Sentences with phrase «of universities these days»

I was shocked to discover that my one of my university days staple meals, shop bought baked beans, is full or sugar, preservatives and salt.

Yes, you may have fond memories of your university days galivanting around the union like some (love) drunk Casanova, but that's a bygone era.

And given the political complexion of universities these days (and the fact that most of the decisions will be made by university administrations and not by elected officials), this will end up happening to conservatives much more often than to liberals.

We've helped thousands of graduates get jobs that they wouldn't have been able to apply for without their degrees, so we see the benefits of university every day.

Not exact matches

The producer and the actress met on Banks's first day at the University of Pennsylvania in 1993, but Banks told Allure magazine later that she didn't think she'd marry him then.

A recent study from the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School found such «intertemporal markers» help motivate us in two ways: offering an opportunity to separate ourselves from past «misbehaviour» and disrupting our attention from day - to - day details to focus on the big picture.

«A person would have to drink well over 1,000 liters of water a day, every day, to achieve the threshold toxicity levels seen in animals,» Ian Musgrave, a senior lecturer in the medical school at the University of Adelaide in Australia, said in February.

He made a similar suggestion in 2003 during a speech at Georgetown University, pointing to a Bible scripture that spoke of a «day of great slaughter, when the towers fall,» adding «there are consequences when we turn away from our source of our strength.»

One of the three experiments in the study had 30 university students refraining from eating and drinking between 11 p.m. and the time they arrived to the study lab the next day, which was either 8:30 a.m. or 9:15 a.m. Half of the participants were served breakfast before the experiment, the others went straight to the Iowa Gambling Task.

Researchers at the University of British Columbia asked 124 people to either limit checking email to three times a day for one week or click into their inboxes as often as possible.

Oxford University has apologized for asking a female cleaner to remove graffiti stating «Happy International Women's Day,» from one of its colleges.

One of my earliest stories for Fortune consisted of a sleepless dispatch from a two - day Bitcoin hackathon at New York University that was sponsored, in part, by Ludwin's company (before it pivoted to enterprise software).

Research from the Department of Kinesiology at Southern Illinois University showed that as little as three 11 - minute intense strength - training sessions a week resulted in an increase in fat burn at rest, and a chronic increase in energy expenditure throughout the day.

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.

Landau: Mariel Hemingway joined the day after I did, but a lot of university students and everyday managers are there, too.

«In the early days of insurance, [companies] looked at height as an indication of survival,» said David Batty, an epidemiology and public health researcher at the University College London, who was not involved in the study.

However, many of them also gave away their fortunes to build universities, hospitals, libraries, and museums that still stand to this day.

In 2014, Jim Carrey delivered a commencement address to Maharishi University of Management in Iowa that people still talk about to this day.

Wang, a top election forecaster and professor at Princeton University, had given Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton a 98 % to 99 % chance of winning in the days leading up to the election.

I just finished teaching a block week of an entrepreneurship class, meaning a full fourteen - week university course in five days, 9 - 5.

Murdoch University has partnered with a Perth company which plans to use cannabis as a medicinal product, a day after scientists from the University of Western Australia said cannabis use could damage a person's DNA.

To differentiate his company, Nitkin offers customers something lacking during his own college days at the University of Maryland: a healthy alternative to the bar scene.

The 5 - month old start - up was launched after just 20 days of development by Dalian University dropout Lei Hou Yi, who estimated losses of 3 million yuan from Wukong's closure.

University students in Tokyo on their last day of classes before summer holidays did just that, jumping into the fray within moments of the launch, capturing monsters as a frenzy erupted between classes.

(Poets & Quants)-- For Doug Guthrie, dean of George Washington University's business school, August 22 was like most work days.

During her first 100 days as dean of Northwestern University's Kellogg School of Management, Sally Blount's calendar looked like the schedule of a politician in the heat of a race.

Just a few days ago, The Science Daily reported on a study conducted by the University of Michigan Health System, which concluded that «parents» use of mobile technology around young children may be causing internal tension, conflicts and negative interactions with their kids.»

