[Students-l] Rutgers iSchool invites applications for fully funded PhD: DEADLINE Jan. 15, 2016

[Chirag Shah]

The School of Communication & Information (iSchool) at Rutgers University, invites you to apply to the Ph.D. program for the Fall 2016. Please note the application deadline for Fall 2016 enrollment is Jan. 15, 2016.

Located in New Brunswick, NJ, within 90 minutes drive/train to both NYC and Philadelphia, Rutgers University 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 and Community Informatics. 

The School of Communication and Information offers competitive funding to doctoral students for four years of $25,000 or more in stipend or salary annually, full tuition remission, and health insurance. Doctoral students are also eligible for support for academic travel.
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. Faculty have secured nearly $20 million in grant funding in recent years.
Listen to a podcast recorded by RU faculty outlining program features, and learn more about the program:
http://comminfo.rutgers.edu/phd-program/lis-concentration.html <http://comminfo.rutgers.edu/phd-program/lis-concentration.html> 

More information on Ph.D. program admissions can be found here:
http://comminfo.rutgers.edu/phd-program/admission-aid.html <http://comminfo.rutgers.edu/phd-program/admission-aid.html>
A colonial school, Rutgers will celebrate it’s 250th anniversary in 2016. There are 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.
For more information, contact Prof. Nick Belkin (belkin at rutgers.edu <mailto:belkin at rutgers.edu>) or Prof. Marie Radford (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
http://comminfo.rutgers.edu/~chirags
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