<div dir="ltr"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.7272720336914px">Syracuse University’s School of Information Studies welcomes applicants for our doctoral program. Admitted students are assured of at least four year’s funding (including summers) along with tuition and other support.</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.7272720336914px"><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.7272720336914px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.7272720336914px">The interdisciplinary nature of our program is visible through the backgrounds of the 40 students currently pursuing their Ph.D.  Students hail from ten countries and a range of academic backgrounds:  communications and other social sciences, business, computer science, library science, information science, and others.   This makes our doctoral program a welcoming and inclusive place for scholars from under-represented populations, something we see as a defining element of our program.</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.7272720336914px"><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.7272720336914px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.7272720336914px">Doctoral students pursue individualized course plans that are tuned to their particular research interests and needs.  This means advising and, more importantly, close working relationships with faculty members is a cornerstone of the Syracuse University iSchool Ph.D. program. This is why it is both residential and full-time.</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.7272720336914px"><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.7272720336914px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.7272720336914px">We celebrate the success of our recent graduates who are taking up tenure-track positions in premier research institutions and exceptional liberal arts colleges, excelling in academic and policy think tanks, and pursuing entrepreneurial success! Current students are earning awards for their publications and dissertation work, continuing a long tradition of such recognition.</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.7272720336914px"><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.7272720336914px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.7272720336914px">For 2015, we are particularly interested in speaking with applicants and seeing applications from those whose interests align with one or more of the following research areas:</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.7272720336914px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.7272720336914px">+ Text and data mining, Natural Language Processing and Information Retrieval</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.7272720336914px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.7272720336914px">+ Data science and data analytics</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.7272720336914px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.7272720336914px">+ Information policy, Internet governance, and telecommunications policy</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.7272720336914px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.7272720336914px">+ Information technology policy and globalization</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.7272720336914px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.7272720336914px">+ Librarianship</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.7272720336914px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.7272720336914px">+ Mobile computing</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.7272720336914px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.7272720336914px">+ Usability, accessibility, and universal design</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.7272720336914px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.7272720336914px">+ Data infrastructure and services in support of research</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.7272720336914px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.7272720336914px">+ Organizational impacts of ICTs (e.g., Citizen Science, FLOSS, Wikipedia, mobile work, distributed scientific collaboration, health IT)</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.7272720336914px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.7272720336914px">+ Digitally-enabled research methods (e.g., Trace ethnography, socio-computational approaches)</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.7272720336914px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.7272720336914px">+ Smart grids/energy informatics and Infrastructure studies</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.7272720336914px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.7272720336914px">+ Information security and privacy (policies, management, and technologies)</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.7272720336914px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.7272720336914px">+ Social Computing, social media, social networks, and crowdsourcing</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.7272720336914px"><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.7272720336914px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.7272720336914px">You can learn more about the Syracuse iSchool faculty and interests at </span><a href="http://ischool.syr.edu/future/doctoral/research_areas.aspx" target="_blank" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.7272720336914px">http://ischool.syr.edu/future/doctoral/research_areas.aspx</a><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.7272720336914px">.</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.7272720336914px"><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.7272720336914px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.7272720336914px">You can learn more about the doctoral program and application (due 3 January, 2014) at </span><a href="http://ischool.syr.edu/future/doctoral/index.aspx" target="_blank" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.7272720336914px">http://ischool.syr.edu/future/doctoral/index.aspx</a><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.7272720336914px">.</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.7272720336914px"><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.7272720336914px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.7272720336914px">Please reach out to the program director, Steve Sawyer, at </span><a href="mailto:ssawyer@syr.edu" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.7272720336914px">ssawyer@syr.edu</a><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.7272720336914px">, or our doctoral programs manager, Jennifer Barclay, at </span><a href="mailto:jabarcla@syr.edu" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.7272720336914px">jabarcla@syr.edu</a><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.7272720336914px">, with questions!</span><div><font face="arial, sans-serif"><br clear="all"></font><div><br></div><br>
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