Southern Justice wrote:

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You need to lay off this train of thought. You're just posting the same thing over and over in different ways. We may not agree on a whole lot, but USM faculty pretty much agree that Shelby's way is the wrong way.

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I guess you're one of the ones who gets extra money for doing research but never does anything worthwhile. Keep on cashing that free paycheck.

Well, the John Donne Variorium edition was headquartered at USM for many years.  It brought world-wide prestige to USM, not to mention generating a sizable amount of grant money.  It didn't "change the world" in the sense that a cure for cancer might, but it is widely recognized as one of the most important examples of a literary research project ever undertaken.  A hundred years from now, people will still be using and praising it (which is a lot more than can be said for Shelby's paint).  I know, of course, that this kind of research means nothing to YOU (2 out of 3), but in the world beyond your little confined universe, it actually brought great honor and respect to USM. 

As long as I'm listing achievements, I should also mention those of Noel Polk, another eminent scholar whom Shelby ran off (and who, like Gary Stringer, was quickly snapped up by a more prestigious university that knows how to value the kind of research you, I'm sure, will disparage). 

 

2 Out Of 3 Ain't Bad wrote:

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Southern Justice wrote: You need to lay off this train of thought. You're just posting the same thing over and over in different ways. We may not agree on a whole lot, but USM faculty pretty much agree that Shelby's way is the wrong way. I guess you're one of the ones who gets extra money for doing research but never does anything worthwhile. Keep on cashing that free paycheck.

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Paint my wagon.

 

And one hundred years from now, we'll be pushing up daisies.  Not that I am a SFT fan (because I'm not), faculty at a university must publish & produce or jump the shark over to the community college arena if they just want to teach.  It's how it is. 

If research is not done at institutions of higher education were is it gong to be done? Don't tell me that it'll be done by industry. The R&D done in industry is primarily "D" (development), not "R" (research). "D" is for profit to benefit the company. A notable exception was the old Bell Laboratories. Their scientists did basic research with no mandate from management to make it applied.

If there's so much important research going on at USM, then list it here. Don't hold back. Let me see what is being done at USM that is changing the world.

It would be a waste of time to post the research that is conducted by faculty at USM. You would not have a clue about what much of it is about, and no idea whether or not it is contributing to the knowledge base. The research that goes on is very specific to the various disciplines. Indeed, faculty in one discipline do not know what qualifies as "good" research in other disciplines. This is why there is outside review of research by faculty at other institutions. Note that I am treating your request in a serious manner. It will be up to you to demonstrate you deserve a reasoned reply. If you continue with sophomoric attacks, then we know the answer. You can be dismissed as being neither knowledgeable nor serious. Other posters can then choose whether to respond to your posts. As an aside, if you truly are interested in evaluating research at USM, you would want to know how it compares with that of departments at other institutions. You could start by comparing research across departments of USM, Ole Miss, and State.

Shelby T. wrote:

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Continuing a longstanding tradition of receiving national recognition for scholarly achievements, our Department of English has five professors with books being published by some of the leading university presses in America. Read more about these accomplished faculty and their books.

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And things are so good here that Kuskin is leaving for the University of Colorado! Give us a break with your Johnny-come-lately Googling.

2 Out Of 3 Ain't Bad wrote:

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If there's so much important research going on at USM, then list it here. Don't hold back. Let me see what is being done at USM that is changing the world.

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Projects that I have been involved in aren't Nobel quality, but they do get published in the same top journals as colleagues from Tier 1 institutions. Some examples? We developed a way to study self-injurious behavior in humans in the laboratory, with the goal of understanding why people engage in self-harm across the spectrum of lethality. Suicide and self-injury have great social, medical, and economic costs, and we know little about its cause or treatment. The work started at USM is now also being done at the University of Chicago (including brain imaging studies), and researchers at other major research institutions are adapting the research techniques developed at USM (this includes my graduate and undergraduate students). We have also conducted research on brain chemicals called monoamines and aggression. We have confirmed how these brain chemicals combine with environmental influences to lead to the aggerssion in people with a history of violence. This research can lead to better treatments for violence (both psychopharmacological and psychosocial treatments). My colleagues and I are also working on a promising new psychotherapy to treat aggressive adults. The aforementioned studies have been funded by the National Institutes of Health (e.g., NIMH; NIAAA). My graduate students also do nifty research. The most recently completed disseration (this week) is on the herbal extract Gingko--used by millions in the Western world. This student conducted what we call a meta-analysis and found that Gingko is effective in doses of 160-300 mg after 15 days for a variety of cognitive and mood impairments (higher doses seem to be ineffective), but only in patients with existing dementia. This is a fraction of what comes out of our laboratory, and a fraction of what comes out of psychology, and a fraction of what comes out of the university. I don't know if this meets the Hattiesburg community's standards of useful research, but we get data and pub requests from scientists all over the world.     

 

Sorry, Charley wrote:

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Nope, sorry: this won't cut it.  Now, if you could show me how to hustle three extra used cars every weekend, you'd be getting somewhere.

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I can do that, but instead will refer you to my social psychology colleagues who can tell you how to easily increase your sales and profits in that business.