Sentences with phrase «students at the university»

Canada's richest woman was a political science and economics student at the University of Toronto in the 1960s.

In a 1998 panel discussion with students at the University of Washington's business school, the two billionaires pinpointed the best business decisions they ever made.

As graduate student at the University of British Columbia, Tehrani knew he wanted to do something different.

«As a student at the University of New Brunswick, I had a summer research job with the chair for nanotechnology.

Haley Radeka is a student at the University of South Florida studying Mass Communications and Leadership Studies.

Brothers Zeki and Haroon Mokhtarzada started Webs — then called Freewebs — while still students at the University of Maryland - College Park.

«The jailbreak community is like an incubator for cool ideas,» says Cydia's founder, Jay Freeman, until recently a computer science Ph.D. student at the University of California, Santa Barbara.

Two years later as a 26 - year - old MBA student at the University of Virginia's Darden School, he launched the precursor to LendingTree.

However, his luck started to change in 2009, when Cameron Smith, 23 years old and a student at the University of Utah — like he was once — joined the team.

Then a master's student at the University of Quindío in Colombia, Gomez found a thesis in a library that he liked and decided to forward the article to colleagues by sharing it on the website Scribd.

«The business education I received at the University of Saskatchewan was invaluable in my own career path,» he said in a statement at the time of his donation to U of S. «I am confident it will be just as valuable for future Edwards» students at the University of Saskatchewan for many years to come.

By the time Lazaridis arrived in town as an electrical engineering and computer science student at the University of Waterloo in 1980, the region already had a long history of successful businesses and innovation.

«We decided to sell not the technology, but the benefits,» says Raviv, who started the company in 2008 with backing from a Philadelphia incubator while an undergraduate engineering student at University of Pennsylvania, where he graduated in May.

As a student at the University of California, Berkeley, Fiance, who graduated in 2014 and now works for a startup, says that some of his best ideas came from constantly being willing to meet new people and attend social events.

Tesla's chief technical officer, JB Straubel was addressing a crowd of students at the University of Nevada when he said, «We are going to build a zero - emissions facility, just like that car.

Black students at the University of Pennsylvania were added to a racist GroupMe message on Friday that included violent threats toward them.

«The good thing about laws is if they don't exist and you want one — or if they exist and you don't like them — you can change them,» Levandowski told students at the University of California, Berkeley in December.

Garrett Camp: I started, like everyone, as a grad student at the University of Calgary.

That's now the case for hundreds of students at the University of South China, which according to a number of news outlets has essentially barred those who are in their second year of the school's civil - engineering program from selecting their specialties; the program is broken down into seven of them.

In April, Airbnb said it banned a host on its service after it learned the person refused to rent to a law student at University of California, Los Angeles because of her Asian background.

Even Kik, founded by a guy who worked at BlackBerry as a student at the University of Waterloo, claims to have 100 million users, which would make it larger than BBM.

The Backstory: The partners met in 2005, when Brezina, a grad student at the University of Maryland, posted a roommate ad on Craigslist, and Smith answered it.

Ethan Lipsitz, Apliiq In 2005, when Ethan Lipsitz was a student at the University of Pennsylvania, he took a swatch of fabric and sewed it onto a hooded sweatshirt, patchwork - style.

Trevor Foulk is a doctoral student at the University of Florida.

The 22 - year - old student at the University of California, Berkeley invested $ 30,000 into Tesla stock a year ago and has parlayed it into an investment worth approximately $ 250,000 today.

Thuy - vy Nguyen, a doctoral student at the University of Rochester, and her team designed four experiments to test how solitude affected emotional states.

(Unless you count waiting tables while a student at University of Central Oklahoma, where he studied marketing and psychology — an awesome double major for aspiring speakers.)

When Zhang, now 22, describes his life as a student at the University of Southern California, it sounds almost clichéd.

So one art student at the University of Utah had the idea of making a «Cry Closet,» meant to be «a safe place for stressed - out students.»

A year earlier, baby - faced Camp sold StumbleUpon, a web - curating service he and two fellow grad students at the University of Calgary built from the ground up, to eBay for US$ 75 million.

The company, which manages a range of bars and restaurants, serves thousands of students at the University of Michigan and co-owners Justin Herrick and Adam Lowenstein are on the hunt for a sociable type who loves the bar and restaurant scene.

He also enrolled as a student at the University of Texas in Austin where he pledged the Alpha Phi Omega fraternity.

On a cold morning last February, Yvonne Yeung, a business student at the University of Toronto, was waiting outside a converted storefront on King Street West, a commercial strip in Toronto's downtown.

Gregory, who worked at a Lexington liquor store while a student at the University of Kentucky, recalled that the only people buying Blanton's were Japanese executives passing through on their way home from the nearby Toyota plant.

Taser, of course, is best known for the tiny stun guns carried by police and sometimes civilians, made particularly famous a few years ago when a student at the University of Florida screamed «Don't tase me, bro!»

In December 2009 Mark Onetto, chief of operations and customer relations at Amazon and a close collaborator of Bezos, gave an hourlong lecture on the Amazon Way to master's of business administration students at the University of Virginia's Darden School of Business.

Sean Andrist, a PhD student at the University of Wisconsin - Madison, is building robots that can do just that, according to an article by Evan Ackerman on IEEE Spectrum's award - winning robotics blog.

Hah, all joking aside I'm currently a college student at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles planning on majoring in Entrepreneurship and Business Economics.

Morris credits Smylie with introducing him to Capriotti's while they were both students at the University of Nevada - Las Vegas.

Wing Kui Brian Ng is a student at the University of Chicago, where he co-directed a public symposium on the Umbrella Movement with Regina Ip, Alan Leong, and American academics.

On January 24, I gave a presentation to students at the University of Calgary as part of the Certificate in Working with Homeless Populations program.

Graham is a regular contributor to MacStories, a law and economics student at university, and a fan of great TV shows.

Steve Huffman and Alexis Ohanian founded Reddit in 2005 as students at the University of Virgina.

2016.10.13 RBC invests $ 1 million in entrepreneurship education at the University of New Brunswick Students at the University of New Brunswick (UNB) who want to change the world now have more opportunities to develop their entrepreneurship skills thanks to RBC, Canada...

Drew is an undergraduate student at the University of Texas at Dallas, majoring in Business.

This month, students at the University of California at Berkeley voted a squirrel to hold one of the school's open...

Magill: I'd heard about it through my involvement with the libertarian club while I was a student at the University of Michigan.

As a GFI Campus Fellow, your primary goal is to increase the number of students at your university that pursue entrepreneurship in plant - based and cellular agriculture alternatives to factory - farmed foods.

Aaron Cho is a fifth - year co-op student at the University of British Columbia's Sauder School of Business, focusing his studies on finance and human resources.

Owen Edwards, a 21 - year - old student at the University of North Alabama in Florence, was a little nervous, too.