Sentences with phrase «first group of students in»

The pioneering first group of students in this program began their internships with various technology start - ups in California's Silicon Valley about a month ago and are enjoying their first flavors of the valley's signature entrepreneurial spirit.

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Founded in 2012 by a group of San Diego State University students who built their own 3D printer after having trouble finding an affordable one, Robo 3D delivered its first consumer printer model in 2013.

«We wanted to be the first student group in the world to launch a rocket into space,» Ellis says of the friends» time at the University of Southern California.

Uber's ATG group will set up its first operation outside the U.S., at MaRS Discovery District in downtown Toronto, which will also include eight current University of Toronto students on Uber's payroll.

I once asked a group of students to rank various professions, first by how spiritual they were and then by how practical they were in society.

My first semester at seminary I was required, along with all of the first year students, to participate in a «spiritual growth group.»

I remember years ago when I was in the first flush of Christian zeal and part of a student group.

It was against this background that, in the year in which Oxford and Cambridge celebrated the 75th anniversary of the first Varsity match, 2005, we were pleased to be able to offer a week of hospitality in our two cities to a group of about 20 Japanese students representing the Tokyo Students Judo Assostudents representing the Tokyo Students Judo AssoStudents Judo Association.

As schools continue to publicly drop the program, citing inadequate portions, increased costs to their schools, and food that — as one group of students in Kentucky charmingly put it --» tastes like vomit,» it seems time for the First Lady to address the opposition.

A group of students from a school in Wallasey got to try clay shooting for the first time at Sealand Ranges this month.

Degruy has visited and worked in a number of Rochester City schools, saying at first her methods were met with resistance, some thinking that focusing on one group of students meant neglecting another.

In a not - so - veiled reference to Gov. Andrew Cuomo's «People First» campaign, a coalition of education advocacy groups are launching the alternative «Students First: The Reality Tour.»

A: In addition to mental health awareness and adequate training, it is critical that the first group of students behind peer support networks have a diversity of backgrounds and experiences to share, and that they are really committed to getting things off the ground.

When their first group of students showed noticeable improvements in math comprehension and problem solving, they reached out to Rice University in Houston, Texas, to expand the program.

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.

Helmicki says that Bortner's teaching assistant told the class «women and men should not be working together in science» after a student asked why the class was being placed in single - sex groups on the first day of class.

«And highlighting one small group [there were 24 students in the first UNC class of chancellor's scholars last summer] out of an entering class of 4000 is not the way we normally welcome our students.»

«This suggested that fungal symbionts that colonize plants which are deficient in lipid biosynthesis suffer from a lack of essential lipids,» says Andreas Keymer, a PhD student in Gutjahr's group and first author of the new study.

«We needed to figure out the best combination of materials to use and in what ratio to use them,» said Amay Bandodkar, one of the paper's first authors, who was then a Ph.D. student in Wang's research group.

Ines Ehrnstorfer, a PhD student in the group of Professor Raimund Dutzler at the Department of Biochemistry of the University of Zurich, and her colleagues, have determined the first structure of an iron transport protein.

A Cologne working group involving Prof. Carsten Münker and Dr. Elis Hoffmann and their student Sebastian Viehmann (working with Prof. Michael Bau from the Jacobs University Bremen) have managed for the first time to determine the isotope composition of the rare trace elements Hafnium and Neodymium in 2.7 - billion - year - old seawater by using high purity chemical sediments from Temagami Banded Iron Formation (Canada) as an archive.

While they don't know whether the first group of students would have shown a shift in attitudes after the storms, the researchers believe their findings provide evidence that personal experience is one factor that can influence instinctive attitudes toward environmental policy.

The first group of «students» met in Leipzig in March 2001.

In the first two, groups of students or working adults assessed videos depicting angry and sad leaders.

The university won't officially open until the fall of 2014, but its first group of 20 students began a master's program last month at four institutions with which Skolkovo has partnered — the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in Cambridge, ETH Zurich in Switzerland, the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, and Imperial College London.

As part of the University of Oklahoma's Multi-Cultural Engineering Program, Simmons joined a close - knit group of students and admired faculty member Pamela McCauley - Bell, a former welfare recipient and teen mother who earned a PhD in engineering — the first black woman in Oklahoma to do so.

«We were ecstatic by the news announced earlier this year by LIGO about its first detection of colliding black holes,» said Carl L. Rodriguez, lead author of the study and a Ph.D. student in Rasio's research group.

The first semester of college is a time of great transition for many students — they often are living away from home for the first time, have a much more fluid schedule than in high school and are potentially surrounded by a new peer group.

Now a group of materials chemists at the University of Massachusetts Amherst led by Dhandapani Venkataraman, with Ph.D. student and first author Seung Pyo Jeong, Ph.D. students Larry Renna, Connor Boyle and others, report that they have solved one of the major hurdles in the field by developing a polymer - based system.

