Sentences with phrase «in science at»

Morley completed an undergraduate degree in science at the University of Toronto and a master's degree and doctorate from Tufts University in Boston.

American students also make up 25 percent of the world's top students in science at age 15, followed by Japan at 13 percent.

Since 2008, states must also test students in science at least once in elementary, middle, and high school.

It similarly extends the mandate for statewide tests in science at least once in grade spans 3 — 5, 6 — 9, and 10 — 12.

Getting kids involved in science at an early age helps develop critical thinking skills and an appreciation for the natural world.

Private school students did do a bit better in science at 508, surpassing the international average of 501.

This report confirms that there is an attainment gap in science at every stage: it is apparent at the end of Key Stage 1 and gets wider throughout primary and secondary education, with the gap growing particularly strongly between the ages of 5 - 7 and 11 - 16.

The Dynamic Learning Maps assessment measures the academic progress of students with significant cognitive disabilities in the subject areas of ELA and mathematics at grades 3 - 11, in science at grades 4 and 8 - 11, and in social studies at grades 4, 8, and 10.

«That was keeping them from engaging in science at all.»

Silburn says stability has been an important part of the growing student interest in science at the school.

She has completed studies at Tufts University, FIU, BCMT and has continued her education in science at Front Range Community College.

Damon Runyon - Walter Winchell Postdoctoral Fellowship National Institutes of Health Postdoctoral Fellowship McKnight Scholars Award in Neuroscience NIH Research Career Development Award McKnight Foundation Development Award R. P. Doherty - Welch Chair in Science at Baylor College of Medicine Student Choice Award in Teaching at Baylor College of Medicine Michael E. DeBakey Excellence in Research Award Academic Career Leadership Award McKnight Neuroscience of Brain Disorders Award NARSAD Distinguished Investigator Award Ellison Medical Foundation Senior Scholar in Aging

One faculty advisor wrote that he has «no doubt that she will continue in science at the highest level after her [undergraduate] degree,» describing her as «an extraordinary person; bright and modest, with an ambition to be the best.»

Noggin recently teamed up with three inspiring partners, NIH BUILD EXITO and the Equity & Empowerment Corps (EEC) at Portland State University, and the Alliance for Visible Diversity in Science at OHSU.

(laughs) How did you get so interested in science at this stage?

Now I'm not about to discard my 10 - year investment in science at this, the first financial discontinuity I have faced.

Over the past 40 years, however, society has gradually begun to accept, if not embrace, the notion of the female biologist, mathematician or engineer, and the number of women in science at all levels has increased dramatically.

He spent 4 years as European news editor in Science's office in Cambridge, U.K., during which he also served as Visiting Writer in Science at the University of Cambridge, and 5 years as Asia news editor in Beijing.

In explaining the increasingly important role that the science community will play in determining the progress of international efforts toward sustainable development and climate stability, Lovász pointed out that the majestically ornate Hungarian Academy of Sciences neo-Renaissance palace in which the WSF was held was built entirely with public donations 150 years ago, «which illustrates the trust that Hungarian society from the nobility to poor farmworkers had in science at that time.»

It's counterintuitive to some, but in my opinion the best preparation for a faculty position in science at an elite liberal arts college is a good, productive Ph.D. followed by a research postdoc.

Paul Davies is director of BEYOND: Center for Fundamental Concepts in Science at Arizona State University and author of The Eerie Silence: Renewing Our Search for Alien Intelligence (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2010).

Committee on Women Faculty in the School of Science, A study on the status of women faculty in science at MIT.

(You can read it in Science at http://scim.ag/EuropePostdoc.)

In one of those stories, «Self - correction in science at work,» Bruce Alberts and co-authors wrote that «[w] e believe that incentives should be changed so that scholars are rewarded for publishing well rather than often.

Reviewer Erin Dolan of the Institute for Discovery Education in Science at the University of Texas, Austin, wrote that «[m] any studies and multiple meta - analyses... have shown that students in online courses realize the same, if not better, outcomes as compared to students in face - to - face courses.

At a recent event at Columbia University, hosted by the organization Women in Science at Columbia, I told my story and passed along lessons I've learned about how people — especially women — can make the most of their lives and careers.

Another important skill that I developed was networking with non — African - Americans majoring in science at my institution.

«I think that science is a very international pursuit and I think that as Canadians pursue excellence in science at home, opportunity to pursue excellence in science globally goes hand in hand,» he suggests.

I felt that Dr. Platz was sincere in his desire to see all of us excel in the program, and I respect him for talking with us about this issue — particularly because as I moved through graduate school, I began to realize that retaining minorities in science at majority schools is very difficult and, in fact, a serious problem in this country.

Biology had been a source of fascination for me from a very early age, and I pursued this interest as an undergraduate in science at York University in Toronto.

«In the score - keeping that scientists do, first author is the most coveted slot,» says Janet Stemwedel, who teaches ethics in science at San José State University in California and writes the Adventures in Ethics and Science blog.

We will give you examples of projects for the theme on our blogs and in our Science at Home video series.

Even more telling, 43 percent of our graduates major in science at the college level, and 89 percent of Waldorf graduates say they are satisfied with their choice of occupation.

Thanks for joining us for our next episode in our Science at Home video series.

Thanks for joining us for the next episode in our Science at Home video series.

For the latest episode in the Science at Home video series, I showed everyone how to make a cloud in a jar.

I was carefully trained in science at what is considered one of the top ten public universities in the USA; part of that training included inculcating a very healthy dose of skepticism, ESPECIALLY regarding claims of science.

Leslie Wickman is director of the Center for Research in Science at Azusa Pacific University.

What most people use as theory is in science at best a hypothesis.

In the sciences at universities, you need to prove that you are an «excellent» scholar — so find out what that means.

In the sciences at key stage three sustainability education occurs through the following topics: nutrition and digestion; health; relationships in an ecosystem; Earth and atmosphere; energy and matter.

Not exact matches

For the intrepid and diehard curious, the dispute at the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office is an extraordinary lesson in the complexity of academic science.

Thomas Thurston, the founder of Growth Science in Portland, Ore., has spent the last seven years building databases and algorithms aimed at finding commonalities between businesses that thrive and fail.

After a downturn in violence in the early years after the turn of the century, deaths related to Mexican drug wars totaled 121,669 between 2006 and 2012, according to a recent report from the Justice in Mexico project at the University of California - San Diego's Department of Politic Science and International Relations.

Canada's richest woman was a political science and economics student at the University of Toronto in the 1960s.

He worked at the now defunct Rocket Science Games in the 1990s, helping to develop at least three titles, Kotaku reports.

Pernilla Wittung - Stafshede, a professor and division head of chemical biology at Chalmers University in Gothenburg, Sweden, was surprised when she returned to Sweden and found that there was still an imbalance in gender in the sciences in Sweden.

«There are other countries that are looking at the need to develop science and technology — innovation — in their kids,» says Reni Barlow, head of Youth Science science and technology — innovation — in their kids,» says Reni Barlow, head of Youth Science Science Canada.

At Harvey Mudd College, the Claremont, California - based institution where Klawe became president in 2006, a full half of students who graduate with degrees in computer science, engineering, and physics are women.

«The vast majority of women who show up at Harvey Mudd didn't expect to want to major in computer science,» said Klawe.