Sentences with phrase «at a research university if»

To be more specific, postdocs are counseled to expect a tenure - track faculty position at a research university if they do «all the right things.»

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«We hope that when we're talking to this disembodied assistant that we have the same amount of privacy as we would if we were hiring our own personal assistant,» says Christopher Parsons, research associate at the University of Toronto's Citizen Lab.

It could be something as simple as saying «I'm going to respond to the email at the middle of my inbox to start with,» or if you're a teacher, «I'm choosing to grade these papers because grading these papers would help my university earn money, and that money helps me do cancer research.»

Research conducted at Sam Houston State University in Huntsville, Texas, found that study participants asked to complete a survey were significantly more likely to do so if the survey included a Post-it note with a handwritten message asking for their help, akin to a favor.

«Tension can easily build up if both parties have different expectations of what acceptable standards are,» says Maria Rotundo, a professor at the University of Toronto's Rotman School of Management who has researched how appraisals can improve performance.

According to Barbara L. Fredrickson, PhD, director of the Positive Emotions and Psychophysiology (PEP) Lab at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, «our research shows that if a new wellness behavior evokes positive emotions, people are 4.5 times more likely to be continuing with that new behavior 15 months down the road, enjoying all of its healthy benefits.

When Alexandre Pestov, a strategic consultant and research associate at York University's Schulich School of Business, compared buying a two - bedroom Toronto condominium to renting it over the past 25 years, he found that the renter ended up $ 600,000 richer than the owner if he invested the spare cash in low - risk bonds.

If you need significant knowledge transfer for advanced technology development, incubators at research universities are probably your best bet.

According to fresh research from economists at Texas A&M University, donors are far more likely to give if they receive a gift — or «donor premium» — in return.

«If you're working through the Internet — just as when seeking financing through any other sources — it's absolutely essential to check people's references,» advises Bill Wetzel, director emeritus of the Center for Venture Research at the University of New Hampshire.

«Net worth dropped long before the recession, if you exclude housing wealth,» says sociologist Fabian Pfeffer, research assistant professor at the University of Michigan's Institute for Social Research, who adds that wealth for many Americans began to decline in the miresearch assistant professor at the University of Michigan's Institute for Social Research, who adds that wealth for many Americans began to decline in the miResearch, who adds that wealth for many Americans began to decline in the mid-1980s.

«We would be surprised if Mr Zuckerberg was only now aware of research at the University of Cambridge looking at what an individual's Facebook data says about them,» a spokesperson told us.

«Dividend cuts would take more from poor people than rich people because rich people would pay less taxes if their dividend was cut,» said Gunnar Knapp, a top economist on the region at the Institute of Social and Economic Research at the University of Alaska Anchorage.

After 10 years of writing, researching, speaking at universities and having two books published all on what it truly means to be successful in your twenties, here are some truths I believe will help us all get on the right track — even if we've ungracefully fallen off of it.

«We all know that if you engage in certain kinds of exercise on a regular basis you can strengthen certain muscle groups in predictable ways,» Davidson says in his office at the University of Wisconsin, where his research team has hosted scores of Buddhist monks and other meditators for brain scans.

If gluten is completely avoided, «you can lead a healthy, full life,» says Alessio Fasano, founder of the Center for Celiac Research at the University of Maryland in Baltimore.

I need to do a little research for my course at university, if you could take five minutes to fill out this boxing form I'd be very grateful.

And those are the couples who, if they end up «sliding into marriage,» as research professor and co-director of the Center for Marital and Family Studies at the University of Denver Scott Stanley would call it, are more likely to divorce at some point.

The study, similar to research conducted at Harvard University and the University of Minnesota, would examine if serving a morning meal is linked to improved test scores, lower absenteeism or fewer behavior problems.

One of the most important findings is that the percentage of young adults with IQs below 90 appears to decrease by two - thirds if they were breastfed, said study author June Machover Reinisch, director emerita of the Kinsey Institute for Research in Sex, Gender and Reproduction at Indiana University.

Women who pursue in vitro fertilization (IVF) to become pregnant are more likely to give birth if they have health insurance that covers the procedure, according to new research at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis.

«If you want to change the world, you have to understand what you're changing first,» said Maria Carmen Lemos, professor and associate dean for research at the University of Michigan School for Environment and Sustainability.

Back then I was working at Princeton University as a technician, and the people at Princeton realized that if I could publish in Nature, I could be a research scientist.

If so, the importance of holding at least a part of the team together, over a period of time, is going to require us to define more permanent research positions within universities.

«Until now, if you were to hang an advertising poster in the pedestrian zone, and wanted to know how many people actually looked at it, you would not have had a chance,» explains Andreas Bulling, who leads the independent research group «Perceptual User Interfaces» at the Excellence Cluster at Saarland University and the Max Planck Institute for Informatics.

Bioengineer David Kaplan at Tufts University's Department of Biomedical Engineering, who had no role in these findings, calls the work «fantastic» and adds future research might want the bioreactor to mimic the same range of mechanical forces this bone will see if implanted — for instance, for the jaw joint, «you'd want it to experience compression and torsion.»

So even if you are doing your Ph.D. research externally at some other independent research institute, you will need a «Doktorvater,» i.e., a full professor at a university, to accept your thesis and lead the final exam.

