Sentences with phrase «decade career studying»

Friedel Dzubas (b.1915 - 1994) began his prolific five - decade career studying art while apprenticing as a wall decorator in his native Germany before fleeing his homeland in 1939 due to Nazi occupation.

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Using longitudinal data from the nine - decade - long Terman life - cycle study, which has followed the lives and career outcomes of a group of gifted children since 1922, researchers Timothy A. Judge of Notre Dame and John D. Kammeyer - Mueller of the University of Florida analyzed the characteristics of the most ambitious among them.

Nearly a third of older workers in the NORC study said they have brushed up their skills through job training or school during the last half decade, which could provide an income boost and help in finding late - career work.

It would have been difficult to find an individual more qualified for such a task, given the Ambassador's highly successful four decade long career in the foreign service and considering that he is a man whose (deceptively, given his mental acuity) long life has been spent both in the study of international affairs and in the pursuit of the US's interests and values within the world.

After devoting decades of research to hunting down the causes of lupus, Harley says this study represents the most important discovery of his career.

Pearse was uniquely qualified: Decades earlier, she began her scientific career studying the genetic makeup of a species of flea that had a special taste for the Tasmanian devil.

While many people think it's pretty cool to see images of features like ice mountains on the most mysterious planet (even if it is a dwarf) in our solar system, imagine the excitement of the scientists that have made a career of studying Pluto having never seen it; or the engineers that built and programmed the craft, the instruments, and the flight path that had New Horizons travel the length of our solar system for nearly a decade.

The CS&A Religious Studies Teacher Placement Team works with teachers and clergy searching for jobs in every career stage, from recent college graduates to individuals with decades of experience.

Noted historian and scholar Dr. Manning Marable spent much of his professional career examining the impact and extraordinary life of Malcolm X. Marable, who helped create Columbia University's Black Studies program in 1993, spent two decades compiling the material in his extensive (592 pages) new book Malcolm X: A Life Of Reinvention.

For decades, people studied traditional subjects like English or business - related disciplines at university before attempting to forge a career through internships and work experience.

-- Mohnish Pabrai, recalling an important discovery he made at the outset of his investment career I've mentioned before that I keep a list of investors who I've studied that have achieved long term returns (over a decade or preferably longer) of 20 - 30 % + annual returns.

On display are a whopping 200 pictures created over his celebrated, six - decade career, from fashion studies of his wife, Lisa Fonssagrives, and a wide range of still - lifes to female nudes and portraits of South American Quechua people — mostly shot in his studio.

Miller studied extensively in California at San Jose State University, UCLA Graduate School and the San Francisco Art Institute, before embarking on an illustrious career spanning more than three decades.

Her eight decade career began in the early 1920s when she hitch - hiked with her brother Jack Tworkov to study art in Provincetown.

Like other great American artists of the 1950s and «60s, Helen Frankenthaler studied the artists that had gone before, examined their techniques, then took all she had learned and went down a path of her own, making interesting twists and turns, during a career that spanned more than six decades.

Nancy Rabalais, a marine scientist who has spent much of her career probing environmental risks to the coasts and waters of the Gulf of Mexico, sent me some cautionary thoughts on cleanup options based on decades of work, including field studies following the 1979 blowout of the Ixtoc I oil well in the western Gulf.

Called «After the JD,» the study is tracking 4,000 lawyers in the first decade of their careers.

I hope Dr. Caron continues this study and to all early - career sexuality educators, I challenge you to begin your own annual survey — believe me, before you know it you will have several decades of trend data that also will be valuable to human sexuality students and professionals.»

Consider all the incredible identical twin studies in which they are separated at birth and meet decades later to find that they are wearing the same color, are married to women with the same name, pursue the same career and have named their children identically.