Lawrence Martin, Ph.D.

Lawrence Martin is Dean of the Graduate School (1993 to present), Associate Provost for Analysis and Planning (2001 to present) and Professor of Anthropology at Stony Brook University. He additionally served as Director of International Programs from 1996 to 2003. Martin is a physical anthropologist who studies the evolution of apes and the origin of humans. He has edited five books and published 35 journal articles and book chapters. He conducted his doctoral research at the British Museum (Natural History) and received his Ph.D. in Anthropology from University College London in 1983, for which he received the Thomas Henry Huxley Award from the Zoological Society of London. Following a Medical Research Council postdoctoral research training fellowship in Anatomy at UCL he joined the faculty at Stony Brook as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Anthropology, and later also in Anatomical Sciences. He served as Director of Undergraduate Studies and Director of the Interdepartmental Doctoral Program in Anthropological Sciences before his appointment as Dean of the Graduate School.

Dr. Lawrence Martin

Martin is interested the relationship between Faculty Scholarly Productivity Index™ and the quality and reputation of graduate programs. He has analyzed faculty productivity data from the 1995 NRC Study of Research Doctorate Programs in the United States to determine which variables serve as useful predictors of a program's reputation. The results of this work have been presented at numerous national and regional meetings and he has organized several Council of Graduate Schools, Northeastern Association of Graduate Schools, and Council on Research Policy and Graduate Education sessions on the subject of assessing the quality of graduate programs. Martin serves on the Scholarly Advisory Board for the Association of American Universities (AAU) Assessment of Quality of University Education and Research project and was a member of the National Research Council's Committee to Study the Methodology for the Assessment of Research-Doctorate Programs. He is a past President of the Northeastern Association of Graduate Schools, a member of the Executive Committee of the Council on Research Policy and Graduate Education, Chair of the CGS Advisory Task Force on Research and Information Services, a member of the AAU Task Force on Graduate Education the AAU Task Force on International Education and a member of the Executive Committee of AAU's Association of Graduate Schools. Martin currently serves as Co-PI on Stony Brook's second NSF-Alliance for Graduate Education and the Professoriate grant.

Anthony Olejniczak, Ph.D.

Anthony Olejniczak is a Scientific Consultant for Academic Analytics, LLC. Anthony served for five years as the Assistant to the Associate Provost for Analysis and Planning at Stony Brook University, where he worked closely with Dr. Lawrence Martin on projects involving the aggregation, construction, and statistical analysis of higher education databases. These experiences, together with novel applications and development of database management tools, web-search-and-retrieval techniques, and statistical rigor, form the foundation of the objective and data-driven focus of the Academic Analytics research team. Anthony received his bachelor's degree in Biological Anthropology at the University of Wisconsin in 2000, his Master's degree in Anthropological Sciences at Stony Brook University in 2004, and his Ph.D. in Anthropological sciences from Stony Brook University in 2006. After a three year post-doc at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany, Anthony is now a Juan de la Cierva research fellow at the National Center for Human Evoltionary Studies in Burgos, Spain.

Bill Savage, Ph.D.

Bill Savage received his bachelor's degree from Arizona State University in 1970, a master's degree from the University of Hawaii in 1972 and a Ph.D. from the University of Michigan in 1985. His field of specialization is the origin and early years of Chinese philosophy. He has published journal articles and an extended monographic translation in this area. He joined UMI in 1986 as Product Development Manager for UMI Research Collections. Identifying collections of primary research materials for microfilming and distribution, he was responsible for the production of over a dozen microform and electronic collections including The Alternative Press Collection, The Echols Collection: Selections on the Vietnam War, The Hartlib Papers, Quaker Women's Tracts, and Regimental Histories of the American Civil War.He assumed the position of Director, UMI Dissertations Publishing, in 1992. He was part of the team that developed UMI's ProQuest Digital Dissertations and was responsible for development of the publishing program and university relations. He retired from ProQuest in August, 2005. He joined Academic Analytics in September, 2005 as Director of Institutional Sales.