Sentences with phrase «studied by graduate student»

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In a last ditch effort, Wagstaff, who goes by Dr. Bob, brought the Orabrush to a marketing class at Brigham Young University's graduate school, which offers companies the chance to let students perform a case study for them for about $ 1,500.

Angela grew fascinated by this «extra something» in her students and, since she had a fair amount of it herself, she quit her teaching job so that she could study the concept while obtaining a graduate degree in psychology at UPenn.

A 2014 study by the Brookings Institute states that «roughly one - quarter of the increase in student debt since 1989 can be directly attributed to Americans obtaining more education, especially graduate degrees.»

The research done by students during their graduate studies will also be intimately related to the needs of the corporations.

To be convinced of the magnitude of the contemporary passion for Wesleyan studies, one need look no farther than the works being produced by graduate students and junior scholars: there are dissertations, monographs and scholarly articles, along with a sprinkling of more popular works.

It may be an arrangement that factors out different aspects of the school's common life to the reign of each model of excellent schooling: the research university model may reign for faculty, for example, or for faculty in certain fields (say, church history, or biblical studies) but not in others (say, practical theology), while paideia reigns as the model for students, or only for students with a declared vocation to ordained ministry (so that other students aspiring to graduate school are free to attempt to meet standards set by the research university model); or research university values may be celebrated in relation to the school's official «academic» program, including both classroom expectations and the selection and rewarding of faculty, while the school's extracurricular life is shaped by commitments coming from the model provided by paideia so that, for example, common worship is made central to their common life and a high premium is placed on the school being a residential community.

In order to satisfy his dissertation committee or his ad hoc committee, the journeyman intellectual has «to make something that never had been dreamed of before,» and every graduate student or instructor in the humanities knows he can't do that any more just by studying facts, finding out which are true, and reasoning from them; the material is used up.

By Kraig Kraft The Search for the Origins of Chile Peppers Starts in Arizona As a graduate student studying crop evolution at U.C. Davis, I am focusing my work on describing the genetic changes that took place during the domestication of Capsicum annuum, a species that includes some of the most common varieties of chile peppers cultivated worldwide.

Students currently enrolled in this programme of study will be supported by the Graduate School to completion.

Fifty of the 85 students of Osun State University sent to Ukraine to complete their medical studies by Governor Rauf Aregbesola's administration in 2013 have graduated from the V.N. Karazin Kharkiv National University, Kharkov, Ukraine and become medical doctors.

In the new study, led by graduate student Steven Briscoe, the team found that other populations of neurons in the bird DVR share molecular signatures with neocortical intratelencephalic cells, or IT neurons.

This year, Summit's list of long - term visitors includes Brandon Strellis, an environmental engineering graduate student from the Georgia Institute of Technology studying how aerosols influence how much energy is reflected and absorbed by Greenland's ice — and where those particles are coming from.

With ALMA, an international team lead by Yoko Oya, a graduate student of Department of Physics, The University of Tokyo, and Nami Sakai, an associate chief scientist of RIKEN, studied the distribution of various organic molecules around a Solar - type protostar IRAS 16293 - 2422A at a high spatial resolution.

«Our model's not saying the water would have definitely overtopped the levees at Cairo,» said UCI professor and chair of civil & environmental engineering Brett Sanders, an author of the study led by UCI graduate student Adam Luke.

A 2014 study led by Dr. Wenwei Xu, AgriLife Research corn breeder in Lubbock, and Thomas Marek, AgriLife Research irrigation engineer in Amarillo, and contributed to by Texas Tech University graduate students Karl Brauer and Traci Bland, showed the biggest factor in corn silage quality was water.

The study by Alison McLeish, a University of Cincinnati associate professor of psychology, Christina Luberto, a recent doctoral graduate from UC and clinical fellow at Massachusetts General Hospital, and Emily O'Bryan, a graduate student in the UC Department of Psychology, will be presented at the Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies (ABCT) 49th Annual Convention.

Other findings by Hristidis, Shouq Sadah, Moloud Shahbazi, and Matthew T. Wiley, who are current or former graduate students of Hristidis, revealed that men and women use the sites studied (drugs.com, dailystrength.org, WebMD, Google + and Twitter) for different purposes.

