Sentences with phrase «foreign graduate student»

I saw one foreign graduate student literally metamorphose in 1 year from awkward and shy to outgoing and confident through active participation in Toast Masters.

These numbers jive well with foreign graduate student applications, which declined by 28 % and 5 % in 2004 and 2005, respectively.

«Walling off labs, making foreign graduate students wear badges — it's just not what we do at a university,» says Paul Powell, assistant director of the Office of Sponsored Programs at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge.

He has 6 months left on a U.S. work permit issued to many foreign graduate students and postdocs: a 1 - year Optional Practical Training (OPT) permit.

... Our analysis thus documents a key benefit of high - skilled immigration in the US, which relies on innovation for growth and helps to explain the vociferous complaints by US academic departments about visa restrictions on foreign graduate students.

NEW DELHI — The top two suppliers of foreign graduate students for U.S. universities are heading in opposite directions.

Like engineering and computer science programs across the nation, Auburn has been hurt by the loss of foreign graduate students — especially Chinese and Indian nationals.

And in collaboration with Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG), the DAAD launched a new program to bring excellent foreign graduate students to German universities.

«The NSF has consistently supported the importation of foreign graduate students by various means and pushed for the establishment of the H - 1B program in 1990,» says Keith Jackson, president of the National Society for Black Physicists.

Perhaps foreign graduate students are more directed and certain about their career goals?

Numerous scholars have looked at the growth in numbers and importance of foreign graduate students and postdocs in American science in recent decades.

Universities are also increasingly dependent on foreign graduate students and postdocs to do the work that allows universities to maintain their research operations and compete for grants, Sullivan added.

Leo first became interested in education and writing instruction while working as an English Consultant to foreign graduate students.

I hadn't seen before today the Master of Laws Guide which assembles in a single site comparative information for foreign graduate students contemplating the choice of schools where to study.

Not exact matches

Listing «problems» standing in the way of U.S. economic growth, Dimon cited American immigration policies that often prevent foreign college students from getting a job in this country after they graduate.

The president's moves will make it easier for entrepreneurs to work in the United States and extend a program letting foreign students who graduate with advanced degrees from U.S. universities to work temporarily in the United States.

The annual quota includes 65,000 visas for foreign workers applying for the first time, while the remaining 20,000 are for foreign students graduating with advanced degrees from American universities.

The Canadian Experience Class (CEC) is an immigration program for certain temporary foreign workers and foreign student graduates with professional, managerial and skilled work experience.

We are hosting a German foreign exchange student right now and my daughter, who graduates from high school this year, is planning to major in German in college.

For many of us, especially those who are first - generation graduate students, that what we do at «school» is foreign to a lot of our friends and family.

This effect has been true even in academia, in which the number of foreign students, who made up the majority of computer science (CS) departments, has dwindled in graduate schools across the country.

In 2002, latest data and the first since 9/11, the number of foreign students enrolled in U.S. science and engineering graduate programs increased by 8 % to a new, all - time high.

««We started seeing these trends last year,» says CGS's Jeff Allum, who authored the report, part of an effort to monitor the graduate admissions process for foreign students at some 500 U.S. institutions.

You'll need a total of 10 reference letters, including two from colleagues who like you but resent your tenure bid, one from the department head who has a disincentive to let you step on his or her turf, one from your graduate adviser whom you haven't seen in 10 years, one from a «superstar» in your field that will be ghostwritten by a secretary, two from foreign collaborators from countries where praise is considered weak, and three from students you've slept with.

The measure will also attempt to attract excellent foreign scientists and graduate students to Germany.

• In a policy forum in Science, Keith E. Maskus, A. Mushfiq Mobarak, and Eric T. Stuen explored the impact of foreign doctoral students and graduates on innovation in the United States.

And the attractiveness of U.S. higher education to foreign - born graduate students is notoriously volatile, subject to external events — such as Tiananmen Square or 11 September — that have nothing to do with the scientific workforce.

The share of graduate students in computer science and engineering with temporary visas has risen by 66 % in the past half - dozen years, notes the same report, with foreign - born students now making up almost half the graduate population in those fields.

If Americans are not available to staff a lab, university professors have the option of foreign talent, as graduate students admitted to the country on student visas, or postdocs, admitted under what Teitelbaum calls the «essentially unlimited numbers of H - 1B visas» are available to universities because of an exception available to non-profit institutions.

«When foreign students want to take a vacation, we advise them to make sure they have evidence of their intent to continue their studies,» says Venkataramanan Balakrishnan, director of graduate admissions for the electrical and computer engineering department at Purdue University, in West Lafayette, Ind. «We give them documents, and we tell them to register for courses in advance.»

