scholarly journals How to choose a fruitful research project: advice from graduate students

SURG Journal ◽  
1969 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 5-6
Author(s):  
Lee-Anne Huber ◽  
Alexandra Guselle
Keyword(s):  
Graduate Students ◽  
Research Topic ◽  
University Of Pennsylvania ◽  
Graduate Studies ◽  
Research Project ◽  
Associate Dean ◽  
Long Time ◽  
Fruitful Research ◽  
The University ◽  
Phd Program

Selecting a research topic is an integral part of graduate studies. According to Skip Brass, Associate Dean and Director of the MD-PhD program at the University of Pennsylvania, you need to “pick a problem that interests you. You will be living with it for a long time. Make sure it is something you will want to wrestle with even when the going gets rough. It has to make you want to get up early, work late, come in on the weekend, and think about it in the shower.” This paper aims to make the process of choosing and evaluating a research topic a little easier through providing some helpful steps in formulating a successful project.

scholarly journals Tribute to the Late Dr. Charles D. Hufford

Molecules ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 24 (3) ◽  
pp. 588
Author(s):  
Alice Clark
Keyword(s):  
University Of Mississippi ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Graduate Studies ◽  
Associate Dean ◽  
The University

This Special Issue is dedicated to the late Dr. Charles (Charlie) D. Hufford, former Professor of Pharmacognosy and Associate Dean for Research and Graduate Studies at the University of Mississippi [...]

Supernatural Beliefs among Graduate Students at the University of Pennsylvania

Nature ◽  
1971 ◽  
Vol 232 (5308) ◽  
pp. 278-279 ◽  
Author(s):  
CHARLES A. SALTER ◽  
LEWIS M. ROUTLEDGE
Keyword(s):  
Graduate Students ◽  
University Of Pennsylvania ◽  
Supernatural Beliefs ◽  
The University

Tikal Reports: the series continues

Antiquity ◽  
2015 ◽  
Vol 89 (345) ◽  
pp. 743-745
Author(s):  
Norman Hammond
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Graduate Students ◽  
Tropical Forest ◽  
Classic Period ◽  
University Of Pennsylvania ◽  
Ancient Maya ◽  
Academic World ◽  
First Millennium ◽  
The University ◽  
The Impact

The University of Pennsylvania Museum's Tikal Project of 1958–1968 was one of the great Maya investigations of the twentieth century. It was the most ambitious study of a Maya city so far undertaken, with scores of staff, graduate students and local workers engaged in a range of activities from mapping the site core and its surrounding settlement, to stripping the tropical forest from the colossal temple-pyramids and restoring them, to establishing an occupation history that eventually showed an origin for Tikal in the mid-first millennium BC and abandonment more than sixteen centuries later at the end of the Classic period. The impact of the project's results, publications and cadre of trained Mayanists moving out into the academic world was substantial and led to several decades of a Tikal-centric view of ancient Maya civilisation.

scholarly journals Complementarity and Conflict among Population and other Policies: Specifying an Economic-Demographic Model for a Developing Country (The Distinguishedl Lecture)

1993 ◽  
Vol 32 (4I) ◽  
pp. 523-540
Author(s):  
Roberto S. Mariano
Keyword(s):  
Developing Country ◽  
Development Process ◽  
University Of Pennsylvania ◽  
Demographic Model ◽  
Economic Policies ◽  
Collaborative Effort ◽  
Research Project ◽  
Population Policies ◽  
Socio Economic Variables ◽  
The University

My talk today is based on a research project, housed at the University of Pennsylvania, that we have undertaken for the UNFPA and UNDESD. The project, with the same title as the draft material distributed for this conference, is a collaborative effort among Lawrence Klein, Fred Campano, Dominick Salvatore, and myself. The principal issue in the project is the simultaneous interaction between demographic and socio-economic variables in the development process of an emerging economy. The main concrete objective is to construct an operational econometric framework which establishes appropriate feedback linkages between demographic and economic movements and allows meaningful examination of conflicts and consistencies of population policies with economic policies. This is essential in formulating appropriate population and other policies and in evaluating their effectiveness in promoting the demographic and socio-economic developmental goals of society.

scholarly journals 5. Exploring Identities Through Poetic Inquiry: Heartful Journeys Into Tangled Places of Complicated Truths and Desires

2011 ◽  
Vol 3 ◽  
pp. 27
Author(s):  
John J. Guiney Yallop ◽  
Kathleen Naylor ◽  
Shamimara Sharif ◽  
Nancy Taylor
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Graduate Students ◽  
Graduate Student ◽  
Principal Investigator ◽  
University Research ◽  
Research Fund ◽  
Research Project ◽  
Poetic Inquiry ◽  
Writing Feedback ◽  
The University

One of the challenges we face in higher education is knowing who we are as individuals and as communities. Poetic inquiry (Prendergast, Leggo, & Sameshima, 2009) is a way into that knowing, a way of exploring our own identities and our relationships with each other. Poetic inquiry creates a space for evocative knowing. This research project, supported by the Acadia University Research Fund, included two graduate students as co-participants, one graduate student as co-investigator, and a principal investigator. Through writing, feedback, editing, and rewriting, we sought to create poetry that would show our identities as individuals and in relationships with our communities. We met for four three-hour sessions to write poetry, after reading the work of a poet / scholar. For our fifth session, we performed our poetry at a public reading that was advertised throughout the University community. Audience members were given a copy of our chapbook of poetry (Guiney Yallop, Naylor, Sharif, & Taylor, 2009), which included participant-selected pieces from our own work completed during, or between, the sessions.

scholarly journals A GRADUATE COURSE IN FIRE PROTECTIVE DESIGN AND BUILDING CODES AN INDUSTRY AND UNIVERSITY COLLABORATION

