Sentences with phrase «first undergraduate year»

So this drop in interest rates gives a nice bit of relief to those borrowing for the first undergraduate year degree.

Not exact matches

First - year undergraduate students may borrow up to $ 5,500, with no more than $ 3,500 in subsidized loans if they are claimed as a dependent by their parents.

A constant learner, keenly interested in innovation and new technology, Peter first learned about bitcoin during his undergraduate years of college in 2015.

Strong candidates will have 1 - 3 years of consulting, M&A, strategy, or corporate development experience out of a first - tier undergraduate program and find intrinsic reward in an unstructured environment where individuals define their roles, own their actions and have outsized impact.

For example, an undergraduate borrowing the maximum of $ 5,500 for the first year, $ 6,500 for the second, and $ 7,500 for the last two years of college would save a pretty penny on the aggregate amount of $ 27,000 — more than $ 59 per month after payments start.

For several years I taught Great Books classes to college undergraduates, and the European focus of the four - semester sequence (the first part was called «Roots of Western Thought») illuminated issues of which Augustine made the first consummate exploration: personal identity, individuality, the inviolable and incommensurate self.

I have a personal interest to declare here: I spent five years of my life, in the late fifties and early sixties, first as an undergraduate then as a postgraduate student at Trinity College, Dublin, still a firmly protestant institution.

More years ago than I care to admit, my parents drove me the three hours to my undergraduate institution, pulling up to the dorm to unpack my belongings as a first - year student.

After adopting a bitterly contested plan a few years ago to charge students tuition for the first time in a century, the Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art announced that it hoped to make the college tuition - free again for all undergraduates in 10 years.

David Starkey's views on Britain would «disgrace a first - year history undergraduate», his own colleagues have said.

The problem for me is that students can only borrow for the length of their first undergraduate degree plus one year.

Podkulski first won election in 2014, while he was a 19 - year - old undergraduate at UB.

She was the first self - identified African - American to attend Vassar College, where she earned an undergraduate degree in 1944, and, four years later, she became the first female African - American to graduate from Yale School of Medicine.

My first proper taste of life as a researcher was my undergraduate final - year project in molecular biology.

The decade - old Freshman Research Initiative (FRI) in UT Austin's College of Natural Sciences puts first - and second - year undergraduate students in faculty - led labs, a model that is unconventional at research universities.

The garish pink capitals in which the lecturer chalked those words up on the blackboard remain etched in my mind, an indelible memory from my first year as an undergraduate physicist.

But had this opportunity come late in his first postdoc year or early in his second, when his undischarged obligation would have amounted to tens of thousands of dollars, he would have had to choose between losing a potentially life - changing career opportunity and adding a crippling burden to the undergraduate student debt he already owed.

Olivier Voinnet's first years as an undergraduate student didn't bode especially well for his scientific future.

In 1958 Moffat became the first student in the 800 - year history of the school to earn his Ph.D. without completing an undergraduate degree.

The researchers tracked the students throughout their four years of schooling by having them complete questionnaires about recent emotional experiences each year, beginning in the first year and continuing throughout their undergraduate degree.

Mather first caught sight of a volcano when she was on holiday, visiting a friend on Reunion Island, while she was a third - year chemistry undergraduate at Cambridge.

Pusch, the first author on the paper, was a research assistant in Feinberg's lab for three years during her undergraduate career.

His tutor's assistance was «impossible to quantify in terms of the benefits I reaped in the first year of my undergraduate degree,» he says.

As part of UBC's ongoing efforts to improve undergraduate teaching and learning, Code and colleagues selected two especially difficult topics covered in large first - year calculus classes, and designed week - long «teaching interventions» to more actively engage students.

The sample was limited to first - time undergraduate students at 420 four - year public and nonprofit private institutions, slightly more than half of which were public colleges.

One of the first things that an administrator should ask of a department is baseline data: What has been the minority representation in a department over the years, and by this I mean the faculty and graduate and undergraduate students?

«We had to figure out how to dissociate the tissue into single cells without completely obliterating everything,» said Anastasia Gromova, the study's first author, now a graduate student at the University of California, San Diego, who spearheaded the project while interning at TSRI during her undergraduate years.

