Sentences with phrase «first doctoral»

Scholars like Michelle DuBois — who is completing the first doctoral dissertation on Seliger, «The Structure of Becoming:» Charles Seliger's Complex Expressionism — now have access to his introspective writing, which covers a vast range of topics across the span of six decades.

In 2011, the Foundation awarded its first Doctoral Scholarship of $ 1,000 to Sherry Been of Oklahoma State University.

She co-developed the world's first Master of Science and Educational Specialist degrees in Brain - Based Teaching and Instructional Leadership (BrainSMART Programs), as well as the first Doctoral Minor in Brain - Based Leadership in partnership with Nova Southeastern University (NSU).

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Not exact matches

Nathaniel Peters, a former assistant editor at First Things, is a doctoral student in theology at Boston College.

First of all, My Fellow Catholics, unless your doctoral work was in molecular, cellular, and developmental neurobiology, please don't presume to tell me when «life» begins.

First, I wanted my students to realize that smart Christians with doctoral degrees supported the Holocaust.

Joseph R. Reisert, a new contributor to First Things, is a doctoral candidate in the Department of Government at Harvard University.

(S. J. Samartha, the first Director of the Dialogue Program of the World Council of Churches, Geneva, guides doctoral students at SATHRI.)

I thought about them first in the context of my doctoral dissertation in Philosophy, and later as a Jew and as a recovering American.

This is straightforward matter of the limitations of the scientific method that every first - year doctoral student is taught, not «crazy scientism».

Diana Cassar - Uhl, MPH, IBCLC is a first year doctoral student in maternal and child health with a research interest in infant and child nutrition.

Doctoral candidate Ximena Portilla and Assistant Professor Jelena Obradović of the Graduate School of Education, with colleagues at the University of California, San Francisco, studied kindergarten students and classroom environments and then followed those students into first grade.

Supporting Early Educators Competencies - Over the past year, building off the success of the Post-Master's Certificate Program in Early Education Leadership Research, Policy and Leadership, which graduated two cohorts to date, the University of Massachusetts - Boston has created a doctoral degree program in early education, the first of its kind in the state.

The Vice-Chancellor of Zimbabwe's oldest university has been arrested over the suspected fraudulent awarding of a doctoral degree to former first lady, Mrs. Grace Mugabe.

The new program was unusual in that its students attended lectures given by visiting researchers during their first year and then were sent abroad to do their doctoral research.

Your first term will be a whirl of applications, as closing dates for PhD programs are increasingly early and the best doctoral research opportunities get snapped up well before finals.

In addition, most doctoral students - particularly those working in highly experimental areas - are expected to embark on the practical work of their thesis right from the first year of their PhD studies, even though in theory the preparation of the thesis starts after having obtained the Advanced Studies Degree (one year of courses plus one year of guided research — see sidebar).

Greene and first author and doctoral student Gregory P. Way used machine learning to classify abnormal protein activity in tumors.

«Essentially, the students are reaping the benefits of a liberal arts education — small class size, general education curriculum, high contact with professors and a residential campus,» says Graham Miller, a second - year doctoral student and first author of the report.

• The U.S. dominates global science, ranking first worldwide according to papers published in top science journals, patents issued, expenditures made on research and development, and the number of science and engineering doctoral degrees awarded.

This is one of the first, if not the first, academic papers to confirm the low concern farmers place on climate risks over regulatory ones, said lead author Meredith Niles, a doctoral student in UC Davis» ecology graduate group.

«As far as I know, this is the first study to convincingly connect the tidal force of the moon with rainfall,» said corresponding author Tsubasa Kohyama, a UW doctoral student in atmospheric sciences.

PhD students from around the country that I've met at scientific meetings agreed with me that we would like to meet with our supervisors every 2 weeks throughout our doctoral training, and not only in the first year.

«Increasing the size of either the eye box or the displayed image in a traditional heads - up display requires increasing the size of the projection optics, relay lenses and all the associated optics, which takes up too much space in the dashboard,» said first author Colton Bigler, a doctoral student in Blanche's laboratory.

In this way, the mechanism by which exosomes enter cells resembles the spread of viral infections,» says Helena Christianson, doctoral student in Belting's research team and first author of the study.

«We hope that this research on dental calculus from the Norris Farms site acts as the first step toward future paleogenomic investigations of prehistoric North American remains in a respectful and non-destructive way that interests and benefits both descendent communities and anthropologists,» said Andrew Ozga, OU doctoral graduate, and currently postdoctoral candidate at Arizona State University.

«People thought this was one of the components that just got dumped into the ocean,» said first author Nick Ward, a UW doctoral student in oceanography.

