Sentences with phrase «graduate school colleague»

They're deceptive because scientists toiling in endless postdocs or who find work harvesting pumpkins (which happened to my editor's former graduate school colleague for a time, after he earned his Ph.D. in physics studying the thermodynamics of black holes) are technically «employed.»

Eager to use his background in climate science and hydrology in a multidisciplinary endeavor, he and graduate school colleagues launched the Pacific Institute, turning a $ 37,000 grant into an internationally recognized research institute that has just celebrated 29 years in existence.

Not exact matches

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.

«Sen. Klein and his colleagues in the IDC have long supported the Dream Act because they believe every high school graduate should have access to an affordable college education,» she wrote in a statement.

Clancy points out that graduate school can be a particularly «exploitative and vulnerable time,» during which doing controversial metascience research could be difficult, especially if advisers or other colleagues in positions of power are not supportive of the work.

Landman investigates the iron - rich glauconite rocks here with his colleagues and students from the museum's graduate school, using iron spikes and sledgehammers to knock off slabs that are picked apart with screwdrivers and fingers.

Raz and his colleagues Cheryl Dreuhl, professor at George Mason University School of Management, and Vered Blass, professor at The Leon Recanati Graduate School of Business Administration at Tel Aviv University, approached this research using the newsvendor model, a methodology that captures demand uncertainty, thus differentiating between functional and innovative products.

Consider my colleague who planned to give birth during the dissertation - phase of graduate school.

«I am very pleased that this exciting result emerged in a cooperation of a doctoral candidate out of my group at the Graduate School of Excellence «Materials Science in Mainz» together with co-workers from Kaiserslautern and our colleagues from Konstanz, with whom we collaborate within the Priority Program «Spin Caloric Transport» funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG),» emphasized Professor Mathias Kläui, director of the MAINZ Graduate School of Excellence based at Mainz University.

For example, in 2002, Masanori Takahashi, currently Professor at Graduate School of Medicine Osaka University and colleagues suggested that muscle stiffness, a cardinal feature of DM, was caused by decrease in chloride channel proteins due to mis - splicing, but the cause of heart arrhythmia has been unknown for a long time.

Albeanu and colleagues, including Arkarup Banerjee and Fred Marbach, graduate students in the Watson School for Biological Sciences at CSHL and co-first authors of the Neuron paper, conducted experiments in living animals that revealed a mechanism for adjusting olfactory signal gain.

Edward Kim, MD, urologist at the University of Tennessee Medical Center and Professor at the University of Tennessee Graduate School of Medicine in Knoxville, and his colleagues compared such a drug, called Enclomiphene citrate, with testosterone replacement therapy (Androgel) in overweight men with low testosterone, or hypogonadism.

Sacanna and his colleague Gi - Ra Yi, a professor in the School of Chemical Engineering at Sungkyunkwan University (SKKU) in Suwon, South Korea, together with NYU graduate students Zhe Gong and Theodore Hueckel, created these patchy particles via a new synthetic methodology called «colloidal fusion,» which is not unlike how different pieces of playdough are pieced together.

Daichi Yanagisawa, a graduate student in the School of Engineering at the University of Tokyo, and his colleagues examined various ways of reducing conflicts — friction, essentially — between individuals as they try to squeeze through an exit.

Bayati and his colleagues — Hamsa Bastani, a PhD candidate at Stanford's Electrical Engineering Department; and Joel Goh, a former Stanford graduate student who is now a Harvard Business School professor — argue that a more effective solution is to increase the mandatory reporting and expand the use of targeted auditing.

In 2004 Anthony Lising Antonio, a professor at the Stanford Graduate School of Education, collaborated with five colleagues from the University of California, Los Angeles, and other institutions to examine the influence of racial and opinion composition in small group discussions.

Noriko Osumi, Kaichi Yoshizaki and colleagues at Tohoku University's Graduate School of Medicine collaborated with Shigeru Wakana and Tamio Furuse at RIKEN Bio-Resource Center, and Tucci Valter at Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia, to conduct comprehensive behavioral analyses on how paternal aging influences the behavior of offspring that inherit a genetic risk (a mutation in Pax6 gene).

Breastfeeding appears to be associated with decreased risk of overweight and obesity among school children in Japan, according to a study by Michiyo Yamakawa, M.H.Sc., of the Okayama University Graduate School of Medicine, Dentistry, and Pharmaceutical Sciences, Okayama City, Japan, and colleschool children in Japan, according to a study by Michiyo Yamakawa, M.H.Sc., of the Okayama University Graduate School of Medicine, Dentistry, and Pharmaceutical Sciences, Okayama City, Japan, and colleSchool of Medicine, Dentistry, and Pharmaceutical Sciences, Okayama City, Japan, and colleagues.

