The past two weekends, faculty and graduate students have been at several professional conferences—including the annual meetings of the American Society for Information Science & Technology and the National Communication Association, as well as a smaller special conference on The Internet as Playground and Factory. Each of these events provides an opportunity for prospective students (and faculty when one has open jobs, like we do) to ask about our program as they assess the level of match with their interests.  Because we spent a fair amount of time developing promotional material prior to these conferences to help provide those answers, I wanted to reiterate some of those “facts” about different aspects of our program that combine to create a pretty impressive profile.  Related to our Communication area:Thomson Scientific ranked U.S. institutions that published at least 75 papers between