Sentences with phrase «students doing some research on»

We study Maine's geography, history, industry, etc., and then students do research on the wildlife of Maine,» MacInnes explains.

Students do research on the Internet, post assignments on class Moodle sites, and share information through forums, chat, bookmarks, and new software they seem to discover every day.

Or check out these useful how - to articles about using online photo archives for primary sources, teaching with virtual libraries, and helping students do research on the web.

The go - to resource for students doing research on poetry technique and terminology, the fourth edition of The Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry & Poetics features many new and valuable updates and is an essential purchase for academic and large public libraries.

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There's embarrassing little research on entrepreneurship education and outcomes, but we do know that students learn best when they can connect with the material in a hands - on way — personally making the mistakes and learning from them directly.

Hello, I am a highschool student and i was asked to do a research paper on a religion.

The program's success mirrors the argument being made here — namely, as Leonard Saxe's research has shown, students who go on the ten - day trip do so primarily because it promises a meaningful and enjoyable Jewish experience.

«We can't assign library research,» a typical faculty member reports, «because our students are in class pretty much the whole time they're on campus, and they don't have access to a theological library when they go home.»

The sheer number of types of critical inquiry guaranteed, on the Wissenschaft side, that no student could be taught to do any of them, which is precisely what the research university model calls for.

But the purpose of such courses is no longer wissenschaftlich, to capacitate students to go on to do such research for themselves.

To correct this anomaly, Prof. Seneviratne and his students undertook to do this research on coconut oil.

The research that Farrington drew on didn't show any evidence of specific interventions changing a student's innate level of grit, but there was plenty of evidence that students» tendency to persevere at academic tasks was highly responsive to changes in school and classroom contexts.

I will respectfully disagree with your views on natural childbirth, yielding the expertise to my med student wife who has done her research and chosen an unmedicated birth in a birth center with a midwife who is a registered nurse.

«Whether colleges are a bit pretentious about courses taught at other colleges or the fact that they lose money when students arrive on their campuses with credit, dual enrollment is not universally accepted and students should do their research before signing up for it.»

I draw on the work of many analysts, including Melissa Roderick at the Consortium on Chicago Schools Research and the authors of the book «Crossing the Finish Line,» to suggest that doing a better job of developing non-cognitive skills in students could be a particularly fruitful way to increase college - graduation rates.

A study in Germany found that another effect homework could have is on students» personalities, with research suggesting that doing homework might make kids more conscientious.

One of the main problems that I was confronted with on - site, and one which many social scientists encounter too, is that «traditional» Western theory and methodology adequately prepare undergraduate and graduate students for carrying out research in their own societies, but neither prepare them for dealing with difficult research circumstances, nor do they train students for conflict areas in post-traumatic societies.Such history (and political science) courses seem to be functional and have roots in European reality.

Private universities can easily do pure research on whatever topic they want, tempered by the demands of academics, students, and donors.

Vanessa Williamson is a Ph.D. student in Government at Harvard University, who has done in - depth ethnographic and interview research on Tea Party activists.

«Veil was motivated by all this research that was done previously in the security community that said, «Private - browsing modes are leaky — Here are 10 different ways that they leak,»» says Frank Wang, an MIT graduate student in electrical engineering and computer science and first author on the paper.

You are clearly unhappy in graduate school and you are spreading propaganda on your website to bring down other graduate students who might be genuinely interested in doing scientific research, which again is the main reason why you should be in grad school in the first place.

An article this week in Science looks at the challenge of organizing and maintaining research programs at 2 - year institutions, and the faculty who take it on — partly to prepare their students for futures in the scientific workforce and partly to suit their own desire to keep doing research.

There are students who are so focused on their research that they are chronically late in their credit card payments or do not have a physical checkup for years.

It's a choice that requires meticulous research, usually conducted by asking the third - and fourth - year grad students, «So, which advisers don't make you work on the weekends?»

If you thought it was ok to take off for two months, perhaps your professors didn't feel so bad about using their time on their own research, students who prioritized their work enough to stick around the lab, or — heaven forbid — on their own free time, just like you were doing.

Specifically, Yevgeny Raitses, working at PPPL; Marlene Patino, a graduate student at the University of California, Los Angeles; and Angela Capece, a professor at the College of New Jersey, have in the past year published experimental findings on how secondary electron emission is affected by different wall materials and structures, based on research they did at PPPL.

