Sentences with phrase «help of research students»

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Students «learn about the how the brain uses two very different learning modes and how it encapsulates («chunks») information,» as well as «illusions of learning, memory techniques, dealing with procrastination, and best practices shown by research to be most effective in helping you master tough subjects.»
While that will undoubtedly help students and scientists save tons of time sifting through articles on PubMed, Meta can also help organizations decide where to direct their research budgets by identifying trends in certain areas of study or finding authors who have shown promising work in the past.
The goals of the BBCIE are twofold: to help transform the university's $ 1.3 B in externally - funded research into products and services, and to allow its 85,000 students the opportunity to explore entrepreneurship as part of their university experience.
They also wanted colleges to help students to relate to the life of people in the villages of India through extensions of research and service.
He not only provides detailed explanations of the text all the way through (which providing lots of footnotes for those who want to research in more depth), but he also provides theological asides that help the student of Scripture see how the book influences our life and thinking today.
The initial duty in applied science, research, or teaching is to do the job well: to design an airplane wing that will hold under stress, to find a valid equation for chemical equilibrium, or to help students gain sound understanding of metabolism.
Instead, the teacher is basically a researcher who needs the student to help achieve the goal of research in a cooperative enterprise.
Before coming to Stanford, Yeager had taught English at a low - income school in Tulsa, and he was especially motivated to find ways to translate some of this innovative research into practices that could help teachers improve the lives of their students.
Independent research shows that a majority of American kids like healthier school lunches, the number of students that like their meals is growing, and that updated meal standards are working to help improve students» health.
Seattle, February 25, 2014 — Washington State's Zackery Lystedt law is helping to educate high school athletics coaches about concussions, but new research finds that 69 percent of student athletes that were surveyed still played with concussion symptoms.
The mission of the Free Communications and Research Committee (FCRC) is to encourage and facilitate the scholarly development of student and professional members of the Southwest Athletic Trainers» Association (SWATA) by providing an avenue for presentation and funding of their work, helping them to become well - rounded clinicians, and enhancing the evidence base within District Six.
For example, the science mentor a student needs to provide direction on how to finish a research project might not be the same one who can increase his or her awareness of interpersonal issues or who can help them conduct a successful job search, he says.
«I think it is very rare for a graduate student to have direct opportunity, so quickly out of graduate school, to see their research really be translated, able to help patients in a really, really, rapid way,» Kotterman says.
Together, these universities founded the Physics of Living Systems Student Research Network (PoLS - SRN) to help young scientists in the field meet each other, share training strategies, and locate potential research collaborations that could help set the agenda for the field in cominResearch Network (PoLS - SRN) to help young scientists in the field meet each other, share training strategies, and locate potential research collaborations that could help set the agenda for the field in cominresearch collaborations that could help set the agenda for the field in coming years.
These days, the research she conducts as an assistant professor of chemistry and biochemistry at San Francisco State University (SFSU) focuses less on advancing science and more on helping students advance — especially those from underrepresented groups.
One solution Menczer and his colleagues propose is rigorous research into the effectiveness of high school courses that help students recognize illegitimate new sources.
I attended the daylong «National Convocation on Revitalizing the University - Industry - Government Partnership in Support of Research in Science, Engineering, and Medicine» in hopes of learning about initiatives to help students and postdocs who are preparing to leave academe and find careers in those other, unfamiliar sectors.
Eventually there will be message boards and other types of social applications to help graduate students and established scientists with similar research interests find each other and coordinate virtual and in - person meet - ups.
Toward High School Biology is designed to align closely with a new set of science education standards, called the Next Generation Science Standards, which were developed with help from 26 states and organizations like AAAS and the National Research Council, in an effort to teach students to read scientific texts, analyze data and construct coherent explanations of scientific phenomena.
A classroom program that helps teachers adapt their interactions with students based on individuals» temperaments may lead to more student engagement in kindergarten, more teacher emotional support to kindergarten and first grade students, and better classroom organization and less off - task behavior in first - grade classes, according to research by NYU's Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development.
- Ruth L. Kirschstein NRSA Program for NIGMS MARC Predoctoral Fellowships (F31) Deadline: December 5, 2005 MARC Predoctoral Fellowships are individual National Research Service awards made to outstanding graduates of the MARC U * STAR Program (Minority Access to Research Careers / Undergraduate Student Training in Academic Research) to help them pursue a graduate degree in the biomedical sciences.
It is important that your laboratory work as a unit to maximize its research output; it helps to involve your students in as many aspects of the laboratory as possible.
Student Research Helps Discover Cancer Drugs Cancer drug design provided a challenging PhD dissertation topic for Almut Mecke, a physics student at University of MiStudent Research Helps Discover Cancer Drugs Cancer drug design provided a challenging PhD dissertation topic for Almut Mecke, a physics student at University of Mistudent at University of Michigan.
«The audience largely comprises the Cambridge PhD and postdoc research community, from anthropology to zoology, with some undergraduate students and also members of the local business community that helps with the networking mix,» explains Vyakarnam.
UK GRAD has been running residential training courses for research students for 35 years, and many have found it of great benefit in helping them to recognise and develop skills such as time management and team working.
«This app has the potential to help in the fight against HIV, tuberculosis and malaria in the developing world, bringing the concept of mobile healthcare to reality,» said Ali Yetisen, a PhD student in the Department of Chemical Engineering & Biotechnology, who led the research.
