Sentences with phrase «small university town»

To take a single example, last year I had the privilege of participating in one of these schools in a small university town, where in a parish of about one thousand members over two hundred persons (including a goodly number of interested «enquirers» who had heard of the program through a carefully planned advertising campaign) attended eight night sessions, held from eight until ten o'clock, with a choice among eight different courses, dealing with theological, ethical, historical, devotional, and scriptural subjects.

After attending classes in Eastern religion and the 19th - century English novel, she walks down the main street of this small university town with her new friend, Helen Kim to one of their favorite eating spots, Hoagie Haven, which is owned by Greek immigrants and run by Guatemalans.

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At a program such as Arkansas State, located in a small town and without the benefit of being the state's flagship university or being a member of a major conference, great results are contingent on the ability to market better, faster and with less resources.

Even before Heinz bought Kraft, the small - town ways of Oscar Mayer were changing, says Mike Judge, former head of consumer insights and strategy there and now Director of the Center for Brand and Product Management Center at the University of Wisconsin Business School.

Meanwhile, co-working spaces also were debuting across the country — and not just in the largest cities but in smaller urban areas and university towns with thriving populations of entrepreneurs and independent workers.

Despite being located in a small town in a small province, St. Francis Xavier University has had a huge impact across Canada.

Born in 1913, in a small Ontario town where his father was editor of the local newspaper, Davies went on to university both in Canada and at Balliol College, Oxford.

In my small town, we have several community centers, including several large churches and a university.

When the heroine of I Am Charlotte Simmons» a smart, beautiful, small - town girl» sits down to write her mother a letter about freshman life in «Dupont University,» it takes her hours to produce a «long, well - intentioned lie.»

I have been student or teacher at many types of institutions: the small liberal - arts college, the «Research I» state university that completely dominates a small town,....

Corvallis has a residential population of 55,345 and is home to Oregon State University, making it an ideal small town for people of all ages.

When I started university I couldn't speak a word of English, coming from a small French - speaking town.»

In 1952, when her husband became head of the pharmacology department at the University of South Dakota, the family (which now included two young daughters) moved to the small college town of Vermillion in the southeast corner of the state.

«Our findings reflect what small - livestock farmers often tell us: that the jackal is a much more challenging threat than larger carnivores such as caracal or even leopard,» said lead author and PhD candidate Marine Drouilly, of the Institute for Communities and Wildlife in Africa at the University of Cape Town, South Africa.

Patients in small towns can save thousands of dollars in health care costs if their local rural hospital is part of a tele - emergency room network, according to a new study from the University of Iowa.

From a bank of computers at a small - town library to mammoth case - law books piled on wooden tables at a university, today's libraries must straddle the analog and digital worlds.

Anthropologist Michael Heckenberger of the University of Florida teamed with the local Kuikuro people in the Brazilian state of Mato Grosso to uncover 28 towns, villages and hamlets that may have supported as many as 50,000 people within roughly 7,700 square miles (20,000 square kilometers) of forest — an area slightly smaller than New Jersey.

For many students, making it out of their small towns and conservative communities to the university setting is the ticket to finally being able to come out.

Christakis and political scientist James Fowler of the University of California, San Diego, analyzed 32 years» worth of recent records from 12,067 participants in the Framingham Heart Study, which has followed the health of residents of a small Massachusetts town and their offspring every four years since 1948.

Stein, of Binghamton University in New York, had been called in to assess the new fossil tree in a quarry near the small town of Gilboa in New York state, an area already famous for its enigmatic «stump» fossils.

After a short, post-college stint as a small - town journalist, I entered the physics Ph.D. program at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.

The transformation of this self - described shy boy from a small town in rural China to Associate Professor of Molecular Biology at Princeton University and Member of the Cancer Institute of New Jersey is bracketed between those two vastly different circumstances.

I started Fitness at the age of 19, I moved to a small town in Kansas and attended Pittsburg State University, I was always very skinny growing up and wanted to transform my body into what I saw on the Covers of Muscle and Fitness!!!

It seems like a college town, but really my university was a lot of girls and gay men, the other big university in town is an HBCU, and there are a couple of really small colleges so it's not like it's dripping with 20 something guys.

