Sentences with phrase «undergraduate research makes»

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The research, conducted by a pair of University of Illinois psychologists, asked undergraduates to report what changes they'd like to make to their personalities and then tracked them over time to see if, with a little guidance and an active commitment to alter their personalities, they could actually do it.

Nationally, men make up more than 84 % of undergraduates majoring in computer science, according to the Computing Research Association.

My own research with undergraduates at my institution makes clear how entrenched such disengagement is.

- Ruth L. Kirschstein NRSA Program for NIGMS MARC Predoctoral Fellowships (F31) Deadline: December 5, 2005 MARC Predoctoral Fellowships are individual National Research Service awards made to outstanding graduates of the MARC U * STAR Program (Minority Access to Research Careers / Undergraduate Student Training in Academic Research) to help them pursue a graduate degree in the biomedical sciences.

But just because his research involves undergraduates, and even high school students, doesn't mean it's make - work pseudo-research.

As an undergraduate, I took part in the NIH's Minority Biomedical Research Support Program (MBRS) and actually worked in a biochemistry lab for a while, as well as taking a biochemistry class — the first chemistry class that really made sense to me.

But, because DACA allows me to work legally, my undergraduate research adviser was able to make alternate funding arrangements, and we continued working together for 2 years.

As an undergraduate, Szilágyi made sure he obtained the university grades, research publications, student conference prizes, and fluency in foreign languages he knew he needed to enter grad school and win several prestigious scholarships and awards.

Search committees at institutions like mine are quite interested in candidates with high - powered research programs — as long as they make the case that they can translate that research to an undergraduate environment.

From a student perspective, undergraduate research opportunities provide a safe, short - term way to gauge whether the investment in graduate school makes sense.

As an undergraduate student in biology at Stanford University in Palo Alto, California, Marcy came under the wing of evolutionary biologist Elizabeth Hadly, whose outreach work made Marcy keenly aware of the value of doing more than just research.

Before finishing his undergraduate degree, he had made up his mind to go into neuroscience research.

But Gates warned against complacency, and noted a 2012 report by PCAST that identified opportunities for the United States to keep its edge in innovation, including boosting of R&D expenditures moderately to 3.0 % of GDP, making the R&D tax credit permanent, streamlining federal regulations that decrease productivity at research universities, and adopting «best practices» to improve undergraduate education in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics.

Examples of fringe collaboration include the amateur naturalist who brings in a species new to science but is not concerned with subsequent taxonomic research on it, the technician who makes a vital series of analyses at a distant laboratory, or the group of undergraduates who provide a preliminary database from student projects that later forms the justification for a full - blown project.

Part of the beauty of these surfaces is the ease with which they can be made, says Mehrdad Kiani, a Brown undergraduate student and member of the research team.

Much of this «bee team» was made up of Emory undergraduate students, funded by the college's Scholarly Inquiry and Research at Emory (SIRE) grants and NSF support via the Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU) program.

In addition to obtaining research experience as an undergraduate, Hartline and Myers say that selecting a graduate school that is highly regarded in the student's field is important for students who aim to make that final, difficult leap to a faculty position.

«Quite alarming for an educator from our research, however, is the implication that we are failing some students based not on subject matter, curriculum, teaching methods or assessments, but on providing them with study skills to make the most of their undergraduate study.

Principal investigators in particular should be qualified to PhD or equivalent level and possess a strong record in research, whereas the body of a team can be made up of researchers of all academic levels — from postdocs to undergraduate fieldworkers.

The research found just a fifth were made aware of apprenticeships as an option in place of undergraduate university studies following A Levels, with less than five per cent told about distant or online learning.

On the other hand, it is disappointing to observe that weak undergraduate teachers do not make up for their limitations in the classroom with disproportionate research excellence.

A peer assessment score and an assessment score by residency directors makes up 40 % of the total score; 30 % is made up of the total funding allocated to the school for research, additionally calculating research dollars per full - time faculty member; and the remaining 30 % of the score is composed of faculty resources (ratio to students) and student selectivity factors such as mean undergraduate GPA, mean VCAT score, and student acceptance rate.

(2) thou shalt not fudge the data (3) thou shalt not invent arbitrary statistical methods to suit thy data (4) thou shalt not indulge in any form of bias e.g. thou shalt not employ incomplete, highly selective, subjective literature reviews (6) in the interests of transparency and replication thou shalt not hide the data or code (7) thou shalt not make vague or exaggerated statements unsupported by evidence (8) thou shalt not tolerate actual or potential conflicts of interest (9) thou shalt not allow political interference to compromise scientific integrity (10) thou shalt not use unvalidated computer models (11) Thy university shall insulate undergraduate fees from research expenses and require research to be self supporting independent of the teaching.

Despite the idea that there are more egalitarian gender roles in heterosexual relationships, this research indicates more traditional attitudes for the first date — there are higher expectations for men to initiate, plan and pay for the date.1 According to this work, the vast majority of which focuses on first date scripts held by heterosexual undergraduate students, both men and women think that men have greater sexual expectations and are more likely to make a sexual move on the first date.1, 2