The DU Lounge

... I know at least one Professor, who left UAH for another school, gave an interview to the local paper in which he complained about how the Dept. couldn't even keep basic supplies in stock. And he had done some very important work in the new superconductors -- any well-funded school should have jumped through hoops to keep him there.

A former Professor I met in a social context described his former Dept. as a "dying department".

I taught one course at UAH for one semester in that "dying department", and the description which came to my mind was "moribund" -- this before I spoke to that former professor !

Choose a graduate school very carefully; if things go bad, it can screw up the rest of your career for years and years.