Now 24, he is a first - year graduate student in the department of cellular and structural biology at the University of Texas Health Science Center in San Antonio (UTHSCSA), where he is studying the role of oxidative damage — the wear and tear inflicted upon the cell by toxic molecules called free radicals — in the aging process.

From Mexicali to Harvard by V. Chase, 8 July 2005 Luis León, a third year doctoral student studying immunology at Harvard University and a recent recipient of a Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) Gilliam Graduate Fellowship, talks about his path from minimum - wage jobs to academic researcher.

The study, led by Brown graduate student Dan Moriarty, is published in online early view in the Journal of Geophysical Research: Planets.

Dubbed «voter identity theft» by study authors Latanya Sweeney, Professor of Government and Technology in Residence, research analyst Ji Su Yoo and graduate student Jinyan Zang, the vulnerability could be exploited by attackers to attempt to disenfranchise many voters where voter registration information can be changed online.

«We know that substance abuse is highly affected by social influence; in other words, who you are friends with,» says Aida Rahmattalabi, a USC computer science graduate student and lead author of the study.

As a graduate student at the University of Adelaide in Australia in the late 1990s, he helped with studies in which people taking methadone to treat opioid addiction tested their pain tolerance by dunking a forearm in ice water.

The study was funded by an NSERC Alexander Graham Bell Canada Graduate Scholarship, Alberta Innovates Technology Futures graduate student scholarship, Queen Elizabeth II scholarship, and a research grant from the Jurassic FouGraduate Scholarship, Alberta Innovates Technology Futures graduate student scholarship, Queen Elizabeth II scholarship, and a research grant from the Jurassic Fougraduate student scholarship, Queen Elizabeth II scholarship, and a research grant from the Jurassic Foundation.

When Sean Carroll was a graduate student at Tufts School of Medicine in Boston, he found himself seduced by spectacular new studies of the humble fruit fly.

Coss» paper grew out of a 2015 study in which he and a former graduate student reported that zebras living near human settlements could not be approached as closely before fleeing as wild horses when they saw a human approaching on foot — staying just outside the effective range of poisoned arrows used by African hunters for at least 24,000 years.

The project was supported by a USDA NIFA grant, and the study's authors include researchers from the National Program for Genetic Improvement of Feed Efficiency in Beef Cattle, as well as associated graduate students and staff.

In one compelling example, wildlife researcher Stacia Backensto, a graduate student at the University of Alaska at Fairbanks, was stymied by bird cognition when she began studying how ravens used ambient heat from buildings to adapt to life on the dark, frigid oil fields of the Arctic coast.

Perhaps most significantly, in a study led by Frances Champagne — then a graduate student in Meaney's lab, now an associate professor with her own lab at Columbia University in New York — they found that inattentive mothering in rodents causes methylation of the genes for estrogen receptors in the brain.

Yet in a study led by Aimy Sebastian, a graduate student in the School of Natural Sciences at UC Merced who is conducting her Ph.D thesis work under Loots, identified the secreted bone protein Sclerostin (SOST), as a key molecule dysregulated as a result of prostate cancer - bone microenvironment interactions.

Lack of familiarity with these subjects by students and their parents hampers efforts to recruit minority students into graduate studies or careers in these fields.

According to a statement posted on Facebook by LSU's physics and astronomy department, Anton was a third - year graduate student working on theoretical gravity with Parampreet Singh, and Maity was studying theoretical astrophysics with Juhan Frank.

In the field results of a study by Brianna Lam, a graduate student in the J.M.U. Department of Biology, published in the journal Biological Conservation in 2009 (as well results published by Vredenburg and Harris in 2008 in Abstracts of the General Meeting of the American Society for Microbiology), revealed that wild mountain yellow - legged frog populations in the Sierras differed greatly in their amount of cutaneous J. lividum.

This research was one part of a six - year, $ 2.3 million project funded by the National Science Foundation to train graduate students in aging sciences and to conduct cross-disciplinary studies on issues of importance to an aging society.

