the DSP for wireless applications area at the fall 2005 VTC, as well as serving as a member of the technical program committee for ICC and Globecom. Dinner for members with reservation - $5.00, members at door - $7.00 non-members with reservation - $7.00 n on-members with at door - $8.00, Students-free. Please RSVP to Howard Headrick. You do not have to eat to attend to attend the lecture. For more information please contact R. Talbot or Howard Hedrick. Thursday, April 21, or Friday, April 22, 8-10 PM, Austin Singers, Flight
of the Soul: Anthems of Peace and Freedom. The Austin Singers
celebrate peace and freedom in a concert of spirituals, requiems,
and arrangements of "Dona Nobis Pacem." The concert benefits
Wonders and Worries, a charitable organization providing support services
for children and families coping with serious illness.
Locations are: thursday - St. Thomas More Catholic Church,
10205 Ranch Road 620 North, and Friday - First
Baptist Church, 911 Trinity St. Friday April 22, 11 AM - Noon, SAB 556, Kim Pendell, Multiples of One: A Partial History of Experiencing Art through Reproduction. Dr. Doty writes, "Colleagues -- I am happy to announce that Kim Pendell will be presenting her master's thesis. . . . Chela Metzger and I have had the pleasure of serving as Kim's committee, and all students, staff, and faculty are invited to the presentation. Especially invited are all students with interests in art, art history, digital technologies, and cultural studies, as well as students contemplating doing theses themselves. And that includes doctoral students. Please feel free to join Kim in this important rite of passage in her academic life." For more information, please contact Dr. Doty. Friday, April 29, 5-7 PM, CDL, Kilgarlin Center Open House. Please join us this Friday, April 22nd, from 5-7 pm. for an open house at the Kilgarlin Center. Conservator and Preservation Administration students will have conservation treatments and other work on display in the labs. Of course, there will plenty of food, drink and good conversation! The Kilgarlin Center is located in the Collections Deposit Library at the corner of MLK and Red River. We hope to see you Friday! For more information, please contact Ellen Cunningham-Kruppa, Center Director. Cancelled. Friday, April 29, 5-7 PM, Scholz Garten,-Happy Hour. Student, Faculty , Staff , Friends, and Family Happy hour. Come when you can and leave when you want. When it is hot or cold we are inside where it is crowded and noisy. When it is nice out, we are outside in the garden where it is more comfortable and much quieter. Scholz Garten is located two blocks from campus at 1607 San Jacinto Boulevard For more information please contact the student association Co-Directors, Angela, Cristen, Jacob, or Vanessa. Satrday, April 23 or
Future Events - Mark Your Calendar Monday-Friday, April 25-29, various venues, 19th
Annual Heman Sweatt Symposium Celebrates the 40th Anniversary of the
Tuesday, April 26, 3:30-5 PM, SZB 468, iForum, Dr. Scott Nicholson,
Biblomining Across North America. This is our last opportunity to
attend an iForum in the 2004-2005 academic year. The guest speaker is
Dr.