The idea of the program, which originated with Claudia Koch - Brandt (Mainz) and Joachim Herz and Nancy Street (UT Southwestern), is to give life science graduate students from both institutions the opportunity to work in a foreign laboratory, learn new methods and technical skills, and experience another country with, possibly, a different philosophy of science.

Through its graduate academy, Singapore plans to send abroad and fund some one thousand students to earn undergraduate and graduate degrees at top foreign universities by 2015.

Foreign science students studying in the United States also often rely on OPT extensions to stay in the United States and work during, for example, gap years before graduate school.

With this large supply of foreign students available, there is little or no incentive for these graduate departments to expend the effort to recruit or retain African American or other U.S. students.

The summer institute is NSF's only Australia - specific research training opportunity for graduate students, but another NSF program — the Doctoral Dissertation Enhancement Projects program — offers flexibility and a longer term for U.S. graduate students seeking foreign - research experiences including, but not limited to, Australia.

The need for more visas to bring in more scientists may be apparent to officials at companies or universities that employ large numbers of technical workers, or at universities that graduate large numbers of foreign students who wish to stay here.

He doubled the number of postdocs HHMI funds, revived graduate student awards with an emphasis on foreign students, and refocused HHMI's international programs on younger U.S. - trained scientists.

As a first - generation student, the entire idea of graduate school is foreign to my family.

The extensive DAAD scholarship database for foreign students, graduates and academics offers a wide range of scholarships and additional information to help them with their application.

Spring break, for many students, is traditionally spent relaxing on the beach or exploring a foreign city, but this year six HGSE master's students and a Tufts graduate student used their spring breaks to give back to those still affected by the damage of Hurricane Katrina.

Other countries see that their best STEM students come to the U.S. for graduate school — more than half of our STEM graduate students are foreign — and to start high - tech companies.

Even so, just 9 % of graduating students had passed an AP foreign language test.

Boston University's Master of Arts in Teaching (MAT) for Modern Foreign Language is designed for students who wish to pursue graduate studies in Spanish, French, or Arabic, and at the same time prepare for initial teacher licensure at the 5 - 12 grade - level.

In Tennessee's most rural school districts, nearly a third of students are graduating without the required two years of a foreign language.

Specific provisions included scholarships and loans to students in higher education, with loans to students preparing to be teachers and to those who showed promise in the curricular areas of mathematics, science, engineering, and modern foreign languages; grants to states for programs in mathematics, science, and modern foreign languages in public schools; the establishment of centres to expand and improve the teaching of languages; help to graduate students, including fellowships for doctoral students to prepare them to be professors at institutions of higher learning; assistance for the improvement of guidance, counseling, and testing programs; provisions for research and experimentation in the use of television, radio, motion pictures, and related media for educational purposes; and the improvement of statistical services at the state level.

The need for graduates with economics degree is growing by leaps & bounds in sectors like banking & finance, healthcare, insurance, urban planning, foreign trade, etc., thereby many students prefer to study it.

We estimate a total increase of 3,640 hours of burden for graduate and professional student borrowers at foreign institutions (2,426 hours for the collection and submission of documentation of extenuating circumstances, or to obtain an endorser who does not have an adverse credit history, plus an additional 753 hours of enhanced counseling for borrowers who qualify for a loan after demonstrating that extenuating circumstances exist, and an additional 461 hours of enhanced counseling for the borrowers who receive a loan after obtaining an endorser who does not have an adverse credit history) under OMB Control Number 1845 - 0129.

The highly competitive Fulbright U.S. Student Program is the largest United States exchange program, offering students and young professionals the opportunity to travel to a foreign country to undertake graduate studies, research, or teaching worldwide.

Should we consider accelerating the citizenship of foreign students graduating with honors in science and engineering?

Students may have the opportunity to work as graduate research assistants or volunteers on arbitration - related projects and initiatives with organizations such as Miami Law's International Arbitration Institute (IAI) or individual Miami Law faculty specializing in international and foreign law, the International Chamber of Commerce (ICC), the International Law Section of the Florida Bar, the International Centre for Dispute Resolution (ICDR), the Young Practitioners» and Students» Group of the International Council for Commercial Arbitration (Young ICCA), the Miami International Arbitration Society (MIAS), and Future of Arbitration: Miami (FA: M), South Florida's first young arbitration practitioners» group, co-founded by Marike Paulsson in 2010.