HEU has formed a well - structured curriculum that is characterized by the main subjects of ship industry, ocean equipment and exploration, and nuclear application as well as distinctive, related disciplines with matching support and reasonable structural layout: 12 first - degree doctoral stations, 27 first - degree master stations, 56 under graduate majors, 13 post-doctoral mobile stations (research station), 1 national key discipline of the first - degree subjects, 1 national key discipline of the second - degree subjects, 11 defense featured subjects, 7 special defense majors, 4 characteristic profession stations of the Ministry of Education, 1Heilongjiang provincial key discipline group, 11 first - degree subjects.

His physics teachers — first at Queen's University in his native Belfast during the late 1940s, and later at Birmingham University, where he pursued doctoral work in the mid-1950s — had shunned matters of interpretation.

«Once we had designed the system, we had to first go into the lab and attach these DNA strands to various proteins we wanted to be able to control,» said study author Rebecca P. Chen, a doctoral student in chemical and biomolecular engineering (no relation to Wilfred Chen).

«When people start a doctoral degree, if they feel their English is not very good, then first of all they should take English education in their home country but [also]... spend some time, maybe the summer months or a semester, in an English - speaking laboratory,» says Robert Anholt, William Neal Reynolds Professor of Biology and Genetics at North Carolina State University in Raleigh.

However, the new findings represent the first time such an approach has been used to see how the brain processes movies of natural scenes, a step toward decoding the brain while people are trying to make sense of complex and dynamic visual surroundings, said doctoral student Haiguang Wen.

«These are the first studies to show that exercise can have an effect on your gut independent of diet or other factors,» said Jeffrey Woods, a University of Illinois professor of kinesiology and community health who led the research with former doctoral student Jacob Allen, now a postdoctoral researcher at Nationwide Children's Hospital in Columbus, Ohio.

«Increasing the duration of overnight fasting could be a novel strategy to reduce the risk of developing breast cancer,» said Catherine Marinac, UC San Diego doctoral candidate and first author on the paper.

When Ron Webb, P&G's manager of doctoral recruiting and university relations, reviews candidate résumés, the first thing he looks at is technical mastery.

The findings reveal a crucial and underappreciated role that animals have in ocean chemistry on a global scale, explained first author Daniele Bianchi, a postdoctoral researcher at McGill University who began the project as a doctoral student of atmospheric and oceanic sciences at Princeton.

The university has created some of the first cognitive tutors, helped to develop the Jeopardy - winning Watson, founded a groundbreaking doctoral program in neural computation, and completed cutting - edge work in understanding the genetics of autism.

Working with UW astronomer Eric Agol, doctoral student Ethan Kruse has confirmed the first «self - lensing» binary star system — one in which the mass of the closer star can be measured by how powerfully it magnifies light from its more distant companion star.

«These findings suggest that while pentaBDE levels have been decreasing since the phase - out, they continue to be detected in the blood of young children nearly 10 years following their removal from U.S. commerce,» says first author Whitney Cowell, PhD, pediatric environmental health research fellow at Mt. Sinai and former doctoral student from the Columbia Center for Children's Environmental Health.

Study first author Derek Johnson, a doctoral student in the Department of Epidemiology, stayed in Nepal for 18 months to help conduct the study.

That same year women earned more than half of all doctoral degrees in the United States for the first time.

However, these experiments are the first to show that activating this motivation can influence performance on complex, real - world behaviors,» said Greenberg, who was another co-author of the studies, along with UA psychology doctoral student Peter Helm.

«We observed that the more a child had these waves throughout the night, the better the child was at cognitive tasks, particularly the Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children,» explained Sophie Tessier, a doctoral student in the Sleep Research Laboratory at the Hôpital Rivière - des - Prairies and first author of the paper.

«The Clean Heat Program has made important strides toward improving the air quality in New York City,» says first author Daniel Carrión, a doctoral candidate in the Department of Environmental Health Sciences at Columbia's Mailman School of Public Health.

The first people are already benefiting from this approach: Biologist Jana Wohlfarth has recently started her doctoral thesis project in clinical radiation biology at the department of radiotherapy and radiooncology under the guidance of Prof. Michael Baumann and Dr. Cordula Petersen.

«Our method permits the analysis of minute biopsies and even tissue micro-arrays, making it particularly interesting for molecular research and diagnostics,» explains doctoral candidate Achim Buck, together with Alice Ly, the first author of the study.

Thompson is the corresponding author for the journal article, «Molecular Characterization of Latent GDF8 Reveals Mechanisms of Activation,» and its first author, Ryan Walker, is a postdoctoral fellow at Harvard University and a former UC doctoral student who once worked in Thompson's laboratory.

She has already published six first author papers with the results of her doctoral work.

«When disasters occur, mental health professionals — community organizers, social workers, case managers and counselors — often work in partnership with local, state and federal organizations to respond,» said Jennifer First, doctoral candidate in the MU School of Social Work and disaster mental health program manager with the Disaster and Community Crisis Center.