Sentences with phrase «than a university as»

The data also tell a story about variables that influence the success of women who earn doctorates in S&E: they are more likely to have attended a liberal arts college rather than a university as undergraduates.

Not exact matches

Lisa Kramer, an associate professor of finance at the University of Toronto, worries that if people think of investing as a game, rather than as a way to save for retirement, then portfolio construction could become just another table to play.

As for the significance of handholding, Dalton Conley, a professor of sociology at Princeton University, told The New York Times in 2006: «It's less about sex than about a public demonstration about coupledom.»

Read faster and retain more: Train your eye to read groups of words rather than sounding out individual words in your head, known as sub-vocalizing, says Beth Moreno, a University of Texas prof who teaches speed - reading courses.

«The [trend] we found is that students who go it alone run into [problems] more than students who approach [things] as a team,» says Jay Kayne, chair and professor of entrepreneurship at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio.

Many major university endowments pay multiple members of investment teams more than $ 1 million as they need to recruit the investing world's top talent.

«People have a false assumption that they're more productive working as a group than individually, even though all evidence shows it's the opposite,» explains Nicholas Kohn, co-author of the University of Texas study, published in the journal Applied Cognitive Psychology.

The milestone comes as the NCAA faces unprecedented scrutiny over its business model, in which some university athletic departments make more than $ 100 million annually while student - athletes are compensated solely with scholarships.

Christoph Randler, a biology professor at the University of Education in Heidelberg, Germany, found that morning people are often more successful than evening people because, as a group, they tend to be proactive.

Because, as New York University professor Arun Sundararajan told Mercury, the personality of Uber «is very much «we're going to dominate the world, and we're going to ask for forgiveness rather than asking for permission.»»

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.

By going to the Marines for four years prior to Ohio State he is able to enter university with a sense of purpose rather than seeing it as an escape and a chance to party.

«No matter how open you are as a manager, our research shows, many of your people are more likely to keep mum than to question initiatives or suggest new ideas at work,» wrote James Detert of Cornell and Ethan Burris of University of Texas as Austin on HBR recently.

Researchers such as Nancy Rothbard at the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School say that in tough times, it's easier for an employer to roll back a perk than cut pay.

As a group, public universities in the top 40 performed better than their private counterparts, growing total assets by 44.5 percent compared with 24.7 percent for private schools between the 2008 and 2014 fiscal years.

Tunsil entered the draft out of the University of Mississippi and was projected as the top player available by many of the leading draft experts and virtually guaranteed to be picked no lower than sixth overall.

Rather than poach a leading researcher and their students, as many tech companies do, Element AI has taken a «visiting researcher» approach, allowing university researchers to work at the company and even publish their research as long as it does not include proprietary information from clients.

The average cost of one year at a public university in the United States costs twice as much: More than $ 20,000 for in - state students, according to College Board.

As great as America's technological universities are, the U.S. is educating far more foreign students than immigration policies permit to stay and work herAs great as America's technological universities are, the U.S. is educating far more foreign students than immigration policies permit to stay and work heras America's technological universities are, the U.S. is educating far more foreign students than immigration policies permit to stay and work here.

The market for top - flight talent is now so tight that nearly 100 directors of Fortune 250 companies estimate that fewer than four people — including those both inside and outside their company — would be capable of stepping into the CEO role today and running it at least as well as their current CEO, according to a survey by researchers at Stanford Graduate School of Business and the Rock Center for Corporate Governanceat Stanford University.

«The study says it will be very hard to make a biofuel that has a better greenhouse gas impact than gasoline using corn residue,» which puts it in the same boat as corn - based ethanol, said David Tilman, a professor at the University of Minnesota who has done research on biofuels» emissions from the farm to the tailpipe.

Haskayne has won 73 national ICBC championships, more than twice as many as any other university.

Harper - economics lead to a Harper - recession and now to a Harper - deficit Louis - Philippe Rochon Associate Professor, Laurentian University Co-Editor, Review of Keynesian Economics Confirmation federal government finances have fallen back into deficit raises more questions about Harperâ $ ™ s image, now more myth than reality, as a sound economic manager.

China's debt accumulation is «slower than before, but if you use the West as a benchmark, it's still pretty bad,» said Zhu Ning, a Tsinghua University economist.

Financial Aid: In 2017, for the first time ever, America's public universities received more revenue from tuition than they did from tax dollars — a funding model that places a higher burden on students and their families and risks widening economic inequality, even as the population of would - be students becomes more diverse.

And as Florida's state climatologist David Zierden, who is also a researcher at Florida State University, told me, «It's this continued development in vulnerable areas that's increasing our hurricane risk much more than climate change itself.»

Loyola keeping a Catholic identity helps promote real intellectual diversity in American public life (and, again, I'd say the same as to other religious universities; I can imagine some religious belief systems that are so pernicious that, while they must be constitutionally protected, we can still say they hurt American life more than they help it, but I think that most of the traditions that found universities do have a good deal to contribute).

