Sentences with phrase «out of a university setting»

As the new SURPAS Social Media Chair, Daniel is passionate about dialoguing with postdocs to understand (and help overcome) the variety of challenges we face, as well as building a sense of community both in and out of the University setting.

He has taught in Jindezhen, China with West Virginia University and regularly teaches workshops in and out of university settings.

Not exact matches

If those are your reasons for not improving your cardiovascular fitness, check this out: New research from McMaster University shows that ten minutes of stair climbing — ten minutes that includes warming up, cooling down, and recovering between sets — measurably improved cardiovascular fitness.

Mullen, who studied entrepreneurship at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles, set out to rethink those previous models.

«Setting out to raise a genius is the last thing we'd advise any parent to do,» says Camilla Benbow of Vanderbilt University, summing up current research on the subject.

Researchers at the University of Essex in the United Kingdom found that parents who set super-high expectations for their teenage daughters — and who constantly reminded them of those expectations — had daughters who were less likely to become pregnant, drop out of school, or wind up in lousy, low - wage jobs.

«Social Security is about as complicated a fiscal system as is humanly possible to design,» said Larry Kotlikoff, an economics professor at Boston University and author of the book «Get What's Yours: The Secrets to Maxing Out Your Social Security,» set for release in February.

One of them is John Carey, who was a Missouri State University student when Mozilla plucked him out of the Midwest and set him up with a free apartment nearby, along with the assignment to make a video of the behind - the - scenes work to prepare the next major version of Firefox.

In fall 2015, a group of robotics students at Delft University of Technology in the Netherlands set out with two objectives: to make a «cuddly robot» and to build a solution to sleep deprivation.

Researchers from Stanford University's Clayman Institute for Gender Research Recruitment sat in on tech company recruiting sessions at a top - tier West Coast university; their findings hint at what's keeping women out of tech jobs: «As students entered, women were often setting up refreshments or raffles and doling out the swag in the back; the presenters were often men, and they rarely introduced the rUniversity's Clayman Institute for Gender Research Recruitment sat in on tech company recruiting sessions at a top - tier West Coast university; their findings hint at what's keeping women out of tech jobs: «As students entered, women were often setting up refreshments or raffles and doling out the swag in the back; the presenters were often men, and they rarely introduced the runiversity; their findings hint at what's keeping women out of tech jobs: «As students entered, women were often setting up refreshments or raffles and doling out the swag in the back; the presenters were often men, and they rarely introduced the recruiters.

The researchers, all business school professors out of Columbia University, Northwestern University, and the University of Chicago, set up a mock hiring experience in which managers were asked to select which job «applicants» they thought would perform best at a math task.

To set the scene: Demonstrators at the University of Missouri were celebrating their victory in helping to force president Timothy Wolfe out of office.

In addition to the public company directorships set out below, Mr. Riley is Chair of the Board of Directors of the University of Winnipeg Foundation and Chair of Manitoba Hydro.

A University of Chicago historian sets out to explode the myth that before the homosexual movement that began in the late 1960s homosexuals were a closeted, fear - ridden, persecuted minority.

When she's not writing creative non-fiction, short stories, and poetry, Erin spends her time working on her Masters of Arts in Urban Studies online through Eastern University, fighting for the last carrot in the house with her two rabbits, Bug and Sage, and enjoying mentoring time with local youth both in and out of church settings.

But then, as students noted, Houellebecq sets the novel at a university because universities are out of touch.

In Fierce Convictions, the first biography of More since 2004, Liberty University's Karen Swallow Prior sets out to restore More's reputation.

Katz, who teaches history at the University of Pennsylvania, sets out to describe American debates about the «undeserving» (working - aged) poor since the early 1960s.

It may be an arrangement that factors out different aspects of the school's common life to the reign of each model of excellent schooling: the research university model may reign for faculty, for example, or for faculty in certain fields (say, church history, or biblical studies) but not in others (say, practical theology), while paideia reigns as the model for students, or only for students with a declared vocation to ordained ministry (so that other students aspiring to graduate school are free to attempt to meet standards set by the research university model); or research university values may be celebrated in relation to the school's official «academic» program, including both classroom expectations and the selection and rewarding of faculty, while the school's extracurricular life is shaped by commitments coming from the model provided by paideia so that, for example, common worship is made central to their common life and a high premium is placed on the school being a residential community.

In Lord Jesus Christ, the University of Edinburgh's Larry Hurtado sets out to answer these questions, and his thorough examination of the primary texts and much of the scholarship surrounding the first two centuries of Christianity provides him with three main theses.

Now, with a single companion, he set out on the long walk to Heidelberg, knowing that while he had an excellent recommendation from his political master, the Elector Frederick, and knowing that he had the perhaps dangerous support of many students and many avant garde university men, the big Church authorities, though for the most part silent, were possibly planning to silence him.

