Sentences with phrase «successful graduate students»

Many successful graduate students also have several backup plans in case they reach a dead - end, either in the direction of their research or in the development of their methods.

Not exact matches

Becoming a star on the football pitch (as Europeans call a soccer field) and in business requires «practice, practice, and practice,» and the successful manager must always be prepared to «retune things,» Ferguson told a group of Stanford Graduate School of Business students.
In a perfect world, every borrower would graduate with a great job, spend the next several decades advancing in a successful career, and pay off their student loans in a timely manner.
As a 22 - year - old Christian college student, ready to graduate and change the world, it bothered me to hear a successful Christian brag about his successes while preaching the gospel of prosperity, especially at the expense of neglecting family and community.
Not only has the portal been a successful tool for students to acquire internships and new graduates to secure careers, it is a successful resource for firms in the industry.
«Feeling a sense of belonging can contribute to student success; we want students to be successful in and out of the classroom, and once they graduate and start their career we want them to be comfortable in what they do,» Executive Director of Culinary Services Guy Procopio says.
The introduction to «Overloaded and Underprepared: Strategies for Stronger Schools and Healthy, Successful Kids,» a new book from the Stanford University Graduate School of Education research group Challenge Success, begins not with research or analysis but an example of a high school student's daily schedule.
During her tenure as a New York City schoolteacher, she designed and implemented a culinary arts training program for high school students and formed a successful social purpose catering company employing graduates from the culinary program.
One of the goals of the College of Education and Human Development (CEHD) is to provide all students with personalized, high - quality experiential learning opportunities, both regionally and globally with multiple pathways and delivery formats that will enable all graduates to pursue meaningful lives and successful careers.
Details of those changes will be announced later this year after they have been approved by Council... Similarly, we are also looking again at our international qualification... ADIT continues to be incredibly successful with nearly 600 existing graduates and over 2000 students from over 100 countries.
Students in New York need more options to find success, and today's action by the Board of Regents will ensure that students in our state will have a new way to graduate with a Regents diploma and find a successfulStudents in New York need more options to find success, and today's action by the Board of Regents will ensure that students in our state will have a new way to graduate with a Regents diploma and find a successfulstudents in our state will have a new way to graduate with a Regents diploma and find a successful career.
Or be successful in graduate school (maybe geared towards students at the beginning of a program or at the end when it becomes tough to finish).
Although many more students of color are pursuing graduate degrees in science and technology than 30 years ago, the stereotype that minorities aren't successful in these fields remains, according to LaMont Toliver, director of the Meyerhoff Scholars Program at the University of Maryland - Baltimore County (UMBC).
This series will feature contributions from current M.D. / Ph.D. students, who will tell how they got where they are and what getting there was like, and from physician - scientist graduates in the midst of highly successful careers, who will share their thoughts on their professional lives, describe the paths that led to their careers, and offer advice derived from years of accumulated experience about preparing for and managing an M.D. / Ph.D. career.
Carry out «funding efforts [that are] sufficiently successful that 2 to 3 graduate students are supported on external funds at any given time.»
Upon completion of all graduate requirements and a successful thesis defense, the student then returns to medical school for the final 2 clinical years.
I trained some graduate students who have gone on to successful careers» and so on.
Timbuktu Academy - Mentoring Future Scientists by C. Parks, 6 May 2005 The mentoring methods provided by faculty at the Timbuktu Academy at Southern University in Baton Rouge, Louisiana provides science and engineering students, primarily underrepresented minorities, with the support they need to be successful in graduate school.
The Graduate Council decided that we needed a captive audience, so we chose to capture every single graduate student in the School of Medicine at OHSU by requiring successful completion of this course in order to advance to caGraduate Council decided that we needed a captive audience, so we chose to capture every single graduate student in the School of Medicine at OHSU by requiring successful completion of this course in order to advance to cagraduate student in the School of Medicine at OHSU by requiring successful completion of this course in order to advance to candidacy.
Although what it takes to be successful in science has not changed much over the years, in these tough economic times, it is more important than ever for graduate students to start looking for a postdoc position at least a year before finishing their graduate work.
Freeman has another idea: The way to attract young American talent is by providing much higher incomes for graduate students and postdocs, but with the explicit understanding that, as in such other highly prestigious, highly competitive fields as acting, music and professional sports, only a few of those who enter the competition will win the jackpot of a successful long - term career.
And in June 2001 the programming committee capped the year with a successful full - day career symposium attended by 400 postdocs and graduate students.
«One of the hallmarks of the GEM Fellowship is a support network that's going to enable students to be successful in a graduate school program,» Hayden notes.
He proposed that NIH launch experiments to determine whether graduate students who get industry experience during their traineeships, for example, go on to have successful careers in industry.
Durocher says that many factors go into choosing a recipient: «When we're looking for a chair, we're not only looking for good research and publications but also for opportunities for mentoring and training top graduate students and being successful at obtaining grant money.»