Paul Kelley of the University of Oxford's Sleep and Circadian Neuroscience Institute, for one, «believes that the ideal work day should start at 10 a.m.»

We rack up over 120 cold calls a day, and whether we're able to set a meeting with a university or not, we ask each school a series of questions to try and spot patterns in responses.

Everything from reaching out to a certain number of coaches every single day, running a specific 40 - yard dash time, eating certain healthy foods that would help increase my performance and attending the right summer camps at universities that would put me in front of the right people.

University of Ottawa professor Michael Geist had a post the other day on the CRTC's new Talk TV consultation, a process designed to solicit Canadians» opinions on how television services are delivered and sold.

Altrad attended school anyway, and when he moved to France to attend university, he knew no French and lived off of one meal a day.

«In terms of how much is present in water reservoirs that have been sprayed with pyriproxyfen to control mosquito larvae, a person would have to drink well over 1,000 liters of water a day, every day, to achieve the threshold toxicity levels seen in animals,» Ian Musgrave, a senior lecturer in the medical school at the University of Adelaide in Australia, said in a statement.

But that is the case for Jakob Sperry, who along with six other young inventors recently presented their work at New York University's Tandon School of Engineering as part of Kid Inventor's Day, an event hosted by 3 - D design and engineering software maker Autodesk.

The legendary founder and CEO of Apple told Stanford University's class of 2005 that they needed to live each day as if it were their last.

For David Azrieli, giving back to Carleton wasn't a matter of remembering his long - past university days.

The other founder, Ryan Bubinski, longed for his days at Columbia University, where he taught programming and evangelized the importance of learning to code through a student group he had founded called the Application Development Initiative.

That was the scenario a few days ago at Hero City in San Mateo, where Adam Draper, founder of the Bitcoin - focused startup accelerator Boost, interviewed four members of his family before an audience of Boost participants and Draper University students.

From a business perspective, yes, according to a new series of studies out of Stanford that was recently written up by the university's GSB news under the hilarious headline: «Researchers: A Few Bad Hair Days Can Change Your Life.»

To ensure a robust pipeline of talent, Birchwood offers every employee, regardless of rank, in - house training, including a three - day course based on Stephen Covey's The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People and Birchwood University, an eight - month virtual leadership course accredited by the University of Winnipeg.

«Unless there's a blockage in one of these organs that do it day and night, there's absolutely no need to help the body get rid of toxins,» family physician Ranit Mishori of the Georgetown University School of Medicine told NPR.

Curtin University will use International Women's Day, tomorrow March 8, to promote engineering as profession of choice for women.

One report called out the University of Phoenix for dropping $ 380,000 on a single day of online ads in 2012.

One day, I looked in a magazine and saw a picture of Cambridge University, and I said I wanted to go there.

Florida Gov. Rick Scott declared a state of emergency in Alachua County on Tuesday three days before a scheduled speech by white nationalist leader Richard Spencer at the University of Florida, which is located in the county's capital of Gainesville.

If he pulls out of the Convention the cost would be greater,» said Daniel Bodansky, a professor of the Arizona State University Sandra Day O'Connor College of Law.

FORTUNE — Hundreds of students, business leaders, and investors crammed into the Shell Auditorium at Rice University on Thursday evening to watch the Rice Business Plan Competition elevator pitch contest, arguably the most dramatic event at the university's three - day business plan extUniversity on Thursday evening to watch the Rice Business Plan Competition elevator pitch contest, arguably the most dramatic event at the university's three - day business plan extuniversity's three - day business plan extravaganza.

A day or two later, an American doctor who had just flown in with the University of Miami team experienced a similar phenomenon.

Carrie Dyck, a linguistics professor at Memorial University in St. John's, Nfld., was one of the countless affected by pain she believes came from sitting down all day.

This group also sometimes includes the deans and senior administrators of the universities Junior will one day make it to (if he could only stop texting).