Sentences with phrase «university summer research»

Major support for Supper, People on the Move has been provided by The Pew Center for Arts & Heritage, with additional support from Swarthmore College Project and Georgian Court University Summer Research grant.

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«As a student at the University of New Brunswick, I had a summer research job with the chair for nanotechnology.

While working a summer research job in nanotechnology at the University of New Brunswick, Kumaran Thillainadarajah created a pressure - sensing material.

I wish to mention especially the University of Dayton's Summer Research Institute, which provided me with a grant to begin this project; Rev. Matthew Kohmescher, S.M., my department chairman; and two personal friends.

I studied abroad for a semester in Ghana during university, spent two summers doing research in Singapore, undertook my honours thesis research in Papua... -LCB- read more -RCB-

After university I spent a summer exploring Mayan pyramid sites in Central America - another much under researched civilisation who developed one of the most accurate calendars and astronomical charts until the modern computer age and built palaces and pyramids on a par with the European classical period.

Last summer, Preet Bharara, the United States attorney for the Southern District of New York, issued a subpoena to the university looking for information about three Buffalo Billion projects, including a solar panel factory, a pharmaceutical research center and an information technology center.

Syracuse University's Student Association is sponsoring for the second consecutive year an undergraduate summer research program that will allow 25 students to receive $ 1,000 in research funding.

Bodnar, the Ph.D. candidate in genetics at Iowa State University, says that her research on maize took a hit during her summer National Guard training.

According to Mather and other leading astronomers now working on a report to be released this summer by the Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy (AURA), that quest and others require an even bigger space telescope that would observe, as Hubble does, at optical, ultraviolet and near - infrared wavelengths.

Smitsonian Institution Programs Summer Archeology Programs Connected with DC Universities [Program for Deaf Students] Drinking Water Quality Research Center, Miami, FL [proposal for outreach to disabled students] Museum of Science and Industry, IL Chicago Schools Cooperative Museum Program, IL Recreational Faculties for the Handicapped at Rend Lake, IL SELPH Material Lawrence Hall King Report on Survey of the Special Educational Programs of Members of the Association of Science Technology Centers University of Kentucky Outdoor Education for Handicapped Project Directory of OOPS Programs Maryland Science Center, Baltimore, MD [notes on interview] ABCD Collaboration Science Program Non-Mainstreamed Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA Technical Education Research Center Camp Happy Hollow, Mayrille, MI Squam Lakes Science Center, NH Science Enrichment Program Opened to Handicapped Students NY League of Hard of Hearing, NY Center of Science and Industry, OH Carnegie Museum, Pittsburg, PA Pacoma Environmental Education Center, PA Roanoke Valley Science Museum, VA Fairfax County Public Schools, VA US Geological Survey Earth Science Program, WI ERIC - CRESS Info on Outdoor Ed - Science Programs National Council for Therapy and Rehabilitation through Horticulture Environments for the Able and Disabled Nature Study - A Journal of Education and Interpretation OOPS Out of School Science Proposal and Drafts Original Newspaper Article, 1980 - 1981 OOPS Out of School Science Proposal and Drafts II, 1980 - 1981

I spent the next decade completing rigorous basic science research training: completing a high school summer internship, attending the University of Maryland, Baltimore County as a Meyerhoff Scholar, and completing my Ph.D. in the Stanford immunology program, where my work focused on the mechanisms regulating hematopoietic and leukemic stem cells.

Through a unique partnership with community organization My Brother's Keeper, Inc., headquartered in Jackson, the CETC has established the Mississippi INBRE Service Scholars summer internship aimed at introducing students from Mississippi's primarily undergraduate colleges and universities to public health and health disparities education, clinical practice, and research.

David Bamman, a computer scientist and linguist at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, got the idea for the research last summer when he noticed how quickly false rumours of the death of former Chinese president Jiang Zemin disappeared from China's Twitter equivalent Sina Weibo.

In addition to being an organizer and consultant for the Jumpstart Core Curriculum Institute (JCCI), a program founded by Leslie Brown that develops strategies for improving literacy, science, math, technology, and social - science skills among disadvantaged minority students in grades K - 12, I teach chemistry to high school students at the University of South Carolina?s Experimental Program to Stimulate Competitive Research (EPSCoR) Summer Program.

Talboys made the most of the opportunities offered by his university's Department of Astrophysics and Space Research getting down to the nitty - gritty of designing, building, and calibrating space instruments during summer placements and his final - year project.

The plan appears in a summer report from the Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy.

They may present their summer research in scientific meetings and at their universities.

I collaborated with my partner, who was working at a local engineering university, to set up hands - on summer research experiences for my students who were interested in pursuing science, technology, engineering, and mathematics careers in college.

In 2009, he participated in a summer research program at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, where he studied the genetics underlying autosomal dominant polycystic kidney disease.

Francis Chan, a senior research professor at Oregon State University, has been monitoring the area's low - oxygen events, which normally peak in the late summer months.

A former faculty member at both a research university and a liberal arts college, he spent his senior year of high school and college summers teaching elementary and middle school students at the Cranbrook Institute of Science, a natural history museum near Detroit.

As a director of a summer program, I often send letters to university administrators on behalf of students requesting funding to present their summer research.

In a recent study, Mathias Trachsel (Dept. of Biology, University of Bergen) and Atle Nesje (Dept. of Earth Science, University of Bergen and Uni Research Climate) used simple statistical models to assess and quantify the relative importance of summer temperature and winter precipitation for annual mass balances of eight Scandinavian glaciers.