Not coincidentally, advisers often convince themselves — and their graduate students — that the most promising path to a successful career is to work hard, do what you are told, and publish, publish, publish.
The objective of the group is straightforward, says Tate: to encourage women graduate students, who are interested in pursuing an academic career, «to take time to think about where we are going, ask questions we're afraid to ask, and discuss the many paths that a successful academic career can follow.»
For the launch, we have gathered entertaining and thought - provoking essays about starting a family while pursuing your graduate degree, nonminority faculty mentoring minority science students, and making the successful transition from community college to a 4 - year institution.
«Previous studies have shown that a threshold percentage of limbal stem cells (which are responsible for replenishing the cornea) is required for successful corneal autologous therapy,» says co-first author Tom Bongiorno, a graduate student in bioengineering at Georgia Tech.
Muriel Poston, former dean of faculty at Pitzer College in California and one of the committee members who contributed to the report said, «If community colleges are only considered successful by virtue of degree completion, then students transferring into and graduating from other institutions are not accounted for.»
MSPS Program Director Dr. Saeed Foroudastan and MSPS Graduate Coordinator Carey Snowden discuss how our degrees help students launch successful careers in science and engineering (Video, 2017)
«Our faculty members have been very successful in obtaining support from the National Science Foundation, including major research equipment grants and grants for cooperative training and instructional projects such as projects for training graduate students in biological and cultural evolution together with the WSU Department of Anthropology, and for training undergraduates in mathematical biology together with the Department of Mathematics.»
As the only graduate student in the group, Dr. Kang proved early he could hold his own among his colleagues, all highly successful postdocs.
The Bridges program has proven highly successful overall, with 95 percent of the 700 students who have completed the program now either working in laboratories, enrolled in school, or applying to graduate school.
The work was carried out also in conjunction with a PhD student from the Graduate School of Excellence Materials Science in Mainz (MAINZ), and it is just great to see that our students and alumni are so successful,» emphasized Professor Mathias Kläui of the JGU Institute of Physics, who is also Director of MAINZ.
Upon successful completion of the courses, case studies, and Final Board Exams, students earn professional designations and titles that are exclusive to our graduates, qualifying them to provide personalized holistic recommendations to clients at all ages and stages of their life and health.
She's our awesome Student and Graduate Support Lead for the Primal Health Coach Program as well as an amazingly successful health coach in her own right.
Despite the hurdles, and due in large part to the commitment of both Ben Franklin and Decatur leaders, the first three and a half years of the program have been quite successful with the great majority of participating students having graduated with their classes or shortly thereafter.
KIPP sends its graduates to the kind of small private college that is statistically most likely to be successful with first - generation students.
There is also some thinking that if No Excuses schools are successful in turning out academically prepared graduates with «grit,» shouldn't these students need less support, not more, on college campuses?
That is, I used to think that if a school raised scores it probably meant that students were safer, more students would graduate, more students would learn productive values, and more students would go on to become successful adults.
97, ED.D.» 09, mentions recruitment trips to historically black colleges and universities, a «community - to - teacher» program that offers college graduates with a four - year degree a pathway to becoming teachers, getting successful high school students to consider careers in the classroom, and hiring teachers beginning in March instead of the summer like many other districts.
Changes Needed for Successful Family Engagement Education Week, June 23, 2012 «The answer to that question turns out to be a key to effective parent and family engagement, says Karen L. Mapp, a lecturer on education at Harvard's Graduate School of Education and presenter in Education Week's recent webinar «Engaging Parents in Schools and Student Learning,» of which an archive copy is available.»
Obtaining professional development funds for training, equipment, and the services of a graduate student assistant helped make the change to blended teaching a successful experience.»
Upon successful completion of their first year, T2MS students earn the equivalent of the Initial Teaching Certification from the Commonwealth of Massachusetts in at least one science or math subject area at the middle or high school level and a Masters of Education degree from the Harvard Graduate School of Education.
As we work with states in developing these systems, one of the key components is making sure the information is translatable for parents, that they can understand what percentage of students in that school who are mastering standards and achieving grade - level expectations and whether or not those students are going to be ready to graduate from high school and be successful in college.
At the average college or university, only 51 percent of Hispanic students graduate within six years, while the typical six - year graduation rate for white students is 59 percent, says a new report that explores why some schools are more successful than others at graduating Hispanic students.
¦ The goal is to set standards at such a level that virtually all students who graduate high school will be both ready to do successful college work or to enter a 21st - century high skill / high knowledge career and be successful in that.
While it's true that we can not predict the world our students will graduate into, we were able to model our classroom on the way small, successful startups operate in the business community.
It has become a successful tool for us to use with students at risk of not graduating
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