Sentences with phrase «graduates of our program include»

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Graduates go on to be helicopter pilots for a variety of programs including emergency medical service programs, charter tours or bringing workers to offshore oil and gas rigs.

Ed Frauenheim and Tabitha Russell are director of research and content, and recognition program manager, respectively, at Great Place to Work, the longtime research partner for Fortune's annual list of the 100 Best Companies to Work For and other best workplaces lists, including the 50 Best Workplaces for Recent College Graduates.

They asked graduates of accelerator programs to fill out surveys about their experiences, including questions about valuations, exits, and their general satisfaction with the program.

In January, the program graduates its inaugural class of four teams, whose creations include a biosignal - tracking wristband; an impact - monitorinwg mouthguard that can help athletes avoid aggravating head injuries; a tracking device for skateboards; and a robotic toy that teaches kids as young as 4 to code.

Robert has taught executive programs for more than 20 years, including 12 years at Harvard's Graduate School of Design, 5 years for... Read more»

Professional education for college teachers should also include considerably more attention to the art of teaching than do most of today's graduate programs.

These include the criteria that the academic program be at a «postgraduate» level — that is, that students have completed an undergraduate degree; that there be a certain level of library holdings; that faculty members themselves hold graduate «research» degrees; that there be provisions protecting academic freedom such as academic tenure; and so forth.

It may be an arrangement that factors out different aspects of the school's common life to the reign of each model of excellent schooling: the research university model may reign for faculty, for example, or for faculty in certain fields (say, church history, or biblical studies) but not in others (say, practical theology), while paideia reigns as the model for students, or only for students with a declared vocation to ordained ministry (so that other students aspiring to graduate school are free to attempt to meet standards set by the research university model); or research university values may be celebrated in relation to the school's official «academic» program, including both classroom expectations and the selection and rewarding of faculty, while the school's extracurricular life is shaped by commitments coming from the model provided by paideia so that, for example, common worship is made central to their common life and a high premium is placed on the school being a residential community.

These include the two - day Good Food EXPO at Chicago's UIC Forum, held most recently on March 23 and 24, 2018; the Good Food Financing & Innovation Conference, a business - and - investment - focused gathering that will be held on June 19, 2018 as a stand - alone event for the first time, after formerly being part of the Good Food EXPO; the Good Food Accelerator, with its fourth cohort of competitively selected entrepreneur Fellows graduating on April 23, 2018 after receiving intensive instruction and connections to business leaders and investors; and our Farmer Training program, which has provided more than 14,500 farmers in 43 states with best - practices instruction in topics such as Wholesale Success, Direct Market Success and On - Farm Food Safety.

The Winter Fancy Food Show Trendspotter Panel included Polly Adema, PhD, associate professor and director of graduate Food Studies Program, University of the Pacific SF; Kara Nielsen, vice president, Trends & Marketing, CCD Innovation; Tu David Phu, chef / owner, AN — a Vietnamese Dining Experience; and Joey Wells, American Cheese Society Certified Cheese Professional and Whole Foods Market Global Senior Coordinator overseeing Specialty Cheese Product Innovation & Development.

A graduate of Duke University, she covered the school's storied athletics program, including three Duke - UNC meetings in Cameron Indoor Stadium and a trip to the Sweet 16.

A graduate of the Culinary Institute of America, Ann has 40 years of experience as a chef, including 17 years in school food programs.

From the tens of thousands of e-mails I have received over the last six years [now 14], from my conversations with mothers all across the country, including the mothers of many Olympic athletes, I believe that, first, and foremost, the vast majority of mothers (and many fathers, of course) just want to make youth sports fun again, to know that everything possible is being done to protect their children from injury and abuse and given a chance to play until they graduate high school; that if it is no longer safe for our children to learn baseball or soccer on their own on the neighborhood sandlot, the organized sports program in which we enroll our child - the «village» - will protect them and keep them safe while they are entrusted to their care.

Scholarships include funds for completion of high school and college programs, graduate study, and support for first - time attendees at various meetings and conferences.

The Joppa Flats Education Center offers a variety of natural history travel experiences led by David Larson (Education Coordinator), David Moon (Sanctuary Director), Bill Gette (former Sanctuary Director), and other naturalists, including graduates of our Birder's Certificate Program.

