Sentences with phrase «student studying the environment»

I'm a university student studying the environment and biology.

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The concept was simple: create a universally accessible studying environment where students could share materials, thoughts on courses and professors and even tools to create flashcards and plan schedules.

The additional dollars are making sure our schools are well maintained so our students can study in safe, supportive environments.»

Other education related initiatives include resolving the issue of the Alberta teachers» pension plan shortfall and preventing a teachers» strike for five years; creating 1000 new spaces for post-secondary education students in energy, the environment, and economic studies; and creating 6000 new apprenticeship seats.

The station — which is open to students needing to catch some shut - eye during epic study sessions — features six cots, lockers for personal items and an environment supervised by the building's staff, 24 - 7.

«What is unique about the ITI is our philosophy of the students living here on campus, a distinctly beautiful and Catholic environment, a life of prayer, study and community — the three pillars of the ITI.

I could easily commend the syllabus, lecturers and course leaders, the flexible study modes (I opted for three years part - time), the range of optional modules, the extraordinarily helpful librarian and IT staff, the well - designed virtual learning environment, opportunities to dialogue with staff and fellow students, pastoral support — and much more.

Our objective is to help students be successful in the classroom by providing a quiet environment in which to study and learn with dedicated, experienced tutors available.

The following principles guide and define our approach to learning and teaching: • Every child is capable and competent • Children learn through play, investigation, inquiry and exploration • Children and adults learn and play in reciprocal relationships with peers, family members, and teachers • Adults recognize the many ways in which children approach learning and relationships, express themselves, and represent what they are coming to know • Process is valued, acknowledged, supported, nurtured and studied • Documentation of learning processes acts as memory, assessment, and advocacy • The indoor and outdoor environments, and natural spaces, transform, inform, and provoke thinking and learning • School is a place grounded in the pursuit of social justice, social responsibility, human dignity and respect for all THE CREFELD SCHOOL 8836 Crefeld Street Philadelphia, PA 19118 215-242-5545 www.crefeld.org 7th - 12th grade The Crefeld School is a small, independent, coeducational school, serving approximately 100 students in grades 7 - 12.

But a recent study by Joseph Allen, a psychology professor at the University of Virginia, and Robert C. Pianta, the dean of the education school there, demonstrates that when teachers are trained in how to create a better environment in the classroom, that can have a measurable effect on student performance.

This works quite well for some students (our Campus and Community page discusses options for what your family can do in our neighborhood while you're in class); other students, however, find they can focus more on their studies when they are here alone and that their children are happier staying with a caregiver in the familiar environment of their own home.

This was one of the first studies to look at the complex interactions between student self - regulation and the classroom environment.

2009 N.M. House Memorial 58 requests the governor's women's health advisory council to convene a task force to study the needs of breastfeeding student - mothers and make recommendations for breastfeeding accommodations in school environments.

Doctoral candidate Ximena Portilla and Assistant Professor Jelena Obradović of the Graduate School of Education, with colleagues at the University of California, San Francisco, studied kindergarten students and classroom environments and then followed those students into first grade.

Because the UVM study is small in scope (involving only two elementary schools in Vermont) and conducted only in the semester before (spring 2012) and the first year after implementation of the new nutrition rules (spring 2013), this study is an inaccurate representation of the school meals environment and behaviors of students in the lunchroom.

This book uses studies and other data to argue that students from poverty and high - stress environments learn differently than their middle and upperclass counterparts.

We are therefore providing both the students and teachers with a conducive learning environment so they can concentrate on their studies,» he said.

We studied first and second ‑ grade students in Florida from schools representing diverse environments.