Nicholson, Assistant Professor at Syracuse Tuesday, April 26, 5-6 PM, SZB 556, Student Association meeting. The last SASI meeting of the semester. Come and witness the transfer of power to the new Co-directors! A good time will be had by all! For more information please contact the student association Co-Directors, Angela, Cristen, Jacob, or Vanessa. Thursday, April 28, 4-5 PM, SZB 556, Brenda Gunn, Experiences. Brenda, who heads the Center of American History’s Archives and Manuscripts Unit, will address the chapter and share her experiences thus far as an iSchool graduate, her thoughts on must-have knowledge and skills, and the importance of participation in professional organizations. This event is limited to those who are interested and those who think they might be. If you come, you get a cookie AND you’ll learn something! For more information please visit the SAA Website or contact April Norris, SAA-UT Chapter President. Thursday, April 28, 6-9 PM, Ten Thousand Villages of Austin and Austin Girls' Choir fundraiser. There will be a fundraiser with Ten Thousand Villages at their Austin location at 1317 South Congress. The majority of the proceeds will help Third World artisans and moms provide for their families; 10% will go toward Austin Girls' Choir's operations fund. Prices at the store range from less than $1 to about $250, and it's a great opportunity to do a little early Mother's Day shopping or gift stock-up. Come and brows and listen to the Girls' Choir that is scheduled to perform at 7:30 PM. For more information, please contact Sara Burden-McClure, Austin Girls' Choir Artistic Director. Friday, April 29, 9 AM - Noon and 1-3:30 PM, SZB 468, Capstone presentations. For more information, please visit the Capstone Website. Friday, April 29, 5-7 PM, Scholz Garten,-Happy Hour. Student, Faculty , Staff , Friends, and Family Happy hour. Come when you can and leave when you want. When it is hot or cold we are inside where it is crowded and noisy. When it is nice out, we are outside in the garden where it is more comfortable and much quieter. Scholz Garten is located two blocks from campus at 1607 San Jacinto Boulevard. For more information please contact the student association Co-Directors, Angela, Cristen, Jacob, or Vanessa. Sunday, May 1, 11 AM - 12:30 PM or 7:30-9 PM, Mozart, Coronation Mass. the combined choirs of Covenant Presbyterian and St. Johns United Methodist Churches are presenting with orchestra, the Mozart Coronation Mass--at 11:00 at St John's Methodist, 2140 Allendale (2222, just west of Burnette) and again that evening at 7:00 pm at Covenant Presbyterian, 3003 Northland Dr. (corner of Mopac and 2222, Northland). Do hope some of you can come. Together we've about 90 singers and it's a good orchestra (also including Rutter's O Clap Your Hands.) 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 conducts the 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 for the general public, $13.00 for faculty/staff, and $10.00 for students. Tickets are available on the web, by phone, 477-6060, at the UT PAC ticket office, at the Erwin Center, at HEB stores, and at the door. For more information, please visit the Music Department Events Calendar, call the music events hotline, 471-5401, contact School of Music Information by email or phone, 471-0806, or contact Dr. James Morrow via email or phone., 471-0806. Friday, May 6, Last day of classes. Friday, April 29, 9 AM - Noon, SZB 468, Capstone presentations. For more information, please visit the Capstone Website. Saturday, May 21, 9-11AM, Bass, Graduate School Convocation for Masters Students. For more information please visit the Office of Graduate Studied Website and the UT 122nd Commencement Website. Saturday, May 21, 11 AM - Noon, Alumni Center, Graduate School Reception for Masters Students. For more information please visit the Office of Graduate Studies Website. Saturday, May 21, Noon-1PM, Bass, Graduate School Convocation for Doctoral Students. For more information please visit the Office of Graduate Studies Website. and the UT 122nd Commencement Website. Saturday, May 21, 1-2 PM, Alumni Center, Graduate School Reception for Doctoral Students. For more information please visit the Office of Graduate Studies Website. Saturday, May 21, 3-4 PM, UNB 2.228 (Texas Union Theater), iSchool Convocation.For more information please contact Melba Claymon by email or phone, 471-2185. Saturday, May 21, 4-6 PM, UNB 3.502 (Santa Rita Room), iSchool Graduation Reception. For more information please contact Melba Claymon by email or phone, 471-2185. Saturday, May 21, 7:00-10:30 PM, South Mall, UT Commencement. For more information please visit the UT 122nd Commencement Website. Sunday-Friday, May 22-27, Texas A&M, History of Books and Printing Workshop. The Fourth Annual &M Workshop in the History of Books and Printing will take place at the Cushing Memorial Library and Archives of Texas A&M, College Station, TX. This five-day workshop provides an intensive, hands-on introduction to and survey of the history of books and printing. The workshop is intended for librarians, archivists, students, teachers, collectors, private individuals and others who work in areas related to or who have an interest in the subject. The course consists of a unique combination of labs and seminars designed to provide students with practical experience as well as a broad historical survey of the field. The lab sessions will concentrate on printing in the hand press era and its allied technologies--typecasting, papermaking, bookbinding, illustration, and ink-making. Students will have the opportunity cast type in a hand mould. They will also set type, impose forms, and print on a replica common press. The seminar sessions will provide a chronological survey of book and printing history, beginning briefly with pre-codex structures and then concentrating on developments in the hand press era. Tuition is $600 and may provide three hours of graduate credit from University of North Texas. For registration and other information, please visit the workshop Website or contact Chris Morrow, at the library, via email or phone, 979-845-1951. Monday, May 30, Submission Due: Full papers and
