Sentences with phrase «by a professor who»

It was taught by a professor who knew my grandfather well.

The book earned quite a bit of praise from the Times and made this one - time English major pine for a classroom led by a professor who has previously been awarded a Guggenheim fellowship, the National Jewish Book Award and the Pushcart Prize.

«Warning: this course is taught by a professor who has proven he is a dunce.»

Tara signs up for a course in Abnormal Psychology, taught by a professor who begins to unravel the truth about her condition; Max sells the family business; Marshall becomes a filmmaker; Kate finds true love in the skies.

First, it's a trip to Gringotts, where one of those magical items is locked up in a vault, and then, finally, Harry and his friends return to Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, where Severus Snape (Alan Rickman) is now headmaster, watching over the school as students march in formation and are routinely tortured by professors who are loyal to Voldemort.

Student may feel rejected by a professor who is bad - mannered.

An official Hunter course observation, written by a professor who sat in on one of Mr. Downey's classes, adds period character.

As a student... I was influenced by my professors who were abstract expressionists.

Sperling and Shapcott's and Rosen's recommendations for fostering a growth mindset in law schools focus primarily on communicating a growth mindset message to law students — be it from professors who have examined their own mindsets and thereby shifted their expectations and language; 188 through orientation programs that include growth - oriented messages from administrators, professors and guest speakers; 189 by framing assignments and evaluation in terms of process; 190 by professors who teach legal writing using their expertise in narrative to tell stories that show that legal writing and analysis skills are learned through effort and persistence; 191 by professors and administrators «communicat [ing] that law school has academic value beyond the first year» and «encourag [ing] students to view rankings and large firm job placements as indicative of mastery that can be obtained through learning and hard work»; 192 or, by providing growth mindset student mentors for incoming students.193

According to an article in the Star, this ad was given high marks by some professor who supposedly understands what appeals to the public's psyche when it comes to advertising, but personally, I don't like it.

Not exact matches

This recommendation comes from finance professor Anat Admati, who says: «Economists tend to think that beliefs and behavior are guided by incentives and rational processing of information, but I know that there is more to it than this simple model, and that other disciplines have much to say.

That was the eye - opening opening of a keynote address given yesterday by the brilliant John Quackenbush, a professor of biostatistics and computational biology at Dana - Farber Cancer Institute who has a dual professorship at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and ample other academic credits after his name.

Sandy Ogilvy, the professor who runs the project in which law students at Catholic University work on clemency petitions, seemed particularly struck by Tyler's case.

A similar strategy for tackling the urge to slack is to practice «productive procrastination,» a term used by Piers Steel, a professor at the University of Calgary's Haskayne School of Business who studies procrastination.

The seminal research on immigrants and diversity in Silicon Valley was conducted by University of California - Berkeley professor AnnaLee Saxenian, who published a paper titled «Silicon Valley's New Immigrant Entrepreneurs» in 1999.

After all, the former economics professor who is now president of the Hussman Investment Trust has made a name for himself by repeatedly predicting a stock market decline exceeding 60 % and forecasting a full decade of negative equity returns — and yet here we sit just 9 % from record highs, even after some bouts of heavy selling.

After Stone starred in Allen's 2015 «Irrational Man,» about a college professor who enters a relationship with a student, Dylan Farrow asked Stone by name in the previously mentioned New York Times piece, «What if it had been you, Emma Stone?»

Adam Grant, the Wharton professor who is Sandberg's friend and writing partner, has been by her side, offering the comfort of research into resilience and tools for emerging from grief.

On Jan. 11, Stanford economics professor Raj Chetty and his colleagues from the Equality of Opportunity Project spoke at a conference held by the Washington, D.C., think tank Brookings Institution about new findings on who becomes inventors in the U.S.

A recent paper by two professors at the University of Massachusetts found that many financial economists who weighed in on the Wall Street overhaul signed into law in July failed to prominently disclose potential conflicts of interest.

Look for two or three people with whom you don't compete and who don't work with you and use them to form your own «board of directors,» a strategy promoted by Stanford Graduate School of Business professor Jeffrey Pfeffer.

A 2010 study by professors from Insead, the Kellogg School of Management, and Tel Aviv University found that people who have spent extended time abroad tend to be better, more creative problem solvers.

«Based on a series of studies performed by our team over the past 5 years, this «dose» of exercise has become my prescription for life,» Benjamin Levine, a professor of internal medicine at the University of Texas Southwestern who wrote the study, said in a statement.

Udacity was founded by Sebastian Thrun, a former Stanford University professor who in 2011 offered a free online course in artificial intelligence and witnessed 160,000 students in 190 countries enroll.

They're also more likely to be married to women who work, she notes, pointing to previous research by professors Raquel Fernández, Alessandra Fogli, and Claudia Olivetti.

Numerous other examples of Google influencing academics are highlighted by the Journal's report, including one from University of Michigan law professor Daniel Crane who declined to take money from Google to support his paper that argued against «antitrust regulation of internet search engines.»

