A number of differences, of course, distinguish today's
science graduate students from the «huddled masses» of largely ill - educated immigrants of yesteryear.
The idea of the program, which originated with Claudia Koch - Brandt (Mainz) and Joachim Herz and Nancy Street (UT Southwestern), is to give life
science graduate students from both institutions the opportunity to work in a foreign laboratory, learn new methods and technical skills, and experience another country with, possibly, a different philosophy of science.
Not exact matches
Gladwell specifically looked at class rank among
students graduating with math and
science degrees
from two different universities.
From a standing start last year, the Society now has almost 400 members, 80 percent of whom hold a doctorate in the natural
sciences, the rest being primarily
graduate students.
A large - scale scholarship system targeted at
students from Asia for
graduate level study in
science and engineering fields would be one idea for adding to the skilled workforce in both Australia and the
students» home countries.
He started writing the blog One - Handed Grab in 2009 following requests
from a professor and a fellow
graduate student at the University of Hawai'i at Manoa after they talked way more about football than political
science.
It will include posts
from scholars in the disciplines of law and political
science, including faculty and
graduate students.
And he said he was pleased to hear about the scholarship plan for
science and math
graduates, but said the flip side is that the already underfunded city and state universities would lose the tuition
from those
students.
Letter
from AAAS CEO Rush Holt to Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein Regarding Fingerprint Reporting Guidelines [March 28, 2018] AAAS Statement on FY 2018 Omnibus Bill Funds for Scientific Research [March 23, 2018] AAAS Statement on FY 2018 Omnibus Funding Bill [March 22, 2018] AAAS CEO Rush Holt Statement on Death of Rep. Louise Slaughter [March 16, 2018] AAAS CEO Urges U.S. President and Congress to Lift Funding Restrictions on Gun Violence Research [March 13, 2018] AAAS Statements on Elections and Paper Ballots [March 9, 2018] AAAS Statement on President's 2019 Budget Plan [February 12, 2018] AAAS Statement on FY 2018 Budget Deal and Continuing Resolution [February 9, 2018] AAAS Statement on President Trump's State of the Union Address [January 30, 2018] AAAS Statement on Continuing Resolution Urges FY 2018 Final Omnibus Bill [January 22, 2018] AAAS Statement on U.S. Government Shutdown [January 20, 2018] Community Statement to OMB on
Science and Government [December 19, 2017] AAAS CEO Response to Media Report on Use of «
Science - Based» at CDC [December 15, 2017] Letter
from AAAS and the American Physical Society to Iranian President Hassan Rouhani Regarding Scientist Ahmadreza Djalali [December 15, 2017] Multisociety Letter Conference
Graduate Student Tax Provisions [December 7, 2017] Multisociety Letter Presses Senate to Preserve Higher Education Tax Benefits [November 29, 2017] AAAS Multisociety Letter on Tax Reform [November 15, 2017] AAAS Letter to U.S. House of Representatives Ways and Means Committee on Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (H.R. 1)[November 7, 2017] AAAS Statement on Release of National Climate Assessment Report [November 3, 2017] AAAS Statement on EPA
Science Adviser Boards [October 31, 2017] AAAS Statement on EPA Restricting Scientist Communication of Research Results [October 25, 2017] Statement of the Board of Directors of the American Association for the Advancement of
Science on Scientific Freedom and Responsibility [October 18, 2017] Scientific Societies» Letter on President Trump's Visa and Immigration Proclamation [October 17, 2017] AAAS Statement on U.S. Withdrawal
from UNESCO [October 12, 2017] AAAS Statement on White House Proclamation on Immigration and Visas [September 25, 2017] AAAS Statement
from CEO Rush Holt on ARPA - E Reauthorization Act [September 8, 2017] AAAS Speaks Out Against Trump Administration Halt of Young Immigrant Program [September 6, 2017] AAAS Statement on Trump Administration Disbanding National Climate Assessment Advisory Committee [August 22, 2017] AAAS CEO Rush Holt Issues Statement On Death of Former Rep. Vern Ehlers [August 17, 2017] AAAS CEO Rush Holt and 15 Other
Science Society Leaders Request Climate
Science Meeting with EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt [July 31, 2017] AAAS Encourages Congressional Appropriators to Invest in Research and Innovation [July 25, 2017] AAAS CEO Urges Secretary of State to Fill Post of
Science and Technology Adviser [July 13, 2017] AAAS and ESA Urge Trump Administration to Protect Monuments [July 7, 2017] AAAS Statement on House Appropriations Bill for the Department of Energy [June 28, 2017] Scientific Organizations Statement on
Science and Government [June 27, 2017] AAAS Statement on White House Executive Order on Cuba Relations [June 16, 2017] AAAS Statement on Paris Agreement on Climate Change [June 1, 2017] AAAS Statement
from CEO Rush Holt on Fiscal Year 2018 Budget Proposal [May 23, 2017] AAAS thanks the Congress for prioritizing research and development funding in the FY 2017 omnibus appropriations [May 9, 2017] AAAS Statement on Dismissal of Scientists on EPA Scientific Advisory Board [May 8, 2017] AAAS CEO Rush Holt Statement on FY 2017 Appropriations [May 1, 2017] AAAS CEO Statement on Executive Order on Climate Change [March 28, 2017] AAAS leads an intersociety letter on the HONEST Act [March 28, 2017] President's Budget Plan Would Cripple