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. J. Frye ◽  
P. Zurkan
Keyword(s):  
Graduate Students ◽  
Building Codes ◽  
Direct Result ◽  
Graduate Course ◽  
Graduate Studies ◽  
Course Content ◽  
International Graduate ◽  
Seminar Series ◽  
The University ◽  
In Fire

Since the fall of 2013, the Faculty of Engineering has offered a graduate course in Fire Protective Design and Building Codes based on Part 3 of the National Building Code of Canada. The course is made available to graduate students in architecture and to all branches of engineering. It is also offered to off campus practicing architects and engineers who wish to either take the course for credit or who would like to audit the course.Introduction of this course into the graduate studies program at the University of Manitoba was the direct result of collaboration between the university Centre for Engineering Professional Practice and Engineering Education and industry. Industry financial support for the course instructors was provided by the Winnipeg Construction Association and the Association of Professional Engineers and Geoscientists of Manitoba. (Engineers Geoscientists Manitoba).This paper provides an overview of the course objectives, the course content and the expected and realized outcomes. The course proved to be very popular, with course registration averaging between fourteen and eighteen graduate students each year. It was highly rated by the year end student course evaluations. It was particularly popular with international graduate students, many who came from countries where exposure to fire protective design and building codes was limited or non-existent. As a spin off from the course, in 2015, the Winnipeg Construction Association began offering a workshop/seminar series of five half day courses. These workshop/seminars have been oversubscribed and are attended by a very diverse group of construction practitioners that includes architects, engineers, building officials and contractors.

scholarly journals BREAKING THE BARRIERS OF RESEARCH WRITING: RETHINKING PEDAGOGY FOR ENGINEERING GRADUATE RESEARCH

2012 ◽  
Author(s):  
Janna Rosales ◽  
Cecilia Moloney ◽  
Cecile Badenhorst ◽  
Jennifer Dyer ◽  
Morgan Murray
Keyword(s):  
Graduate Students ◽  
Interdisciplinary Research ◽  
Research Team ◽  
Student Perspectives ◽  
Academic Literacies ◽  
Research Writing ◽  
Graduate Studies ◽  
Research Project ◽  
Graduate Research ◽  
Writer’S Block

A key attribute for success in graduate studies is the ability to conduct research and to communicate research effectively. However, many researchers in engineering do not identify as writers, regarding research writing as the end product of a static template. Novice and experienced researchers alike encounter problems common to all writers such as writer’s block and procrastination, and struggle for clarity of thought and brevity of message. Conventional, skills-based support for research writing exists at many universities, but an interdisciplinary research team at Memorial University has been investigating more integrative and innovative ways to break down barriers to thinking and writing clearly about research, particularly for engineering graduate students. Using the lens of academic literacies, this paper presents “Thinking Creatively about Research,” a research project that developed and piloted a multi-day, co-curricular workshop for engineering graduate students at Memorial University. Preliminary findings indicate that the workshop pedagogy can transform student perspectives of research and writing.

scholarly journals Fostering the resilience of graduate students

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Colette Jourdan-Ionescu ◽  
Serban Ionescu ◽  
Francine Julien-Gauthier ◽  
Michael Cantinotti ◽  
Sara-Jeanne Boulanger ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Graduate Students ◽  
Protective Factors ◽  
Support Network ◽  
Graduate Studies ◽  
University Professors ◽  
Factors Affecting ◽  
The Social ◽  
History Of ◽  
Resilience Factors ◽  
The University

This paper originates from research carried out by an international team of university professors interested in protective factors promoting the resilience of graduate students, in particular regarding the student-supervisor relationship. Following a literature review on the subject, the paper presents the resilience factors affecting the student and those relating to the supervisor. The main factors that appear to promote the resilience of graduate students are individual, family and environmental protective factors (as gender, temperament, cultural background, personal history of schooling, motivation, family support, being childless, wealth of the social support network, means offered by the supervisor and the university). For the supervisor, the main protective factors appear to be individual (experience, style and role assumed towards the student, support the student’s empowerment as his/her schooling progresses). The reciprocal adjustment throughout the studies between the supervisor and the student appears essential to promote their tuning for the resilience and the success in the graduate studies.

Anything but a backwater

Antiquity ◽  
2011 ◽  
Vol 85 (328) ◽  
pp. 568-569
Author(s):  
Patrick V. Kirch
Keyword(s):  
Graduate Students ◽  
Southeast Asia ◽  
Cultural Evolution ◽  
Coming Out ◽  
University Of Pennsylvania ◽  
Plant Domestication ◽  
Island Southeast Asia ◽  
National University ◽  
University Of Hawai'i ◽  
The University

In the spring of 1970, tired of the chilly Philadelphia winters where I was studying archaeology at the University of Pennsylvania, I arranged to spend a semester at the University of Hawai'i. There I enrolled in Professor Wilhelm G. Solheim II's course inthe prehistory of Southeast Asia. Bill Solheim — a colorful character if ever there was one, with his handle-bar mustache and endless anecdotes — was just then stirring up the sleepy field of Southeast Asian archaeology and prehistory. Together with his graduate students Chet Gorman and Don Bayard, Bill was making all kinds of startling claims about thecourse of cultural evolution in what most scholars had taken to be a secondary backwater: evidence for strikingly early plant domestication from Spirit Cave, precocious advances in bronze metallurgy at Non Nok Tah, and similar claims. At the time, Peter Bellwood, then based at the University of Auckland, was still focused on research among the islands of eastern Polynesia. But Peter saw the exciting developments coming out of Southeast Asia and soon decamped to The Australian National University in Canberra. Out of this new base he began his long and fruitful career of fieldwork in island Southeast Asia, and as the preeminent synthesiser of the region's prehistory.

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