«The tipping point is when scientists» commitments to industry - funded research compromise their ability to do what their university appointments require: promote the public good through training students and pursuing research on important issues,» says Anderson.

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Most of the discussion about graduate education and the postdoc has been focused on research, when it has always been the case that a majority of students do not go on to research universities.

Buolamwini is joined on the paper by Timnit Gebru, who was a graduate student at Stanford when the work was done and is now a postdoc at Microsoft Research.

The criteria may be defined in the postgraduate programme of studies of each university, but usually this is not the case, so that when submitting a research proposal, the prospective PhD student does not know on what grounds it will be evaluated.

During the first 2 years of work on my PhD, I have met quite a few postgraduate students who assert they will leave research once their thesis is over and done with.

Many, perhaps most, Ph.D. students expect to end up on a college faculty some day, teaching, researching, and doing all the things that college professors do.

«And if you discover some great new thing and patent it, you can encourage students to spin off a little company on the side, and for sure you can't do that as an industrial research scientist.

Reporting from Ny - A ̊lesund — a research base in Norway, 1000 kilometers north of the Arctic Circle — Kintisch describes how «[m] eter - tall waves and driving snow are common here in the Svalbard archipelago, where the Atlantic and Arctic oceans meet, but that doesn't deter [Markus] Brand, a graduate student from the Alfred Wegener Institute... in Helgoland, Germany,» from pursuing his research on local fish populations.

You can decide on the M.D. alone — complimented by research experiences as an undergraduate, a medical student (usually between M1 and M2 years), or a resident / fellow — or do an M.D. / Ph.D..

De Montjoye is joined on the paper by his thesis advisor, Alex «Sandy» Pentland, the Toshiba Professor of Media Arts and Sciences; Erez Shmueli, a postdoc in Pentland's group; and Samuel Wang, a software engineer at Foursquare who was a graduate student in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science when the research was done.

But the AAU initiative also calls on universities and colleges to offer undergraduate students more opportunities to do research, shorten the time it takes for students to earn Ph.D. s, reduce attrition rates, and train better K - 12 science and math teachers.

In each case, an expert group calls for, among other things, supporting more postdocs and graduate students on training grants and fellowships instead of on professors» research grants, employing more staff scientists in permanent posts and fewer temporary trainees to do scientific work, providing higher pay and better working conditions for postdocs, and publishing information on the career outcomes of departments» and labs» graduate students and postdocs.

Sapi's research into the venom's effects on Lyme bacteria is ongoing and as yet unpublished, though she told me the results from preliminary work done by one of her students look «very promising».

Under the terms of the award, she is free to spend the funds on anything she needs to conduct her research — including equipment, travel expenses, her own living expenses, and hiring her own Ph.D. students or postdocs — which is a huge deal, Reich says, because young investigators in Germany generally don't have the right to supervise people.

The Hopps program, in which students do research with chosen mentors from freshman year until they graduate and take special classes focused on graduate school preparation, kicked off in 2006 with about 25 participants, but two recent classes of Packard Scholars followed a similar program.

«Several students involved with the student farm have been growing oyster mushrooms for sale in the past, but this grant allows them to take mushroom cultivation to a whole new level and collaborate with students and businesses across campus, while also continuing to do research on the best growing methods.»

I tried to do too much, teaching courses, running a large lab of students, sitting on several editorial boards, directing the Mind, Brain & Behavior Program at Harvard, conducting multiple research collaborations, and writing for the general public.

«There are lots of other opportunities for majority students on this campus who want to do research,» says Tischler.

Networking expert Dick van Vlooten, founder and owner of di Cuore, an institute that does research on the art of doing «business from the heart,» has been training businesspeople, students, and entrepreneurs in the art of networking for 4 years, as well as publishing sociological articles and giving lectures to project managers, sales representatives, and young researchers.

Due to limited resources on campus, URP students are encouraged to do summer research elsewhere.

Much of what people do here is really very dirty work like getting down on your knees, pulling cables,... working long hours, just sitting around waiting for the beam to come back on,» says Michael Doser, a physicist at the European Organization for Nuclear Research near Geneva, Switzerland, who helps run a Summer Student Programme there.

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«This is the first study to examine mate choice among wild - spawning fish of both hatchery and wild origin, and the results suggest that greater diversity of immune genes between wild - born pairs of coho salmon may increase offspring survival,» said Amelia Whitcomb, who did the research as a master's student at OSU and is lead author on the publication.