Tag Archives: Research
UCI Design
The University of California at Irvine (zot! zot! zot!) is having an on-line conference next week to discuss their plans to launch a new School of Design. This is not, in their conception, a small endeavor. They have plans (pdf) to start out large and get bigger. It’s funny: despite having done time in a […]
Invited
In the academic world, being “invited” to a conference usually means that someone will be paying for you to come. This is always a nice thing: you get to engage in a conference without having to worry about the money side of things. Folks at some universities and in some fields do not have to […]
Super-expedited review
Graduate students quickly learn to loathe human subjects review. It’s not that they don’t see the need, nor that they would like to be doing intrusive research. It’s just that most of what we do, while it certainly has an effect on our subjects (how could it not?!), has an effect that is extremely small. […]
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