Quick Facts 

Zombie Scholars Academy

• Intended size of inaugural class = 50 students
• Duration of program = 8 days, 7 nights
• Target student/residence staff supervisory ratio = 8:1
• Target student/faculty ratio 9:1
• Housing located on the Truman State University campus
• Academy Tuition = $800
• Grades eligible:  Rising 9^th through 12^th graders
• Application requirements:  Application form, short essay, transcripts, teacher/counselor recommendation

All About Zombies and the Zombie Genre

• Number of Zombie films indexed in the Internet Movie Database = 775
• Number of Zombie-themed books returned on an Amazon.com books search = 11,307
• Recent New York Times Bestsellers in the Zombie Genre = Pride and Prejudice and Zombies (Jane Austen and Seth Grahame-Smith), The Zombie Survival Guide (Max Brooks), World War Z (Max Brooks)
• Show with the highest ratings for a cable drama this past season = AMC’s The Walking Dead [1]
• The only cable drama to consistently pass The Walking Dead in ratings = HBO’s The Sopranos [2]
• The name for the condition associated with being a Zombie = Ataxic Neurodegenerative Satiety Deficiency Syndrome [3]
• When is Zombie Awareness Month? = May [4]

Hard Research and Thought About Zombies

• Davis, Wade. “Zombification.” Science 240 (June 1988): 1715-1716.
• Drezner, Daniel W.  Theories of International Politics and Zombies.  Princeton University Press, 2011.
• Littlewood, R. and Douyon, C. “Clinical findings in three cases of zombification.” The Lancet 350 (1997): 1094-1096.
• Lycan, William G. “Review: Stalnaker on Zombies” Reviewed work(s): Ways a World Might Be by Robert Stalnaker, Philosophical Studies: An International Journal for Philosophy in the Analytic Tradition 133 (April 2007): 473-479.
• Munz, Philip, Ioan Hudea, Joe Imad and Robert J. Smith. “When Zombies Attack!: Mathematical Modelling of an Outbreak of Zombie Infection,” [pdf] in “Infectious Disease Modelling Research Progress,” eds. J.M. Tchuenche and C. Chiyaka, Nova Science Publishers, Inc. pp. 133-150, 2009.
• Scriber, Brad. “What can Zombies teach us about swine flu?” August 12, 2009. National Geographic Weblog. http://blogs.ngm.com/blog_central/2009/08/what-can-zombies-teach-us-about-swine-flu.html
• Tanney, Julia. “On the Conceptual, Psychological, and Moral Status of Zombies, Swamp-Beings, and Other ‘Behaviourally Indistinguishable’ Creatures.” Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 69 (July, 2004): 173-186.