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Academia 101
The Chronicle of Higher Education is a weekly periodical that covers the ins and outs of academe. An incredible resource from grad student to endowed professor. Tomorrow's Professor is a listserv (join to get ongoing updates) that also has a wealth of information regarding teaching, research, service, and job-hunting. |
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Professional Associations
Belonging to multiple associations can be very expensive. But you can always peruse their websites for free. Psychology-related: The Association of Black Psychologists and The American Psychological Association . Health-related: The American Public Health Association and The Society of Behavioral Medicine . Networking: The Emerging Scholars Interdisciplinary Network . |
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Grants & Funding
My research has been funded by The Department of Defense's Breast Cancer Research Program , The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation , and the National Institutes of Health , the major source of federal funding for health research. Also, if you have student loans and have your Ph.D., you may qualify for one of their competitive loan repayment programs. |
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Assorted Research Sites
Many of these will quickly eat up hours of your time if you're not careful. On fast food: Learn more about the industry through an online trade magazine . On tobacco: The Legacy Tobacco Documents Library at UCSF has millions of documents, including internal documents from tobacco companies. Altria Means Tobacco explores the meaning and implications of Phillip Morris' name change. On race, demographics & urban issues: Scott Plous' Understanding Prejudice is a companion website to a textbook, but has a lot of information, including several pages of categorized links. The U.S. Census Bureau is the major resource for most demographic statistics. Also see the amazing Social Explorer , which has not only data in numeric format, but maps as well. Locally, check New York City's Department of City Planning under the Reference section. The Civil Rights Project formerly at Harvard, now at UCLA, does research on race and inequality; the reports on segregation in Boston and Chicago are fascinating. Visit the Lewis Mumford Center and the American Communities Project , which is now based at Brown. The Minnesota-based Institute on Race and Poverty examines both national and local (Minneapolis/Twin Cities) issues. At Harvard is the Geocoding Project , where you can see how socioeconomics are linked geographically to health variables. |
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Books
In the city, Labyrinth Books is great for new, and The Strand is great for used (and discounted new, too). There's also a bookstore with the unwieldy name of "Unopressive, Non-Imperialist Bargain Books" in the Village-- Carmine & Bleecker. They have absurdly cheap, great books, though the selection is random and you never know what you'll find. Online, Powell's has a great inventory. Also, this funny little site will give you any info you want on a book, including the table of contents for many. |
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Computer-related
Why would you ever use anything but a Mac ? SPSS runs on OSX; SAS , though powerful, is PC-only, with no plans for Mac development at present. Geographic Information Systems (GIS) is really neat stuff, and can be used to investigate many public health questions. |