Sentences with phrase «great number of universities»

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As Altaf Rahamatulla, a Ford Foundation program associate, recently noted in Fortune, students are protesting these hateful activities with great passion and in huge numbers, as they did this fall at the University of Missouri.

The company, led by CEO Richard Levin, former president of Yale University, has also recently established partnerships with a number of governments and nonprofit organizations to bring education to those in the greatest need.

Consider a partial list of developments since just World War II: a broad national decline in denominational loyalty, changes in ethnic identity as hyphenated Americans enter the third and subsequent generations after immigration, the great explosion in the number of competing secular colleges and universities, the professionalization of academic disciplines with concomitant professional formation of faculty members during graduate education, the dramatic rise in the percentage of the population who seek higher education, the sharp trend toward seeing education largely in vocational and economic terms, the rise in government regulation and financing, the great increase in the complexity and cost of higher education, the development of a more litigious society, the legal end of in loco parentis, an exponential and accelerating growth in human knowledge, and so on.

There are a number of strong, rational arguments for the existence of God proposed by professors in great universities; there are none for fairies.

Maybe there was a brain drain from seminaries to university religion departments, which house a greater number of radicals.

The University of Notre Dame also noted an English study by P. Heron which showed that children who never slept in their parents» bed tended to be less happy, they exhibited a greater number of tantrums, and were more fearful than children who consistently co-slept.

And because co-sleeping in the form of bedsharing makes breastfeeding easier for mothers, it encourages them to breastfeed for a greater number of months, according to Dr. Helen Ball's studies at the University of Durham, therein potentially reducing the mothers chances of breast cancer.

If you discount parts of districts that include the University at Albany, where students are not around in great numbers during the June - July petitioning period, that percentage could be even higher.

«Some of the numbers we've been operating on date back decades, and it'd be great to revisit them,» says Sarah Johnson, a planetary scientist at Georgetown University in Washington, D.C..

Prather, a 49 - year - old professor at the University of California, San Diego, is one of a growing number of scientists who suspect this largely unexplored microbial ecosystem might hold the answer to one of the great mysteries of the weather: Why do clouds produce precipitation when they do?

Said Dr. Martin Gilbert, Wildlife Health Cornell Carnivore Specialist with Cornell University's College of Veterinary Medicine: «As carnivore numbers decline, they face a greater risk from chance events like outbreaks of disease.

On January 7th at 22:30 UTC, the Great Internet Mersenne Prime Search (GIMPS) celebrated its 20th anniversary with the math discovery of the new largest known prime number, 274,207,281 - 1, having 22,338,618 digits, on a university computer volunteered by Curtis Cooper for the project.

«The number of potentially habitable planets in our galaxy is much greater if we can expect to find several of them around each low - mass star — instead of looking at ten stars to look for a single potentially habitable planet, we now know we can look at just one star and find several of them,» adds co-author Rory Barnes (University of Washington, USA).

Men dominate S&E professorships, regardless of field and race.10 Among the top 50 universities in chemistry, physics, computer science, mathematics, and engineering, at least 69 % (most times this number is much higher) of the professors are men, according to a report recently released by University of Oklahoma chemistry professor Dr. Donna Nelson.9 The lack of female professors was far greater among minority women.9 Although the number of master's degrees and doctorates increased for every racial and gender category, except for white males, 1 white — and, to a lesser extent, Asian — men constituted the clear majority of S&E graduate and faculty positions between 1990 and 1999.9

Queen's Pathfinder Proposal, as it was called, drew a great deal of support from a number of other universities in the province, which have been predisposed to the idea of full tuition fee deregulation for some time.

Focusing on flu outbreaks in the U.S. between 2003 and 2008, Justin Ortiz from the Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine at the University of Washington and colleagues from CDC and PATH, a Seattle - based nonprofit health organization, found that Google Flu Trends deviated greatest from CDC surveillance figures for laboratory - confirmed flu rates during the 2003 — 2004 flu season, which saw a high number of flu - related deaths in children and, as a result, was a hot topic in the media.

The Great White Shark is not endangered in the Eastern North Pacific, and, in fact, is doing well enough that its numbers likely are growing, according to an international research team led by a University of Florida researcher.

«We found that India had nearly 6 million annual clinically diagnosed dengue cases between 2006 and 2012 — almost 300 times greater than the number of cases that had been officially reported,» said Donald Shepard, PhD, lead author of the study and a health economics professor at Brandeis University.

A great deal of this competition is a result of government funding cutbacks causing the universities to restrict the number of seats they have to offer applicants.

Thus, these waters have naturally occurring high CO2 and low pH» [an acidity / alkalinity scale; the lower the number the greater the acidity], says Derek Manzello, a biologist from the University of Miami and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's Atlantic Oceanographic and Meteorological Laboratory, lead author of the study appearing in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA.

