Sentences with phrase «beginning of a research student»

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Research about how interruptions from technology affect people's well - being is beginning to emerge: One study of college students found a link between excessive texting and diminished well - being.

Sysomos began as an advanced research project for content aggregation and analysis started by University of Toronto Computer Science faculty member Nick Koudas and graduate student Nilesh Bansal in 2005.

behavioral psychologist B. F. Skinner's students at Harvard began to apply to human beings his methods of instrumental or operant conditioning, (3) developed during a quarter century of laboratory research mainly with animals.

The introduction to «Overloaded and Underprepared: Strategies for Stronger Schools and Healthy, Successful Kids,» a new book from the Stanford University Graduate School of Education research group Challenge Success, begins not with research or analysis but an example of a high school student's daily schedule.

By late April, University at Buffalo will begin a two - year research project studying the operation and challenges of running a driverless bus — with an eye toward the day it could eventually shuttle students and faculty to and from other modes of travel and be integrated into a new transportation age.

We'll produce assiduous research showing how free education would be implemented, in defence of universalism, myth - busting some of the most outrageous arguments of the Labour right («free education is bad for access», «Scotland has free education and that means robbing the poor to pay the rich»), and begin to make the case in Labour Students, the Labour Party and NUS for free, public and democratic education, not as a privilege, but as a right.

After earning an undergraduate degree from the University of Connecticut, Chang Díaz enrolled as a graduate student in applied plasma physics at MIT, where he began research in nuclear fusion.

Most students begin the search for a graduate advisor by visiting the departmental websites at a number of candidate universities, and scanning the list of faculty members and research areas, until they come up with a reasonable match with their own interests.

The Network Training Program, which began last September, offers awards to three categories of scientists: postdocs, graduate students, and research students.

After you and your adviser have discussed these important and pertinent details regarding management of the research group, it is an excellent idea to have a joint meeting with the students before the sabbatical begins.

Like many of you, I began this journey as a grad student looking for a career outside research.

The French Ministry for Higher Education and Research recently announced plans to offer the opportunity to work as a doctorant - conseil to most Ph.D. students through the doctoral contract they typically sign at the beginning of their Ph.D..

The project started when Daniels and her team of graduate students, plus several undergraduate research assistants, began collecting informed consent information in 2013.

Free food is always appreciated by starving students, but the group lunch is also valued because it gives current MD / PhD students who work at different research institutes and who are at differing stages in the program a chance to catch up with each other at the beginning of a new academic year.

«The results indicated that changes in social relationships are dependent not only on two individuals, but significantly on third parties, which underscores the importance of structural balance theory in explaining the evolution of complex natural social systems,» Ilany said, who was a doctoral student at Tel Aviv University when the research was begun.

Yet Palmer and Templeton still face all the challenges of beginning a new faculty position: recruiting students and staff, finding research funding, teaching, integrating themselves into the academic community, and establishing a steady flow of ideas and data.

«The present research is an extension of our previous work and began after getting anecdotal evidence from students with whom we work.

Vengate began his research by using a simulation environment created by Akif Erturk, another Dogan doctoral student, to test the feasibility and potential benefits of his theory in computer simulation.

However, contrary to an earlier generation of research, there are no significant differences in BA completion rates between those students who started at a community college and successfully transferred and their peers who began at four - year schools.

«We always assumed that people's increased reliance on groundwater for irrigation and consumption was resulting in a net transfer of water from the land to the ocean,» said lead author J.T. Reager of JPL, who began the research project as a UCI graduate student.

«We found there is little diversity in skin tone in these textbooks,» said the study's lead author Patricia Louie, who began the research at UBC and is now a PhD student at U of T. «Proportional to the population, race is represented fairly accurately, but this diversity is undermined by the fact that the images mostly depict light skin tones.»

New Mexico State University (NMSU) has a long history of research in space and aerospace beginning with NMSU student teams film projects on the first V - 2 flights at White Sands Proving Ground in 1946.

Still, Browse, who spent 10 years in scientific research in New Zealand before beginning his career as a university professor, said his greatest satisfaction is watching graduate students develop into independent scientists and researchers and set off on careers of their own.

Hammett first came to PPPL as a summer college student in 1979 and began his career at the Laboratory the following year, first as a graduate student and then as a member of the research staff, which he joined in 1986 after completing his Ph.D..

