| USU
FISHERIES PROGRAM LISTED AMONG TOP 3 IN NATION LOGAN
January 26, 2007| An emerging standard for measuring
graduate school faculty members' productivity in U.S.
universities ranks Utah State University's doctoral
program in fisheries science and management number three
in the nation.
USU tied with the University of Montana at Missoula
for the third-place position behind number one University
of Washington and number two-ranked University of Minnesota-Twin
Cities in the 2005 Faculty Scholarly Productivity Index.
Utah State's doctoral program in fisheries science
is administered by the department of watershed sciences
in the university's College of Natural Resources.
"Our faculty members have been extremely productive
at competing for research funding," said Chris Luecke,
department head and professor of fish management. "This
funding allows us to attract outstanding graduate students
and enables us to work collaboratively with some of
the best aquatic research groups in the world. Our faculty
and students publish results of their research in top
academic journals."
The 2005 Faculty Scholarly Productivity index, released
in January 2007, based on data from 2005, rates faculty
members' scholarly output, including the number of books
and journal articles published and awards received.
The inaugural FSP index, based on 2004 data, was released
in December 2005.
Developed by Academic Analytics, a company established
in 2005 and partially owned by the State University
of New York at Stony Brook, the FSP index ranks 7,294
individual doctoral programs in 104 disciplines at 354
institutions. |
