Sentences with phrase «past graduate students»

For example, the overall composition in terms of current and past graduate students includes 21 Caucasians, 14 African Americans, 3 Asians, 6 Africans, 1 Hispanic, and 1 Native American.
He and Rockey suggested that it may not be legally possible for the agency to force institutions to track down past graduate students.
«Flies only live a day or two when they're starved,» Keene told me as we walked past graduate students peering at flies under microscopes.
Through the tireless efforts of Catharine Johnson, a past Graduate Student Association president, the GSA was established and had secured a significant budget.

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Students who wish to continue their education past their undergraduate years can look to Columbia's renowned graduate programs in business, law, and journalism.
«This past January I had a chance to talk with incoming graduate students,» he says.
In the past, Federal Perkins Loans could be used by undergraduate, graduate, and professional degree students with financial need.
91 % of employers think that students should have between one and two internships before they graduate, yet 50 % haven't hired any interns in the past six months.
If you got your bachelor's, master's or other higher degree in the past 10 years there's a good chance a chunk of student loan debt graduated alongside with you.
The program is open to university and college students in their final two years of study or who have graduated within the past two years.
It is designed for undergraduate and graduate students and those who have graduated within the past two years.
It's asked cities to provide a list of universities and community colleges with «relevant degrees» plus the number of students to graduate with those degrees over the past three years.
First, the good news: if you have federal student loans and have graduated in the past few years while interest rates were still low, your rates are fixed.
My own experience in teaching religion and theology to middle - and upper - middle - class undergraduates and graduate students in America for the past decade or so certainly suggests that this way of thinking about religion fits neatly with a strong tendency toward the kind of knee - jerk relativism that is also widespread among those in the same social strata.
About 30 Ghanaian graduate students on government scholarships in China have not been receiving their monthly stipend for the past 12 months.
Over the past week, he also has advocated awarding three upstate regions $ 500 million each for economic development and forgiving student loans for New York college graduates who stay to work.
«I'm getting calls all the time, from as far away as the Lower Hudson Valley and Vermont,» said Larkin, who noted that HVCC's two - year program has graduated about 150 students in the past five years — all with jobs, as far as he knows.
As administrators at 10 U.S. research institutions warned in a Science article this past December, without knowing what kinds of jobs graduates can expect after graduation, students can't «mak [e] informed choices about their pre - and postdoctoral training activities.»
Specifically, Yevgeny Raitses, working at PPPL; Marlene Patino, a graduate student at the University of California, Los Angeles; and Angela Capece, a professor at the College of New Jersey, have in the past year published experimental findings on how secondary electron emission is affected by different wall materials and structures, based on research they did at PPPL.
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 4Graduate 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 4graduate student population, which now includes many more women and noncitizens, over the past 40 years.
But my experiences these past 4 years as an IMCB graduate student convince me that they don't do the institute justice.
The number of students — 9900 undergraduates and graduates in the 1999 - 2000 academic year — is up 30 % in the past 5 years.
«The glut of graduate students» — and postdocs — «enticed by the growing support a few years ago have since found it difficult to get their own work funded... and the sudden deceleration in funding has left many researchers feeling slighted even though their funding grew by leaps and bounds in the past decade,» he writes.
Private institutions, on the other hand, were not required to recognize their graduate students» right to unionize until this past August, when the National Labor Relations Board ruled that graduate research and teaching assistants are employees.
Twiss, a professor of biological sciences and the endowed SmartState chair of the Center for Childhood Neurotherapeutics, and graduate student Ashley Kalinski are building on breakthroughs that they and others have reported on nerve regeneration over the past several years.
Clifford Chancey, director of the PSM program in applied physics at the University of Northern Iowa in Cedar Falls, says that all 13 students who graduated from the program in the past 5 years found immediate employment, with starting salaries ranging from $ 50,000 to $ 70,000.
For the past 9 years, I have been the director of the REU program at the Mathematical and Theoretical Biology Institute, which has trained and mentored more than 225 undergraduate and at least 30 graduate students.
Over the past few years, I've reviewed and critiqued numerous personal statements from students who were applying to graduate programs, internships, medical school, and other professional degree programs.
Over the past year, I have been pulled over any number of times by graduate students and postdocs asking for information on science policy careers.