Overall, these students» time at ORNL has helped them to realize the potential richness of a research career.
«We applaud this latest achievement of our many Penn State scientists and students who have helped to build and are helping to develop this innovative new technology and its system of international collaboration among many research teams worldwide,» said Nicholas P. Jones, Penn State's Executive Vice President and Provost.
With the proper permits in hand, Cade — a Stanford University student who works at the Hopkins Marine Station in Pacific Grove, California — helped them outfit a dozen whales in the area with the research equivalent of a Go - Pro, a video camera that came with a motion detector and a depth finder.
SoundCitizen is still staffed by undergraduate students at the University of Washington, whose individual research topics help define the overall scientific aims of the program.
In research published last year with one of her graduate students, Katherine Motyl, she tested whether leptin could help mice avert the bone loss that can accompany type 1 diabetes.
Many colleges, including small ones, have internal pots of money to help support research projects and student research experiences.
She now holds the title of University Distinguished Professor of Psychology, juggling two research groups — she is also affiliated with the Psychiatric Neuroimaging Research Program and the Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging at nearby Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH)-- and helping her graduate students and postdocs launch their own research groups — she is also affiliated with the Psychiatric Neuroimaging Research Program and the Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging at nearby Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH)-- and helping her graduate students and postdocs launch their own Research Program and the Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging at nearby Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH)-- and helping her graduate students and postdocs launch their own careers.
He went to New York University in New York City, where he researched the effectiveness of The Geometer's Sketchpad software, which helps students of all ages learn mathematics.
Being a responsible student, maintaining an interest in school and having good reading and writing skills will not only help a teenager get good grades in high school but could also be predictors of educational and occupational success decades later, regardless of IQ, parental socioeconomic status or other personality factors, according to research published by the American Psychological Association.
II: Saving the Kingdom of Fivealot, researchers from the United States Department of Agriculture / Agricultural Research Service Children's Nutrition Research Center at Baylor College of Medicine and Texas Children's Hospital evaluated how creating implementation intentions (i.e., specific plans) within the goal - setting component in the game helped fourth and fifth grade students improve fruit and vegetable intake at specific meals.
The program offers courses and mentoring to teams of researchers and MBA students to help them turn research results into business opportunities.
What this meant to me was not to micromanage my team, but instead to have frequent, positive, and productive discussions with each of my team member so that I could better guide them and not let the research stop as a result of a student getting stuck and not wanting to ask for help.
Mary Carskadon, Ph.D., director of the Bradley Hospital Sleep Research Laboratory, commented on Orzech's study, «We have long been examining the sleep cycles of teenagers and how we might be able to help adolescents — especially high school students — be better rested and more functional in a period of their lives where sleep seems to be a luxury.»
Many of these scientists are still alive, no doubt some are retired but many must still be there, at their labs, conducting their seminars, beavering away at their research, preparing lecture notes, helping their graduate students with their PhD theses.
The idea behind the measure is to help attract foreign students to France and to better prepare French students for a globalized world, the Ministry of Higher Education and Research explained in a document accompanying the new draft bill, which was presented by science minister Geneviève Fioraso on 20 March.
Three and a bit years later, I had changed from postgrad to postdoc and found myself helping to organise congresses, supervising students, dabbling in lecturing, and also continuing my own esoteric line of research.
Aside from the satisfaction of nurturing students who go on to excel in their chosen field, mentoring helps to establish junior faculty within the scientific community, attract and retain new students, and generate consistently good research.
► In an editorial in this week's issue, Science Editor - in - Chief Marcia McNutt gave an update on Science in the Classroom, «an online resource of annotated research papers published in Science, with associated teaching materials designed to help pre-college and college students understand how science moves forward as a structured way of revealing the laws of nature.»
According to new research, the aid system must be redesigned to earn the trust of students and their families and to help them believe that it can make college affordable.
When Wells first forged a relationship with Brookfield, he had the choice of continuing as a single - handed researcher or leveraging his work with help from graduate students who had been exposed to the research literature and field techniques.
Dangl, who worked with lead authors, postdoctoral researchers Gabriel Castrillo and Paulo José Pereira Lima Teixeira, graduate student Sur Herrera Paredes and research analyst Theresa F. Law, found evidence that soil bacteria can make use of this tradeoff between nutrient - seeking and immune defense, potentially to help establish symbiotic relationships with plants.
For example, he says, it's not clear how the student experience of taking a course compares to being mentored one - on - one, or whether a research experience helps students learn how to interpret scientific data.
Schools should use both ability grouping and acceleration to help academically talented students, reports a new Northwestern University study that examined a century of research looking at the controversial subject.
A 1998 report from the National Research Council recommended that the Ph.D. remain a research - intensive degree but added that «graduate programs should expand their efforts to help students learn about the diversity of career opportunities open to them, and university departments should examine possible alternatives to the research Ph.DResearch Council recommended that the Ph.D. remain a research - intensive degree but added that «graduate programs should expand their efforts to help students learn about the diversity of career opportunities open to them, and university departments should examine possible alternatives to the research Ph.Dresearch - intensive degree but added that «graduate programs should expand their efforts to help students learn about the diversity of career opportunities open to them, and university departments should examine possible alternatives to the research Ph.Dresearch Ph.D.»
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