It's finding good companies to invest in,» says Vivek Wadhwa, a former tech entrepreneur and Duke University engineering professor who helped create Chile's program after being tapped as an adviser by people he knew in the government.

Saloner, citing the wrongful termination lawsuit by a former professor who alleges the dean railroaded him out of the business school while sleeping with his wife, announced his resignation last month, on the same day Poets & Quants published a lengthy expose based on the lawsuit and the professors» divorce.

But psychiatry professor Rense Lange said the CEOs» results — compared with the answers provided by some 750,000 others who've taken the online test — reveal that the CEOs are wired differently than everyone else.

McClanahan was invited to speak at the event by Professor Stephanie Kelton, a leading economist who served as Sen. Bernie Sanders» chief economic advisor.

Since the percentage of phone numbers that connect to mobile phone — wielding young people and elderly landline users is about equal, it's actually the youthful folks who may dominate a sample created by random digit dialing, says Marc - David Seidel, an associate professor at the Sauder School of Business at the University of British Columbia.

Most recently, one by University of Massachusetts sociology professor Michelle Budig finds that women who have never married make about 96 percent of what men make.

said Glenn Stutzky, a professor at Michigan State University who was inspired by that CDC campaign a few years ago to launch a class titled, «Surviving the Coming Zombie Apocalypse.»

The most dangerous types of supplements are those related to weight loss, muscle building, and sexual performance, according to Harvard Medical School professor S. Bryn Austin, who spoke on a recent panel organized by the Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health.

That's the finding of new research conduced by Lakshmi Balachandra, a professor of entrepreneurship at Babson College, who reported her findings recently on the HBR Blog Network.

Jeff Howe, a journalism professor at Northwestern University, who was one of the first professionals to use the word, defines it as «the act of taking a job traditionally performed by a designated agent (usually an employee) and outsourcing it to an undefined, generally large group of people in the form of an open call.»

Cain notes Brigham Young professor of management Bradley Agle, who studied CEOs of 128 major companies and found that those considered charismatic by their top executives had bigger salaries but not better corporate performance.

Duke University professor and sociologist Jeffrey Swanson, who specializes in studying the link between violence and mental illness, told Vox that even if everyone who suffers from bipolar disorder, schizophrenia, and depression in the US were cured overnight, violent crime in the US would only fall by around 4 %.

«His family have kindly requested that they be given the time and privacy to mourn his passing, but they would like to thank everyone who has been by Professor Hawking's side — and supported him — throughout his life.»

According to Matthew Green, a cryptologist and assistant professor of computer science at Johns Hopkins University in the United States who examined the app's code after being contacted by Reuters, the ByLock network generates a private security key for each device, intended to keep users anonymous.

Deborah Rhode, a Stanford law professor and leading scholar on legal ethics, argues in her book, Pro Bono in Principle and in Practice (2005), that lawyers bear an ethical duty to ameliorate «their monopoly's deleterious effects» by doing more pro bono work for those who are disenfranchised.

People «are daunted by the task and believe it requires inauthentic, uncomfortable behavior and is an activity that is inconsistent with focusing on job performance,» says Jeffrey Pfeffer, a Stanford professor of organizational behavior, who covers the subject of networking as part of his Paths to Power elective course.

One researcher who was influenced by Church's 2012 Science article is professor Olgica Milenkovic of the University of Illinois, Urbana - Champaign.

A new study by two professors who looked at the compensation of corporate leaders at 2,282 companies from 1996 to 2014 found that there may be no pay gap between male and female CEOs of publicly traded companies.

«We were a bit surprised by the magnitude» of the cognitive effects, says Dr. Helen Lavretsky, a professor of psychiatry at UCLA who oversaw the study, in a New York Times article.

«People often make decisions that are influenced by emotions that have nothing to do with the decisions they are making,» says Stéphane Côté, a professor at the University of Toronto's Rotman School of Management, who co-wrote the study with lead researcher Jeremy Yip of the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.

«If they could figure out a way to streamline, it would be a lot better,» said Kim Janda, a professor of chemistry at the Scripps Research Institute in La Jolla, California, who leads a team of researchers developing a vaccine that would prevent fentanyl overdoses by keeping the drug from reaching the brain.

For example, a recent study by Lee, the KAIST professor, found that people who turn to their smartphones for «mood adjustment purposes,» such as to relieve boredom, stress or depression, may form a habit of using their phones for those objectives, which can lead to addictive behaviors.

Edward Walker, a professor at the University of California, Los Angeles who focuses on grass - roots lobbying by businesses, said such a public call to mobilize against Airbnb was unusual.

Over the years Richard Leblanc, an adjunct at Osgoode Hall Law School and associate professor of governance law and ethics in the School of Administrative Studies at York University, has been struck by the number of students who had difficulty staying awake during class.