Traci wrote, part:
> I have an excellent student who is interested in applying to grad programs
> in Behavioral Neuroscience, but since this is outside of my area, I'm not
> sure which direction to point her in.
Here is a chance for this excellent student to demonstrate that she has learned
important research skills, has initiative and ambition, and can make good
judgments, both about herself and about material she reads.
Send her to the library. Have her examine the journals reporting results in the
field in which she in interested. Note who seems to be doing the research that
seems most appealing to her and which seems focused most on important problems
in the field. Write down the names and addresses of those researchers. Search
PsycINFO (and probably MEDLINE) for other papers that those individuals have
published, especially recently. A scan of Social Sciences Citation Index and of
Science Citation Index (if those are available) can help identify the more and
less influential researchers, as well.
Read those articles. Triage the list of researchers. Send for info from the
programs with which the investigators consistently doing the most interesting
and important work are associated. Write to the particular individuals
expressing interest in their research and noting that she will be applying to
graduate programs in the researchers field. Ask for guidance.
Given any encouragement at all from such individuals, apply to their programs.
Note that the relevant programs may not be labelled "Behavioral Neuroscience."
Pat Cabe
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Patrick Cabe, Ph.D.
Department of Psychology
University of North Carolina at Pembroke
One University Drive
Pembroke, NC 28372-1510
(910) 521-6630
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"Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty."
Thomas Jefferson
"There is the danger that everyone waits
idly for others to act in his stead."
Albert Einstein
"Majorities simply follow minorities.
Gandhi
