Sentences with phrase «ethnic studies from»

She holds an MA in comparative ethnic studies from the University of California, Berkeley and a BFA from the Cooper Union School of Art.

She earned an M.A. in comparative ethnic studies from the University of California, Berkeley and a B.F.A. from The Cooper Union School of Art.

Joo received her doctorate in Ethnic Studies from the University of California at Berkeley.

She received her B.S. in Political Science with a minor in Ethnic Studies from Santa Clara University.

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«Culture [i.e. ethnic] lines may fade,» she concluded from her study, «but religious barriers are holding fast.»

The participants were mostly young, disadvantaged and from ethnic minorities (Spaulding et al, 2009) and many — in one study 25 % — had been young offenders (Romo et al, 2004).

* And in the largest and possible most systematic study to date, conducted on five different ethnic groups from both Chicago and New York involving over 1,400 subjects Mosenkis (2000) found far more positive adult outcomes for individuals who coslept as a child, among almost all ethnic groups i.e. African Americans and Puerto Ricans in New York, Puerto Ricans, Dominicans, and Mexicans in Chicago than there were negative findings.

Limitations: Conclusions from the study are limited in their application to the population of expectant fathers by the low response rate and the low numbers of low - income, ethnic - background, and indigenous fathers in the sample.

In addition, some studies have reported ethnic differences — that for African - American and Chinese - Americans, there is sometimes little or no difference in academic performance between kids from authoritarian and authoritative homes.

In fact, studies (e.g., Manacorda et al 2012) show that the negative impact of wage depression from recent EU migration has been disproportionately shouldered by immigrant communities already in Britain, a major reason why Labour MP Khalid Mahmood is working to persuade British ethnic minority communities to vote to leave the EU.

A study by Operation Black Vote found there are more ethnic minorities than the majority of the incumbent MP in 168 constituencies — up from 99 in 2010.

At the last General Election, more than two thirds of voters from Britain's black and ethnic minority (BME) communities supported Labour; only 16 % voted for us (source: Ethnic Minority British Election Study (PDF)ethnic minority (BME) communities supported Labour; only 16 % voted for us (source: Ethnic Minority British Election Study (PDF)Ethnic Minority British Election Study (PDF)-RRB-.

The authors provide a comprehensive review of all forty identified scientific studies of the effects of psychological therapies for survivors of torture and trauma (e.g., refugees from ethnic violence).

Harpal Kumar, Cancer Research UK's chief executive, said: «As someone with an ethnic minority background myself and as a parent, this study highlights a very worrying reason why girls from some minority groups don't get the HPV vaccine.

Dr Alice Forster, study author and Cancer Research UK scientist at University College London, said: «Although around 87 per cent of girls in the UK do have the vaccine it's concerning to see that some girls from some ethnic minority groups feel they don't need to have it.

They said the key messages from the study were that stroke is a highly preventable disease globally, regardless of age and sex; that the relative importance of modifiable risk factors means there should be development of regional or ethnic - specific primary prevention programs, and that additional research on stroke risk factors is needed for countries and ethnic groups not included in INTERSTROKE.

The team is conducting further studies to confirm findings and plan to study patients from different geographical and ethnic backgrounds.

As chief of the geographic medicine and genetics section of the National Institutes of Health, Blumberg traveled the world and collected blood samples from remote ethnic groups to study inherited variations in blood proteins.

Researchers studying 48 wild elephant families played recordings of voices from two ethnic groups with distinct languages in Kenya's Amboseli National Park.

These studies, performed on cells from Caucasian Americans and African Americans, yielded similar results for both ethnic groups.

The study identifies new components of consumer ethnocentrism, establishing, in consultation with other research on the topic, five distinct dimensions in the process: prosociality, in which the interest of one's country is more important than one's own; cognition, or interpreting the world from the point of view of one's own ethnic group; insecurity, or regarding foreign products as a threat to the domestic economy; reflexiveness, meaning that one's ethnocentrism is automatically activated; and habituation, in which ethnocentrism becomes a habit.

Dr Toral Gathani, a clinical epidemiologist at the University of Oxford [1], told the 10th European Breast Cancer Conference (EBCC - 10) today (Thursday) that findings from the largest study to date of tumour characteristics in relation to ethnicity suggested that inherent differences in tumour biology between the ethnic groups were unlikely to play a role.

Chair of EBCC10, Professor Fatima Cardoso, who is Director of the Breast Unit at the Champalimaud Clinical Centre, Lisbon, Portugal, said: «This study suggests that the worse prognosis seen in breast cancer patients from ethnic minority groups in the UK can be at least in part explained by the younger age of this group.

Inga Peter of the Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York and her team looked for genes involved in the disorder by studying DNA from Ashkenazi Jews — an ethnic group in which Crohn's disease is up to three times more common.

