[Students-l] Rutgers University iSchool Accepting PhD Applications by January 15th

[Chirag Shah]

Rutgers University iSchool Accepting PhD Applications by January 15th

The LIS area of concentration (also known as iSchool) in our interdisciplinary PhD provides an excellent environment for research in such areas as Human Information Behavior; Information Retrieval, Language and Communication; Information Agencies and Artifacts; Learning, Youth, Information and Technology; and Social, Community, and Health Informatics. The school includes world-renowned faculty who lead and teach in these areas. Their accomplishments are reflected in a large pool of scholarly publications, awards and grants. Our research themes include the following. 

Human Information Behavior
	• Individual, group, social, institutional behaviors
	• Within specific technological environments, e.g., HCI, CSCW
	• Of specific constituencies, e.g., young people, health professionals

Information retrieval, language and communication
	• Individual, collaborative, social, organizational
	• Interactive IR
	• NLP, information extraction, information organization
	• Knowledge management

Information agencies and artifacts
	• History and development of libraries and information agencies and their artifacts, library services & collections
	• For specific audiences
	• Libraries, archives, preservation, curation

Learning, youth, information and technology
	• In schools and outside of schools
	• Information utilization for learning
	• Digital worlds, digital citizenship
	• Literature, publishing and youth services

Social, Community, and Health Informatics
	• Virtual worlds, gaming informatics
	• Social media, social networks
	• Health/medical informatics
	• Collaborative informatics

Our faculty have secured nearly $20 million in grant funding in recent years from federal agencies, including the National Science Foundation (NSF) and Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS), as well as private organizations, such as Amazon, Yahoo! and Google.

During the past academic year, our doctoral students were involved in various research projects and produced 106 publications in edited books and journals. They delivered 222 conference presentations at regional, national and international conferences. Additionally, they received 22 awards for scholarly and professional work, 26 research fellowships and scholarships, and eight grants.

U.S. News & World Report (2013) ranked our graduate program sixth in the nation and our School Library Media specialization second.

A colonial school, Rutgers will celebrate it’s 250th anniversary in 2016. Rutgers includes 18 schools and colleges (including a medical school) on 2,688 acres across New Jersey. We are among the top 25 public universities, as ranked by U.S. News & World Report. We are an NCAA Division I School and a member of the Big Ten and Committee on Institutional Cooperation.

Our location in central New Jersey and close proximity to New York City makes us ideally suited for scholars exploring all types of libraries and information centers, as well as evolving information technologies and their users.

Learn more about Rutgers iSchool: http://comminfo.rutgers.edu/phd-program/lis-concentration.html <http://comminfo.rutgers.edu/phd-program/lis-concentration.html>
Learn about applying to PhD program and financial aid opportunities: http://comminfo.rutgers.edu/phd-program/admission-aid.html <http://comminfo.rutgers.edu/phd-program/admission-aid.html>

Deadline for application with consideration for financial aid: January 15, 2015

Interested in our doctoral program? Have questions?
Contact: Dr. Nick Belkin, LIS Area PhD Coordinator (belkin at rutgers.edu <mailto:belkin at rutgers.edu>); Dr. Marie Radford, PhD Director (mradford at rutgers.edu <mailto:mradford at rutgers.edu>)


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Chirag Shah, PhD
Assistant Professor of Information and Computer Science
Rutgers University
4 Huntington St, New Brunswick NJ 08901
p. (848) 932-8807	f. (732) 932-6916
http://comminfo.rutgers.edu/~chirags
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