Sentences with phrase «last research student»

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The Integrative Semester, completed in the last term, allows students to demonstrate what they've learned through a capstone project, such as a major research paper, or through a work placement.

For the last five months, Carin's research team — composed of two graduate students and two post-doctoral students — has been working closely with Smiths Detection Inc. to «demonstrate feasibility» as part of phase one of the project.

That will provide the context for turning finally in the last two chapters to what makes the school's curriculum a course of study rather than a clutch of courses, what it can do to and for its students, to and for congregations, and to and for traditions of academic research.

Research conducted last year by my former graduate student, David Yeager [now a professor at the University of Texas], on 18,000 students entering ninth grade, shows us that students who took growth - mindset workshops are seeking more challenges.

Last year, research involving thousands of elementary school students, and published in the February 2009 issue of Pediatrics, demonstrated an association between daily recess and better classroom behavior as reported by teachers.

A «study» commissioned last year by the dairy industry, and performed by a company that conducts marketing research for corporate food clients, suggested that 35 percent fewer elementary school students drank milk when flavored milk was removed from the cafeteria.

It drew on new research by Caitlin Daniel, a doctoral student at Harvard, who last week wrote her own New York Times op - ed on her study's findings, «A Hidden Cost to Giving Kids Their Vegetables.»

Last year the ESRC spent # 212 million on research and training to support over 5,700 researchers and students, funding excellent independent social science research in universities and research institutions across the UK and with 62 countries around the world.

Last year, Bennington College and Hoosick Falls High School students began researching their regions» similar PFOA contaminations in an effort to calm community concern.

Since then, the Ameer lab has mushroomed from one person last year to two postdocs, six graduate students, five undergraduates, a research associate, and a personal assistant from various disciplines, races, and nationalities.

The Network Training Program, which began last September, offers awards to three categories of scientists: postdocs, graduate students, and research students.

Last month, the joint team was awarded a National Science Foundation (NSF) grant of $ 591,622 for a 2 - year research project involving 300 students, with and without disabilities, at seven institutions, including three colleges for the blind.

Last month, UC Berkeley opened the Faculty Center for Leadership in Educational Access and Diversity to support graduate students and faculty members who want to conduct research aimed at increasing diversity in their disciplines.

On the last day of formal plenary talks at the 62nd Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting, the laureates dispensed several lessons while describing their research experiences to the attending students, from developing expertise to enduring in the face of doubt.

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.

Because of the way research groups are structured, the group leader is not always the senior author: A specific research project may be carried out by a Ph.D. student supervised by another permanent scientist who may have little or no available funding but who may nevertheless request last authorship on the publication.

The murder of two students in Colombia last week near a manatee study site — possibly by paramilitary gangsters — sent a chill through the local research community, highlighting dangers to field workers in the strife - torn country.

The findings are described in a paper published last month in the American Educational Research Journal titled «The Influence of Teachers» Knowledge on Student Learning in Middle - School Physical Science Classrooms.»

The last 15 years have seen students starting research at younger and younger ages, Doyle says.

«As luck would have it, that was the first gene I tried, and that was the last gene I tried,» said Ubil, who conducted the research as a graduate student in the laboratory of former UNC faculty member and senior study author Arjun Deb, MD..

Greg Wood may still be a Ph.D. student, but last week his research was published in nearly every national newspaper in England.

Last week, the Confédération des Etudiants - Chercheurs (CEC), which represents about 3000 research students, chose the Finance Ministry for its first ever demonstration.

Along with some 2500 Korean students who received advanced degrees last year in science and engineering, she was seeking her first research job just as the country's economy took a nose dive and thousands of workers were being laid off.

students completing their research projects in our lab; my Ph.D. student passing his first - year review; my first last - author papers getting published; my lab members presenting their work at international conferences; and winning intramural funding for my research.

In a new paper published this week in the research journal Scientific Reports, USF geochemistry Professor Bogdan Onac and PhD student Daniel Cleary report that isotopes found in bat guano over the last 1,200 years can provide scientists with information on how the climate was and is changing.

Last week, from 12 to 13 November 2001, more than 200 life scientists, clinicians, postgraduate students, and teachers gathered at the Clinical Research Centre at the National University of Singapore to share their research findings and to discuss science funding, education, and tResearch Centre at the National University of Singapore to share their research findings and to discuss science funding, education, and tresearch findings and to discuss science funding, education, and training.

His lasting dream of a more diverse and well - prepared scientific workforce is being achieved through the numerous people he mentored, especially the many current and former MARC students who are pursuing research careers.

