Sentences with phrase «in the hands of students at»

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Decades later, the students of Marjory Stoneman Douglas High in Parkland, Fla., filmed their own horrific attack at the hands of a heavily armed former student.

In fact, Paypal's magic hand can be felt throughout Palantir's own structure — whether it's through Thiel's outsized influence in providing $ 40 million of seed money and guidance, or Lonsdale's own internship at the payments company while he was still a student at StanforIn fact, Paypal's magic hand can be felt throughout Palantir's own structure — whether it's through Thiel's outsized influence in providing $ 40 million of seed money and guidance, or Lonsdale's own internship at the payments company while he was still a student at Stanforin providing $ 40 million of seed money and guidance, or Lonsdale's own internship at the payments company while he was still a student at Stanford.

For example, our Institute for Sustainable Investing helps develop the next generation of long - term - oriented business leaders, in partnership with INSEAD and the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University, challenging teams of graduate students from around the world to demonstrate how investing can go hand - in - hand with positive social impact.

«What happened in Iguala» — the site of the students» disappearance, allegedly at the hands of crooked cops, acting in cahoots with a cartel — «was a tragedy, and we get the butt of it,» says Robyn Sydney, an Acapulco resident and well - known environmentalist.

On the other hand, the presence of religious leaders and the prevalence of religious practices at the colleges allow students to discover or rediscover faith in ways that inspire them to practice it.

It's all happening — what next — prayer times set aside for Muslim students during school, wash basins like at University of Minnesota so they don't try to wash their feet before praying in the school basins for washing hands, demands for special cafeteria food, demands that girls cover their heads, then faces, then disappear from school altogether, wake up New York and hold on to our great city before they knock down the rest of the buildings!

Every year more and more students approach me at the end of the semester to confess that they have one or an - other psychiatric problem that is beyond their control, and to insist that because they are clinically depressed, bipolar or have attention deficit disorder they must be given extra weeks to hand in their work.

That's how I felt about this video, in which Kirk Cameron describes his plan to sneak creationist material into the front of a 150th Anniversary Edition of Charles Darwin's Origin of the Species and hand it out to students at 50 universities around the country.

Like his more speculative contemporary Ptolemy, a moderate Gnostic teacher, he undoubtedly thought of himself as standing in «the apostolic tradition» in a «succession» of teachers.24 Like pagan teachers and rabbis, Justin laid hands upon the head of each disciple on the completion of the course.25 At his trial, Justin, philosopher - prophet - teacher, describes the «school» where he has been teaching for the examining prefect, who will presently put him and several of his students to death.

The Miami case is embarrassing, but so is the 2012 Penn State case, the Reggie Bush USC sanctions, the separation of agents from their future clients, the random declarations of ineligibility, the year waiting period between transfers, the regulation of student - athlete endorsements and use of their own likenesses in products, the rules governing recruiting at any level, and a hundred other daily absurdities fostered by the need to keep money out of the hands of those who earn it.

He started writing the blog One - Handed Grab in 2009 following requests from a professor and a fellow graduate student at the University of Hawai'i at Manoa after they talked way more about football than political science.

A special moment saw television pundit and Arsenal legend Thierry Henry try his hand at acting, and surprised one young schoolgirl, disguising himself in a dress and glasses, to present her with the «Sky Sport Living for Sport Student of the Year for Wales» award.

During each lunch period for fourth -, fifth - and sixth - graders, a group of at least 10 students stood in front of Van Wey's table while she quizzed them on what vegetables she brought and handed out tiny plastic cups filled with samples of everything she and her husband, Matt Van Wey, grow at Quackenbush Farm, 2112 N.E. 189th St.

A new program, spreading throughout the state, is putting the tools to fight obesity in the hands of students and staff at school.

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A quick show of hands reveals that half of the students in Nancy Herrera's eighth - period health class for girls at Amundsen High School have friends their own age with at least one child.