The competition calls for graduate students studying science, technology, engineering, and mathematics to submit proposals describing how they would improve graduate education, whether by overhauling student and faculty training policies, modifying funding structure, bridging connections to professional societies, or changing the culture of graduate school.

By then a graduate student studying philosophy at Princeton, Greene wrote a paper called «The Two Moralities.»

Spearheaded by first author Christopher McNair, PhD, a graduate student in the laboratory of Dr. Knudsen, the study undertook an extensive analysis of tumor samples and cell - free DNA samples from patients with advanced, lethal - stage prostate cancer.

The Shastri Institute funds research by new and experienced faculty members, postdocs, and graduate students in studies related to India, including projects carried out in India.

A newly published research study conducted by graduate students Jessie Green and Alan Brown under the guidance of Punam Ohri - Vachaspati, a nutrition researcher at the School of Nutrition and Health Promotion at Arizona State University, examined whether noticing and using calorie menu labels was associated with demographic characteristics of customers at a national fast food chain currently posting calorie counts.

The study was performed mainly at the SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory in California, and was led by postdoctoral researcher Junfeng He and graduate student Thomas Mion, researchers in the lab of BC Assistant Professor of Physics Rui - Hua He, a lead author of the paper.

In January, Barker and psychology graduate students Sarah Newcomb - Anjo and Kate Mulvihill will expand on this research by launching a new study focused on life beyond graduation.

Acrotholus was identified by a team comprising of palaeontologists Evans, of the Royal Ontario Museum; and Ryan, of The Cleveland Museum of Natural History; as well as Ryan Schott, Caleb Brown, and Derek Larson, all graduate students at the University of Toronto who studied under Evans.

Detailed information on the findings of this study can be found in the article, «Head impact exposure measured in a single youth football team during practice drills,» by Mireille E. Kelley, MS (a graduate student in Biomedical Engineering at Wake Forest Baptist), et al., published in the Journal of Neurosurgery: Pediatrics.

The study, published in the journal Psychological Science, was led by Johannes Eichstaedt, a graduate student in the School of Arts & Science's Department of Psychology, and included H. Andrew Schwartz, a visiting assistant professor in the School of Engineering and Applied Science's Department of Computer and Information Science; Margaret Kern, an assistant professor at the University of Melbourne, Australia; Gregory Park, a postdoctoral fellow in the School of Arts and Science's Department of Psychology; and director Martin Seligman, both of the Positive Psychology Center, as well as Lyle Ungar, a professor of computer and information science.

To see whether cancer stem cell renewal involves a chain of events similar to that used by embryonic stem cells, and whether the process was affected by oxygen levels, Semenza and graduate student Chuanzhao Zhang focused their studies on two human breast cancer cell lines that responded to low oxygen by ramping up production of the protein ALKBH5, which removes methyl groups from mRNAs.

«We further theorize that the essential difference between collaborative group work and direct instruction is that students learn about the «self as agent and others as (the) audience,»» a hypothesis explored in another paper by Zhang's co-authors, Richard C. Anderson, director of the Center for the Study of Reading, and graduate student Joshua A. Morris, both of the U. of I.

These categories describe two low - probability but statistically significant scenarios that could play out by century's end, in a new study by Veerabhadran Ramanathan, a distinguished professor of climate and atmospheric sciences at Scripps Institution of Oceanography at the University of California San Diego, and his former Scripps graduate student Yangyang Xu, now an assistant professor at Texas A&M University.

Support for the seminar series, including refreshments and travel, lodging, and honorarium gifts for the speakers, is provided by the Alabama National Science Foundation Experimental Program to Stimulate Competitive Research (EPSCoR) and Oak Ridge Associated Universities Visiting Industrial Scholars ProgramThe UAB Graduate Student Association, the UAB Graduate School, and the UAB Office of Postdoctoral Studies currently support special activities such as Career Day.

Authored by Charles Stewart, a third - year graduate student studying plant biology at Cornell, the article focuses on four very critical areas: research versus coursework, reading the literature, attending conferences, and networking with your peers.

In the GRL study led by Lindsey in collaboration with Stanford graduate student Eileen Martin, the research team took measurements using the DAS technique on fiber - optic arrays in three locations — two in California and one in Alaska.