Sentences with phrase «for women students»

It was this very problem that motivated one graduate student, Angela Tate, «to create a time and a place for women students to get together and worry out loud» — the Graduate Student Section of Women in Science and Engineering (WISE) in Newfoundland and Labrador.

This concrete and explicit intention to help — rather than simply to advance knowledge or technology — exerts a powerful draw for women students and makes biomedical engineering the most heavily female engineering specialty, according to engineering educators I've spoken with recently.

And second, the program establishes and promotes an academic support network for women students by increasing communication opportunities for women from under - represented groups.

As a mentor and role model for women students, Joan was a top candidate to speak at the first women's reunion at YDS.

Not exact matches

Eleven entrepreneurs, all from founding teams including women or people of color, made their cases for innovations that would help bring more real - world experience into classrooms, help teachers track the progress of special - needs students, or help underserved people find jobs, among others.

As Levitt tells it, the lecture went wonderfully — some students claimed it was their favorite lecture of their undergraduate career, which might be a separate lesson for some econ professors — until the woman took a question on pricing strategy from a student toward the very end of her talk.

Stepping into her new role this week as the first African - American woman to hold the position of First Captain of the U.S. Military Academy's Corps of Cadets, Askew will be responsible for overseeing the performance of approximately 4,400 students, according to the Associated Press.

Additionally, student newspaper The Daily Tar Heel reports, the new report «found clear evidence that academic counselors from the football, men's basketball and women's basketball teams asked for players to be enrolled in bogus independent study classes in order for them to be eligible.»

Amy Cuddy, a faculty member at the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard, has conducted an experiment with her graduate students demonstrating that holding an assertive body posture for as little as two minutes increases the amount of testosterone in the body, in men and women.

• And speaking of new shows... Amanda Knox, the American student who stood trial in Italy for the 2007 murder of her roommate, wants to draw attention to other women who were shamed for their sexuality and womanhood on her new show, The Scarlet Letter Reports, for Vice Media's Broadly.

«Given the competition for top talent, employers must update their approach in order to engage and retain millennials, especially among women, who were found to carry a bigger burden of student loan debt,» said Natalie Smith, a vice president at PadillaCRT, the communications agency that conducted the survey for ORC.

Our recent survey of more than 1,500 young U.S. business school students and graduates finds that both men and women count on having flexible careers that provide room for life outside of the office.

Because beyond his typically bombastic proclamation that «it's already too late» for most women to become programmers is a much more important message: Computer science ought to be a basic part of school curriculum, giving both male and female students early exposure to an increasingly important skill set in today's economy.

It also follows the first students to attend the Baltimore Leadership School for Young Women.

In other words, having women register for the draft would save money because it would result in more people being denied student loans and grants.

One such project asked students to develop a TV commercial that targeted women for Window Depot, Medoff's window supplies retailer.

Researchers from Stanford University's Clayman Institute for Gender Research Recruitment sat in on tech company recruiting sessions at a top - tier West Coast university; their findings hint at what's keeping women out of tech jobs: «As students entered, women were often setting up refreshments or raffles and doling out the swag in the back; the presenters were often men, and they rarely introduced the recruiters.

In 2014, the Academy created a diversity office to help widen its student demographics and recruit more women and African - Americans for department heads and leaders.

The Women's Business Enterprise National Council (WBENC) is proud to announce the 20 student entrepreneurs selected for the prestigious 2017 WBENC Student Entrepreneur Program (SEP) at WBENC's National Conference & Business Fair in Las Vegas, Nevada from June 18th tstudent entrepreneurs selected for the prestigious 2017 WBENC Student Entrepreneur Program (SEP) at WBENC's National Conference & Business Fair in Las Vegas, Nevada from June 18th tStudent Entrepreneur Program (SEP) at WBENC's National Conference & Business Fair in Las Vegas, Nevada from June 18th to 23rd.

To prepare for the pitch competition, students receive mentoring from Women Business Enterprise (WBE) and Fortune 500 mentors who serve as Student Entrepreneur Supporters.

Another way we will illustrate our support for our colleagues in municipal chambers and their members is to investigate how we might extend our four unique Signature Programs to chambers throughout Greater Vancouver, including our Leaders of Tomorrow mentorship program for post-secondary students, our Company of Young Professionals, our Small Business Council, and our Women's Leadership Circle.

As part of its commitment to a build a more diverse workplace and address a gender gap within key sectors of the financial services industry, Fidelity has launched its Summit for Young Women, a day - long event designed to open students» minds to the wide range of career opportunities that exist within financial services, years before they are ready to begin their professional lives.

Irene Lanzinger, president of the BC Teachers Federation, echoed the call for public investments and stricter regulation of banks, and added particular concerns about schools, women and students.

The sweet tooth entrepreneur has teamed up with Rockport for the occasion and has asked seventeen RISD students to design candy versions of Rockport's Janae Pump for women and Day 2 Night Wingtip for men, utilizing some of the 7,000 candies found at Dylan's Candy Bar.

To continue to support women in business, look for charities that help aspiring women entrepreneurs and students by providing capital, grants or education opportunities, or help the NextGen of women - owned businesses by supporting education, mentorship and leadership development opportunities for girls and teens.

At Tuck, efforts range from coffee chats with prospective students to large - scale events such as the forthcoming Initiative for Women Symposium.

Whether you're a woman, child, family, veteran or student hitting the books to retrain, the Trudeau Liberals» second federal budget has something for everyone.

Now, with this essential funding commitment from the Province, We for She 2018 will continue to bring together women and B.C. students for a fifth annual one - day forum, with the ultimate goal of making gender equality in leadership a priority,» said Iain Black, CEO of the Greater Vancouver Board of Trade.