Gynecologist Norimasa Sagawa of Kyoto University Graduate School of Medicine in Japan and his colleagues wondered if the protein leptin might play a role.

In the new work, immunologist Hajime Karasuyama of the Tokyo Medical and Dental University Graduate School in Japan and colleagues tracked basophils in mice troubled by ticks.

Morrow is coming from Brown with about a dozen people, including a high school student who is working with him for the summer, undergraduates, graduate students, postdocs and colleagues Julie Kauer, professor of neuroscience, and John Robson, administrative director of the Norman Prince Neurosciences Institute.

To address another joint on the pipeline Diaz and colleagues in the Biomedical Graduate Studies program partnered with seven other Schools at Penn, along with the Offices of the Vice Provost for University Life and Vice Provost for Education, to organize the first Penn Honors Diversity (PHD) Symposium.

The study was conducted by Dr. Yoshinobu Kondo and colleagues at Yokohama City University Graduate School of Medicine and Chigasaki Municipal Hospital.

Writing in the Wall Street Journal, a researcher from Emory's Goizueta Business School explained how she and a colleague from Stanford's Graduate School of Business synthesized 71 studies looking at reactions to assertive behavior.

One of the colleagues in this high school, call him Fred, graduated from Columbia University, an Ivy - League college.

Baywatch: Lifeguard Mitch Buchannon (Dwayne Johnson, a graduate of Bethlehem's Freedom High School) and his new colleague (Zac Efron) must stop a local crime ring.

Dear Colleagues and Friends, As you know, Kathy McCartney will be concluding her service as dean of the Harvard Graduate School of Education at the end of the spring term, having been named to become president of Smith College next July.

A colleague and an alumna of the Harvard Graduate School of Education said to me this semester, «We are really fortunate to work in a sector that rewards us so richly, because we truly do touch the future.»

A friend in the legal profession shares stories of a boss telling women associates not to mess up their career prospects by getting pregnant; a friend in medicine tells a story of a doctor saying, in an aside, that a young Hispanic girl should have graduated from high school instead of «having a litter»; a friend in business shares a story of colleagues mixing up the name of two African American associates, then saying «Well, they're basically the same person.»

33 % of new teachers are hired after the school year has started 56 % report that no extra assistance is available to them as new teachers New research from the Harvard Graduate School of Education reveals that many schools are not organized to hire and support new teachers in ways that help them enter the profession smoothly and attain early success: 33 % of new teachers are hired after the school year has already started, and 62 % are hired within 30 days of when they start teaching Only 50 % of new teachers interview with any of their future teacher colleagues as part of the hiring processschool year has started 56 % report that no extra assistance is available to them as new teachers New research from the Harvard Graduate School of Education reveals that many schools are not organized to hire and support new teachers in ways that help them enter the profession smoothly and attain early success: 33 % of new teachers are hired after the school year has already started, and 62 % are hired within 30 days of when they start teaching Only 50 % of new teachers interview with any of their future teacher colleagues as part of the hiring processSchool of Education reveals that many schools are not organized to hire and support new teachers in ways that help them enter the profession smoothly and attain early success: 33 % of new teachers are hired after the school year has already started, and 62 % are hired within 30 days of when they start teaching Only 50 % of new teachers interview with any of their future teacher colleagues as part of the hiring processschool year has already started, and 62 % are hired within 30 days of when they start teaching Only 50 % of new teachers interview with any of their future teacher colleagues as part of the hiring process 56...

Harvard Graduate School of Education will work with the Strategic Education Research Partnership and other partners to complete a program of work designed to a) investigate the predictors of reading comprehension in 4th - 8th grade students, in particular the role of skills at perspective - taking, complex reasoning, and academic language in predicting deep comprehension outcomes, b) track developmental trajectories across the middle grades in perspective - taking, complex reasoning, academic language skill, and deep comprehension, c) develop and evaluate curricular and pedagogical approaches designed to promote deep comprehension in the content areas in 4th - 8th grades, and d) develop and evaluate an intervention program designed for 6th - 8th grade students reading at 3rd - 4th grade level.The HGSE team will take responsibility, in collaboration with colleagues at other institutions, for the following components of the proposed work: Instrument development: Pilot data collection using interviews and candidate assessment items, collaboration with DiscoTest colleagues to develop coding of the pilot data so as to produce well - justified learning sequences for perspective - taking, complex reasoning, academic language skill, and deep comprehension.Curricular development: HGSE investigators Fischer, Selman, Snow, and Uccelli will contribute to the development of a discussion - based curriculum for 4th - 5th graders, and to the expansion of an existing discussion - based curriculum for 6th - 8th graders, with a particular focus on science content (Fischer), social studies content (Selman), and academic language skills (Snow & Uccelli).

