<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; ">Sorry for adding to your e-mail pile, but I thought this was important enough to justify sending out as a separate message. You should ALL read this.... <BR><DIV><BR><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT face="Arial" size="2" style="font: 10.0px Arial">A good article in the Chronicle of Higher Education (52:8, Oct.14)</FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT face="Arial" size="2" style="font: 10.0px Arial">on the problems of journal 'impact factors' and its effects on research and</FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT face="Arial" size="2" style="font: 10.0px Arial">science publishing.</FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Times; min-height: 14px; "><BR></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT face="Arial" size="2" style="font: 10.0px Arial">The number that's devouring science: </FONT><FONT face="Arial" size="2" color="#0000ee" style="font: 10.0px Arial; color: #0000ee"><A href="http://chronicle.com/free/v52/i08/08a01201.htm">http://chronicle.com/free/v52/i08/08a01201.htm</A></FONT><FONT face="Times" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Times"><SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN></FONT></DIV> </BLOCKQUOTE></BLOCKQUOTE></DIV><BR><DIV> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Arial" size="2" style="font: 10.0px Arial">**********</FONT></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT style="font: 10.0px Arial"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Times">C. Susan Weiler, Ph.D.</FONT></FONT></FONT></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT style="font: 10.0px Arial"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Times">Office for Earth System Studies Tel: 509-527-5948 </FONT></FONT></FONT></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT style="font: 10.0px Arial"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Times">Whitman College </FONT></FONT><SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Times"> </FONT></FONT></SPAN><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Times">Fax: 509-527-5961</FONT></FONT></FONT></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT style="font: 10.0px Arial"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Times">Walla Walla, WA 99362</FONT></FONT></FONT></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT style="font: 10.0px Arial"><SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Times"> </FONT></FONT></SPAN><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Times"><A href="mailto:weiler@whitman.edu">weiler@whitman.edu</A></FONT></FONT></FONT></P> <P style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT style="font: normal normal normal 10px/normal Arial; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Times">Programs for Recent PhDs </FONT></FONT></FONT><FONT style="font: normal normal normal 10px/normal Arial; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Times"><A href="http://aslo.org/phd.html">http://aslo.org/phd.html</A></FONT></FONT></FONT></P><P style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" style=""><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="2"> <SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 10px;"><A href="http://marcus.whitman.edu/~weilercs/biocomplexity/">http://marcus.whitman.edu/~weilercs/biocomplexity/</A></SPAN></FONT></FONT></FONT></P><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="2"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 10px;"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"></FONT></SPAN></FONT> <P style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT style="font: normal normal normal 10px/normal Arial; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Times">DIALOG poster <A href="http://www.aslo.org/phd/dialogposter.pdf">http://www.aslo.org/phd/dialogposter.pdf</A> </FONT></FONT></FONT><FONT style="font: normal normal normal 10px/normal Arial; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Times"></FONT></FONT></FONT></P><P style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT style="font: normal normal normal 10px/normal Arial; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Times">DISCCRS poster <A href="http://www.aslo.org/phd/disccrsposter.pdf">http://www.aslo.org/phd/disccrsposter.pdf</A> </FONT></FONT></FONT></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Arial" size="2" style="font: 10.0px Arial"> </FONT></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Arial" size="2" style="font: 10.0px Arial"> </FONT><FONT face="Helvetica" size="2" style="font: 10.0px Helvetica"> </FONT></P> </DIV><BR></BODY></HTML>