Do not forget universities and research units, and take heart in the fact that almost half of the qualified health and safety staff at your university, for example, has Ph.D. s. However, if it doesn't look like many such institutions are going to be on the prowl for a safety officer, then you should definitely look into gaining some training now.

An international research team, led by Dr. Guoxing Xia from the Cockcroft Institute / University of Manchester, has proposed a detailed concept of how a dedicated research station for this new type of accelerator could look like if it became part of the future CLARA facility at Daresbury Laboratory.

Even if the sex ratio at birth were to normalize tomorrow, Catherine Tucker and Jennifer Van Hook, demographers with Pennsylvania State University's Population Research Institute, recently calculated that fully 10 percent of working - age men in China would still lack a female counterpart in 2050 — and that's assuming that men start marrying women their own age, a change from their current practice of seeking mates a few years younger.

«Some people think that if we just wait, it will get better, and that's one way in which the She figures are extremely important,» says Curt Rice, vice president for research and development at the University of Tromsø in Norway, an E.U. associated country.

«If we can preserve these important cells, we may be able to decrease the negative impacts of traumatic brain injury,» said first author David Cantu, Ph.D., a postdoctoral scholar at Tufts University School of Medicine, and member of the NIH - funded Institutional Research Career and Academic Development Awards (IRACDA) Program, Training in Education and Critical Research Skills (TEACRS), at the Sackler School of Graduate Biomedical Sciences at Tufts.

Now, a new study from a team at the Research Institute of the McGill University Health Centre (RI - MUHC) and McGill University shows that the risk of developing those conditions post pregnancy is drastically higher if the women had both diabetes and high blood pressure during pregnancy.

Essentially, drought years could become the norm for the Amazon by 2050 if deforestation rates rebound, said Dominick Spracklen, an atmospheric scientist at the University of Leeds School of Earth and Environment, United Kingdom, and lead author of the new study published today in Geophysical Research Letters, a journal of the American Geophysical Union.

«Prior research has shown that when advertisers played around in spaces like this, it would damage the relationship they had with the public, especially if they did not disclose that they were behind the content,» said the study's lead author, Kaye Sweetser, an associate professor at San Diego State University.

If would - be doctoral students Brad Anderson, Keisha Thomas, Raj Singh, Mei Chen, and Juanita Martinez all wrote to a professor at a prominent university asking for a brief appointment to discuss potential research opportunities with the professor, would they all get the same response?

«They would be very strange hunters, if you look at the ethnographic record, to knock out 35 genera that quickly,» says Douglas Kennett, an archaeologist at the University of Oregon who conducted the research with 25 colleagues.

After I finished my Ph.D. in immunology at Queen's University, if you had asked where I expected to be in 2004, I likely would have answered academic or biotechnology industry research.

«These materials are very, very tiny and that means if you try to remove them and clean them out of contaminated water, that it's quite difficult,» says Dongyan Zhang, a research scientist at Michigan Technological University.

«It's an exciting development, and we await the outcome over the next year to see how well these cells integrate, and if there are any potential adverse reactions,» says Mike Cheetham of the Institute of Ophthalmology at University College London, one site where research is under way into a human embryonic stem - cell treatment for AMD.

If you plan on winning tenure in a biomedical field at a research university, you had better plan on winning an R01 research grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) first; it's practically a necessary credential.

«If you're not very confident in your spoken abilities,» write it out on your PowerPoint slides so that «the audience can read it also,» says William Rozycki, a professor studying linguistics and pedagogy at the Center for Language Research at the University of Aizu who sometimes collaborates with Wilson.

Next up: «We're trying to pull together a meeting of high - level university administrators to talk about the financial implications for academic medical centers and universities if there are changes in the way in which the NIH funds research at those institutions,» Tilghman says.

Leech, director of the Biomolecular Electronics Research Laboratory, at the National University of Ireland, Galway, added: «Even if, as claimed, this budget increases research funding, this does not bring us back to 2008 levelsResearch Laboratory, at the National University of Ireland, Galway, added: «Even if, as claimed, this budget increases research funding, this does not bring us back to 2008 levelsresearch funding, this does not bring us back to 2008 levels.»

«If the committee could pull together what we already know... and make very strong recommendations» regarding changes in science and engineering education, the effort would be worth it, says Elaine Seymour, who works in the Bureau of Sociological Research at the University of Colorado, Boulder.

«I would like to get into a gay - friendly research company or university, but at the same time I would prefer if they accepted me for my skills and not because of my sexual orientation,» he says.

If NASA is serious about human exploration of Mars, then science measurements from a NeMO are essential, says Alfred McEwen, director of the Planetary Image Research Lab at the University of Arizona in Tucson and principal investigator of MRO's HiRISE.

Previous research at The University of Manchester found that if immersed in water, graphene - oxide membranes become slightly swollen and smaller salts flow through the membrane along with water, but larger ions or molecules are blocked.

«If public communication is not done properly, it would have a major negative impact on China's future nuclear power development,» said Lin Boqiang, professor and director of the China Center for Energy Economics Research at Xiamen University.

On the academic side, if you want to be on the faculty at a Research I university, you'll most likely need a fabulous postdoc in a well respected lab for however many years, some plum publications, plenty of grant - writing practice, and contacts with the big - wigs in your field.