Sentences with phrase «means students graduate»

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While he graduated in the middle of his class, Abdullah's extracurricular activities meant his CV could put any honour's student's to shame.

That means the number includes the amount of students who graduate debt - free, too.

Therefore, a grade of plus 3 meant that one had scored 15 percent above one's base grade, and students had to score an average of plus 2 in order to graduate.

Graduate students, on the other hand, are beginning to reappropriate the «conservative» values of meaning, rootedness and community.

This means that there is a lack of encouragement for students to become more active in their faith after they have graduated.

For these graduate students, the word «gourmet» now carries a new meaning that brings to mind anything but the real definition of gourmet.

Dr. Cheyney currently directs the International Reproductive Health Laboratory at Oregon State University where she has developed an academic learning community comprised of five undergraduate research assistants, 12 graduate students and one postdoctoral fellow whose research agendas are focused on identifying culturally appropriate ways to improve access to high quality midwifery care as a means of reducing health inequalities for mothers and babies in the U.S and abroad.

«When I was a Treasury adviser I argued for a graduate tax, because it was a fairer system which meant no upfront costs and no assumed debt for students and their families.

What it means to be a graduate student.

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This means taking on graduate students and postdocs without regard for the ever - scantier career opportunities in academe that await them.

«Working so closely with your team means you quickly establish what each person's strong points are,» says Alan Hart, who attended the program while a graduate student at Cambridge University.

This open layout means that Bio21 students, primarily graduate students and postdocs, are assured of opportunities to interact with researchers from a variety of disciplines; a biochemistry student, for example, has the opportunity to work — and chat — with chemists who are designing molecules for potential drugs, or geneticists, or pharmacologists.

One very important thing we can do is to change the way universities, professors, graduate students, and postdocs themselves think about what it means to be a postdoc.

This means that for every 10 students who enter the College of Natural Sciences and participate in FRI, two will graduate who would have otherwise dropped out or taken longer than six years to get an undergraduate degree, and almost three more students will wind up with a STEM degree, as opposed to changing majors, because they participated in FRI..

On the other hand, what does it mean to supervise a graduate student if you are not making sure of the quality of his or her results?

(One caveat to the postdoc numbers: Some of the respondents may be first - year postdocs, meaning the comparison may be to what they were earning as graduate students.)

Knowledgeable observers are divided on what this torrent of short - term cash will mean for science agencies» most vulnerable charges: the nation's graduate students, postdocs, and other early - career scientists.

An extra postdoc in an average - sized lab added 0.31 publications, whereas an extra graduate student meant only an extra 0.14 (bearing in mind that these are suggestive correlations with no clear implication of cause and effect).

For Bolderson, that has meant organizing the annual science festival and training graduate students, postdocs, and other researchers to host their own public - engagement activities during the year.

For trainees with interest in Ebola, including Esther Ndungo, a fifth - year graduate student in Chandran's lab, more researchers in the field could mean more opportunities to study different aspects of the virus.

And for Chinese graduate students who are sometimes paid paltry stipends, the search for more profitable means of employment is necessary in order to support their families.

Years of low pay as a graduate student and postdoc probably mean you are hopelessly behind many who started work right after college.

And that means that auditory information is a big part of their cognitive repertoire,» says Rachael Shaw, a behavioral ecologist at the University of Cambridge in the United Kingdom, who led the new study while a graduate student in comparative psychologist Nicola Clayton's lab at Cambridge.

«The NSF has consistently supported the importation of foreign graduate students by various means and pushed for the establishment of the H - 1B program in 1990,» says Keith Jackson, president of the National Society for Black Physicists.

By that, he means that graduate students should be given the opportunity to explore the values and expectations inherent to their specific fields and to consider whether these are consistent or in conflict with broader social values.

I mean, name me a graduate student you know who would turn down a quarter - million dollars for the rights to their Ph.D. thesis — let's see them line up.