A small town, home to two large universities, I figured at least some of the twenty - somethings would be students — again hoping this might encourage a more normal demographic of guys along, and at the same time increase the laid - back atmosphere of the «dates».

A student of literature at Columbia University coming from small - town Ohio, in the 1970s the young Jim Jarmusch embraced New York's urban culture,...

Despite the track record, he is offered a football coaching gig at Heartland State University in a small, sleepy Texas town.

He takes a position at a small town university where he grabs the attention of two competing ladies, Rita (Parker Posey), a dissatisfied married science prof, and Jill (Emma Stone), a wide - eyed student who quickly falls for this mysterious man.

Ike offers Philip a place in the country to stay to escape the noisy distractions of New York City and a job teaching at a prestigious small town university so Philip doesn't have to make nice with the press to promote his latest novel.

At the University of Notre Dame, his small - town character scrapped his way onto the Fighting Irish football roster.

Drawing on interviews with female superintendents of urban, small - town, and rural school districts, the cofounder of the women's studies program at the University of Tulsa examines their contradictory experiences with power and subjection.

Although not all teachers would want to live in a small coastal town such as Lowestoft, they might be willing to live 45 minutes away by train in the university city of Norwich.

Schools and community groups based in smaller towns and rural communities, however, often do not regard public colleges and universities — which might be 50 or 100 miles away — as a resource for starting up, expanding, or improving afterschool and summer learning programs or for assisting them with their 21st Century Community Learning Centers.

This successful partnership between a major university and a small town would have not been possible without an understanding of the land grant university's mission — teaching, research, and outreach — and a respect for the capacity of town and afterschool leaders.

Likewise, many colleges and universities also may not see the potential for an afterschool partnership with schools and community groups in small towns and rural areas.

And that means mostly small, rural towns,» said Robert DeYoung, Capitol Federal Distinguished Professor in Financial Markets and Institutions at the University of Kansas School of Business (source).

Dr. Tran grew up in the small town of Duncan, Oklahoma before relocating to Oregon to attend Oregon State University.

Veterinary Specialist DVM, Tufts University Certifications: American College of Veterinary Surgeons Departments: Rehabilitation, Surgery Originally from the small town of Cumberland, RI, Dr. Mercurio graduated as class salutatorian in 2003 from Assumption College in Worcester, MA with a B.A. in Biology and advanced studies in philosophy.

We are a small kennel, located just outside the university town of Athens, Georgia.

Medical Director DVM, University of Minnesota Dr. Cory Loxtercamp was born and raised in a small Minnesota town, where he completed his undergraduate education at the University of Minnesota.

We are in a quiet, small town close to 3 university towns with support from the College of Vet Med...

Smaller redoubts like Halifax, Nova Scotia's capital can be especially welcoming; it's a thrumming university town that also happens to be great for sea kayaking.

This is because in this small town found some valuable resources builder like the famous Satya Wacana Christian University and some other colleges.

Beech Tree Cottage is part of a small private development, originally a working farm, just a couple of miles from the bustling University town of Lampeter in West Wales.

He was born and raised in St. Gallen in Switzerland (he comes from Grabs, the same small town that produced Pipilotti Rist); he studied languages at university and only took up the camera a few years ago.

Whitten grew up in small - town Alabama, and after meeting Martin Luther King in 1957, while a student at Tuskeegee University, became committed to non-violent activism.

Born in 1946 in Hamburg, Pennsylvania, a small farming town in the Amish countryside, Bill Beckley attended college at Kutztown University from 1964 to 1968 and in 1970 received a Master of Fine Arts from Tyler School of Art, Temple University.

on view from May 29 - September 30, 2015, charts the artist's beginnings in a small Mississippi farming town during the Great Depression to his journey to New York's avant - garde art scene and his career as a influential teacher at Yale Universiy and the University of Massachusetts at Amherst.

I am from a very small town, and I was already very apprehensive about the thought of going to a university in the middle of NYC, and when I imagined myself going to CU I easily saw myself getting lost mentally in the city, and becoming disenchanted with my own university.

Robin Dru Germany (BA Tulane, Philosophy, MFA University of North Texas) was born in Houston, TX, and grew up further south in the small town of Friendswood.