Sentences with phrase «science writing students»
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I have jumped up from my desk when a co-worker said there was a Dratini outside,» the UNH masters student studying computer science writes in a direct message on Twitter.
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«It is alarming that approximately 40 % (this is an astounding 300,000 students each year) of those who receive advanced degrees in science, technology, engineering and math at American universities are foreign nationals with no legal way of staying here even when many would choose to do so,» Dimon wrote.
Harvey Mudd describes its core curriculum as «an academic boot camp in the STEM disciplines — math, physics, chemistry, biology, computer science, and engineering — as well as classes in writing and critical inquiry» that it says «gives students a broad scientific foundation and the skills to think and to solve problems across disciplines.»
My proto - blogging interests lie in writing about science (with a bent toward things that I find new / futuristic) and life skills as they apply to a STEM - field doctoral student, to include topics in personal finance, productivity, etc..
According to a letter (PDF) written by the university earlier this week, five department servers were compromised, which all had the personal information of students who took classes in computer science, materials science and engineering and world languages.
We, and our students, have written not only about God but also about the problem of evil, Christ, the church, Christian education, pastoral counseling, preaching, the nature of human beings, history, liberation and salvation, spirituality, religious diversity, interfaith dialogue, science and religion, and other standard theological topics.
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.
From fourth grade on, the teacher assesses the students in the writing of their own compositions and, starting in sixth grade, in the integration of science experiment write - ups in their main lesson books.
Written materials were provided to Assembly members and senior political science graduate students facilitated their small group discussions.
Do science, write articles in peer - rewied journals, present at conferences, teach, supervise students.
«This bill,» the group wrote, «will harm the Oklahoma economy, bring costly lawsuits, and irreparably harm our students» education in science.»
The competition was open to undergraduate and graduate students, who were invited to write an essay on any topic at the intersection of science, technology and human rights.
They wrote op - eds; founded Pro-Test for Science, an organization of students and faculty that encourages support for research that uses animals; and initiated a dialogue with peaceful animal rights advocates.
He is editor of a collection of short stories and essays about science written by Puerto Rican scientists and is currently piloting a project engaging K - 12 students in learning and conveying, through podcasts of their own, the concepts taught in the book.
Many graduate school programs within the sciences the social sciences require students to do a considerable amount of research, culminating with a written thesis, or dissertation.
Students will engage with scientific ideas and practices through hands - on activities and learn to write clear and concise explanations of real - world phenomena as part of a novel curriculum that the National Science Teachers Association Press is slated to publish in mid-September.
Students may write on any topic at the intersection of science and / or technology with human rights.
As far as I know, not a single graduate science program in the world demands that their students take a course in science writing.
Other components of the program are educational and research opportunities, mentoring, a science - writing workshop, career counseling and guidance, and financial support for students accepted into a graduate - level program.
After grad student Sara Evans decided to become a science writer, Lundblad hired her for an additional year to help prepare manuscripts and write a manual on the lab's techniques and protocols.
«A Ph.D. student could write a science blog talking about the implications of what they and their colleagues are doing,» he suggests.
Bowen helps prepare his students for the rigors of science by emphasizing writing.
If your Plan A is to teach science in a liberal arts college, you will need to get comprehensive teaching experience (developing a syllabus, delivering a lecture, engaging students in active learning, writing exams, giving grades).
Humanities students and postdocs are just as much in need of the I - RITE program as people in the sciences are, and not just from the writing perspective.
In 2009 University of Virginia psychologist Christopher S. Hulleman described a semester - long intervention in which one group of high school students wrote about how science related to their lives and another group simply summarized what they had learned in science class.
The work is described in a paper appearing this week in the journal Science, written by MIT graduate student Yichen Shen, professor of physics Marin Soljačić, and four others.
When I was asked to write an article for Next Wave's March 2001 feature on underrepresented minorities in science, I enthusiastically accepted the invitation because I thought it might represent an opportunity to bring key issues to the forefront pertaining to the plight of students of color in science and engineering.
When Carol Plautz (formerly Carol Zygar) was nearing the end of her doctoral studies in biology at the University of Virginia (UVA) in Charlottesville, she wrote an article for Science's Next Wave that detailed the ways that graduate students can pay for their education.
«So, in essence one branch of the federal government is funding unemployed ITers to «retrain» for something well beneath their qualifications, while another federal agency is approving work permits for foreign students [for jobs] that unemployed Americans could easily do,» writes the man to whom I owe my knowledge of this piquant contrast, computer science professor Norman Matloff of the University of California, Davis.
It is that time of year when I'd be remiss not to highlight all the amazing Science Notes articles written as final projects by students of the Science Communication Program at UC Santa Cruz.