Look out, University of Alabama, Colleen has her sights set on playing for you in 3 years — Roll Tide

We've already started to set out some of this, pledging to raise corporation tax by less than 1.5 percent to give an Education Maintenance Allowance to college students and grants to university students so that every young learner can afford to support themselves as they develop skills and get qualifications.

«We think there's an inherent corruption risk in having your state university system, which has a different set of rules than state agencies, be the one that's handing out enormous sums of money,» Kaehny said at a news conference in Albany where several watchdog groups called for the changes.

«With approval ratings that consistently topped 70 percent, New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo had the political capital to spend when he set out to pass the toughest gun control laws in the nation,» said Maurice Carroll, director of the Quinnipiac University Polling Institute, in a statement.

To address this, the research funded by the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC), led by Professor Charles Alderson at Lancaster University, set out to identify the factors that determine how this skill develops in a number of different languages and what factors in people's first language influence progress in reading.

As an authoritative forthcoming Oxford University Press book by Anthony Heath and his colleagues will set out, these differences are more often in spite of income and social class, not because of it.

When Marc Walton, the senior scientist at Northwestern University and the Art Institute of Chicago's Center for Scientific Studies in the Arts in Illinois, set out to identify the hand behind a set of three portraits found with mummies from Egypt's Roman period, he didn't have a famous name in mind.

In 2003, during a postdoc with John Moran in the Human Genetics Department at the University of Michigan Medical School in Ann Arbor, he set out to develop a new model.

John Curtin Distinguished Professor Steven Tingay, from the Curtin University node of the International Centre for Radio Astronomy Research (ICRAR), said the MWA team did not initially set out to find «Oumuamua.

About five years ago, a team of Stanford University scientists set out to determine how the developing brain establishes its final set of synapses, connections through which cells of the nervous system communicate with one another and with nonneural cells.

Oliver Tschauner, a mineralogist at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, and his colleagues set out to study diamond inclusions — but they weren't looking for ice.

Researchers at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem set out to determine if they could predict a different evolutionary process and follow it in real time.

Paleogeneticist Claudio Ottoni and his colleagues from KU Leuven (University of Leuven) and the Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences set out to look for the answer in the genetic code.

Gloria Coruzzi and her colleagues at New York University and the Chinese University of Hong Kong suspected that these toxins may also be part of plant signaling system, and so they set out to see if plants had proteins like glutamate receptors.

Christine Démoré, an engineering physicist at the University of Dundee in Scotland, and colleagues set out to reverse the direction of that radiation pressure, so that an object would get pulled rather than pushed.

Using frozen samples of Nannochloropsis oculata, a type of single - celled ocean - dwelling algae, Dina Pasini (University of Kent) set out to test the conditions which early life would have had to survive if it did indeed travel through space.

Setting out to understand the spiking outbreaks, ecologists at the University of Wisconsin - Madison and the U.S. Geological Survey turned to citizen scientists.

Thinking that A20 was only produced in a few tissues, researchers at the University of Chicago originally set out to pinpoint A20's function in certain white blood cells in the intestine.

Having said that, there are examples of excellent provision in some universities, and policy frameworks and awards such as the European Charter for Researchers and the HR Excellence Award set out guidelines for institutions, including career support for postdoctoral research staff.

«The last missing piece in the puzzle was spin Nernst and that's why we set out to search for this,» says study coauthor Sebastian Goennenwein, a physicist at the Technical University of Dresden in Germany.

At the very least, students could find out «whether each department is meeting minimum standards as set forth by the Association of American Universities (and others) and whether each graduate student feels comfortable enough at the department to stick with the graduate program and finish with a degree,» says graduate student Susan Mahan - Nieber of Washington University in St. Louis.

Brownson, who also is director of the university's Prevention Research Center, and his co-authors set out to determine the effectiveness of three federal policies aimed at reducing childhood obesity: afterschool physical activity programs, a one - tenth - cent per ounce sugar - sweetened beverage excise tax, and a ban on fast food television advertising to children under 12.

She and collaborator Susan Richards, an assistant dean of finance and administration for the College of Education at the University of Arizona, set out to learn what proportion of PSM graduates are employed, where they're employed, and in what kinds of positions.

Mike Benton, a paleontologist at the University of Bristol in England, had set out to show that Sinosauropteryx's hairlike bristles were precursors to the feathers on today's birds.

That January, University of Utah researchers had set out seven calves (all of which had died from natural causes) weighing 18 to 27 kilograms in the Great Basin Desert, each monitored by a camera trap.

She studied cognitive science and comparative literature at the University of Georgia before setting out in search of the vague job description «learn and explain things.»

Jo Verbeeck from the University of Antwerp, Belgium, and colleagues set out to make such a beam using platinum foil bearing a specific pattern of holes.

This paper represents the first large - scale data set for such an experiment to come out of the University of Illinois.

In the experimental set up devised by a team including Dongheon Ha of NIST and the University of Maryland's NanoCenter, the light captured by the nanoresonator coating eventually leaks out and is absorbed by an underlying solar cell made of gallium arsenide.