First - year graduate students (especially if they come directly from an undergraduate program) often idolize their advisers and quickly learn to emulate their style of research, problem solving, and perspective on science.

Most universities recommend a maximum of 15 - 16 hours per week of work while pursuing full - time studies, preferably only during the first and second year of an undergraduate degree.

Lee first read Elements during his undergraduate years at Seoul National University, where he earned a bachelor's degree in mathematics.

Researchers administered an online survey to 1,537 first - year Canadian undergraduates (two - thirds of whom were women) during 2015.

[6] In some departments, a comprehensive examination is often required in the first year of doctoral study, and is designed to test a student's background undergraduate - level knowledge.

To this end, the first and second years of the four - year undergraduate program comprise approximately 66 semester points of credit that expose students to a cross-fertilization of ideas from different disciplines within the University.

This is the first year for the scholarships, which were established by the IU School of Informatics and Computing's Dean's Advisory Council to support undergraduate students at the school

The quality of her report earned her a place in the Sharp Lab as a Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program researcher during her first year at MIT.

Sept., 2008 Dr. Eng Publishes Her 300th Original Peer Reviewed Article Charis Eng, MD, PhD, Sondra J and Stephen R Hardis Endowed Chair of Cancer Genomic Medicine and Chair, GMI, published her very first research paper in 1982 as an undergraduate at the University of Chicago when she completed her honors thesis project on the genetics of Ustilago violacea (now Microbotryum violaceum) with her late mentor of 25 years, Edward D. Garber, PhD.

During his first few years in the lab, Johnson told BuzzFeed News, he directly witnessed Marcy giving an undergraduate a back massage, with his hand underneath her shirt, alone and after hours in the lab.

I was an Oxford undergraduate when first became unwell over twenty years ago with dreams of becoming a lawyer but after a virus blossomed (or should that be wilted!)

Though principally aimed at first - level undergraduates, Fundamental University Physics serves as an additional, comprehensive resource to help GCSE and A-Level students advance their understanding and prepare for their first year of studies at university.

In the Department of Education's broadest survey of postsecondary students, the National Postsecondary Student Aid Survey (NPSAS), about 20 percent of students classified as «first year undergraduates» first enrolled in college five or more years prior.

It eliminated the education undergraduate major, demanded subject matter mastery as well as knowledge of education theory, provided mentors through the first three years of teaching, instituted use of cutting - edge technology, and put heavy emphasis on real classroom experience.

If a teacher with a master's degree goes on to earn the median teacher's salary in the U.S., even after making 10 years of income - based payments, she won't have paid back more than the first $ 17,000 in federal student loans she borrowed as an undergraduate before the remainder of her debt is erased.

Using the full population of all first - year undergraduates enrolled at Northwestern between fall 2001 and fall 2008 (over 15,000 students in all), we empirically generate two new measures of teaching quality — one an indicator of inspiration (the rate of «conversion» of non-majors to majors) and the other an indicator of deep learning (the degree to which a professor adds lasting value to students» learning that is reflected in success in future classes).

[xiv] The typical tenured faculty member teaching first - year students ranks a bit below the average h - index for all tenured faculty (averaging at the 44th percentile) This is consistent with the recent finding by Courant and Turner («Faculty Deployment in Research Universities,» NBER working paper 23025, January 2017) that faculty members with higher research output teach fewer undergraduate students and undergraduate courses in research universities.

Teaching is certainly not limited to what takes place in a classroom full of first year undergraduates.

An extensive introduction to Set Theory, generally aimed at Computer Science A Level students, A Level Mathematicians or first year Undergraduate students in either Computer Science or Mathematics.

Twenty - six undergraduate students responded to open - ended questions at the end of the first, second, and fourth semesters of their 2 - year teacher education program.

In its first year (y1), we recruited heavily from among SS candidates at the undergraduate and graduate levels.

First, I argue that high school teachers and counselors have the potential to be important supports for undergraduates as they navigate their freshmen and sophomore years.

The first pilot program will allow 2,000 undergraduate juniors who applied for early acceptance to the 2015 corps to take part in a year - long training program during their senior year.