Science and Technology, AAAS Says [March 16, 2017] AAAS Responds to New Immigration Executive Order [March 6, 2017] AAAS CEO Responds to Trump Immigration and Visa Order [January 28, 2017] AAAS CEO Rush Holt Statement on Federal Scientists and Public Communication [January 24, 2017] AAAS thanks leaders of the American Innovation and Competitiveness Act [December 21, 2016] AAAS CEO Rush Holt raises concern over President - Elect Donald Trump's EPA Director Selection [December 15, 2016] AAAS CEO Rush Holt Statement Following the House Passage of 21st Century Cures Act [December 2, 2016] Letter
from U.S. scientific, engineering, and higher education community leaders to President - elect Trump's transition team [November 23, 2016] Letter
from AAAS CEO Rush Holt to Senate Leaders and Letter to House Leaders to pass a FY 2017 Omnibus Spending Bill [November 15, 2016] AAAS reaffirms the reality of human - caused climate change [June 28, 2016]
Co-authored by Dr. Leslie Rissler, a University of Alabama professor of biological
sciences, and two of her
graduate students, Sarah Duncan and Nicholas Caruso, it used data gathered
from questionnaires answered by approximately 3,000 UA
students.
The Program has a long - standing commitment to providing substantive internship opportunities for undergraduates,
graduate students, and post-docs
from all fields of
science and engineering, as well as law
students.
Graduate students, faculty and professionals in the field of earth and atmospheric
sciences and their applications form a cohort that tackles hands - on exercises, hears
from dozens of prominent experts and forges strong professional networking connections.
RCP Provides Workshop in Kuwait on Proposal Development
From 5 - 7 December in the conference rooms at the Kuwait Foundation for the Advancement of
Science in Kuwait City, RCP led a workshop for 52 researchers and
graduate students.
Millan, a UCI
graduate student researcher in Earth system
science, and his colleagues analyzed 20 major outlet glaciers in southeast Greenland using high - resolution airborne gravity measurements and ice thickness data
from NASA's Operation IceBridge mission; bathymetry information
from NASA's Oceans Melting Greenland project; and results
from the BedMachine version 3 computer model, developed at UCI.
Our backgrounds varied,
from graduate students and frustrated postdocs to a
science publicity officer.
In cooperation with Ilyan Georgiev, PhD
student at the
Graduate School for Computer
Science in Saarbrücken, Jaroslav Krivanek
from the Charles University in Prague and Thomas Davidovic
from the Intel Visual Computing Institute at Saarland University, Slusallek developed a mathematical approach in 2012 that combines both methods with each other in a clever way.
In his review of Big
Science, Alex Wellerstein offers readers a glimpse into the life and career of the controversial physicist —
from his seemingly remorseless exploitation of cheap
graduate student labor to his zealous support for the atomic bomb.
The fundamental unity of
science training and
science scholarship does not relieve research scientists — their labs teeming with
graduate students and postdocs supported by stipends paid
from research grants — or their host institutions, or the funding organizations, of the responsibility to take training the next generation of scientists very, very seriously.
Her name appeared among an informal group of 18
students who signed an anti-union email sent to the
graduate student body a week before the vote; 14 of those signatories came
from the
sciences.
This three - semester program seeks outstanding
students from a variety of backgrounds including recent
graduates with B.A.s in mathematics, the physical
sciences, computer
science, economics, and finance.
Between 42 % and 48 % of University of California, Berkeley, Ph.D.
students in
science and engineering are depressed, according to data
from a report released by the university's
Graduate Assembly.
In fact, many of Princeton's
graduate students in the field have little experience in oceanic and atmospheric
sciences; most come
from physics, mathematics, and engineering backgrounds, according to Philander.
An extensive case study revealed that graduation rates
from science have nearly tripled since PRISM's inception, that the number of
students pursuing
graduate degrees has grown nearly ten fold, and that
students receive author credit on journal articles more often than at other institutions.
A scholarship
from the Alliances for
Graduate Education and the Professoriate (AGEP)-- a National
Science Foundation - funded program for underrepresented minorities — enabled her to take on the doctorate while still paying off
student loans
from law school.
In a study published in Forensic
Science International: Genetics, a team of
graduate students and faculty
from the Department of Forensic
Science investigated several methods to recover and analyze DNA
from improvised explosive devices, or IEDs, to help thwart terrorist efforts.
Each year, approximately 8,000
science graduate students arrive at GUCAS
from all over China for an initial year of training before continuing at another institute or university.