Although this decision to exclude Sarah from circle time appears to wrongly shame her, one of her teachers demonstrated both compassion and insight to see that this form of physical structure — sitting on the chair at the table — with an activity to calm her mind and busy her hands — coloring — in fact enabled Sarah to participate fully in their discussions and add to it with more intelligent, creative contributions than most of the other students.

Whether you were a child in grade school or a university student, summer meant freedom from study and responsibility, the opportunity to work a job and have plenty of disposable income at hand, or even just to laze about all summer enjoying your life of irresponsibility and freedom.

Liam Pape is a 15 - year - old student at Darlington School of Mathematics and Science and was on the editorial team of their «Branksome Bugle», who in March 2011 handed in a petition on smoking in cars at 10 Downing Street with the British Lung Foundation.

When we were doing the tour, at the University of Albany, this young man, who actually I saw when we went to Cuba [on tour with other state leaders], he was a SUNY Albany student who was studying abroad in Cuba, he handed me a bag with a bunch of thank you cards in it.

«Yet, after seeing what he students at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School experiences last month at the hands of a man who should have not been able to obtain a gun and after having to shelter in place in my own school because of the threat of gun violence I've begun to stand up to protect my future,» Lily said.

He, however, advised the students to» handle their reservations for increase in some fees payable in their institutions with maturity, sense of responsibility and reality of the situation at hand».

Competing in an American Parliamentary Debate Association tournament late last month at Smith College, the Cardozo law student launched into an impassioned plea for the teaching of masturbation in sex - ed classes, outlining his plan to extend a helping hand to frustrated kids and touching on more general themes in the field («a friend of mine just got chlamydia,» he says in an aside at one point).

The World of Inquiry fund supports the hands - on, experiential learning of students at World of Inquiry School, a kindergarten through 12th - grade school in the Rochester City School District.

International Affairs, Volume 88, No. 2 This is a book, which one hopes will be published in paperback so that many students of British politics can have it close at hand.

Matthew Levy, once a graduate student of Miller's and now a molecular biologist at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine in New York City, recalls being handed one of the 25 - year - old samples to work on.

As a graduate student in paleobiology at UC Davis, Farmer had developed an interest in studying the paleoecology and preservation potential of fossils, something that would lie largely dormant over the next decade while he tried his hand at other things.

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.

To date, he has mentored more than 40 high school and undergraduate students, mainly through the annual iGEM competition in which students try their hands at synthetic biology under the supervision of senior researchers.

At a meeting in Western Canada between the directors of the NSERC and some 170 researchers and graduate students, a young physicist asked members of the audience to give their opinion about collaborative grants by a show of hands.

Through the fMRI brain scans, the study revealed the striatum of students without ADHD to be much more active in anticipation of the reward, potentially helping to focus onto the task at hand knowing reward was likely to follow.

Trained first in astrophysics, Horodyskyj is now a graduate student at the University of Colorado Boulder, a school where rock climbing and glaciology go hand in hand.

Matt Friedman, a graduate student at the University of Chicago in the US, has stumbled across a unique fossil that reveals how the coelacanth evolved its fins — previously considered to be close relatives of the hands and feet of land animals.

He was a genius who invented calculus as a student at Cambridge during a 1665 outbreak of plague but failed to publish his findings; an egotist who would later covertly convene a committee to accuse his rival Gottfried Leibniz, an independent originator of calculus, of plagiarism; and a heretic who rejected the Trinity but was deeply religious (one fascinating document on display is his hand - drawn reconstruction of Solomon's Temple in Jerusalem, based on biblical units of measurement).

Out of the 777 marketing students studied over a five - year period, 86.1 per cent waited until the last 24 hours to hand in their work at only a slight cost on average score against early submitters at 64.04 compared to 64.32.

The academics believe spotting «procrastinators» who hand in work at the last minute early on and warning them of the dangers of the habit could help students achieve higher grades.