AAAS Communicating Science workshops, developed by the Center for Public Engagement with Science and Technology, are specifically designed to address the needs of scientists and engineers to communicate scientific or technical information in a variety of public and professional interactions, such as media interviews, writing grant proposals, discussing ideas with students, testifying before Congress, or participating in public forums.
He is «far ahead of the average student or young researcher of his age in motivation and systematic work,» writes György Pokol, one of Szilágyi's two Ph.D. supervisors, in an e-mail to Science Careers.
► «[A] novel analysis finding a link between how U.S. graduate students in the biomedical sciences are funded and their first job after earning their Ph.D. turns one piece of conventional wisdom on its head: Students supported on a research grant are more likely to take a research job than those funded by other mechanisms,» including training grants and individual fellowships, Jeffrey Mervis wrotstudents in the biomedical sciences are funded and their first job after earning their Ph.D. turns one piece of conventional wisdom on its head: Students supported on a research grant are more likely to take a research job than those funded by other mechanisms,» including training grants and individual fellowships, Jeffrey Mervis wrotStudents supported on a research grant are more likely to take a research job than those funded by other mechanisms,» including training grants and individual fellowships, Jeffrey Mervis wrote today.
«It was clear that he had unusual insight for a young student — he asked the right questions including many that I could not answer,» Baulcombe writes in an e-mail to Science Careers.
Former science graduate student and postdoc Micella Phoenix DeWhyse wrote a column for Science Careers from 2002 througscience graduate student and postdoc Micella Phoenix DeWhyse wrote a column for Science Careers from 2002 througScience Careers from 2002 through 2008.
Choo and his co-authors (two former students of his, Jian Peng and Sam Detchon, and Helen Ashman, associate professor of information technology and mathematical sciences at the University of South Australia) used writing samples from the most prolific online commenters on various news web sites, and discovered that many people espousing their opinions online were actually all linked to a few singular writers with multiple accounts.
The editors, Toronto science teachers Maurice Di Giuseppe and Isha DeCoito, came up with the idea for a science journal written by students, for students.
The journal is designed to provide students from grades 7 to 12 with an opportunity to communicate their school - based science and technology experiences with other students across the province of Ontario and perhaps even the country, as well as an opportunity to test their writing skills and their artwork.
► The National Institutes of Health (NIH) is launching a new program to «attract and retain more minority students» in the sciences, Jeffrey Mervis wrote Tuesday.
► «Graduate students in the United States receive disparate levels of professional development, networking opportunities, and assessments of basic levels of competency depending on where and with whom they train,» wrote Paul Jordan, a Ph.D. student in the Department of Chemistry at Indiana University, Bloomington, in a letter published in this week's Science.
The turning point came in 1996 when antitrust litigation against the American Bar Association forced it to accredit for - profit law schools, wrote co-authors Gruppuso, Dr. Eli Adashi, professor of obstetrics and gynecology and former dean of medicine and biological sciences, and current Brown medical student Gopika Krishna.
Reviewer Erin Dolan of the Institute for Discovery Education in Science at the University of Texas, Austin, wrote that «[m] any studies and multiple meta - analyses... have shown that students in online courses realize the same, if not better, outcomes as compared to students in face - to - face courses.
Using the device of a student essay written from the perspective of the year 2073, Haldane provided a chilling vision of a future in which human lives are overwhelmed by advances in the biological sciences.
But Jain feels more reforms are needed to attract students into science, including a regular pay ladder,» Bagla wrote.
Indeed, the CASE fellowship was formative: Phillips currently works as a business Enterprise Fellow — teaching entrepreneurship to university students at the Manchester Science Enterprise Centre and working as an advisor writing business plans for university spin - off companies.
A group of undergraduate and graduate students in the fields of science, engineering, and mathematics sharpened their reporting and writing abilities, and honed their communication skills after spending the summer working in the fast - paced environments of the nation's top newsrooms.
The collection features a science communication guide that offers tips for writing engaging op - eds, as well as for students hoping to organize science advocacy events on university campuses.
That said, Rothman notes that working in England meant he missed out on some practical training about US science that he would have gotten at an American university, like how to write an effective US grant application, and how graduate students are funded.
Moctezuma routinely shows his students science documentaries such as Al Gore's An Inconvenient Truth and the time - lapsed photography movies produced by plant biologist Roger Hangarter, «so they can watch a film and discuss or write how the film relates to the different concepts they would learn in class,» Moctezuma says.
Margaret Thatcher's fame, however, did not arise from the undergraduate degree she earned at Oxford University, although she wrote her thesis under future chemistry Nobel laureate Dorothy Hodgkin, who declared her a «good» student, according to an article in Notes & Records of The Royal Society by historian of science Jon Agar.