«The risk numbers we're talking about for that group are comparable to or greater than what we see for radon, which has been identified as the most dangerous hazard in homes in the country by far,» said Richard Corsi, a professor specializing in indoor air pollution at the University of Texas at Austin.

Researchers at Columbia University have made a significant step toward breaking the so - called «color barrier» of light microscopy for biological systems, allowing for much more comprehensive, system - wide labeling and imaging of a greater number of biomolecules in living cells and tissues than is currently attainable.

«The jets must be supersonic, with Mach numbers of two or greater, but because of cooling of the water vapor in the eruption throat, the actual velocity may not be as high as we thought previously,» said Larry Esposito, a conference organizer and a professor of astrophysical and planetary sciences in the Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics (LASP) at the University of Colorado, Boulder.

When age gap dating becomes more and more popular, a great number of young ladies started to pursuit the relationship with some older rich guys in adelaide university or neighbor areas in southern australia.

The esteemed academic, currently serving as president of Morgan State University in Baltimore, is flooded with memories of hot summer days walking the long miles between the school and his home (often barefoot to save his shoes), of early classroom lessons taught by a strict but caring teacher, of his beloved family members who reside here in great number.

Will a greater emphasis on community colleges result in a decrease in full - time professors at four - year institutions, particularly at non-research universities, ultimately transforming professors from being loyal to a single institution to «free agent» teachers who work with an even greater number of institutions to assemble full - time employment?

A great number of colleges and universities share their course materials online, and some of them enable students to substitute part of their traditional courses with online options.

It also means a far greater number and variety of course options — AP, IB, and even university - sponsored — available to all kids, regardless of the community in which they live: technology as equity.

Though UC's rules aren't affecting a great number of students right now, because they apply only if a school submits proposals for new curricula, ACSI's Burt Carney believes it is only a matter of time before the university goes after the 150 or so schools in California that already offer these classes.

NACSA Members — including school districts, education agencies, independent boards, universities, and not - for - profits — work to increase the number of great charter schools across the nation, and some must make tough decisions to close poor - performing schools.

Students of color are disciplined in far greater numbers than their white peers, according to research released by The Equity Project at Indiana University.

Authored by Vikki Boliver, Claire Crawford, Mandy Powell and Will Craige, this report provides new evidence on the use of contextualised admissions amongst a group of highly selective universities in the UK today, and offers some insights into the difference that greater use of contextual data might make to the numbers of disadvantaged students at these universities.

Greater use of contextual admissions could result in a substantial increase in the numbers of low income students at the UK's most selective universities.

The university sector's Supporting Professionalism in Admissions organisation has also called for «greater clarity» about the rising numbers of appeals and grades being changed.

I am a university administrator by profession and have worked in the student financial services arena for a great number of years.

Oddest inclusion: Cooper Union (CU), at number 15, not because it's not a great school, but because it underlines the conspicuous absence of the embattled university from every other list of top art and design schools.

«The number of students admitted is greater this year to allow for a class of engineering students that is 25 percent larger, as well as to compensate for a yield» — the percentage of admitted students who choose to attend — «that may be smaller,» the university said in a statement on its website on Friday.

- Richard Shiff, Professor of Modern and Contemporary Art of Europe and America, University of Texas at Austin «The great number of young artists who set out each year to become painters should long ago have put to rest conversations about the so - called death of painting.

Being from Vancouver and you know, when I was in university, listening to Jeff Wall as guest lecturer a number of times, it was quite great to see just how well he's done, particularly for an artist in Vancouver to break into that international success.

MoMA partnered with Coursera, an online platform which offers a great number of courses on many subjects, many of which were developed in collaboration with top universities and organisations.

«There are many systems that make great economic sense today, and these are the types of systems that are being installed in large numbers,» said Tommy Cleveland, a solar energy engineer at the North Carolina State University Solar Center.

Such questions are putting greater pressure on scientists to produce numbers, rather than to refine understanding, says Prof Ted Shepherd, Grantham professor of climate science at the University of Reading.

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Lex Machina started life in 2010 as a partnership between Stanford University's Computer Science Department and the Law School with some great support from a number of «tech companies and law firms.»

University of Wisconsin - La Crosse, Viterbo University and Western Technical College are all located in the city, which has been recognized as a great place to live by a number of publications over the years.

Johns Hopkins University off campus housing will be a great choice for a number of people who will be going to Johns Hopkins University soon.

Highly ranked universities usually offer the greatest number of this type of scholarships.

And there is really a great amount of higher education institutions, among which Resume Writing Service wants to name three public universities located within the city limits: California State University, Los Angeles (CSULA), California State University, Northridge (CSUN) and University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) and a great number of private colleges.

So essentially, ever since I've left university I've been involved in helping companies recruit graduate talent and helping students land really great graduate jobs, and I've done that in a number of different organizations.

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