The study shows, with 90 percent confidence, that such extreme summers in Australia are five times more likely due to an increase in greenhouse gases, said paper co-author David Karoly, an atmospheric scientist at the University of Melbourne and the Australian Research Council Center of Excellence for Climate System Science.

Dutch ecologist Maarten Loonen of the University of Groningen has conducted summer research studies on birds in and around Ny - Ålesund since 1990, with support from his wife, a trained scientist who has a coordinator position at the school.

Check to see if your university has an undergraduate research program for minority scholars, such as the Howard Hughes Summer Research Program or the McNair Scholars research program for minority scholars, such as the Howard Hughes Summer Research Program or the McNair Scholars Research Program or the McNair Scholars Program.

Research universities (and other types of institutions) offer summer research programs that are open to outside students, many of which are supported by NSF's Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU) Research universities (and other types of institutions) offer summer research programs that are open to outside students, many of which are supported by NSF's Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU) research programs that are open to outside students, many of which are supported by NSF's Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU) Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU) program.

Now that he's a graduate student at the University of Maryland in College Park (UMCP), he can see how «my notions of what I wanted to do were shaped by that first summer doing research.»

The study's senior author, Amy S. Gladfelter of University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, began this work as part of the HHMI / HCIA Summer Institute at the MBL, a group of 70 scientists who explored this emerging paradigm of cellular organization over five summers of intense, synergistic research.

Elizabeth Addis, assistant professor of biology at Gonzaga University, and three senior biology majors are spending this summer researching why the local population of yellow - bellied marmots — those gregarious, burrowing rodents ubiquitous near the Spokane River — are not only surviving but thriving in the urban areas of Spokane.

Starting this past summer, groups within public universities and research institutions — including contract researchers — began holding educational events to alert their communities about the law's implications.

Over the spring and the early summer of 2010, a large team of scientists, led by Dr Christian Wurzbacher and Dr Norman Warthmann, affiliated with the Leibniz - Institute of Freshwater Ecology and Inland Fisheries and the Berlin Center for Genomics in Biodiversity Research, Germany (currently at University of Gothenburg, Sweden, and the Australian National University, Australia, respectively), collected a total of 216 samples from 54 locations, encompassing eight different habitats within Lake Stechlin in North - East Germany.

In the world's largest study to investigate how common lifestyle factors influence the size and shape of sperm (referred to as sperm morphology), a research team from the Universities of Sheffield and Manchester also found that sperm size and shape was worse in samples ejaculated in the summer months but was better in men who had abstained from sexual activity for more than six days.

«Going out to 40 or 50 years, basically the summer we just had will be normal,» says Sarah Perkins - Kirkpatrick at the Climate Change Research Centre of the University of New South Wales (UNSW) in Sydney.

Variations in the ability of sand particles kicked into the atmosphere from deserts in the Middle East to absorb heat can change the intensity of the Indian Summer Monsoon, according to new research from The University of Texas at Austin.

The testing, taking place this summer in Buffalo, N.Y., marks the culmination of a three - year, $ 1 million research project involving scientists from six universities and design consultants from the steel industry.

«One example of an intervention might be treating the underlying causes of anemia, such as iron deficiency, which is common in this age group,» said Raphae Barlas, co-author and medical student at the University of Aberdeen, who carried out the project as a summer research program scholarship recipient.

The University of Sheffield and a research radiologist there are fighting over whether the scientist had permission from her bosses and a drug company to submit her osteoporosis work to a conference this summer.

Jordan Matsudaira, a management and policy professor at Cornell University, has helped resurrect an old research tool and has employed it to look at the usefulness of summer school and the effect of funding from Title I, a federal program targeted at schools with a certain percentage of low - income students.

These is one of the findings of a study carried out by undergraduate student Amy Spray and Dr G Meyer from the Department of Psychological Sciences at the University of Liverpool as part of a School of Psychology Summer Internship Scheme.They will present their research to the British Psychological Society annual conference today, Thursday 8 May 2014, hosted by the International Convention Centre in Birmingham.

On the other hand, students at historically black liberal arts colleges often work at research universities during the summer, Hammonds says, so she isn't sure how large an effect small colleges have.

Warm, wet summers are historically unusual and could bring unexpected disruptions to ecosystems and society, according to new research from the University of British Columbia.

Howard University biology student Chinweike Okegbe spent this past summer at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge investigating how bacteria communicate as part of the MIT Summer Research Program in the Biological Sciences and Related Fsummer at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge investigating how bacteria communicate as part of the MIT Summer Research Program in the Biological Sciences and Related FSummer Research Program in the Biological Sciences and Related Fields.

Two summers ago, anesthesiologist Patrick Kochanek of the Safar Center for Resuscitation Research at the University of Pittsburgh dramatically demonstrated the power of suspended animation.

And this summer, after consultations with interested university - based scientists, the new research plan will be announced.

The center offers a number of travel grants, summer fellowships, and research fellowships for university undergraduates and graduate students.

The essays originated with a series of seminars developed last summer by a group of five partners, including CSaP, the University of Sussex's Science and Technology Policy Research center, and the Department for Business, Innovation & Skills's Sciencewise Expert Resource Centre.

Last summer, an investigation by the San Jose Mercury News found that one - third of Stanford University's medical school administrators and department heads now have reported financial conflicts of interest related to their own research.

As Ryan Summers, the University of Iowa doctoral candidate who presented the research on the bacterium, points out, it possesses several enzymes that do things to caffeine that we can't.