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ID PhD NEWS & EVENTS
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Welcome to Dr. Marina Pluzhenskaya, our new Graduate Coordinator!
We are very pleased to welcome Dr. Marina Pluzhenskaya as the new Graduate Coordinator for the ID PhD program. Marina was born in Russia and grew up in the medieval city of Yaroslavl where she received a BS (Biology and Chemistry) from Yaroslavl State University, and a Master's degree in social sciences (Psychology and Library and Information Science) from Yaroslavl Pedagogical University. She went on to a Master’s in Library and Information Science and a PhD (interdisciplinary research and publishing patterns of Information Science scholars) at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Marina is a member of the Association for Integrative Studies and is a strong believer in a bright future for interdisciplinary research and education.
ID PhD has been well-served by former graduate coordinators Jack Duffy and Raewyn Bassett, and we look forward to further development of the program with Marina at the helm. Learning how to pronounce her last name is our first order of business! (Hint: plu-zhen-sky-ah). Marina would be pleased to hear from you at marina.pluzhenskaya@dal.ca – a telephone number will be forthcoming as we move forward with finding a place she can call “office”.
Welcome to ID PhD, Marina!
ID PhD has a Summer Home!
Yes, ID PhD is moving. We must vacate the house at 1312 Robie Street by June 30, 2009 and we are fortunate to have been provided with two rooms in the Life Sciences Centre building for summer 2009 – room 220 and room 334. These are classrooms, but we are able to move furniture and other items from ID House into these spaces, and students who had offices at ID House are being accommodated here. It is temporary space, but will suffice for a short two-month period.
Space planning for ID PhD students is complicated by many factors. Most of the students are not located on campus, as a consequence of having home offices, part-time jobs, collecting data in the field, etc. Some students have space in a lab or in one of the faculties involved in their research. Nobody anticipated the growth and popularity of the program (we currently have 100 students!), so matching supply and demand is a challenge and a work-in-progress. We do recognize that having space dedicated to the ID PhD program is really important for building and sustaining the community as a whole, and the new building currently under construction on Coburg Rd. and LeMarchant St. is something we can all look forward to on that front. Until it is ready, we are being given plenty of room for our students in the Killam Library, as of September 2009, until we can move into the new building.
In the meantime, our summer home is in the Life Sciences Building. Updates will follow as future housing news occurs.
INTE 7100 offered for Fall 2009/10
We are pleased to announce that INTE 7100: Research Methods from Management, Policy, and Science for Interdisciplinary Studies, taught by Dr. Jack Duffy, is being offered this Fall 2009-2010 term.
This course covers both quantitative and qualitative research methods, with an emphasis on quantitative. While not a prerequisite for INTE 7120, it is highly recommended that students take this course first. Students will learn how to interpret other researchers' designs and the validity or transferability of their findings, as well as how to design their own research studies. Students will present their own research designs and they will be encouraged to use their proposed thesis or SIRI (Statement of Interdisciplinary Research Interest) as the example they bring to class to get feedback.
The course is now available for registration, and will be held Fridays, 11:35-14:25, in room 1014 of the Rowe Building. The CRN is 14676, term is Fall 2009-2010.
From DALNEWS: Academic advisors recognized
April 29, 2008
Dalhousie President Tom Traves paid tribute to academic advisers at Dalhousie for the “profound impact they have on students’ lives” as he handed out awards for outstanding advising.
Jana Crawford, Heather Schellinck, Jack Duffy
and Margie Muise were honoured for outstanding advising. (Nick Pearce Photo)
Honoured yesterday were: Jana Crawford, outstanding peer advisor advisor; Margie Muise, with the Bachelor of Management program, outstanding staff advisor; Heather Schellinck, senior instructor in the Department of Psychology, as outstanding undergraduate advisor; and Jack Duffy, graduate coordinator of the interdisciplinary PhD program, and Jeff Dahn, professor cross-appointed in the Departments of Chemistry and Physics and Atmospheric Science, as outstanding faculty graduate advisors.
“All these advisers share some key qualities: they are professional and provide good advice. But they go way beyond: they care,” said Dr. Traves. “In essence, it’s what we hope everyone at Dalhousie would do.”
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