Sentences with phrase «of all graduate students»

-- Calvin Sims, president and CEO of International House, a New York City residence and program center of graduate students from more than 100 countries.

The school is also set to play host to the Stu Clark Investment Competition in March 2017, with teams of graduate students competing for cash prizes and a spot at the 2016 Global Venture Labs Investment Competition at the University of Texas at Austin.

According to a recent report, 69 percent of graduating students have student loan debt., with an average loan balance surpassing $ 30,000 in some states.

«About 10 % of our graduate students stick around; 90 % leave.

In my time as president of RISD, more than 70 % of graduating students said they wanted to do something entrepreneurial after graduation.

Meanwhile, the percentage of graduate students taking out more than $ 40,000 in loans to pay for their studies increased from 14 percent in 2004 to 47 percent in 2012.

Moreover, an increasing number of graduate students are emphasizing social impact alongside economic rewards when choosing where to work after school.

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.

But more than than half (56 percent) of graduate students who requested rate quotes with a cosigner prequalified to apply for a loan.

If you've already filled out the Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA) and secured scholarships, but are one of those graduate students faced with a financial gap, here's what you need to know about private student loans.

There were 19 teams of graduate students and 18 teams from specialist programs, such as Master of Financial Engineering or Master of Computational Finance.

By his way of thinking, the most pressing problems include a dramatic drop in college and university endowments, an ever increasing number of graduate students and recent PhDs who will likely never secure full - time academic jobs, and a graying, backward - looking professoriate that refuses to get out of the way.

(When he changed jobs from Cornell to Toronto, or from Toronto to Chicago, a vast caravan of graduate students would follow him, medieval - style, to his new position: they were there for him, not for the parchment.)

He was a fantastic literature critic, who gracefully guided generations of graduate students to a better understanding of Paradise Lost and a rich collection of other medieval works.

A dozen or so of his graduate students met with him to discuss starting something — but what?

Our studies of graduate students and junior faculty show that they often view themselves as service providers rather than professors on a long - term mission.

It was so impressive that on my return from the association meeting, I immediately convened a panel of graduate students at the University of Virginia to further mine this rich data set and allow it to speak in all of its nuance.

Certainly I knew nothing then of the vast grounds for the hymn - writer's protest, but later in the decade of the thirties I joined, incipiently at the level of a graduate student, the ranks of the same critics and with some real enthusiasm learned and cultivated the techniques of «tearing apart» the biblical literature.

During the 1960's a remarkable revival of the thought of the contemporary American process philosopher, Alfred North Whitehead, took place in the studies and dens of graduate students in philosophy.

Richard Lewontin (at present Agassiz Professor of Zoology at Harvard University) was one of his graduate students at the time I was at Columbia University.

We have to look at the socialization of the graduate students as they apprentice for teaching to appreciate what is going on in their lives, how their horizons have changed, how their identities have been shaped.

And Placher specifies some of the authors his generation of graduate students at Yale were moved by their mentors to go beyond.

So in 2005, Professor Vermont P. Dia of the University of the Philippines conducted a study with some of his graduate students to analyze various virgin coconut oils in the Philippine market produced using different methods.

AFC CENTRAL — For a time it appeared that Pittsburgh, Cincinnati, Houston and Cleveland would all wind up with 7 - 7 records, and it would take all of the graduate students at MIT to determine the winner.

University counseling centers are often staffed by a lot of graduate students.

One of my graduate students who conducted field work in Samoa reported to me that when she told a Samoan woman that American men like to suck on women's breasts, the Samoan was amazed.

Dozens of graduate students at Columbia University walked out of classrooms and research labs to press home their right to unionize, as part of a one - week strike timed for high impact with classes wrapping up for the year.

Our hope is to build accessible platforms for African students, contributing to the expanding number of graduate students across the continent, who are already contributing so much to their respective societies.

Elia said the latest data shows that urban school districts are capable of graduating students, but might need more options from which kids can choose.

Only one - third of graduating students are considered career or college ready.

The elimination of graduate student tuition waivers was included in the House's original tax bill, for example.

As learning by trial - and - error is a key part of the graduate student journey, I recently asked the Twitterverse to share research failure -LSB-...]

Because a majority of graduate students are in the key areas of science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM), these provisions will have an outsized impact in the sciences,» the Dec. 7 letter said.

And more than three - quarters have reduced their recruitment of graduate students and research fellows because of economic pressures.»

The recent House tax bill spurs our columnist to consider the complexity of graduate student finances

Next, use your empathy skills to minimize the effect on the team of what you don't like: the chaos of the graduate student, the busyness of the supervisor, and the same old stories by the retired expert.

One challenge he faces is the lack of graduate students.

Co-authored by Dr. Leslie Rissler, a University of Alabama professor of biological sciences, and two of her graduate students, Sarah Duncan and Nicholas Caruso, it used data gathered from questionnaires answered by approximately 3,000 UA students.

The report suggests aiming for a balance that existed in the late 1990s, when 37 % of graduate students were on training grants or fellowships (compared with 32 % now) and 17 % of postdocs had this funding (compared with 9.6 % now).

The Revitalizing Graduate STEM Education for the 21st Century committee, which met 3 days later, intends, among other things, to look for ways that universities can «better meet the diverse education and career needs of graduate students.»

Nirmala Kannankutty of the National Science Foundation's Division of Graduate Education explored similarly striking changes in the demography and size of the graduate student population, which now includes many more women and noncitizens, over the past 40 years.

To gain more control over the number of trainees and improve the quality of their training experience, they propose increasing the proportion of graduate students supported by training grants instead of professors» research grants.

In the 10 years since, she has passed on her infectious enthusiasm for the LIGO project to many of her graduate students.

«It's going to be doubly hard because we don't get to hover around [the experiment] with an army of graduate students,» Cornell says.

An in - depth genetic analysis, performed with the participation of graduate students Tal Lupo and Lihee Asaf, pointed to a gene called WNT5B, which was revealed to be the factor prompting stem cells to differentiate into lymphatic cells.

That is true, no doubt, from the perspective of those who have long benefited from the sacrifices of graduate students and postdocs — among them administrators, policymakers, and well - funded lab chiefs.

The university said it wanted to retain the grant, with a different PI, to support the work of a graduate student.

Nearly all of the graduate students in ecology assumed that they would have careers in academia.

«A postdoc would then become a spoke coming out of the graduate student hub,» he added.

He estimates that re-creating the polio virus cost about $ 300,000 and required his expertise as well as a team of graduate students.