Mr. Speaker, we note that several transition programs run under the various government institutions and agencies including the Ministry of Local Government and Rural Development, the National Vocational and Technical Institute (NVTI), Council for Technical and Vocational Education and Training (COTVET), Youth Enterprises Support and the Youth Employment Authority, have targeted non-tertiary graduates.

Better alignment of English as a Second Language (ESL) programs with the needs of our English language learners, including expansion of the APPLE model, an alternative high school program for 17 - 18 year - old students to learn the language, graduate, and get a job or go to college.

In fact, in addition to the faculty union, skeptics of the program have included the CUNY Graduate Center's newspaper, the president of the SUNY Student Assembly, and SUNY's own trustees; an academic program coordinator at CUNY's Borough of Manhattan Community College offered a point - by - point evisceration of the scholarship in an op - ed for Inside Higher Ed.

They include a program honoring a gifted math student at Edison High School in honor of teacher Vincent Fazio; and the REF Founder's Award for a graduating senior deeply involved in community service.

Disapprove Teacher Education Program Rule — Vote Passed (59 - 40, 1 Not Voting) The joint resolution would disapprove the rule issued by the Education Department on Oct. 31, 2016, relating to teacher preparation programs that require states to annually evaluate the effectiveness of teacher preparation programs at institutions of higher education and to publicly report this information, including the job placement and retention rates of graduates.

The plan, known as the Excelsior Scholarship program, includes incentives to ensure that more students graduate on time, including requiring that each year, students complete the full - time requirement of 30 credits per year.

According to the Department of Veterans Affairs, more than 270,000 of the 1.65 million veterans of U.S. armed conflicts since 11 September 2001 have claimed education benefits for degree programs, including more than 13,000 graduate students.

The survey also revealed a wide range of graduate curricula: programs within astronomy, physics - astronomy, and physics departments; direct - entry Ph.D. programs, and programs which required, and valued, the MSc; programs with extensive and compulsory course requirements, and others which replace courses with minicourses, self - study courses, or extra research projects; programs in which coursework (if any) was purely astronomy, and others which included physics or other subjects; programs with comprehensive exams, and others without or with an exam which was basically a defence of the Ph.D. proposal.

According to a Department of Veterans Affairs report, as of February 2007, about 275,000 of these veterans have used GI education benefits in degree programs, including 13,000 in graduate school.

The Whitaker Foundation (Arlington, Va.), which awards grants for research and education in biomedical engineering at academic institutions in the United States and Canada, has a wealth of information about the field, including a list of programs that offer graduate degrees, on its Web site.

There are also great graduate training programs, including several in Canada, two of which are at the University of British Columbia and the University of Alberta.

Our program also includes an extensive undergraduate component, an outreach component that provides short - term opportunities for biologists to enhance their quantitative training, and opportunities for graduate students to do collaborative research with full - time staff and postdoctoral researchers at UT in computational ecology, or with a variety of researchers at Oak Ridge National Lab and private firms.

The 2005 report included responses from 88 of the 140 graduate training programs that were members of the ANDP and indicated that women comprise more than 60 percent of the graduate students in neuroscience but approximately 25 percent of tenure - track faculty, a number that has changed little since 1998.

This three - semester program seeks outstanding students from a variety of backgrounds including recent graduates with B.A.s in mathematics, the physical sciences, computer science, economics, and finance.

As veterans of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan return to civilian life, a significant number of them are entering college programs, including graduate programs in science and related technical fields.

The project was supported by a USDA NIFA grant, and the study's authors include researchers from the National Program for Genetic Improvement of Feed Efficiency in Beef Cattle, as well as associated graduate students and staff.

And because the survey didn't include a comparison group, it isn't possible to gauge how PSM alumni fare compared with graduates of MBA or other professional programs — or with graduates with Ph.D. s.

Charles Greer, director of the neuroscience graduate program at Yale University, urged neuroscientists interested in academic work to widen their sights to include smaller universities and liberal arts colleges.

There are no dedicated Ph.D. training programs yet, but several universities now offer master's level programs, including the Harvard Graduate School of Education, the University of Texas, Arlington, College of Education and Health Professions, and the University of Cambridge Centre for Neuroscience in Education.

Several universities offer training programs and / or graduate degrees in comparative medicine for D.V.M. / V.M.D. holders, including Ohio State University, the University of Missouri, Purdue University, Oregon State University, Stanford University, University of California, Davis, Johns Hopkins University, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cornell University, NC State University, and the University of Wisconsin, Madison.