As a sponsor of the Great Canadian Sales Competition (GCSC), Canada's biggest student competition, your company and sales leaders will engage with more than 2,200 university and college students all looking to launch their careers.

My students at Peking University, for example, are extremely supportive and think very differently about what I do, and I think I have convinced them that as future policymakers, especially in finance and central banking, rather than join the hype that has always accompanied every growth miracle it is their responsibility to be focus on risks and on all the ways things can go wrong.

Unemployment, Marginal Attachment and Labor Force Participation in Canada and the United States Stephen Jones, McMaster University Craig Riddell, University of British Columbia Jones and Riddell build on two previous papers: one by David Card and Riddell (originally published in Small Differences that Matter) that studies the reasons for higher rates of unemployment in Canada than the U.S. in the 1980s, the other by Jones and Riddell which uses data from the U.S. Labor Force Survey to study the differences in rates of job creation for people who are counted as unemployed versus those who are counted as out of the labor force.

«In the United States, there is the illusion that we can do without world markets, and indeed we export less as a percentage of GDP than you do,» points out Christopher Sands, a professor and director of the Center for Canadian Studies at Johns Hopkins University.

End - of - week profit taking prevented the U.S. dollar from extending its gains on Friday despite stronger - than - expected first - quarter U.S. GDP growth and an upward revision to the University of Michigan's consumer confidence index.With that in mind, steady growth and rising inflation expectations should foster further gains in the dollar next week as investors are convinced that the Federal Reserve will use the May meeting to prepare the market for a June hike.

At Draper University, he worked with over 200 entrepreneurs from more than 50 countries as they navigated business development, leadership, and fundraising challenges.

Or as Michigan State University President Lou Anna K. Simon suggests: «a part of something bigger than the company.»

As of the summer of 2016, the Big Three universities had more than 1.2 million graduates worldwide.

The NDP, with more than 70 nominated candidates, acclaimed University of Alberta student Aditya Rao as a candidate in Drumheller - Stettler last weekend.

Far more initiatives at the university used recent technology than in Alberta as a whole or the rest of Canada.

He is a prominent figure in the world of self - driving vehicles, having worked on the technology for more than a decade and achieving some degree of renown as a graduate student at the University of California, Berkeley, in 2004, when he designed a self - driving motorcycle that was entered in the Pentagon's first contest for autonomous vehicles.

As CEO of MyVoice, Alexander took software developed at the University of Toronto for people with speech disabilities into more than 30 countries and was featured by Discovery Channel, Engadget, Fast Company, BNN, CBC, and CTV.

In addition to his extensive international retail background, Mr. Van den Berghe has two decades of experience teaching international business at universities across Europe, Asia and the United States, and more than a decade of experience as an international trade commissioner for the Government of Belgium.

This is about as condescending and arrogant as Mitt Romney at Liberty University saying: «there is no greater force for good in the nation than Christian conscience in action.»

But university education is about more than the efficient distribution of information (as Taylor sometimes seems to know).

Gelernter is not altogether clear about this, but as elite universities become elite - making rather than elite - serving, the intellectual life itself becomes part of the elite kit in a way it wasn't in the past.

Jesus will wipe away all tears, but he will be very angry at those who rejected Him and intentionally caused all the tears because they craved power over others, wealth beyond a lifetime's use and did not believe they'd ever go to their graves as other than respected people who at the end created charities and got hospitals and universities named after them.

It is thus possible to teach «about» secularism rather than simply teaching secularism, as our universities, public schools, periodical media, and courts have been doing for so long.

Even if Smith and I end up disagreeing on that point, we could still agree on his anthropology (as I think we do) and on his vision for Christian formation and the university (and I do think we're closer than I let on).

Being Right: Conservative Catholics in America Edited by Mary Jo and R. Scott Appleby Indiana University Press, 416 pages, $ 18.95 Can it be true, as the historian James Hitchcock darkly suggests, that the conservative Catholic William F. Buckley «has sometimes been regarded as a less than....

As grand as that is, less than five percent goes to international work, leaving 95 percent in our own country for our churches, university endowments and symphonieAs grand as that is, less than five percent goes to international work, leaving 95 percent in our own country for our churches, university endowments and symphonieas that is, less than five percent goes to international work, leaving 95 percent in our own country for our churches, university endowments and symphonies.

Besides polluting the free flow of ideas, manipulations such as these are nothing less than subversive: they undermine the United States and its institutions — universities, the press, charitable groups, foundations and the churches — by exploiting the legitimacy they may inherently possess, in order to gain for insidious designs credibility which the CIA would not otherwise be able to command.

Since it sees the mandate as a relationship between the bishop and the theologian rather than the university, the Bevilacqua proposal also places the responsibility for securing the mandate on the Catholic theologian, not on the university.