There has been little work done in exploring the variations in admissions practices between different types of physics graduate programs. In this paper, we compared admissions practices in master's programs to a parallel data set collected from doctoral departments to understand the relative importance of particular admission criteria and looked…

The American Physiological Society (APS) and APS Council encourage the teaching of physiology at the undergraduate, graduate, and medical school levels to support the continued prominence of this area of science. One area identified by the APS Council that is of particular importance for the development of future physiologists (the…

Priorities for development of a successful career as a physiologist are described. Areas considered include: (1) adequate pre- and post-doctoral training; (2) research specialty; (3) selection of department/institution; (4) productivity; (5) research grant support; and (6) the training of doctoral students and fellows. (JN)

Describes the chemical engineering program at the University of California, Santa Barbara, including history of the department, faculty research interests and professional activities, graduate and undergraduate programs, and research in nuclear engineering. (SK)

Criticisms of attempts to measure the educational and research quality of universities are discussed, particularly with respect to methods that rely on the quality of faculty publications. However, it is argued that institutions supported by public funds must be accountable and some form of assessment is necessary. (JMD)

Summary data from the annual questionnaire sent to chairpersons of physiology departments are provided on a sample questionnaire. Data of faculty salaries (presented in 12 bar graphs) and departmental budgets/space (presented in table format) are also provided. (JN)

Discusses some special Master of Science in engineering (MS) programs including manufacturing and quality control, safety engineering, transportation engineering, and computer related areas. Gives a table showing MS degrees, institutions, and faculty. (YP)