Sentences with phrase «leave university behind»

It's time to leave university behind you and to enter the world of work.

Its hard to leave university behind - where there are countless opportunities.

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If and when the Rams and Chargers leave, other pro teams in St. Louis and San Diego stand to draw some of the cash they leave behind, said John Vrooman, a Vanderbilt University sports economist.

A Northern Ireland university has rejected calls for a new film about people who say they left behind homosexual lifestyles to be screened at its premises.

A MAN doesn't go off to some university and leave his wife and the children behind.

An ordained minister with four early Georgia pastorates behind him, Outler is a duly educated (Yale, Ph.D., 1938) professor of theology who taught at Duke and Yale before leaving his stamp and seal on Southern Methodist University.

For example, the land - grant universities that were established to promote agriculture quickly left farmers behind, and even as they advanced research programs in the service of science and technology they contributed to the demise of farming as a way of life.

A Northern Ireland university has rejected calls for a new film about people who say they left behind... More

I suspect our university joins in these events primarily because we want desperately not to be left behind.

Nottingham University academic Matthew Goodwin has identified the typical profile of Ukip voters as blue - collar, struggling and left behind by the mainstream parties.

Old, white, impoverished males — once the people who decided elections — have been left behind, becoming little more than spectators of a political battlefield now dominated by a university - trained metropolitan elite.

For every one child that might successfully make it through a grammar school and go on to university there will be many more left behind at the local secondary believing they weren't good enough.

The teenager says she thought that going away to California for college (at Santa Clara University, where she is an environmental studies major) would help her leave her troubles behind, but instead, her use of alcohol and marijuana only intensified.

Perched on a leather sofa in a downtown Toronto office, his host, a wealthy businessman, uncorked a $ 7,000 bottle of wine and outlined the multimillion - dollar offer: leave behind his research position at McMaster University's Ancient DNA Centre in Ontario and work full time to bring the extinct woolly mammoth back to life.

Thinking back, the weather was definitely not a factor in my decision to leave Germany behind for a few years so that I could matriculate as a PhD student at the University of Cambridge in England.

Experiments and simulations by Marc Prat at the University of Toulouse in France and colleagues show how salty water evaporating from the pores in these materials leaves behind patches of salt crystals that grow into towers rather than a uniform film.

And their geologically abrupt disappearance makes them the perfect fossil to mark the end of the Ordovician, or so think geologists like Jan Zalasiewicz of the University of Leicester who has spent much of his professional life studying the beautiful shapes left behind by these long - gone animals.

Because scientists [Noah Fierera et al] at the University of Colorado in Boulder have been able to identify individuals based on the bacteria they leave behind on their computers.

In a new study, Stuart Thomson, a geologist at the University of Arizona (UA) in Tucson, looked into the past by decoding sands deposited by the river, and the messy piles left behind by the glacier.

By analyzing shark scavenging behavior, the University of Florida's C.A. Pound Human Identification Laboratory identified which marks were left behind by sharks, what species of sharks made the marks and where the feedings might have occurred.

«The temporary research staff will be the first to be left behind, just not hired anymore» once their contracts run out, says Marcella Ravaglia, a 32 - year - old postdoctoral computational chemist at the University of Ferrara who is also an RNRP member.

Science chatted with Jan Zalasiewicz, a paleontologist at the University of Leicester in the United Kingdom and a leading scholar on the Anthropocene, about the kinds of things humans are leaving behind — and what they'll look like millions of years hence.

Which is why, this month, we've invited some of these behind - the - scenes employees of universities and research institutes, all of them with advanced degrees in science — to tell you what they do, why they chose to leave hands - on research to others, and how they took the step onto an alternative academic path.

In a terse paper posted online on September 29, Andrew Cohen and Sheldon Glashow of Boston University calculated that any neutrinos traveling faster than light would lose energy after emitting, and leaving behind, a trail of slower particles that would be absorbed by the earth's crust.

Geochemist Nicholas Tosca of Harvard University and his colleagues calculated the salinity of long - gone waters from the composition of the salts left behind both at Meridiani Planum, where the Opportunity rover found the remains of salty groundwater, and at Gusev crater, where Spirit found volcano - related hydrothermal deposits.

For the ancient DNA analysis, the team used methods pioneered by paleogeneticist Eske Willerslev of the University of Copenhagen to recover and sequence genetic material left behind in sediments even after the plants that originally contained it have disintegrated.

So some PFOA molecules get left behind, says study coauthor William Dichtel, a chemist at Northwestern University in Evanston, Ill..