Smitsonian Institution Programs Summer Archeology Programs Connected with DC Universities [Program for Deaf Students] Drinking Water Quality Research Center, Miami, FL [proposal for outreach to disabled students] Museum of Science and Industry, IL Chicago Schools Cooperative Museum Program, IL Recreational Faculties for the Handicapped at Rend Lake, IL SELPH Material Lawrence Hall King Report on Survey of the Special Educational Programs of Members of the Association of Science Technology Centers University of Kentucky Outdoor Education for Handicapped Project Directory of OOPS Programs Maryland Science Center, Baltimore, MD [notes on interview] ABCD Collaboration Science Program Non-Mainstreamed Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA Technical Education Research Center Camp Happy Hollow, Mayrille, MI Squam Lakes Science Center, NH Science Enrichment Program Opened to Handicapped Students NY League of Hard of Hearing, NY Center of Science and Industry, OH Carnegie Museum, Pittsburg, PA Pacoma Environmental Education Center, PA Roanoke Valley Science Museum, VA Fairfax County Public Schools, VA US Geological Survey Earth Science Program, WI ERIC - CRESS Info on Outdoor Ed - Science Programs National Council for Therapy and Rehabilitation through Horticulture Environments for the Able and Disabled Nature Study - A Journal of Education and Interpretation OOPS Out of School Science Proposal and Drafts Original Newspaper Article, 1980 - 1981 OOPS Out of School Science Proposal and Drafts II, 198Students] Drinking Water Quality Research Center, Miami, FL [proposal for outreach to disabled students] Museum of Science and Industry, IL Chicago Schools Cooperative Museum Program, IL Recreational Faculties for the Handicapped at Rend Lake, IL SELPH Material Lawrence Hall King Report on Survey of the Special Educational Programs of Members of the Association of Science Technology Centers University of Kentucky Outdoor Education for Handicapped Project Directory of OOPS Programs Maryland Science Center, Baltimore, MD [notes on interview] ABCD Collaboration Science Program Non-Mainstreamed Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA Technical Education Research Center Camp Happy Hollow, Mayrille, MI Squam Lakes Science Center, NH Science Enrichment Program Opened to Handicapped Students NY League of Hard of Hearing, NY Center of Science and Industry, OH Carnegie Museum, Pittsburg, PA Pacoma Environmental Education Center, PA Roanoke Valley Science Museum, VA Fairfax County Public Schools, VA US Geological Survey Earth Science Program, WI ERIC - CRESS Info on Outdoor Ed - Science Programs National Council for Therapy and Rehabilitation through Horticulture Environments for the Able and Disabled Nature Study - A Journal of Education and Interpretation OOPS Out of School Science Proposal and Drafts Original Newspaper Article, 1980 - 1981 OOPS Out of School Science Proposal and Drafts II, 198students] Museum of Science and Industry, IL Chicago Schools Cooperative Museum Program, IL Recreational Faculties for the Handicapped at Rend Lake, IL SELPH Material Lawrence Hall King Report on Survey of the Special Educational Programs of Members of the Association of Science Technology Centers University of Kentucky Outdoor Education for Handicapped Project Directory of OOPS Programs Maryland Science Center, Baltimore, MD [notes on interview] ABCD Collaboration Science Program Non-Mainstreamed Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA Technical Education Research Center Camp Happy Hollow, Mayrille, MI Squam Lakes Science Center, NH Science Enrichment Program Opened to Handicapped Students NY League of Hard of Hearing, NY Center of Science and Industry, OH Carnegie Museum, Pittsburg, PA Pacoma Environmental Education Center, PA Roanoke Valley Science Museum, VA Fairfax County Public Schools, VA US Geological Survey Earth Science Program, WI ERIC - CRESS Info on Outdoor Ed - Science Programs National Council for Therapy and Rehabilitation through Horticulture Environments for the Able and Disabled Nature Study - A Journal of Education and Interpretation OOPS Out of School Science Proposal and Drafts Original Newspaper Article, 1980 - 1981 OOPS Out of School Science Proposal and Drafts II, 198Students NY League of Hard of Hearing, NY Center of Science and Industry, OH Carnegie Museum, Pittsburg, PA Pacoma Environmental Education Center, PA Roanoke Valley Science Museum, VA Fairfax County Public Schools, VA US Geological Survey Earth Science Program, WI ERIC - CRESS Info on Outdoor Ed - Science Programs National Council for Therapy and Rehabilitation through Horticulture Environments for the Able and Disabled Nature Study - A Journal of Education and Interpretation OOPS Out of School Science Proposal and Drafts Original Newspaper Article, 1980 - 1981 OOPS Out of School Science Proposal and Drafts II, 1980 - 1981

Summer employment at MIT's Lincoln Laboratory in Lexington, Massachusetts, gives students the opportunity to complement their studies with hands - on experience in a real - life research environment.