I bring you greetings from my faculty colleagues and congratulations on your hard work during your studies at the Harvard Graduate School of Education.

Conceived initially at the Harvard Business School by Professor Rosabeth Moss Kanter and her colleagues, the initiative is a now a collaboration between five of the university's graduate schools — education, business, law, public policy, and public health.

Entitled GSE1x Unlocking the Immunity to Change: A New Approach to Personal Improvement, the course was developed by Bob Kegan and Lisa Lahey, two of my faculty colleagues from the Harvard Graduate School of Education who are developmental psychologists and experts in adult development.

Kevin Booker and his colleagues («The Unknown World of Charter High Schools,» research) find that such schools in Florida and Chicago do better than their traditional counterparts at helping students reach graduation day and ensuring that graduates go on to cSchools,» research) find that such schools in Florida and Chicago do better than their traditional counterparts at helping students reach graduation day and ensuring that graduates go on to cschools in Florida and Chicago do better than their traditional counterparts at helping students reach graduation day and ensuring that graduates go on to college.

«I think Joel Klein and his colleagues have gotten much more traction on reform than any previous leadership team,» said Robert B. Schwartz, the academic dean of the education and management program at the Harvard Graduate School of Education.

With the help of my friend Steve Seidel at the Harvard Graduate School of Education and my colleagues at EL, I curated my collection of exemplary student work.

The white paper, entitled From Quicksand to Solid Ground: Building a Foundation to Support Quality Teaching, and written by Harvard Graduate School of Education associate professor Jal Mehta and his colleagues, argues for the development of a reliable and integrated set of mechanisms — a functioning system — to build teachers» knowledge, skills, and expertise.

Leveraging the resources of the Harvard Graduate School of Education and the collective wisdom and expertise of program colleagues, participants will develop strategies for system - level change that can be implemented both immediately and over the long term.

But new research by Harvard Graduate School of Education's Luke Miratrix, along with colleagues Todd Grindal, Lindsay Page, and Avi Feller, broadens the perspective to consider the alternatives: What happens to the children who attend a center - based program (like Head Start), and what happens to children who don't?

Beyond helping schools directly, data from Tripod surveys provide the AGI, graduate students, and research colleagues with a way study opportunity patterns in tens of thousands of classrooms from around the nation.

Born to Not Get Bullied New York Times, February 29, 2012 «Kathleen McCartney, dean of the Graduate School of Education here at Harvard, said that she and her colleagues invited Lady Gaga because they had been searching for ways to address bullying as a neglected area of education — and as a human rights issue.

«An outstanding academic leader, teacher, and scholar with a commitment to improving and expanding education for all, Jim Ryan worked with colleagues to bring a transformational vision to the Harvard Graduate School of Education,» said Harvard President Drew Faust.

The Harvard Graduate School of Education community is mourning the loss of a dedicated student, colleague, and educator.

Andrew Porter, dean of the University of Pennsylvania's Graduate School of Education, recently evaluated the Common Core standards with his colleagues, and their conclusion was stark:

While being at Harvard's Graduate School of Education can be inspiration enough, I would also mention the faculty and my colleagues in the School Leadership Program as deep sources of inspiration.

Edward and his colleagues explore these issues with their teacher partners through a variety of different collaborative inquiries In addition to his work as a researcher, Edward is also a Lecturer on Education at the Harvard Graduate School of Education.

An important new book, The Diversity Bargain: And Other Dilemmas of Race, Admissions, and Meritocracy at Elite Universities, takes a closer look at students» views about diversity, merit, and race on selective college campuses in the U.S. and the U.K. I sat down with the book's author, my colleague Natasha Warikoo, an Associate Professor at the Harvard Graduate School of Education, for the following interview.

Part of the problem is that many ed reform grantees and the foundations that fund them are populated by relatively recent graduates of those elite colleges who haven't adjusted to the fact that what worked back at school and works among their colleagues doesn't necessarily appeal to the Republican legislators they need to convince.

This study examines an innovative approach to professional development in which teachers in a grant - funded graduate program «give back» to their schools by providing professional development activities to pass on their learning to colleagues on - site.