Graduate students should also seek to grasp the social aspects and implications of scientific issues and be given the opportunity to «gain a good understanding of what it means to be a socially responsible scientist in this day and age.»

But the agency's primary means of training undergraduates, graduate students, and postdocs — called the National Research Service Award program — is restricted to domestic students under a 1974 law.

And, mindful that statistics employment increasingly means working in industry or consulting with experts in other fields, the department is considering extending a consulting class — already mandatory for graduate students — to its undergraduates.

Tarduno and his team, which included both undergraduate and graduate students, named the bird Tingmiatornis arctica; «Tingmiat» means «those that fly» in the Inuktitut language spoken in the central and eastern Canadian Arctic (Nunavut territory).

That said, Rothman notes that working in England meant he missed out on some practical training about US science that he would have gotten at an American university, like how to write an effective US grant application, and how graduate students are funded.

One of the first things that an administrator should ask of a department is baseline data: What has been the minority representation in a department over the years, and by this I mean the faculty and graduate and undergraduate students?

«Having the ability to represent false beliefs means recognizing that others can have different thoughts from us,» said Peipei Setoh, who, as a graduate student, conducted the study with University of Illinois psychology professor Renée Baillargeon and fellow graduate student Rose Scott.

It does, which means that how adult MuSCs normally support muscle growth is not an intrinsic characteristic, but can be changed,» explained Matthew Tierney, a graduate student at SBP and first author of the study.

The new study redefines what it means to be a topological material, according to Su - Yang Xu, a graduate student in Hasan's lab and co-first author of the May 7 paper with postdoctoral research associate Madhab Neupane at Princeton and Raman Sankar of National Taiwan University.

«In KATRIN, the electrons are detected in a silicon detector, which means the electrons smash into the crystal, and a lot of random things happen, essentially destroying the electrons,» says Daniel Furse, a graduate student in physics, and a co-author on the paper.

Previous studies have reported that trap - jaw ants sometimes jump with their jaws, «but it was unknown whether this behavior was meant to help them get away from a predator, and it wasn't clear that it actually improved their odds of surviving an encounter with a predator,» said University of Illinois graduate student Fredrick Larabee, who conducted the study with entomology professor and animal biology department head Andrew Suarez.

Apheloria polychroma was named for its rainbow of colors and was described by Marek; Jackson Means, a graduate student from Keswick, Virginia; and Derek Hennen, a graduate student from Little Hocking, Ohio.

And they're working with my graduate students, so they can learn more about, «Well, what does it mean to have a master's?

The nation's colleges and universities use a variety of methods for increasing these numbers, but I will share what I have found to be the most effective means for helping community college students transfer, graduate, and enter into post-baccalaureate programs leading to the Ph.D. and professional degrees.

The 3MT competition began as an experiment at the University of Queensland in Australia in 2008, when then - graduate school dean Alan Lawson concocted it as a means of forcing grad students to practice their communication skills.

For many years, this meant the training of graduate students and postdoctoral fellows in the Institution's laboratories, located in Washington, DC and around the country.

«This doesn't mean that cranial vault outlines aren't useful,» says Ashley Maxwell, lead author of the paper and a former graduate student at NC State.

UCSF is unique in that it only offers graduate degrees (meaning it does not have an undergraduate student population).

«Though these galaxies are very faint, their increased numbers means that they account for the majority of star formation during this epoch,» said team member Anahita Alavi, a Ph.D. graduate student in Siana's lab, and the first author of the research paper.

Our school had 287 students in the graduating class which meant we all knew each other even if we weren't super close.

The move means that students in the class of 2006, instead of the class of 2004, will be the first in California who must pass the exam in order to graduate.

Loss of graduate teachers means schools are losing valuable staff and students are experiencing instability among their teachers — not to mention the disenchantment being felt by the graduate teachers themselves.

By good I mean that they score comparatively well on state tests, have a goodly number of students who receive passing scores on Advanced Placement tests, send a majority of graduates off to college, and enjoy the support of their respective communities.