When discussing East Asian students», the media used this as an opportunity to present the UK education system in a favourable light in comparison to their international rivals, and inferred that these students are fortunate to be studying in such an environment.

Although their experience in a battlefield environment provides a common motivating factor for their studies, the students say it has, more significantly, helped prepare them for their scientific careers.

«By measuring naturally occurring ammonium and iodide in numerous samples from different geological formations in the Appalachian Basin, including flowback waters from shale gas wells in the Marcellus and Fayetteville shale formations, we show that fracking fluids are not much different from conventional oil and gas wastes,» said Jennifer S. Harkness, lead author of the study and a PhD student at Duke's Nicholas School of the Environment.

A study in the journal Psychological Science finds that students learning a new language in a total immersion environment had reduced access to their original language.

Stefanie Lutz, a PhD student at the School of Earth and Environment at the University of Leeds, and lead author of the study, said: «Our three - week field trip revealed a «microbial garden» of life forms flourishing in this cold environment, including snow algae, bacteria, fungi and even invEnvironment at the University of Leeds, and lead author of the study, said: «Our three - week field trip revealed a «microbial garden» of life forms flourishing in this cold environment, including snow algae, bacteria, fungi and even invenvironment, including snow algae, bacteria, fungi and even invertebrates.

The first author of this study, Jeremiah Minich, a graduate student working on his thesis in Knight's lab and in the lab of Eric E. Allen, PhD, associate professor at UC San Diego Scripps Institution of Oceanography, swabbed each of these sites while wearing protective gowning and gloves to avoid unintentional contamination of the environments.

«We asked ourselves how the sensitive ultra-diffuse galaxies could survive at all in an environment as unsettled as a galaxy cluster,» explains Carolin Wittmann, first author of the study and PhD student at the Institute for Astronomical Computing (ARI) at the ZAH.

«So far, much of our surface exploration by rovers has focused on ancient terrains and whether or not the environments they record were habitable,» said Sun, lead author on the study and a graduate student working with Milliken.

«In addition, in a better academic environment students spent more time studying, leaving them less time to engage in risky behaviors.»

Afterschool programs with positive, responsive, and organized environments can have academic benefits for students, finds a new study by NYU Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development.

If your goal is to help reduce carbon dioxide emissions, then maybe you should switch to LEDs now,» said Lixi Liu, first author of the study and a doctoral student at the U-M School for Environment and Sustainability and at the Department of Mechanical Engineering.

«This study shows that it is possible a dense environment near the heart of the galaxy hinders and stops galaxy growth,» says Callingham, who did much of the research as a PhD student with the Australian Centre for All - shy Astrophysics (CAASTRO).

«This study demonstrates that a high - risk social environment can overwhelm the protective effect of a genetic variant associated with alcohol - related behaviors,» said Emily Olfson, an MD - PhD student at Washington University School of Medicine as well as first author of this study.

«This is the first research to show that declines in tree growth during a drought can significantly reduce long - term tree survival in Southeastern forests for up to a decade after the drought ends,» said Aaron Berdanier, a Ph.D. student in forest ecology at Duke's Nicholas School of the Environment, who led the study

Also, women are more likely to trust and befriend gay men when they are in a highly competitive dating environment, such as a university with more female students than male students, the studies showed.

A team led by Prof. Fumitaka Homae studied a rarely targeted population for this subject: Japanese junior high school students learning English as a second language in a school environment.

«Our model, however, predicts that large quantities of H2 may also be forming within faster - spreading tectonic plates — regions that collectively underlie roughly half of the Mid-Ocean Ridge,» said Stacey L. Worman, a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Texas at Austin, who led the study while she was a doctoral student at Duke's Nicholas School of the Environment.

This will allow, for example, students to elect to study in the most appropriate environment.

Students in all grade levels studied, fourth through sixth, benefited in terms of having significantly more favorable perceptions of the school environment.