Students at schools equipped with soap and water, instead of sanitizer, were 1.3 times more likely to wash their hands during simultaneous video surveillance and in - person observation when compared with periods of in - person observation alone.

At Science Buddies, we believe in the power of hands - on STEM exploration for all students.

More than 40 college students pursuing careers in physics, engineering and computer science are spending their summer at the U.S. Department of Energy's Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory working with scientists and engineers on hands - on research projects.

Students in the cancer biology program participate in courses at the University of Sciences and The Wistar Institute and engage in hands - on training at Wistar's Molecular Screening and Protein Expression Facility.

On Fair Day, students spend the whole school day at the Observatory and participate in hands - on activities and demos, as well as having their projects judged of course!

A new graduate program in Earth and Environmental Sciences at Tohoku University will give students the opportunity to witness some of these phenomena first hand.

That is why at our massage school, nearly 80 percent of class hours are dedicated to our students to practice massaging other students, receiving massage, and observing the teacher demonstrate how to massage.The remaining 20 percent of class hours are spent discussing the theory of Raynor massage and other subjects such as hygiene, professional ethics, contraindications, the theory of hand and foot reflexology and the qualities of different aromatherapy oils, which are covered in the Diploma course.

One is the «Mysore style» method in which students in the class work independently at their own level of proficiency with hands on assistance from one or more teachers.

From that, the rest of the film follows, for there is no broadly, easily villainous type present in the film at all, whether student, faculty, administrator, or even parent; thus the focus more clearly and cleanly zeroes in on the central idea at hand: that the two are their own worst enemies, and they need to get over themselves to be awakened to what's truly worthwhile in their lives and in life as a whole.

Baumbach nails those first, flop - sweaty days of college with a spot - on montage: Tracy, overcome by buffet abundance, piling her dining hall tray with both pizza and cereal; Tracy vulnerably dropping her stapled short story into a wall - mounted file holder at the student literary mag; Tracy self - quashing a nascent crush when she spots the boy holding hands with someone else in the quad.

(In Turkish with subtitles) A Wink and a Smile (Unrated) Ecdysiast documentary about ten ordinary women from different walks of life (including a doctor, a housewife, an opera singer and a college student) who take a six - week course in striptease at Seattle's Academy of Burlesque before trying their hand, I mean feet, at exotic dancing onstagIn Turkish with subtitles) A Wink and a Smile (Unrated) Ecdysiast documentary about ten ordinary women from different walks of life (including a doctor, a housewife, an opera singer and a college student) who take a six - week course in striptease at Seattle's Academy of Burlesque before trying their hand, I mean feet, at exotic dancing onstagin striptease at Seattle's Academy of Burlesque before trying their hand, I mean feet, at exotic dancing onstage.

«Our film tells the story of Nathan, a young student in the city who struggles to forget his childhood trauma at the hands of the serial killer dubbed «The Sandman»: a masked killer who murders his victims with a lethally jagged melon spoon (yes, you read that right!)

One of its strongest assets is its cast, with superior actors in the leading roles: Cumberbatch as Steven Strange, the brilliant and arrogant New York surgeon whose reason for existence is cut short by a horrific car crash... Tilda Swinton as a mystic known as the Ancient One who is willing to lead him to enlightenment in Kathmandu if only he will subjugate his inflated ego... Chiwetel Ejiofor as her faithful follower and right hand man... Benedict Wong as the guardian of the library where the accumulated secrets of their sect are stored... and Mads Mikkelsen as the brilliant student gone rogue who may soon destroy the earth, one major city at a time.

Jesse Eisenberg does his overeager pup thing as Ben's student chaperone on a campus visit and for a while the dynamic recalls his breakthrough role in Roger Dodger, with Douglas handing out the dubious advice on dating and sexual politics, but in this case he's just another slice of youth that Ben uses to convince himself he's still young at heart while simultaneously building his ego as the charmer of an elder statesman holding court.