He continued: «Over 800 high school students from across British Columbia attended WE FOR SHE last November, and this event with Mrs. Obama will ensure that her words are heard by some of the people who will be most inspired by them: young women and the next generation of leaders.»

Campaigns included an initiative started by college students called «Students with Puerto Rico» and the «Mirta & Angelo hurricane relief» — a campaign created for a woman's great - grandparents, 80 and 84, who are living «in the shell of a home» they have left south of Sstudents called «Students with Puerto Rico» and the «Mirta & Angelo hurricane relief» — a campaign created for a woman's great - grandparents, 80 and 84, who are living «in the shell of a home» they have left south of SStudents with Puerto Rico» and the «Mirta & Angelo hurricane relief» — a campaign created for a woman's great - grandparents, 80 and 84, who are living «in the shell of a home» they have left south of San Juan.

For me, as a college student, young single woman, and then young married adult, I found that there were no Sunday gatherings for myself - no fellowship classes that matched my stage in life at most churches I visitFor me, as a college student, young single woman, and then young married adult, I found that there were no Sunday gatherings for myself - no fellowship classes that matched my stage in life at most churches I visitfor myself - no fellowship classes that matched my stage in life at most churches I visited.

Moreover, a sense of hope was renewed in me upon reading the message from Georgetown President DeGioia, who boldly stood up not just for a fellow student, but for all women.

This woman has been preparing for this moment for some time and is far from the young vulnerable college student she attempts to portray.

She's a former president of the university's chapter of Law Students for Reproductive Justice, and is an organizer with Catholic Students for Women's Health, a coalition of students from Catholic colleges and univeStudents for Reproductive Justice, and is an organizer with Catholic Students for Women's Health, a coalition of students from Catholic colleges and univeStudents for Women's Health, a coalition of students from Catholic colleges and univestudents from Catholic colleges and universities.

In addition to civil rights for people of color, women and LGBT, there has been an expansion of religious liberty for minority sects, enforcement of viewpoint neutrality with respect to access to various public and non-public forums (e.g. religious student groups must be granted equal access to school facilities as their secular counterparts, etc) greater protections against age and disability discrimination, and recognition of habeas corpus rights even for enemy combatants.

Back when I worked at a daily paper in Chattanooga, I got an email from a Christian woman who lambasted me for using the word «holiday» instead of «Christmas» in an article about college students taking advantage of seasonal job opportunities in retail.

It reminds me a bit of my days as a student at Bryan College, when I first bumped into the concept of «biblical womanhood» after some students questioned whether women should be allowed to run for president of the student body.

The initiative has sparked a campus - wide debate about biblical interpretation and the roles of women, as well as a second group called Students for Egalitarianism in Marriage.

Sarah is a Women's Studies student at Oakland University, an intern at Alternatives for Girls in Detroit, and a master burger - flipper.

Women, men, children, unemployed people, excluded and oppressed people, workers, landless peasants, communities suffering from racism, impoverished city dwellers, indigenous peoples, students, intellectuals, migrants, small business people, outcasts, declining middle classes - citizens - are asserting their dignity, demanding respect for their human rights and natural heritages, and practising solidarity.

Special programs have been established in ethnic studies and in women's studies, for example, that address the needs of some students and support certain social movements.

I have been taught this less by my feminist professional colleagues than by the students who have attended my classes on passes from hospitals or after therapy sessions, in which they are being treated for wounds inflicted by men (and sometimes women) who abused them as children or as adults.

Also, the presence of women, plus racial diversity, and denominational diversity, makes for a student body that's different from what it was a generation ago.

Although I had completed two advanced theological degrees summa cum laude and published a book, my Doktor - vater refused to obtain a scholarship for me, explaining that he did not want to waste the opportunity on a student who as a woman had no future in the academy.

The Rev. Joseph W. Knowles describes the goals of the Renewal Center Mission as (1) developing the Life Renewal Center through small «groups,» (2) giving attention to the use of present structures to focus the whole life of the church as a healing community, (3) developing a program of supervised clinical pastoral education for theological students, and (4) maintaining a Residential Center halfway house for twenty men and women who have been previously hospitalized for mental illness.

This young woman has been writing her «prominent atheist blog» for about two years... as an undergraduate college student.

Christianity teaches that this particular individual, and so every individual, whatever in other respects this individual may be, man, woman, serving - maid, minister of state, merchant, barber, student, etc. — this individual exists before God — this individual who perhaps would be vain for having once in his life talked with the King, this man who is not a little proud of living on intimate terms with that person or the other, this man exists before God, can talk with God any moment he will, sure to be heard by Him; in short, this man is invited to live on the most intimate terms with God!

It was probably at least a decade ago, while I was teaching at Oberlin, that a young African - American woman — I'll call her Tonya — who had been a student in several of my classes told me she was leaving school, at least for a year.

Mary Somerville, overcoming, as her daughter says, «obstacles apparently insurmountable, at a time when women were well - nigh totally debarred from education»; Charlotte Bronte, writing in secret and publishing under a pseudonym because only so could she hope for just criticism; Harriet Hunt, admitted to the Harvard Medical School in 1850 but forced out by the enraged students; Elizabeth Blackwell, applying to twelve medical schools before she could secure admission, and meeting with insult and contumely in her endeavor to study and practice medicine; Mary Lyon, treated as a wild fanatic because she wanted American girls to be educated — such figures are typical in woman's struggle for intellectual opportunity.

Feminist theorists of education have often pointed out that «knowing» for women has to be understood in terms of physical presence, relationships with students and faculty and connections between feelings and ideas.