[Box 9] OIS - China - Chinese Science and Technology Policy Delegation Visit, 1978 Zhongshan University Delegation Visit, 1979 AAAS Popularization of Science Delegation to China, 1980 CAST Science Writers Delegation to US, 1981 AAAS Environmental Planning Delegation to China, 1981 US - China Conference on Energy Resources and Environment, 1982 Interferon Study (Proposed), 1982 CAST Delegation to US, 1982 CAST Quality Control Delegation to US, 1982 Rumenant Productivity Symposium - US Papers, 1983 Rumenant Productivity Symposium - Chinese Papers, 1983 Photo Album of Address by Song Jian, 1985 AAAS Board of Directors Delegation to China, 1985 Chinese Delegation Visit (IIE), 1986 US Fish and Wildlife Service Delegation to China, 1986 FASAS International Climate Change Symposium (Proposal), 1986 CAST Delegation to US, 1986 Background Political Information, 1987 Law / Science Short Course (Proposal), 1987 Collected Information and Papers on Chinese Water Management, 1987 CAST Water Management Delegation to US, 1987 AAAS Water Management Delegation to China, 1987 AAAS Water Management Delegation to China - Follow - up, 1988 CAST Petrochemical Engineer Delegation to US (Proposal), 1987 Pacific Rim Symposium (Proposal), 1987 Science and Technology Advising Seminar (Proposal), 1988 - 1989 AAAS / ABA Lawyers and Scientists Delegation to China, 1988 China Symposium at 1989 AAAS Annual Meeting, 1988 - 1989 Medical Instrument Maintenance and Repair, 1989 Fang Li Zhi, 1988 - 1989 Amnesty International Reports on Chinese Arrests, 1989 Correspondence re: June 1989 Events in China, 1989 Consortium of Affiliates for International Programs, 1989 China - FASAS Symposium on Environmental Protection in Developing Countries, 1989 FASAS Symposium Chinese Papers, 1989 PRC Joint Commission Visit, 1989 Tibet, 1987 Liz Levey Misc Correspondence, 1982 - 1990 Chinese Code of Ethics, 1986 China Tech Company Information, (undated) AAAS / CAST Exchange Programs, 1978 - 1987 Correspondence with CAST International Director Wang Zheng, 1981 - 1982 Correspondence with CAST, 1981 - 1989 James Hartnett Complaint to CAST, 1988 - 1989 Chinese Academy of Sciences, 1987 Hong Kong Association for the Advancement of Science and Technology, 1987 - 1988 Correspondence with Chinese Embassy, 1982 - 1987 NAS China Committee, 1982 - 1986 Financial Aid for Chinese Students, 1987 Misc Articles and General Background Information, 1978 - 1989 Misc., 1982 - 1989 Presentation Transparencies, 1988 Elzinga, Aant.

Prof Chavarro, his student Dr Yu - Han Chiu and colleagues analysed 338 semen samples from 155 men attending a fertility centre between 2007 - 2012 as part of the ongoing, prospective «Environment and Reproductive Health» (EARTH) Study.

Fischbeck, Michelle Tom, a Ph.D. student in civil and environmental engineering, and Chris Hendrickson, the Hamerschlag University Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering, studied the food supply chain to determine how the obesity epidemic in the U.S. is affecting the environment.

Planetary astronomers hope to better understand how dark vortices originate, what controls their drifts and oscillations, how they interact with the environment, and how they eventually dissipate, according to UC Berkeley doctoral student Joshua Tollefson, who was recently awarded a prestigious NASA Earth and Space Science Fellowship to study Neptune's atmosphere.

The main focus of the study was on the interaction between the teacher and students in various technology supported learning environments.

As Jake Lanphere, a UC Riverside graduate student who co-authored the paper, which was published in the journal Environmental Engineering Science («Stability and Transport of Graphene Oxide Nanoparticles in Groundwater and Surface Water»), explained to Nanoclast in an email interview: «Other studies have looked at ideal lab conditions that do not necessarily reflect the conditions one might find in aquatic environments.

«This pathogen infects many different amphibian species — sometimes without causing disease — and can survive in the environment outside of its host, so it's not going away anytime soon,» said Allison Byrne, a doctoral student at the University of California — Berkeley who is studying chytridiomycosis.

At the School of Marine Sciences, students develop a scientific understanding of the marine environment that is Maine's heritage, integrate and communicate that knowledge their studies, and apply it toward stewardship of sustainable marine resources.

It is taught as a practice to the students and ensures that the psychological effects of the Neurological Sciences are studied and understood in a practical environment.

All the student unions have student liaison officers who work with advice and support to students in work environment and study - related issues.

The safety representatives work as work environment representatives for students, and you can contact them if there is something that does not work in the physical study environment.