The m-index has been found to discriminate better between approved and rejected post doctoral fellowship applicants than the h-index [9].
KU hopes to attract applicants with doctoral degrees in the sciences and in veterinary medicine.
However, information contained in the application biosketch, such as the undergraduate or doctoral institution attended and applicant names, may in some cases be used as a proxy for race/ethnicity (8).
According to the study, by Michael Hurwitz, a doctoral student at the Harvard Graduate School of Education, applicants to a parent's alma mater had, on average, seven times the odds of admission of nonlegacy applicants.
Top doctoral programs have far more applicants than they can accept, and many excellent students don't apply, either because they do not have a high enough level of specialized skills or because they do not want to risk the terrible job market for college teachers.
All tenure-track applicants successfully completed doctoral programs, earned publications, and garnered strong letters of recommendation.
According to pre-doctoral NRSA information I found through the NIH Web site, successful applicants who submitted applications in November can expect an earliest starting date of May 1st the following year.
Applicants to the post doctoral fellowships must have published at least one first author article in an international peer-reviewed journal, and applicants to the YI programme must have published at least one last author publication from their own independent laboratory, thereby demonstrating the ability to produce and publish independent research results.
To be eligible for the program, applicants must have a doctoral degree (e.g., PhD, MD, JD), be within 5 years of receipt of the doctoral degree, and be citizens or permanent residents of the United States.
