Sentences with phrase «old college professors»

Ask parents, friends, parents of friends, or old college professors if they have any connections related to your industry in the area where you live.

My colleagues and I were taking our new manager to lunch, and an old college professor wanted to have dinner.

Disgrace (Unrated) South African drama about a 52 year - old college professor (John Malkovich) who goes to live on his lesbian daughter's (Jessica Haines) farm after being fired for sleeping with a student (Antoinette Engel).

Not exact matches

«Paradoxically, big get - togethers can be easier to prioritize than smaller ones,» writes Vanderkam, offering the example of a busy professor who plans an annual getaway for her old college friends and their families.

Our old professor was a bit more upset about it, though, partly because the college milks those guys more than a Libyan trafficking gang (albeit the access to the labor market is a lot better at the end of the process).

FORTUNE — When you're enjoying a glass of wine at the office holiday party this month you may, indirectly, have your old college econ professor or elementary school nurse to thank.

Wade D. Pfau, professor of retirement income at The American College, recommends a 15 percent contribution rate for a 35 - year - old who plans to retire at 65 years of age.

He's a good old numbers - crunching accountant and college professor.

Lloyd Geering is a Presbyterian minister and former Professor of Old Testament Studies at theological colleges in Brisbane and Dunedia, and Professor of Religious Studies at Victorian University in Wellington, New Zealand.

Like my old English college professor used to say: when in doubt, go back to the text.

One of the people voicing concern was David Newman, an English professor at Odessa College and father of a 12 - year - old student.

Kenyon's life story is fascinating and wrenching, the stuff of both highbrow and middlebrow drama, She was a college student who married her much older professor, retreated with him from university life to a family farmhouse in New Hampshire, rediscovered her faith (without turning into a wild - eyed zealot), bravely battled depression, came into her own as a poet and loyally nursed her husband through two difficult bouts with cancer.

It had gathered into common worship «college professor and prison releasee, maid and manufacturer, young and old, black and white, male and female.

We're not talking about examples of helicopter parenting run amok such as parents of college - age kids calling professors to argue about grades; but not supervising 9 - year - olds at all to the point that parents don't know who their friends are or what they are doing is not only opening a child up to potential risks and bad choices, but making them stressed as well.

Or they think of the caricature of a ten - year - old Einstein, who might get along fine with college professors but can not communicate in the everyday language of children.

Drs. Miranda Kaye, Amy Frith and Justine Vosloo, professors in the School of Health Science and Human Performance at Ithaca College in New York, worked with athletes 6 - 18 years old who participated in the individual sports of swimming, tennis, bowling, wrestling, cross country and indoor track.

«Unlike adults, heavy kids often don't look fat, they just look a little older — so it's important to check a child's BMI,» says Marc Jacobson, MD, professor of pediatrics and epidemiology at Albert Einstein College of Medicine.

Professor Russell Viner of the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health has claimed that «We are entering a state of emergency» when it comes to childhood obesity, citing statistics which show that 22 % of four and five - year olds are now overweight or obese, which rises to 34 % for ten and eleven - year olds!

«It's counterproductive to have the old chancellor making significant staffing decisions before the new chancellor steps in the door,» said David Bloomfield, a Brooklyn College and CUNY Grad Center education professor.

The 52 - year - old Takoma Park resident, who is a professor at American University Washington College of Law, has focused his energy on a number of civil rights and constitutional issues in both the academic and legislative arenas, including marijuana legalization, campaign finance, and voting rights.

It was Gustavo Rivera, a 34 - year - old part - time college professor and former political staffer who has never held elected office, and who is now running for the State Senate against a well - financed incumbent senator of his own party.

«Giuliani and Bloomberg were elected in part by that old coalition losing its strength and losing its cohesiveness and de Blasio was able to stitch that together better than it had been for over 20 years and he also was able to bring in new constituencies, people of color, immigrants,» said Ken Sherrill, a professor emeritus of political science at Hunter College.

I wouldn't dare call my old New Paltz college professor Gerry Benjamin «Dusty,» but that's how some of the government studies his Benjamin Center New Paltz think tank wind up.

«She's an old - time pol,» said Douglas Muzzio, a professor of public affairs at Baruch College.

Tops remembers sitting in his aunt's college classes when he was 8 years old and knowing the answers to the questions the professor posed.

«The idea that someone would cyberbully themselves first gained public attention with the tragic suicide of 14 - year - old Hannah Smith in 2013 after she anonymously sent herself hurtful messages on a social media platform just weeks before she took her own life,» said Sameer Hinduja, Ph.D., study author, a professor in FAU's School of Criminology and Criminal Justice in the College for Design and Social Inquiry, and co-director of the Cyberbullying Research Center.

I am off to pursue a new professional opportunity in South Carolina as an assistant professor of chemistry at Claflin University, the oldest HBCU (Historically Black College and University) in the state.

Professor emeritus Marcus Pembrey, a 68 - year - old clinical geneticist at University College London's Institute of Child Health, did exactly that: He decided when he was 45 that he wanted to retire in 10 years» time.

A fun and insightful read, Dirty Minds manages to evoke the feel of both a wine - laden conversation with an old friend and a great neuroscience lecture from your favorite college professor.