Suggestions included taking graduate courses as an undergraduate, working as a technician or an assistant in a research lab, entering a master's program, or pursuing the opportunity to participate in the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Postbaccalaureate Research Education Program, which provides preparation for graduate courses; reading science papers; and taking tprogram, or pursuing the opportunity to participate in the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Postbaccalaureate Research Education Program, which provides preparation for graduate courses; reading science papers; and taking tProgram, which provides preparation for graduate courses; reading science papers; and taking the GRE.

Those numbers, it turned out, included information technology and computer science degrees, as well as graduates of 2 - and 3 - year programs.

Support for the seminar series, including refreshments and travel, lodging, and honorarium gifts for the speakers, is provided by the Alabama National Science Foundation Experimental Program to Stimulate Competitive Research (EPSCoR) and Oak Ridge Associated Universities Visiting Industrial Scholars ProgramThe UAB Graduate Student Association, the UAB Graduate School, and the UAB Office of Postdoctoral Studies currently support special activities such as Career Day.

As anyone who is in or who has graduated from an MD / PhD program will attest, facing the barrage of questions from colleagues, parents, relatives, and friends about your career path — including «Why are you doing that?»

The course also featured: a presentation by each participant for a panel that included a patent attorney, a newspaper editor, and an innovations specialist; a one - on - one consultation with Nana Lee, the course co-coordinator, a former senior scientist and director in the biotech industry who is experienced in career transitions and in dealing with life balance issues; and a presentation by U of T's Graduate Enterprise Internship program, which provides internships for students to explore opportunities in the business world.

In addition to Choi and Cahill — whose work was supported by the Army Research Office MURI program — co-authors of the paper include Byoung - Chul Min, Center for Spintronics Research, Korea Institute of Science and Technology, Seoul; and Kyung - Jin Lee, Department of Materials Science and Engineering and KU - KIST Graduate School of Converging Science and Technology, Korea University, Seoul.

They include the BEST (Broadening Experiences in Scientific Training) programs at 17 institutes across the country; encouraging the use of individual development plans (IDPs) by all NIH - supported graduate students and postdocs; and, one I am particularly pleased about, offering individual F30 and F31 predoctoral fellowships through all the NIH institutes and centers.

In addition to his public service at NIH, he did his postdoctoral training within the NIH - NIEHS Superfund Research Program Center at the University of Kentucky, where he directed the Center's graduate and postdoctoral transdisciplinary training efforts and translated the Center's ongoing environmental health - related research innovations to relevant stakeholders, including state and federal policymakers and regulators, industry partners for technology transfer, and at - risk populations across Kentucky.

Other authors on the paper include Eric Bohnenblust, former graduate student in entomology, Penn State; Anthony Vaudo, graduate student in entomology, Penn State; and Franklin Egan, director of educational programs, Pennsylvania Association for Sustainable Agriculture.

Its education and training programs would rise by 2 %, to $ 892 million, including $ 19 million for graduate training and postdoctoral fellowships in a joint program on clean energy technology with the Department of Energy (DOE), which has budgeted $ 55 million.

Many graduate programs, for example, are making concerted efforts to recruit students from historically marginalized groups, including African - Americans, Latinos, and students with disabilities, but this approach will only succeed if faculty members, administrators, and the scientific community at large also consider the environment that the students are being recruited into, and how to make those spaces truly inclusive arenas where a diverse group of scholars can thrive.

To date, the academy's URP has sent 74 students — 47 in physics — to science and engineering graduate programs throughout the country, including the University of Michigan, Stanford, and Cal Tech.

The success of students coming from schools with limited opportunities in the mathematical sciences is handled through a series of programs that include summer preparation courses (prior to enrollment) that mimic the level of graduate courses.

Of the two available models, a dual - degree program is probably the best approach for students interested in basic science, because the choices available for research training are likely to be wider and include more opportunities for basic science and bench research into molecular mechanisms, compared to graduate programs or postdoctoral fellowships linked to post-MD clinical training; the latter is more likely to be focused more on clinic - based studies.

► Also in this week's STM, Ambika Mathur and four coauthors (including Cynthia Fuhrmann, a member of the team that created Science Careers» myIDP), describe NIH's Broadening Experiences in Scientific Training (BEST) program, which aims «to enhance career preparation for graduate pre - and postdoctoral biomedical research trainees.»