«Although the regions experienced several major haze events over the past twenty years, the 2015 event was one of the worst,» said Shannon N. Koplitz, first author and Harvard graduate student.
But what shocked Williams was that the school's ranking was based on graduating only four black students a year for the past decade — out of a STEM class of roughly 3000.
This past summer, Cooper and graduate student Beth Shapiro revealed the results of their bison study at the Third International Mammoth Conference, in Dawson.
At the moment, several of its scruffy denizens, including Sam Kendig, 22, are ramming sectional couches down a corridor of classrooms as fast as low - tech human power can, past lab - coated professors and graduate students, none of whom blink an eye.
«It's not just you,» says Anna Ballew O'Connell, director of the Biological and Biomedical Sciences Program at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, who has advised graduate students for the past 10 years.
The share of graduate students in computer science and engineering with temporary visas has risen by 66 % in the past half - dozen years, notes the same report, with foreign - born students now making up almost half the graduate population in those fields.
He has a postdoctoral student and a graduate student trying to grow the consortium in a laboratory, knowing that the reason he and other microbiologists failed to do so in the past is that the microbes grow extremely slowly.
«We've been exploring the potential of defect spins for thermometry for the past few years,» said David Toyli, a graduate student in physics at UCSB and lead author of the temperature sensing work.
According to a report from the University of California (UC), nearly half of graduate students said that a mental or emotional problem had interfered with their academic work in the past year.
In order to best prepare for the madness, I thought about how I studied for tests in the past (what worked and what didn't) and talked to the older graduate students.
First, the number of graduate students and postdocs supported by fellowships has remained essentially constant over the past 30 years as the number supported on research grants increased rapidly.
Richard Lutz, associate dean of graduate students at the University of Florida, Gainesville, for the past 5 years, agrees.
Many Ph.D. students have graduated from your institute in the past, and your supervisor and other staff members will most likely know how to find them.
Zayna Khayat, organizer of the series and past president of the Biochemistry Graduate Students» Union at U of T, agrees: I think students are starting to get more aware, for two reasons: First, there was a similar event held last year, which a lot of people found helpful; and second, I think students are finding more and more that the academy isn't what it useStudents» Union at U of T, agrees: I think students are starting to get more aware, for two reasons: First, there was a similar event held last year, which a lot of people found helpful; and second, I think students are finding more and more that the academy isn't what it usestudents are starting to get more aware, for two reasons: First, there was a similar event held last year, which a lot of people found helpful; and second, I think students are finding more and more that the academy isn't what it usestudents are finding more and more that the academy isn't what it used to be.
Scientists have detected water vapor on other planets in the past, but these detections could only take place under very specific circumstances, according to graduate student Alexandra Lockwood, the first author of the study.
In FY17, there were 39 students enrolled in the program, which graduated 19 this past August.
At past symposia, FoR worked to highlight some of the problems facing postdocs and graduate students, and started to define solutions but this year, together with Academics for the Future of Science and the MIT Graduate Student Council, we shift our focus toward advocacy and action with sessions specifically chosen to better define productive routes for advocacy efforts and help participants develop the efficacy of their advocacygraduate students, and started to define solutions but this year, together with Academics for the Future of Science and the MIT Graduate Student Council, we shift our focus toward advocacy and action with sessions specifically chosen to better define productive routes for advocacy efforts and help participants develop the efficacy of their advocacyGraduate Student Council, we shift our focus toward advocacy and action with sessions specifically chosen to better define productive routes for advocacy efforts and help participants develop the efficacy of their advocacy skills.
His graduate student, Suhasa Kodandaramaiah, spent the past two years as a visiting student at MIT, and is the lead author of the study, which appears in the May 6 issue of Nature Methods.
This past October, led by postdoc Nicholas McGranahan and graduate student Rachel Rosenthal, Swanton's lab found one way that lung cancers evolve to escape detection by the immune system.
Thepresident - elect, the vice-president-elect, the president, the vice president, the three most recent past presidents, the most recent past - vice-president, the secretary, the past secretary, the treasurer, the past treasurer, and one graduate student from the graduate student council shall constitute the voting members of the executive committee of the Society.
Over the past five years, the Department of State's International Fulbright Science & Technology Award has brought more than two hundred exceptional students from seventy - three different countries to the United States to pursue graduate studies.
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