Sentences with phrase «more than a university»

And the sport was far more than a university pursuit.

Unfortunately, postdocs may be omitted from a good deal more than university Web sites.

Yes, I'm talking about reality TV, an ongoing experiment in interpersonal torture that, even more than the University College London study, picks up where Milgram left off.

To compensate for the need to work in a way that violates science's true values, it follows, companies must pay their employees more than universities do.

Most times, you will find that the alternatives usually pay more than the university bookstore.

I have always been proud of being a Lane Tech alum, even more than my university.

In some states, infant care costs more than University!

Not exact matches

Georgia Tech graduates more engineers than MIT and Carnegie Mellon combined, and more women and black engineers than any other university, according to Moddelmog.

Today, Qualtrics has more than 9,000 customers, including 65 % of the Fortune 500, federal agencies, and more than 1,800 universities.

In a study of more than 5,100 adults, researchers from the University of Illinois found that those who were the most optimistic were 76 percent more likely to have health scores in an ideal range.

Apple has been ordered to pay more than $ 500 million in a long - fought patent dispute against the University of Wisconsin - Madison's patent - licensing division.

Last year, nearly 800 universities banded together to offer more than 8,000 courses called «MOOCs» («massive open online courses») via Coursera to bump up your business skills.

«What we might be identifying here is something much more to do with help - seeking behavior than anything to do with a psychiatric illness,» University of California, Los Angeles professor of psychiatry Jonathan Flint told The Guardian.

Yet, according to a study by Deloitte University Press, more than a third of firms struggle to instil purpose and passion in their staff.

Social customer service company Conversocial partnered with New York University on research that found that more than one - third of all tweets to companies were about customer service issues, but that only three percent incorporated the company's Twitter username with the @ symbol.

With 6,900 employers associated with the school — more than any other university in Canada — there's a good chance you'll find a spot.

Then there is the NDP platform, which has more imaginary numbers than a university math class.

She has a master's degree from Columbia University and has traveled to more than 40 countries.

To figure this out the team out of the University of Rochester asked 75 volunteers to do nothing more complicated than sit, alone, in a comfortable chair for 15 minutes without their devices.

A 2010 University of Brasilia study found that 1 in 5 Brazilian women under 40 — more than 5 million women overall, or about 22 % of Brazil's population — had had at least one abortion.

Universities and the federal government have programs that provide more help than many inventors could otherwise dream of affording.

A widely - cited 2007 study by the University of Arizona found the average office desktop carries 400 times more bacteria than the a toilet seat.

The fossil fuel divestment campaign began on university campuses in 2011 but the new report reveals that concerns over investments in coal, oil and gas have now entered the financial mainstream, with more than 80 % of the funds now committed to divest being managed by commercial investment and pension funds.

In 2011, a poll by Pepperdine University concluded that more than 60 % of small - business loan applications were denied.

The data sat quietly in archives for decades until, in 2012, University of Edinburgh neuroscientist Matthew Harris and his team managed to track down more than 600 of the original participants in the 1950 study, then aged 77.

The oldest law school in Canada, McGill, ranks just under U of T. Its highly regarded law journal is cited by The Supreme Court of Canada more often than any other university - affiliated journal, and McGill law graduates regularly make up a quarter of The Supreme Court's annual clerkships.

Gaim Kibreab, an Eritrean - born professor at London South Bank University, has studied Eritrea's National Service since its inception, and has interviewed more than 200 refugees across Africa and Europe.

He was interested in doing more than just owning buildings; he graduated from Carleton University's School of Architecture in 1997, at the age of 75, and later donated $ 5.5 million to the program.

College basketball players are ineligible for pay, but many coaches cash in — none more than Coach K, or Mike Krzyzewski, Duke University's head men's basketball team coach.

MedStar operates 10 hospitals in the D.C. / Baltimore region, including at Georgetown University, and serviced more than 4.5 million patient visits in 2015.

Moreover, within conscientiousness are the narrower traits of self control and «grit,» which University of Pennsylvania psychologist Angela Duckworth has found to be more integral to children's scholarly success than IQ.

They also are realists, of course, perhaps no one more than Jim Kim, a former university president and groundbreaking physician.

Pitch your company to several firms and try to simultaneously line up more than one offer, says Noam Wasserman, an entrepreneurship professor at the University of Southern California's Marshall School of Business (and a member of Inc.'s advisory board).

Researchers at the University of Michigan who followed 2,300 adults for up to a decade reported in 2008 that even common work irritants interfere with good rest more than long hours, night shifts or fears about job loss.

A University of Iowa study found that workers who were provided with a portable pedalling device under their desk were able to concentrate better at work, more likely to report weight loss and take fewer sick days than co-workers who pedalled less.

Universities are better funded than they've ever been, allowing them to put more dollars into the research and development we need to improve Canada's productivity.

Ronald Burt is a sociologist in the University of Chicago's Booth School of Business who for more than 30 years has studied the phenomenon of «structural holes,» i.e., gaps within organizations.

«Parents who respond to their children's emotions in a comforting manner have kids who are more socially well - adjusted than do parents who either tell their kids they are overreacting or who punish their kids for getting upset,» child psychologist Nancy Eisenberg of Arizona State University said in an interview.

Quelling terrorism requires a lot more than military action, says Meghan O'Sullivan, Harvard University professor of international affairs, providing insight into the growing crisis in Syria and U.S. options in the region.

Once you've filled your plastic cup — this affair is more backyard barbecue than society event — there's the meet and greet, an opportunity to check out the credentials of those around you: an aerospace industry executive, the economic development chief for a western U.S. state, a dean of engineering for a prestigious American university, several D.C. think tankers, lobbyists, lawyers.

From Vox, citing a study at the University of Texas: «If 10 percent of the vehicles... were self - driving cars, the country could save more than $ 37 billion a year due to fewer deaths, less fuel, more free time, etc..

For example, Consigli University offers its 800 employees more than 10,000 hours of training through more than 150 classes covering a wide range of technical subjects.

There has to be way more tank - filling than tank - draining,» says Ruben Nieves, former Stanford University men's volleyball coach and current national director of training for the Positive Coaching Alliance, a nonprofit organization based in Mountain View, Calif., that focuses on teaching and encouraging positive character - building in youth and high school sports.

DeMars observes that in the U.S. alone more than 300 colleges and universities now offer ethics curricula, whereas a decade ago it was fewer than 10.

Read faster and retain more: Train your eye to read groups of words rather than sounding out individual words in your head, known as sub-vocalizing, says Beth Moreno, a University of Texas prof who teaches speed - reading courses.

Meanwhile there's a big demand for products that can analyze large sets of data, with more than half of all business leaders saying data analysis is critical to their success, according to a recent report from Boston University.

Currently, two thirds, or more than 2,000, U.S. colleges and universities now offer a course in entrepreneurship, according to the Kauffman Foundation.

Philip Morris International has tried to force the University of Stirling to hand over secret data into teenage smoking and cigarette packaging gathered over more than a decade.

A 2012 study of debt - payoff strategies from Northwestern University's Kellogg School of Management found that consumers paying off small balances first were more likely to have eliminated their entire debt than those focusing on other strategies.

After more than a decade of research on the use of machine learning to detect disease - causing mutations in DNA, Brendan Frey, biomedical engineering professor at the University of Toronto, this week launched his company, Deep Genomics, to bring the technology his team developed to the public at large.