The data for the October article come
from the National
Science Foundation's Survey of
Graduate Students and Postdoctorates in
Science and Engineering (GSS), which, as the article acknowledges, provides an incomplete count of the nation's postdocs.
«Indiana
students pursuing degrees in
science, technology, engineering and mathematics — or STEM — may not find a wealth of jobs to choose
from when they
graduate.»
Former
science graduate student and postdoc Micella Phoenix DeWhyse wrote a column for Science Careers from 2002 throug
science graduate student and postdoc Micella Phoenix DeWhyse wrote a column for
Science Careers from 2002 throug
Science Careers
from 2002 through 2008.
The GE &
Science Prize for Young Life Scientists recognizes and rewards outstanding Ph.D.
graduate students from around the world in their work within the field of molecular biology.
GE &
Science Prize for Young Life Scientists The GE &
Science Prize for Young Life Scientists recognizes and rewards outstanding Ph.D.
graduate students from around the world in their work within the field of molecular biology.
GRE scores and undergraduate GPA don't predict
students» future
graduate school productivity, but reference letters
from previous research advisers may provide clues about whether they are going to publish well, according to a story over at our
Science Careers sister site about two papers published today in PLOS ONE.
This uptick was preceded by a glimmer of hope
from a CGS report released last November (
Science, 11 November 2005, p. 957), which found a 1 % increase in international
student enrollment in
graduate programs at U.S. universities.
Most zoology
students do not use the knowledge gained
from dissections after they
graduate, argues Chaitanya Koduri,
science policy adviser to PETA India.
An interdisciplinary team with researchers
from fields of psychology, biological statistics and computational biology, medicine, and physics included the study's co-first authors, Paul Shamble, a former
graduate student in Hoy's lab who specializes in spiders and is a distinguished
science fellow at Harvard University, and Gil Menda, a postdoctoral researcher in Hoy's lab.
I was reminded of that this spring, when a
graduate student conference I helped organize (with colleagues
from George Mason University, George Washington University, and Virginia Tech) was combined with a workshop for rising
science and technology (S&T) policy professionals sponsored by the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS, which also publishes Science?s Next
science and technology (S&T) policy professionals sponsored by the American Association for the Advancement of
Science (AAAS, which also publishes Science?s Next
Science (AAAS, which also publishes
Science?s Next
Science?s Next Wave).
A new report
from the Royal Society on improving U.K.
science and mathematics education contains a lengthy wish list: Upper - level
students should take a lot more
science and math; more college
graduates with
science degrees should go into teaching; current teachers should continually upgrade their skills and have a larger voice in the educational process; and the government should de-emphasize the high - stakes tests used to measure
student achievement.
Five
graduate students from underrepresented groups or disadvantaged backgrounds have been named Gilliam fellows by the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, joining a group of 30 fellows with a passion for
science and a commitment to increasing diversity in the
sciences.
To enter UC Davis's business plan competition, Kjelstrom encourages her
science and engineering
graduate students to seek help
from an MBA
student for refining concepts and targeting a specific market.
Half of all U.S.
graduate students in computer
science and electrical engineering come
from abroad, he notes.
James Schiffbauer and John Huntley, both assistant professors of geological
sciences in the MU College of Arts and
Science, worked with Shelton and Tara Selly, a
graduate student in Schiffbauer's research group, to collect slabs of rocks
from the site.
In fact, according to the report
from the academies» National Research Council, there's no good evidence that
students are any more likely to
graduate from college with a STEM (
science, technology, engineering, and mathematics) degree or pursue a scientific career if they attend a specialty
science and math school than a regular school.
The ELISS program — hosted by AAAS and sponsored by partner campuses, the Argosy Foundation, Rita Allen Foundation, and individual donors — is now at the end of the second year of a three - year pilot brings together
graduate students from a host of disciplines to collaborate on a project at the intersection of
science and society that improves their community.
Sudmant, a UW
graduate student in genome
sciences, said, «Gathering this data is critical to understanding differences between great ape species, and separating aspects of the genetic code that distinguish humans
from other primates.»
Yet even today, most
graduate students in
science tend to shy away
from anything that smells like «activism.»
From left: materials
science and engineering professor Kristopher Kilian,
graduate student Junmin Lee and veterinary medicine professor Timothy Fan.
From graduate student to her current role as an assistant director of the NASA Johnson Space Center, her career in
science and engineering has always been closely linked with the advances and applications of space technology.
The study, published in
Science Advances, was led by ASU School of Earth and Space Exploration
graduate student Feifei Zhang, with direction
from school faculty member Ariel Anbar.
First author of the study, William Symes, a
graduate student from the Department of Biological Sciences at the NUS Faculty of
Science said, «Protected areas are not static but instead dynamic, shifting institutions that change over time, and it is crucial for conservation planners to recognise this.
I felt different
from the
graduate students I shared bench - tops with; a little bit inferior, a little reluctant to give myself over wholeheartedly to the pursuit of
science.