In a study of 6,654 middle - aged and older U.S. adults from diverse ethnic backgrounds, participants living in areas with high levels of traffic - related air pollution tended to have lower HDL levels.

The city of Vienna is growing increasingly diverse in both religion and ethnicity, according to a new Austrian Academy of Sciences (OeAW) study by Markus Speringer from the Vienna Institute for Demography (VID) / OeAW and IIASA and Ramon Bauer from VID / OeAW, which explored how Vienna's ethnic and religious diversity has developed from 1970 to 2011.

African American women were found to be twice as likely to be diagnosed with peripartum cardiomyopathy as compared to women of Caucasian, Hispanic / Latina, Asian, and other ethnic backgrounds, according to a new study — the largest of its kind — published today in JAMA Cardiology by researchers from the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania.

Based on his own practice and study going forward he became known as a wonderful leader, and his kingdom became home to people from all religious traditions, socio - economic positions, ethnic backgrounds, sexual orientations, and gender identities.

I would be wary of generalizing from population studies, which often implies comparing rather different ethnic groups.

Participants in the study documented in the report — adults of various racial and ethnic backgrounds and educational levels from across the U.S. — judged black girls, starting at age 5, to be older, to need less support, to know more about adult topics, to need less protection, and to be more sexually aware than white girls.

The study from the New York City - based Social Science Research Council also finds that females rate higher on the educational index than males, Asian - Americans are the highest - rated ethnic group, and New...

And, of course, most graduate and professional school programs in all areas of study suffer from poor participation by students from historically underrepresented racial and ethnic backgrounds.

The small group of students in the study from other ethnic backgrounds was diverse and less likely to use the voucher when it was offered to them, so we are hesitant to interpret their results.

Always «at the right place at the right time,» Nieto found herself a pivotal figure in many movements in multicultural education, from bilingual education and bilingual teacher education to the introduction of ethnic studies in higher education, and has continued her activism throughout her career.

Today, students from every definable race and ethnic category study and squirm shoulder to shoulder in the same public school classrooms, learning about something called segregation — as a vocabulary word on a pop quiz, a chapter in their history textbooks, or a topic for the debate team.

The study claimed that at the age of five, white British pupils are ahead of those from ethnic backgrounds, but fall behind by age 16.

Always «at the right place at the right time,» Nieto found herself a pivotal figure in many movements in multicultural education, from bilingual education and bilingual teacher education to the introduction of ethnic studies in higher education, and has continued...

Ms. Brown holds a bachelor's degree in ethnic studies and bachelor's and master's degrees in communication from the University of Texas at Austin.

The American high school, once an austere brick building serving a few hundred children, mostly white boys, who studied reading, writing, and arithmetic, has grown into a sprawling mall complex for thousands of boys and girls, of various ethnic groups, offering something — from algebra to band and basketball — for everyone.

In a study on young children's access to computers at home and at school, the defining characteristics that demarcate «haves» from «have - nots» are racial / ethnic and economic.

Racial integration, ethnic diversity, and prejudice: empirical evidence from a study of the British National Party

La Mikia holds dual master's degrees in public policy and urban planning from the University of Southern California, and bachelor's degrees in ethnic studies and urban studies & planning from the University of California, San Diego.

A growing body of research from education scholars shows that an Ethnic Studies pedagogy has proven to have positive academic and social benefits to students of all races and ethnicities.

The Causal Effects of Cultural Relevance: Evidence from an Ethnic Studies Curriculum.

Although study of clinical phenomena in individuals from different ethnic backgrounds has improved over the years, African American and Asian American individuals continue to be underrepresented in

For example, a review of 51 studies found a positive relationship between family involvement and academic achievement for students of all ages and from families of all economic, racial / ethnic, and educational backgrounds.

Drawing from empirical studies and real - world experience, the chapter demonstrates how increased gender, ethnic, and other aspects of diversity can lead to measurable increases in employee engagement and productivity, overall business results and a company's enduring reputation.

Before joining UBC, she was an Associate Professor of Ethnic Studies, at the University of California, San Diego and, from 2010 to 2015, she held the inaugural chair in Ethics, at the School of Business and Management and the directorship of the Centre for Ethics and Politics, at Queen Mary University of London.

The lawsuit said that the National Fair Housing Alliance did its own study after the investigative news nonprofit ProPublica published an article in October 2016 that said Facebook's online platform enabled advertisers to exclude from advertisements in the housing category those customers assigned black, Hispanic and other «ethnic affinities.»

Cape York and the Torres Strait region cover 7.5 % of Queensland, with a population estimate for 2009 of 24 049 — 0.5 % of Queensland's population.8 Extrapolating from 2006 ethnic breakdown data, 9 the region's Indigenous population in 2009 was estimated at 15 904 (39 % Aboriginal, 45 % Torres Strait Islander, and 16 % both Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander), of whom 10 217 were aged 15 years and older, and constitute the denominator for the calculation of prevalence rates in this study.