The story of the most famous problem in mathematics, Fermat's Last Theorem, has all the ingredients of a real - life treasure hunt: a cryptic note left behind by the French mathematician Pierre de Fermat; a sizable reward offered by a German physician in his 1906 will; finally, a solution found in 1994 by the reserved Princeton University mathematician, Andrew Wiles.

«The hope behind something like this capsule is that the surgeon will be able to place it inside the body through an existing incision and leave it in a position where it can be easily grasped and used to map out the stiffness or density of the tissue when needed, much like he or she would palpate it with by hand in open surgery,» said collaborator S. Duke Herrell, associate professor of urologic surgery at Vanderbilt University School of Medicine.

He went back to Montana State University to finish a degree he had left behind for 40 years.

He also works at the Center for Ocean Solutions at Stanford University in Palo Alto, Calif. «Traces of DNA are left behind by every species everywhere,» he says.

But the rocks the fiery mountains leave behind may be exactly that, according to scientists at Columbia University.

In 2007, researchers at St. Louis University School of Medicine found that people who spend a lot of time behind the wheel tend to develop more skin cancers on the left side of their heads, necks, and arms — the side nearest the drivers window.

I left an Arizona farm life behind, and after unfulfilling years in several universities I realized the world...

Segel and Emily Blunt play Tom and Violet, a San Francisco couple whose marriage plans are postponed when Violet gets into a two - year graduate program at the University of Michigan and Tom accompanies her, leaving behind a promising career as a chef.

In this dance - by - number plot, an African American youth named DJ (Columbus Short) leaves his troubled life in LA behind after he is given the opportunity to attend an Atlanta university.

Unparalleled Reports from the Civil Rights Project at Harvard University Examine Landmark Public Education Act Today, the Civil Rights Project at Harvard University (CRP) releases the findings of a four - part study examining the landmark No Child Left Behind (NCLB) Act through its first year of implementation (2002 - 2003).

So they had a real issue with the retention of students in those courses, and when they dug deeper into the reasons behind that — and one of the other universities actually did a separate project on it — they identified «walking points», which were points where a student was more likely to leave the course and walk away.

China's reforms, however, contrast starkly with those occurring in the United States under the No Child Left Behind Act, according to Hua Zhang, a professor of curriculum studies at East China Normal University, who was recently a Fulbright Visiting Scholar at HGSE.

But most often, teachers left behind worksheets, quizzes, and videos for him to monitor, amounting to what University of Washington professor Marguerite Roza calls «a lost day for most kids, regardless of the qualifications of the sub.»

«No Child Left Behind established an overemphasis on reading and math and took away time from the study of languages,» says Shuhan Wang, deputy director of the National Foreign Languages Center at the University of Maryland.

Her latest book, No Citizen Left Behind (Harvard University Press, 2012), argues that the United States suffers from a civic empowerment gap that is as shameful and antidemocratic as the academic achievement gap targeted by No Child Left Behind.

Today, the Civil Rights Project at Harvard University (CRP) releases the findings of a four - part study examining the landmark No Child Left Behind (NCLB) Act through its first year of implementation (2002 - 2003).

As recounted in a new book on NCLB by Drew University political science professor Patrick McGuinn (No Child Left Behind and the Transformation of Federal Education Policy, 1965 — 2005), GOP pollster David Winston attributes Bush's 2000 victory to his education agenda.

When I mentioned that to a colleague at Harvard University's Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies, she laughed and then forwarded a transcript from the famous «No Farmer Left Behind» June 1957 Politburo meeting in the former Soviet Union.

Muñiz was also nervous to leave behind the «like - minded» community of the University of California — Berkeley, where she completed her undergraduate studies.

Peterson is a member of the independent review panel advising the Department of Education's evaluation of the No Child Left Behind law and a member of the Hoover Institution's Koret Task Force of K - 12 Education at Stanford University.

Another study, from the University of Colorado in December 2010, found that only 30 percent of virtual schools run by for - profit organizations met the minimum progress standards outlined by No Child Left Behind, compared with 54.9 percent of brick - and - mortar schools.

He is an active alumni of the Pahara - Aspen Education Fellowship program and was a member of the Aspen Institute's Commission on No Child Left Behind as well as the Advisory Board of Tulane University's Cowen Institute for Public Education Initiatives.

A look at a forthcoming study by researchers at Western Michigan University and the National Education Policy Center shows that only a third of K12's schools achieved adequate yearly progress, the measurement mandated by federal No Child Left Behind legislation.