posters submission to be included in the Proceedings. Call for papers for the Second International Conference on Knowledge Management--Nurturing Culture, Innovation, and Technology--Jointly organized by the Information and Knowledge Management Society ( i KMS) & The American Society for Information Science & Technology (ASIS&T) http://www.ickm2005.org . The second International Conference on Knowledge Management (ICKM2005) will be held at the ASIS&T Annual Meeting in the Westin Charlotte, North Carolina on October 27-28, 2005 . The conference will bring together academics, researchers, developers, practitioners, and users in the areas of knowledge management and information processing. It will serve as a platform for networking, exchange of research ideas, practical applications and best practices. Authors are invited to submit original and unpublished work on all aspects of information and knowledge management. Specific topics of interest include but are not limited to the following:
Submission Website: http://www.softconf.com/start/ICKM_ASIST2005/submit.html . For further information please contact Suliman Hawamdeh or Michael Smith . Tuesday-Sunday, August 16-21, New Orleans, SAA Annual Meeting. Please contact Dr. Gracy for more information. 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.
Professional Associations, Email Lists, and other Forums 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.
Information School Forums The school of information sponsors weekly or fortnightly iForums (or iFora) of interest to School of Information Students and Faculty. Scholars from across the campus and occasionally from other universities are invited to present their work at a forum. From time to time, Ph.D. students are also invited to present their work to the forum. Each individual forum will be listed in the above schedule when details are known. In 2001 and 2002 , Ph.D. students organized the Ph.D. students organized a colloquia to share their work in a friendly environment. The last series we had was the Fall 2002 Ph.D. Colloquia Series. Such a series could be reestablished if there was an interest. If you are interested in leading such a series, please contact Don Drumtra for his experience on leading the 2002 Colloquia
Orientations New students (and even old) might appreciate the following
two Orientation Websites:
Disclaimer. The following information is compiled from various sources and is current as of the time it was written and the documents available. It is not official UT, Graduate School, or School of Information policy. It is offered to help Ph.D. students gain an overview of Ph.D. requirements. Please refer to official sources for current information before taking irreversible action. General. UT Graduate School requirements for award of the Ph.D. degree are listed in the UT Graduate Catalog. Detailed requirements for the School of Information are listed the provided on the Doctor of Philosophy Webpage. Lisa Kleinman provided an unofficial summary of the requirements to the participants in the Fall 2004 Ph.D. Orientation. Milestones. Program milestones consist of development and approval of a Program of Study, satisfactory completion of course work and a comprehensive doctoral examination including written, oral, and research components, presentation and approval of credentials to Graduate School (including a separate Program of Work), approval of a dissertation proposal, research and completion of a dissertation culminating in a final examination consisting of defense of the the dissertation and final presentation approval of the student's credentials to the Graduate School. Administrative progress through most of these milestones is described in the Checklist for the Doctoral Program (1993). Annual reviews are submitted to the students Advising Committee so that the committee may evaluate the student's progress. The student's Supervising Committee monitors the student's progress after the student reaches candidacy. Graduate Studies Committee. Within the School of Information, the Graduate Studies Committee or GSC approves the students Program of Study and Annual review. Doctoral Program of Study. The content of the Program of 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 on their Websites. Annual Review. 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). Lisa Kleinman and Don Drumtra have posted examples of their approved Annual Reviews on their Websites. Qualifying Procedures. In order to qualify to apply for candidacy, the iSchool requires a written exam and oral defense (often called the comprehensive exam or "comps") and a research paper accepted by the student's committee. This committee (perhaps, it could be called the Examination Committee) ordinarily consists of three members of the iSchool faculty and one outside member. The three iSchool members could be your Advising Committee, potential members of your Supervising Committee, or any other three members who agree to serve. Application for Candidacy. On June 1, 2004 the UT Office of Graduate Studies automated the application for candidacy and placed it online. Instructions for completion of and a link to the actual online form is provided in the application Webpage. Other candidacy requirements are also provided on that page including the requirement for the Program of Work.
