Sentences with phrase «students in the sciences»

Northeastern University has a summer program supporting middle - school students in the sciences, and MIT has a program to encourage women to pursue STEM degrees.

(This includes students in the sciences, too.)

I'm a grad student in Science and Technology studies so I think a lot about this stuff and actually struggle myself with how to be critical of science (part of my work) while taking it seriously.

100,000 tertiary students in Science Technology Engineering & Maths - STEM, plus Education will partake in the N5.8 B already provided for this education grant in the budget.

Another colleague of the deceased in the Faculty of Science, identified as Aisha said the deceased had «E» in CHM101 (Chemistry for first year students), a reportedly dreaded course for year one students in the science and technology related faculties.

This public / private partnership is designed to further spark children's interest in STEM careers by using hands - on learning year - round to engage, excite and educate students in science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) fields.

BOARD RESOLUTION: AAAS Statement on the Kansas State Board of Education Decision on the Education of Students in the Science of Evolution and Cosmology (October 15, 1999)

Adviser, Teacher, Role Model, Friend: On Being a Mentor to Students in Science and Engineering, National Academy of Sciences

[AAAS / Carla Schaffer] Bahadir Namdar, a doctoral student in science education at the University of Georgia, has long had an...

By moving to a «mixed model» of student assessment — including lower - stakes exams, as well as quizzes and other assignments — instructors can decrease well established performance gaps between male and female students in science courses.

Founded in the Fall of 2011 by a group of concerned graduate students, the goal of Stand With Science is simple: give graduate and professional students in science and engineering, young researchers, and anyone passionate about supporting science and engineering research the knowledge, tools, and inspiration they need to become advocates for society's investment in the innovations Ð and innovators Ð of tomorrow.

Veterans of these conflicts have been coming back to American universities in substantial numbers, many as students in science and engineering departments.

- Adviser, Teacher, Role Model, Friend: On Being a Mentor to Students in Science and Engineering, by the U.S. National Academy of Sciences, the U.S. National Academy of Engineering, and the Institute of Medicine.

To this end we (1) partner with precollege science teachers to develop and produce innovative Internet - based curriculum supplement materials focused on genetics, biotechnology, and bioethics; (2) update and expand teachers» knowledge in these areas through professional development programs; and (3) engage precollege students in science enrichment experiences.

Recently, I was reminded that my job as a graduate student in a science lab is actually «really cool.»

Even projects that appear to meet CSIC's priority criteria are suffering delays due to added layers of bureaucracy and confusion, says Elisa Garrido, a Ph.D. student in the science history department at the Center of Human and Social Sciences in Madrid, in an e-mail to Science Careers.

But although some students in the sciences teach — and rely on the stipend from that work to cover their living expenses — many others don't, instead obtaining their funding from grants or fellowships that do not require teaching.

Between 42 % and 48 % of University of California, Berkeley, Ph.D. students in science and engineering are depressed, according to data from a report released by the university's Graduate Assembly.

The mentoring approach described here is just one among many possible models, but it is one that I believe will not only increase the retention of minority students in your science department, it will also boost morale.

Mentoring as well as positive institutional change can improve the success rates of underrepresented students in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics, Malcom said, but students can also take a «bottom - up» approach, by improving their leadership skills.

It is crystal clear to all successful scientists that mentoring (formal and informal) is at the heart of retaining students in the sciences, particularly underrepresented minority students.

What Hoffmann wanted to discuss is a proposal for changing how the U.S. government supports the training of graduate students in the sciences.

Young and junior faculty members should obtain» Adviser, Teacher, Role Model, Friend: On Being a Mentor to Students in Science and Engineering», National Academy Press, 1995.

«We don't ask students in science class to make up their own minds over whether they believe in photosynthesis or if the earth is round,» she said.

Meanwhile, we are constantly losing women students in the sciences.

Why should this matter to graduate students in the sciences and engineering?

David Bruggeman is a Ph.D. student in science and technology studies at Virginia Tech?s Northern Virginia Center and a Research Assistant at the National Academies.

Fulfilling the Expectation of Excellence by C. Parks, 5 August 2005 Clinton Parks finds out why the Meyerhoff Scholarship Program at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County has successfully attracted top minority students in science, engineering, mathematics, and computer science.

Andrea Korte / AAAS Students in science, technology, mathematics, and engineering need to take an active role in shaping their coursework and exploring ways to address real - world problems, said the president of the AAAS Pacific...

Making adjustments for deaf students in science laboratories should be a straightforward task.»

Yet even today, most graduate students in science tend to shy away from anything that smells like «activism.»

«If a few minority students in the sciences find some motivation or inspiration from my career, whether or not they met me, knew me, or directly benefited from anything I've done, I would be very pleased and honored by that.»

At the Center for Communicating Science, we teach graduate students in the sciences classes in communications.

As a graduate student in science, I often felt like an impersonator, as if I was role - playing in science and had become an unlikely member of a rather talented theater company.

L ast Spring I alerted you to a major new initiative to survey graduate students in the sciences about their experiences in graduate school.

She belonged to the Center for Science Excellence (CSE), a program at CCC that helped underrepresented students in the sciences by providing tutoring, mentoring, and financial support.

It's an article of faith: the United States needs more native - born students in science and other technical fields.

Distinguished Professor of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at Lehigh, for example, has published articles with his students in Science and Langmuir describing their successful efforts to direct the movement of water droplets on surfaces.

It turns out, however, that graduate students in the sciences don't share a uniform taste for academic science's cliché virtues, despite the widespread reinforcement of this message.

Students in science courses were continually peppered with questions that they all had to answer via wireless handheld clickers.

Four years ago, after more than a decade of drawing the popular online comic Piled Higher and Deeper (PHD for short), former engineer Jorge Cham jumped to the big screen, enlisting an ensemble of California Institute of Technology in Pasadena researchers to produce and star in a movie version of his cartoon depicting the trials and tribulation of being a graduate student in the sciences.

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Graduate students in the sciences have one tremendous advantage over their colleagues in the humanities: money.

Under these circumstances, attracting and retaining students in science becomes a multidimensional problem.

Dewasha is convinced that more emphasis should be placed on educating and directing young aboriginal people into high - demand areas and that increasing the number of aboriginal students in science and technology is an important step toward the community's transition from being social dependents to contributing to the economy.

Malhi also values being a part of the Summer Internship for Native Americans in Genomics (SING) workshop, which facilitate discussions about how genomic research is conducted and to create a support network for Native American students in the sciences.

The activities were all part of STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Math) Day at the Lab on March 2 and they had a serious aim: engaging students in science and technology and hopefully pointing the way to future careers.

These programs aim to increase the understanding and interest of students in science by enabling them to design and carry out modern molecular research projects.

The goal of the program is to advance Hawaii college students in science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) workforce and increase underrepresented groups.

Per the America COMPETES Reauthorization Act of 2010, «NASA is uniquely positioned to interest students in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics, not only by the example it sets, but through its education programs.»