Christina Warinner and Cecil M. Lewis, Jr., professors in the Department of Anthropology, OU College of Arts and Sciences, collaborated with researchers from Arizona State University and Pennsylvania State University on the capture, enrichment and high - throughput sequencing of DNA extracted from six individuals at the 700 - year - old Oneota cemetery, Norris Farms # 36.

Charles Rice, principal investigator and professor in the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, OU College of Arts and Sciences, with team members Robert Cichewicz and Daniel Glatzhofer, both OU chemistry professors, has been able to invigorate older drugs from the penicillin family by combining them with BPEI.

«We decided to investigate cardiovascular risks of this therapy in a large health care database since these previous studies were modest in size and only focused on men 65 and older,» said the study's senior author, Sander Greenland, a professor of epidemiology at the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health and a professor of statistics in the UCLA College of Letters and Science.

In addition, the finance industry has identified older adults as an untapped market, which can lead to them being overwhelmed by the «dizzying array of financial products and services,» according to Han and co-author Mark Lachs, MD, MPH, professor of medicine and co-chief of geriatrics and gerontology at Weill Medical College in New York.

As a member of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists, Ashley Moffett, Professor of Reproductive Immunology at the University of Cambridge and expert on placenta formation, said: «We know that the so - called Great Obstetrical Syndromes, in particular pre-eclampsia are more common in older women but it's still not clear why.

«The prevalence of comorbidities is higher in older lung cancer patients than patients who are younger,» said K.M. Monirul Islam, M.D., Ph.D., an assistant professor in the department of epidemiology at the University of Nebraska Medical Center College of Public Health.

(Commoner, a professor emeritus at Queens College in New York City and now 93 years old, is a pioneer of ecology and the environmental movement.)

Researcher Lindsay R. Wilkinson, an assistant professor of sociology in Baylor University's College of Arts & Sciences, drew on 5,205 respondents from the Health and Retirement Study (HRS) to examine the effect of financial strain on the mental health and use of mood - altering drugs by older adults.

«For the older group, the ACA made health insurance much more affordable, because the law limits insurers from charging older adults no more than triple the cost for the same health insurance plans as younger adults,» said Vivian Ho, the chair in health economics at the Baker Institute and director of the institute's Center for Health and Biosciences, a professor of economics at Rice and a professor of medicine at Baylor College of Medicine.

«Our study explored the associations between dog ownership and pet bonding with walking behavior and health outcomes in older adults,» said Rebecca Johnson, a professor at the MU College of Veterinary Medicine, and the Millsap Professor of Gerontological Nursing in the Sinclair School ofprofessor at the MU College of Veterinary Medicine, and the Millsap Professor of Gerontological Nursing in the Sinclair School ofProfessor of Gerontological Nursing in the Sinclair School of Nursing.

«In general, life gets better as you age in the sense that older adults on average have fewer hassles — and respond to them better — than younger adults,» said Carolyn Aldwin, a gerontology professor in the College of Public Health and Human Sciences at Oregon State University and lead author on the study.

«We have one group of beryllium - 10 measurements, which is 14,000 years old, and another group, which is 11,500 years old, and the difference in these ages is statistically significant,» said Marc Caffee, a professor of physics in Purdue's College of Science and director of PRIME Lab.

People who lose their spouse may do better health-wise to confide in a close friend than in a close relative, according to Jamila Bookwala, a psychology professor at Lafayette College in Easton, Pa., a researcher who studies and teaches about relationship trends among adults in middle age and older.

Honored for discovering «the first consistent chromosome translocation in any human cancer,» according to Albany Medical College, the 88 - year - old Rowley is still a professor of medicine at the University of Chicago in Illinois.

Investigations based on these proteins might lead to new ways to combat the disease, including a vaccine, new types of drugs to block the growth of the bacteria, or even restoring the efficacy of some older antibiotics that have lost their usefulness, said Aleksandra Sikora, an assistant professor in the OSU College of Pharmacy.

«The most commonly cited statistic is that one in three older adults falls each year due to age - related changes in balance, and in this four - month study, more than half of the college students fell during daily activities,» said Shirley Rietdyk, a professor of health and kinesiology, who only looked at young adults in this study.

Children are highly receptive to marketing, says University of Maryland, College Park, public health research professor Dina Borzekowski, who led this year's study of five - and six - year - olds.

It may also lead to improved therapies to fight sleeping sickness; current medications used to combat the disease have improved over the past decade but still include an old arsenic - based drug that kills between 5 and 10 percent of the people receiving treatment, said the study's senior author Stephen Hajduk, a professor of biochemistry and molecular biology in the UGA Franklin College of Arts and Sciences.

«What was really exciting is that in both old and young brains, a small percentage of the grafted cells retained their «stemness» feature and continuously produced new neurons,» said Bharathi Hattiangady, assistant professor at the Texas A&M College of Medicine and co-first author of the study.

The discovery, led by Associate Professor Jeff Cooke, Swinburne University of Technology, and Associate Professor John O'Meara, St. Michael's College, has helped solve a decades - old puzzle on the nature of gas clouds, known as damped Lyman alpha systems, or DLAs.

Too few study participants reached old age during the study to provide reliable data on that score, but the researchers plan to continue following the same people in an attempt to answer that question, says Singh - Manoux, who is also a professor of epidemiology at University College London, in the U.K.