Dissertation. Requirements for the content of your dissertation are developed between you and your Supervising Committee and the Graduate School sets guidelines for format. There are two format guidelines are provided by the Graduate School (Office of Graduate Studies or OGS), print guidelines and electronic submission guidelines. Even though you must submit your dissertation electronically, you would do well to meet both guidelines because someone might very well want to print your dissertation in the future. An a point of interest, the final authority on both the content and format of your dissertation is your Supervisory Committee--not the folks in the Office of Graduate Studies. However, the OGS folks can make life really difficult for you if you do not listen to them. Dr. Harmon and eleven other UT advisors have published dissertation tips for doctoral students. It is posted on the UT Intellectual Entrepreneurship, Dissertation List-Serve and Resources Webpage. The Webpage also contains a dissertation writing bibliography, reflections of former graduate deans on dissertation completion, advice from UT alumni, and numerous other useful items for Ph.D. students. Final Oral Exam (Defense of Dissertation. A satisfactory final oral examination is required for the approval of a dissertation. The Office of Graduate Studies publishes the time and place of this examination. The exam is open to all members of the University community and the public, unless attendance is restricted by the Graduate Studies Committee. Information is available in the Graduate Catalog and an application form are available from the Office of Graduate Studies. Application for Graduation. There are lots of forms for graduation listed by the Office of Graduate Studies. You would be well advised to visit the office of Graduate Studies well before the deadlines to be sure you have the latest information and do not forget an essential form the absence of which might hold up your graduation. Graduation. After all that work you won't want to miss the graduation celebration and fireworks at the end of the spring semester. UT introduced a new doctoral robe in 2001, which will be first available for graduating students in May, 2005. You can be one of the first scholars to wear one. Additional Sources. The University of Texas and the UT Office of Graduate Studies provide the latest information on degree and administrative requirements requirements in three publications:
Research Methods and Other Graduate Courses The iSchool PhD Methods Courses Webpage lists many research methods courses available in the university that may be suitable for meeting the iSchool Ph.D. research methods requirements listed on the iSchool Doctor of Philosophy Webpage. 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 Salina Circus. 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). Statistics Website. The Website, www.statpages.net, provides about 600 links and about 380 statistical calculators. It is now owned by AOL. Recently AOL has begun restricting its content to AOL members, so please let me know if this Website becomes inaccessible. 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: Academic
and Professional Writing, GRS 390W, normally offered in
the fall semester. This course meets the Ph.D. program writing
requirement. Dissertation Courses and Other Information. In January or February of each year the Graduate School has a workshop on dissertations. The Graduate School Website also provide formats for dissertations, information on how to prepare digital dissertations, and various forms you will need for graduation. 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.). Information on Qualitative Research Methods. In September 2004, Dr. Davis loaned a copy of the three-volume Sage Encyclopedia of Social Science Research Methods (2004) to the lab for our use. It not only provides excellent summaries of lots of issues and topics related to research methodology, but it provides reference sources under each topic to allow further exploration. A copy is also available is also at the PCL reference desk. Content Manager: Don Drumtra 2005 April 23 |
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