Sentences with phrase «research focuses on student»

Dominique Baker (@bakerdphd) is a second - year assistant professor of education policy at Southern Methodist University, where her research focuses on student financial aid and equity in higher education.

This effort to involve students in research focused on Student / Adult Partnerships.

His research focuses on students learning history and teachers learning to teach history.

Previous KIPP research focused on student life has been eye - opening: a January 2017 survey found that about one in four KIPP alumni are financially supporting other family members while in college.

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The program is focused on research, and all Ryerson MBA students must write a major research paper.

I tell my students over and over they should research medical, technology, financial and economic fields instead of focusing on just one.

The Rotman Finance Area focuses on research & education: publishing in top - tier journals and educating students and executives in the latest financial thinking.

There are other cities that have focused on replacing disappearing industries such as steel or autos with technology, but they have big research universities or hospitals that naturally feed students and startups, Lang said.

Yet because of my previous research focus on women in the church and my acquaintance with political theology and critical theory (Francis Schüssler Fiorenza was a student of J. B. Metz and edited an issue of Continuum on Jürgen Habermas during the late»60s), I felt uneasy about two trends within the emerging feminist theological discourse.

Dr. Cheyney currently directs the International Reproductive Health Laboratory at Oregon State University where she has developed an academic learning community comprised of five undergraduate research assistants, 12 graduate students and one postdoctoral fellow whose research agendas are focused on identifying culturally appropriate ways to improve access to high quality midwifery care as a means of reducing health inequalities for mothers and babies in the U.S and abroad.

Her thesis research titled Effects of Advertising Methods on Sixth - Grade Population focused on increasing student fruit selection and consumption in the school lunch room.

Catherine Osborn, MA is a PhD student in medical anthropology at Case Western Reserve University whose research interests focus on historical and modern uses of technology to mediate childbirth and fertility.

Shana Robinson Ahmed, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), Division of Population Health, described CDC research findings related to child health and programs focused on student health.

Year after year, students opt to enroll in programs focusing on the Middle East, and some of those students may also decide to visit the region for research — to gather accurate data, to conduct interviews, or to look for primary sources.

We are focusing on our core mission of education and research, while continuing to advance critical economic development projects that foster the creation of good New York State jobs through public - private partnerships, which also provide unparalleled opportunities for our research faculty and students.»

This singular focus on research arises from a longstanding funding model that uses students and postdocs as inexpensive labor on professors» grant projects while neglecting their own professional development, which leads to another question McNutt posed: Should federal and state governments consider new models for financing research?

There are students who are so focused on their research that they are chronically late in their credit card payments or do not have a physical checkup for years.

«In a typical 25 - person graduate class of physics students at a major research institution, perhaps two or three might be focusing on the physics of living systems.»

While these efforts focus on underrepresented groups, it is expected that the resulting types of interventions will improve research and education opportunities for all students in computing.

These days, the research she conducts as an assistant professor of chemistry and biochemistry at San Francisco State University (SFSU) focuses less on advancing science and more on helping students advance — especially those from underrepresented groups.

Even as these students were forming their new network, NSF was developing an initiative to fund projects that connect far - flung research departments focusing on the same problems, with a special emphasis on international collaboration.

Ultimately, students have to focus on their research projects, right?

The research focused on seventh - and eighth - grade students participating in the Camden Youth Development Study, an initiative funded by the National Institute on Drug Abuse at the National Institutes of Health.

Cola has focused on public engagement on many fronts, working to inspire K - 12 students and their teachers to learn about the latest research in nano - and energy technologies.

Although my research in Kramer's lab focused on crop species, it applied similar techniques to those I had acquired as a grad student and addressed similar questions.

Most of the discussion about graduate education and the postdoc has been focused on research, when it has always been the case that a majority of students do not go on to research universities.

Most students and postdocs know how easy it is to become focused solely on their own research.

Some degrees focus primarily on course work; the more traditional Master's includes research and a thesis; and the newer approach mentioned by Ortega — the professional Master's degree — aims at preparing students for more specific careers, such as bioinformatics, biotechnology, environmental geoscience, forensic chemistry, industrial mathematics, and many other options.

Co-authors of the commentary article are: Meriah Schoen, a research assistant at Emory's Center for the Study of Human Health and a graduate student focused on nutrition at Georgia State University; and Amanda Mummert, who recently received a PhD in Anthropology from Emory.

