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This is all you need to know about the Ph.D.

Books:

"The Ph.D. Factory: Training and Employment of Science and Engineering Doctorates in the United States." by Charles A. Goldman and William F. Massy

"The Ph.D. Trap Revisited by Professor Wilfred Cude

"A Ph.D. Is Not Enough : A Guide To Survival In Science" by Peter J. Feibelman

"Landing an Academic Job: The Process and the Pitfalls" by Jonathan A. Dantzig

"Rejected: How Leading Economists Ponder the Publication Process" by George B. Shepherd

"Debunking Economics: The Naked Emperor of the Social Sciences" by Steve Keen

"More Heat than Light: Economics as Social Physics, Physics as
Nature's Economics" by Philip Mirowski

"The Young Economist's Guide to Professional Etiquette", Journal of Economic Perspectives, 6(1), Winter 1992, pp. 169-179 by Daniel S. Hamermesh

"Facts and Myths about Refereeing", Journal of Economic Perspectives, 8(1), Winter 1994, pp. 153-163 by Daniel S. Hamermesh

"Refereed and Nonrefereed Economic Journals: A Guide to Publishing Opportunities." by A. Carolyn Miller and Victoria J. Punsalan

"The Spread of Economics Ideas" by David C. Colander and A.W. Coats

"The Impact of Bad Writing in Economics", Economic Inquiry, 30,
October 1992 by David N. Laband and Christopher N. Taylor

"The Editors and Authors of Economic Journals: A Case of Institutional Oligopoly?", Economic Journal, February 1999 by Geoffrey M. Hodgson and Harry Rothman

Links:

http://scijobs.freeshell.org
http://www.wilfredcude.com/
http://www.apa.org/monitor/may00/postdoc.html
http://www.carnegiefoundation.org/CID/essays.htm
http://www.rmartin.com/SRC_FAQ.html
http://www.cpst.org/BBissues.pdf
http://www.eco.utexas.edu/joe/articles/2002/2002-09-cawley.pdf
http://students.washington.edu/~cdophys/CAREER/
http://www.townhall.com/columnists/thomassowell/ts20021230.shtml
http://amath.colorado.edu/kudos/20021114.html
http://www.phd.org
http://www.Graduate-Student.com
http://www.ankerpub.com/
http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/education/jan-june03/tenure_1-8.html http://www.ets.org/news/grecs.html
http://www.gre.org/011003ann.html
http://www.zazona.com
http://chronicle.com/free/v49/i20/20a01201.htm


In addition to Theodore Streleski and Valery Fabricant, here are some others:

http://www.seelane.com/writings/uimurds.html
http://advancement.sdsu.edu/marcomm/news/clips/Archive/Aug2003/082603/082603campus.html http://www.freep.com/news/locway/qcampus12.htm

Instructors, students try to gain perspective after murder

December 12, 1998


BY PEGGY WALSH-SARNECKI
Free Press Education Writer

As flags flew at half-staff on Wayne State University's campus Friday to honor slain engineering professor Andrzej Olbrot, university officials scrambled to arrange psychological counseling for students and faculty.


News of the murder spread across the campus Friday. Most students
acknowledged they were concerned. Some were frightened. The Student Center Building however, was hopping during the lunch hour, with students hanging out with friends or cramming for next week's final exams.

Rana Abrou, a senior electrical engineering student from West Bloomfield Township, has a class twice each week in Old Main, the building where Olbrot was killed.


"I don't want to go back," she said.

But most students said they were reassured by signs that Olbrot was not a victim of a random act of violence. Detroit police and Olbrot's wife said the graduate student who turned himself in for the slaying was failing Olbrot's class.


"I just think there's a lot of security" on the campus, said Amrita Singh, a sociology graduate student from Los Angeles. "I feel safe. There's concerns, there's fears, but I just think it's an isolated case."


Lee Rosenberg, a senior chemical engineering major from Fenton, agreed. "I don't feel threatened," he said.


Reporters arriving on campus for a morning news conference were routed around MacGregor Center's main floor. Inside, tables and decorations were set up for a Christmas party officials decided not to cancel.


Several faculty members said the shooting could happen to any of them.


"I think this thing can happen anyplace," said Feng Lin, an associate professor of engineering who worked with Olbrot. "This is not a random shooting. If this was a random shooting, I'd be worried. It's really hard to prevent this."


Robin Cushnier, a senior drama student from Hamtramck, said most students don't become obsessed about bad grades.

"This can happen anywhere," Cushnier said. "You've just got to pray you're not around when it happens."

Students can call 1-313-577-2840 for university counseling services.

Peggy Walsh-Sarnecki can be reached at 1-313-223-4537 or by E-mail at pwalsh@freepress.com

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NOT THE FIRST TIME

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Distraught graduate students have killed professors before:

Three San Diego State University professors were killed in 1996 after they gave a graduate student a failing grade on his master's thesis. The student had hidden a gun in a first aid kit, and opened fire as the three were about to begin a session reviewing his thesis. The student was sentenced to three consecutive life sentences.

Five people, including three professors, were killed at the University of Iowa in 1991 by a postdoctoral student who was upset that his dissertation didn't win an award. The student killed himself after the shooting.

By Peggy Walsh-Sarnecki

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