Last month, Doug Wiens, PhD, professor of earth and planetary science at Washington University in St. Louis, and two WUSTL students were cruising the tropical waters of the western Pacific above the Mariana trench aboard the research vessel Thomas G. Thompson.

On the last day of the program, the students volunteered to give presentations of their research papers in English at JAO.

«As luck would have it, that was the first gene I tried, and that was the last gene I tried,» said Ubil, who conducted this research as a graduate student in the laboratory of senior study author Arjun Deb, MD, a former faculty member in the Department of Cell Biology and Physiology.

Shaw, who is also a senior research fellow at the Center for Computational Biology and Bioinformatics at Columbia University, spoke to a packed auditorium of Columbia Engineering students last spring about how the development of high - speed simulations is making possible insights into human biology that could lead to better understanding of protein behavior and to improvements in drug discovery.

For most of these, there's nothing that can be done; however, if the last one is known to be the problem, you can send the potential mentor to the Mentoring & Coaching Advanced High School Student Research page on the Science Buddies website.

I spend the last weekend at a conference put together by the International Association of Yoga Therapists and listened to the medical professionals and yoga therapists share their research and experience working with students with heart disease, cancer, diabetes and many others.

Last fall, one of Sheldon's students, Katherine Bryant, conducted research and wrote an undergraduate thesis about mobile and online dating.

Like a student rushing to finish a research project, recklessly jamming every last bit of information they can on the page, hoping it will make them look more informed than they are, the choice of what to include in the film is simply dumbfounding.

A new national competition to judge high school students» research projects on epidemiology — the branch of medical science that investigates the spread and control of diseases — took place in Washington last week.

We have already collected results from almost 6,000 K - 12 students and teachers from 80 different schools during last spring's research.

Benefits to School Life Looking at the lasting impact of LOtC experiences in terms of academic performance, Learning Away's recent research found that school trips resulted in higher academic achievement, with 61 per cent of students achieving higher than their predicted grade following a school trip based on the subject area.

The findings, which were released here last week during the annual meeting of the American Educational Research Association, are part of a larger research effort sponsored by the National Science Foundation to explore how the organization of schools and classrooms affects student achiResearch Association, are part of a larger research effort sponsored by the National Science Foundation to explore how the organization of schools and classrooms affects student achiresearch effort sponsored by the National Science Foundation to explore how the organization of schools and classrooms affects student achievement.

According to two reports released today by the Australian Council for Educational Research (ACER)-- TIMSS 2015: Reporting Australia's results and PISA 2015: Reporting Australia's results --- the gap between advantaged and disadvantaged students has barely narrowed over the last 15 years.

These students are in classrooms in most school systems — and face some of the steepest odds for graduating from high school — yet only one - third of district - level leaders believe educators in their schools are prepared to effectively teach English - learners, according to an Education Week Research Center survey from late last year.

While a student at the Ed School, she served as a student representative during the last Harvard president search and as an editor on the Harvard Educational Review, not to mention the seven part - time jobs, including her current ones: as a research assistant and «go - to person» for Professor Tom Kane and his Center for Education Policy Research and as a project manager for Professor Bridget Terresearch assistant and «go - to person» for Professor Tom Kane and his Center for Education Policy Research and as a project manager for Professor Bridget TerResearch and as a project manager for Professor Bridget Terry Long.

Teacher evaluations came into focus in 2009 alongside a growing research consensus that teacher quality has dramatic, long - lasting impacts on student success.

Research studies in the last decade have indicated that instructional coaching can have a transformational impact on teacher and student growth.

We do think we know about our learners and we make a lot of assumptions and during the last five years that I've been doing action research, if you actually stop and really investigate what students are saying, thinking, feeling, their knowledge, then your action research is going to have such a big impact.

Washington — The «modified» ability tests that may decide whether a physically handicapped student graduates from high school or is accepted by a college do not and can not comply fully with federal regulations designed to prevent discrimination against the handicapped, according to a report issued here last week by the National Research Council, the research branch of the National Academy of ScienceResearch Council, the research branch of the National Academy of Scienceresearch branch of the National Academy of Sciences (nas).

Have students conduct research on changes in the farming industry in your area, explore how changes in the industry have affected the average lifestyle over the last 30 years, collect oral histories from elders who have historical perspective, build a math lesson on supply and demand, check out the demographic statistics.

Last year, my students engaged in rich research as they worked on their animal reports.

Have the last 50 years of education research led us to fundamentally different conclusions about the impact of teachers on the educational achievement of students?

Meanwhile, Cornell research scientist David Weinstein hopes to involve students in BudBreak, a project that began last spring to increase understanding of the relationship between plants and global warming in central New York.