When it finally accepts students in 2012, the Okinawa Institute for Science and Technology (OIST) aims to provide a new model of a Japanese research university, scrapping the division into traditional academic departments, focusing on interdisciplinary research, conducting business in English, and drawing roughly half of its faculty members from overseas.

These schools included «early college» high schools with a STEM focus (that offered both college and high school credits to students); tech - savvy schools that relied entirely on project - based learning (an instructional practice emphasizing student production of knowledge via projects and research); and career / technical education high schools that prepared students for careers such as agriculture or medicine through early experiences in those fields.

In January, Barker and psychology graduate students Sarah Newcomb - Anjo and Kate Mulvihill will expand on this research by launching a new study focused on life beyond graduation.

Authored by Charles Stewart, a third - year graduate student studying plant biology at Cornell, the article focuses on four very critical areas: research versus coursework, reading the literature, attending conferences, and networking with your peers.

The Baylor research focused on a class of 218 students in an introductory sociology class at Baylor, a private research university of about 15,000 students.

«Little research is available that demonstrates the effectiveness of STEM - focused schools in comparison with other schools or that contrasts the relative effectiveness of their different approaches on a variety of student outcomes,» the report notes.

The research council asserts that it is now focusing more on the quality than the number of Ph.D. s. That's embodied by a shift to centers for doctoral training (CDTs) that provide 4 - year Ph.D. s, including skills - development programs, rather than 3 - year project student Ph.D. s.

Professors tend to stay put at this highly ranked liberal arts college of science, engineering, and mathematics, where the focus is on teaching and student - faculty research is an integral part of the curriculum.

The institute will make use of existing infrastructures and will focus on staff and student exchanges, joint research and education projects, and adapting MIT's business programs to the United Kingdom.

Mayer discussed the implications of this research for policymakers, claiming that there is a place for small games that focus on well - specified learning objectives, become more challenging as students learn, and fit within existing educational programs to supplement, complement, and / or extend traditional instruction rather than replace it.

In the structured Ph.D. program, career - oriented skills training unrelated to the research project, combined with serious attention to planning for the student's career, should strengthen the focus on the student's prospects and progress.

He's now a Ph.D. student at the University of Exeter in the School of Sport and Health Sciences, where his research focuses on visual attention and performance.

The Hopps program, in which students do research with chosen mentors from freshman year until they graduate and take special classes focused on graduate school preparation, kicked off in 2006 with about 25 participants, but two recent classes of Packard Scholars followed a similar program.

«This study, led by my graduate student, Tamara Rosen, clarifies and focuses inconsistencies in previous research on the unique way error processing manifests and can impact anxiety symptoms in individuals with ASD,» said senior author Dr. Matthew Lerner, of Stony Brook University.

The focus of the research team, which includes UD graduate student Clark Nissley, was on the Atlantic brant goose, a bird whose population has been fluctuating and on a moderate decline for many years, to learn if limitations during the summer breeding season have accelerated that trend.

«But such messaging can appear to low - SES students as a signal that the institution is more focused on wealthier students,» said Destin, also a faculty fellow at the University's Institute for Policy Research.

The research, led by Jeff Galak (Carnegie Mellon University Tepper School of Business) and co-authors Elanor Williams (Indiana University Kelley School of Business) and Tepper School Ph.D. student Julian Givi, suggests that gift givers tend to focus on the moment of exchange when selecting a gift, whereas gift recipients are more focused on the long - term utility or practical attributes of the gift.

Littler, a PhD student from University College London, was lucky enough to experience life on board the JOIDES Resolution, a retired oil exploration vessel now used as a research ship by the Integrated Ocean Drilling Program (IODP), an international partnership of research institutions that focuses on exploring Earth's structure and history through ocean drilling.

NSF is also phasing out its Science of Learning Centers, which funds several large centers that focus on research to improve student learning.

While a raft of past research focused on factors that enable the academic failure of young black men, the special issue spotlights key academic and social factors — both positive and negative — that affect black students, through the eyes and in the words of the students themselves.

Of the two available models, a dual - degree program is probably the best approach for students interested in basic science, because the choices available for research training are likely to be wider and include more opportunities for basic science and bench research into molecular mechanisms, compared to graduate programs or postdoctoral fellowships linked to post-MD clinical training; the latter is more likely to be focused more on clinic - based studies.