We have held a summer student research program since the beginning of the Observatory in 1959!

Working with a student run theater group that brainstormed ideas of how performing arts could raise money or awareness in the community, Allie says she «began to enjoy researching the nonprofits we wanted to donate the proceeds of our shows to more than I enjoyed actually performing.»

Research from inside and outside the ed school consistently shows that teacher education is an extraordinarily weak intervention in the process of socializing teachers, whose main influences are a long apprenticeship of observation as K - 12 students before entering teacher education and the powerful culture of the school in which they begin to teach.

In the final report of a three - part national assessment of Chapter 1, mandated by the Congress in 1983, an independent research team says that, despite an overhaul of the program's authorizing legislation in 1981, the services it funds and the kinds of students it serves have remained relatively stable since the federal government began financing compensatory education in 1965.

The program begins with a discussion with John Friedman of his research (with Raj Chetty and Jonah Rockoff) on the long - term impacts of teachers on student outcomes in adulthood.

Beginning this year, Smith plans to conduct research in two Boston Public Schools where the majority of their special education students passed the English Language Arts portion of the MCAS.

Applying prior research findings about how gross domestic product increases with student achievement gains, the analyses show that if North Carolina began its implementation in 2015 — 16, then the annual gross state increases through 2031 would have an estimated net present value of $ 4.6 billion to $ 7.7 billion.

From the very beginning, Mission Lab was considered a critical design aspect of Quest to Learn — a design lab in the school where game designers and learning designers from Institute of Play could work daily with teachers to research, collaborate, and design game - based and game - like learning experiences for students.

Students may begin their research at the White House Web site's index of The Presidents of the United States.

Our research begins to fill this gap with two studies of the G&T programs available to high - achieving middle - school students in a large urban school district in the southwestern United States which, to preserve anonymity we shall refer to as LUSD.

At the end of the lesson, students should have fairly detailed webs that they can use as they begin the research for their biographies.

A long list of over 50 relevant Beginning End artists you can use, guaranteed to help inspire your students and get them researching.

When the teams begin planning, they use the research theme to help them identify the content of their research lesson and the goals for student learning that it will address.

I think after you research the concept, you will begin to see ways to incorporate elements of it into your daily school routine, and in the process, observe whether its helping to create optimal brain functioning with your students.

This site would be useful as an introduction for students who are beginning to research some aspect of astronomy for a paper or other homework assignment.

A detailed PPT of 40 slides based on artists students can research for the Edexcel exam theme: Beginning and or End.

By 1996 the virtual fire was beginning to blaze: an experimental WebSchool in Orange County, Florida (a precursor to the Florida Online High School), offered online courses to local students; Federal Way School District in Washington State founded the Cyber - School Academy with nearly 50 students (both elementary and secondary); the Concord Virtual High School (later to be called Virtual High School) was awarded a $ 7.5 million federal Technology Innovation Challenge Grant; and the University of Nebraska — Lincoln was awarded a combination of grants to research and develop Internet - based high - school courses (later marketed by a for - profit enterprise called Class.com).

Meanwhile, Cornell research scientist David Weinstein hopes to involve students in BudBreak, a project that began last spring to increase understanding of the relationship between plants and global warming in central New York.

Over the three years since the program began, Brown said they've used the research developed in this course to create programs at Malden, very often following the recommendations of the HGSE students.

Students begin a research project (or for this first experience, they select a topic of personal interest to investigate via websites) by finding examples comprising the extremes of websites about the same topic.

Teachers can break down portions of the final projects so that students can begin working on them earlier, such as assigning students when to begin brainstorming ideas or when to start researching.

A critical factor spurring the wave of research that began around 2008 was the increasing accessibility of de-identified state - level administrative datasets, which enabled institutions and analysts to systematically track course - taking patterns and outcomes for remediated students for the first time.

MB: The research began in 2001; Russell Bishop [foundation Professor for Maori Education in the School of Education at the University of Waikato] and myself were really keen to identify how we might engage Maori students more effectively in the education system.

Aligned with Leader In Me's idea go beginning with the end in mind, this interactive and student - centered research projects, pushes students to think through some of the details of their next steps.

In 1997, the research team begins its longitudinal assessment of student achievement.

ACER's research shows that achievement gaps between Indigenous and non-Indigenous students can be the equivalent of three years of schooling, and that many of these gaps exist at the time children begin school.