Despite these effects, the early exposure to numerical concepts such as one - to - one correspondence, and geometrical concepts such as congruence and parallelism did not produce an advantage for the first group of students when it came to achievement in primary school.

Twenty groups submitted answers to both contests, but the first to get it right was a team led by David MacKay, another former student of Hopfield's now at Cambridge University in the United Kingdom.

Thanks to Rich Bradley for working hard in 1987 to make the 40 foot functional for the first groups of teachers, and the telescope mechanics for keeping it that way, Carl Heiles for inspiring us to observe neutral hydrogen, a true staple of our educational programs for teachers and youth, Bill Radcliffe (do you remember the time you single - handedly took the front end off the telescope???), Nathan Sharp, and Dave Woody for coming to the rescue when the 40 Foot needed a technical swift kick, Skip Crilly for updating the telescope and getting rid of pesky RFI, and all of the astronomers who have enlightened teachers and students over the years.

A group of summer students making a long - shot astronomical gamble with the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Very Large Array (VLA) have found the first radio emission ever detected from a brown dwarf, an enigmatic object that is neither a star nor a planet, but something in between.

«These findings show the great promise of soy - based nanofibers for wound healing,» said Seungkuk Ahn, first author of the paper and a graduate student in the Disease for Biophysics Group.

«We saw little evidence of migration between groups in the wild,» said Celine Becquet, first author of the paper and a graduate student in Przeworski's laboratory.

The graduate student who was first author of the molecular pump paper (Chuyang Cheng, now a postdoctoral researcher in Stoddart's group) won Foresight's 2015 Distinguished Student Award, the second of Prof. Stoddart's graduate students to win thisstudent who was first author of the molecular pump paper (Chuyang Cheng, now a postdoctoral researcher in Stoddart's group) won Foresight's 2015 Distinguished Student Award, the second of Prof. Stoddart's graduate students to win thisStudent Award, the second of Prof. Stoddart's graduate students to win this award.

Turekian's last visit to Trieste, in 2013, was during the first AAAS - TWAS workshop on innovative energy policies for sustainable development, which has featured the participation of about 20 students from developing countries and a group of experts in the field.

Prem was in the first group of western students to show up on Guruji's doorstep in Lakshmipuram, Mysore.

The first chapter in the Shin Megami Tensei: Persona RPG series released for the PlayStation 4 features an episodic story about a group of high school students in a fictionalized version of Tokyo's Shibuya district who explore the Palace, an alternate world created by the hearts of other people.

The film's prologue consists of a concise 2,000 - year history of Iran (The information provided in the sequence, which mixes storyboards and archival footage, is the first and last piece context to the events that follow), which leads directly into the events of November 4, 1979, when a massive group of angry students stormed the embassy and took everyone in the compound hostage.

When Mark suggests that marchers in the pride parade raise money for the striking miners, it's the launch of the activist group Lesbians and Gays Support the Miners (LGSM), an organization whose members will include Joe (George MacKay), a suburban college student tentatively taking his first steps out of the closet; defiantly flamboyant actor Jonathan (Dominic West) and his partner Gethin (Andrew Scott), whose encounters with the miners will bring him home to Wales for the first time in decades; and Steph (Faye Marsay), who loudly and proudly reminds everyone that she's the «L» in the group.

During the first two semesters of the school tour program, the museum received 525 applications from school groups representing 38,347 students in kindergarten through grade 12.

When examining the impact of a first visit, we restrict our dataset to students in the treatment group who had only visited the museum once (i.e., on the school visit) and students in the control group who had never visited the museum.

A group of Chicago school superintendents set out to make their students first in the world in science and math.

States must consider n - size alongside how they permit schools to combine data over grade levels, school years, and / or groups of students — strategies many states have been using under NCLB waivers and that first - round states have included in their ESSA plans.

Split your class in two groups, the first student of group A has to describe the word on the card - he / she is neither allowed to talk any word in her mother tongue nor to say one of the words below the pictures.

Yassine's dedication to working on literacy problems both real and theoretical led her to a collaboration between a group of HGSE students and the litigants of the first federal case asserting a right to literacy based on gross inequity in Detroit Public Schools (DPS) that culminated in an on - campus event where parents, teachers, and students from DPS led a conversation.

For my first seven years of teaching, I spent the first week discussing class norms, dutifully posting group expectations on the wall, and asking that students sign an agreement to follow them in an effort to «determine class culture.»

Many teachers are excited about the ability to create a group on Facebook as a private way of interacting with their students in ways that a) not only meet the students where they already are and integrate their lives into the classroom more holistically, but also b) shows that school can be a lot cooler than the students thought by being on Facebook in the first place.

Issue texts, group students, and provide the following activity: Invite students to scan the first chapter of their text — or the Table of Contents, which introduces major areas typically covered in the course.