Sentences with phrase «universities say their courses»

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«If I had never dropped in on that single course in college, the Mac would have never had multiple typefaces or proportionally spaced fonts,» Jobs said during a commencement speech at Stanford University in 2005.

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.

«In our celebrity focused culture, a young star like Emma Watson has the power to amplify important social messages,» says Katie Hood, a senior fellow at Duke University who teaches a «Women as Leaders» course and who recently became executive director of the anti-domestic violence One Love Foundation.

«It really comes down to this combination of funding and mentoring — the two key areas high - growth startups need,» says Michael Goldberg, visiting assistant professor of design and innovation at Case Western Reserve University's Weatherhead School of Management where he created an online course that uses Cleveland as a model for other communities.

«We did studies of what makes one nationality more valuable than another, and of course the British nationality is one of the best in the world,» Professor Dimitry Kochenov at the University of Groningen, who compiled the report, said at a conference in London.

Agarwal says edX didn't charge San Jose State for the pilot program, but starting this fall, it will be offering the flipped course to all California State University campuses for a fee.

«It's like tennis — I can't guarantee how good you'll be if you take a course,» says William Gartner, a professor of entrepreneurship at the University of Southern California's Marshall School of Business.

The New York Times cited anonymous sources involved with The Birth of a Nation as saying that Fox Searchlight does not plan to change course on its promotion of the film, which includes plans to have Parker tour U.S. universities and churches as the public face of the movie.

Company executives are expected to meet with the students regularly over the course of the semester to offer critiques and suggestions, says Jerome Katz, a professor of entrepreneurship at Saint Louis University.

Business ethics professors say The Business Ethics Blog is...»... the best thing that ever happened to Business Ethics courses... clear and intelligent presentation of the real ethical stakes behind the current headlines...» [Prof. Wayne Norman, Duke University]

Of course we should now say «Dr.» Mott, since he was thus decorated last Tuesday by the University of Edinburgh.

But lawyers representing the university argued that he showed «no insight» and said the decision to remove him from the course was fair and proportionate.

We could, of course, say, so much the worse for the university.

Former North Carolina shooting guard Rashad McCants, a star on the Tar Heels» 2005 championship squad, says he often took sham courses and rarely attended class during his time at the university, according to a report from ESPN's Outside the Lines.

Now 29 years old, McCants even says his NCAA eligibility came into question at one point before the university provided assistance, placing him into courses in African - American studies that ensured high grades.

That image isn't quite accurate, or so say Oregon State University professor Richard A. Settersten Jr. and assistant professor Doris Cancel - Tirado in their comprehensive study, «Fatherhood as a Hidden Variable in Men's Development and Life Courses, Research in Human Development.»

The golf course came under new ownership in 1944, when Northwestern University purchased the property and took over operations until 1972, when it was purchased by the Wilmette Park District via a $ 4.2 million referendum that was supported by local voters, officials said.

«It is, of course, important to discern between «a few occasional drinks,» such as having a beer or two or perhaps a glass of wine at dinner, and then «binge drinking,»» says Maija Haastrup, a clinical pharmacologist at the Odense University Hospital in Denmark, who co-authored the review I previously mentioned.

I am inclined to say that The Twenty - Year Death began when I took two university courses: Hardboiled Fiction and Film Noir, and Faulkner, Fitzgerald, and Hemingway, even though I wrote it many years later.

Yesterday the University and Colleges Union said London Metropolitan University's decision to cut 70 % of its courses in a bid to maintain financial sustainability reflected a wider risk to courses and departments under threat.

Liam Burns, National Union of Students (NUS) president said: «Ministers» claims that their proposals will put power in the hands of students have been shown to be spurious and it is increasingly clear that the course they are pursuing will actually restrict access to university for disadvantaged students, entrench existing social divides, and cost far more than expected.

UCU general secretary Sally Hunt said such courses will be «starved of funds» and warned that higher education was about to enter an era «in which many arts - based and teaching - focused institutions, which rely on public funding far more than the larger research - intensive universities, will face an uncertain future».

On health, President Mahama said the establishment of the Public Health School of the University of Health and Allied Science at Hohoe was on course and would soon start admitting students.

Prof. Sani Dangoggo, the Vice Chancellor of Sokoto State University, says the National Universities Commission (NUC) has accredited 23 courses offered in the uUniversity, says the National Universities Commission (NUC) has accredited 23 courses offered in the universityuniversity.

Speaking at a Congregation ceremony of the University of Professional Studies (UPSA) in Accra, President Mahama said his quest to build a resilient economy is on course.

Of course, refusing to make a final decision is a way to mitigate lawsuits, said Spence, of the University of Texas.

«Of course, early states give candidates a big boost, but it usually comes down to a fight between two candidates,» said Steven Brams, professor of politics at New York University.

He, therefore, solicited the partnership of the University of Wolverhampton, which he said has a long history of providing vocational and skills training on a regional basis, in the development of IVTEC and the state's Internal Revenue Service, (KWIRS) whose management had just completed an executive course at the University's Business School.

Danjuma, a former Minister of Defence, had last month, at the maiden convocation / 10th anniversary of Taraba State University, Jalingo, said there was an attempt at ethnic cleansing in the state and, of course, some rural states in Nigeria.

City University education professor and attorney David Bloomfield said the best legal course will likely depend on how Steiner writes his decision, but that both Barron and Jeffries raise key concerns.

«Paterson has time to turn things around before the 2010 election, of course, but there's not a hint of good news for him in this poll,» says Maurice Carroll, director of the Quinnipiac University Polling Institute.

Sharing how his administration managed to turn the fortunes of the University around, Prof. Alabi said, they had a plan to introduce new courses and additional programmes that could fetch them enough money for the expansion projects they had wanted to do.

Classroom Science Days has borne out at least one long - term collaboration between teachers and scientists, said Corlew: One participating scientist created a course on science communication at Harvard University in a partnership with the teacher AAAS paired her with.

«DAAD will provide better information about study and research opportunities in this region, promote the creation of university partnerships, and provide opportunities for Germans to take language courses in Central or Eastern Europe,» said DAAD president, Professor Theodor Berchem.

«We found that the participants» brains became intimately coupled during the course of the «conversation», with the responses in the listener's brain mirroring those in the speaker's,» says Uri Hasson of Princeton University.

«For the first time, we have direct images of what the Milky Way looked like in the past,» said study co-leader Pieter G. van Dokkum of Yale University in New Haven, Conn. «Of course, we can't see the Milky Way itself in the past.

Thomas says he received extensive support throughout the course as well as benefiting from the university's ready - made network of contacts.

The required course, which occasionally includes non-BSP students, provides a map that tells students «how the university is organized and how science is done on their campus,» Matsui says.

«If we can provide community college students with the proper guidance and mentoring to take the right courses, in the right sequence, they can be competitive at the university level,» says Singh.

Remedial courses are becoming scarce at universities but remain one of community colleges» strengths, Summers says.

Of course, this ideal does not always match reality,» say psychological scientists John Paul Wilson and Nicholas Rule of the University of Toronto, co-authors on the study.

Take presentation courses and rehearse in front of a mirror, says Ph.D. student Olena Puzyeyeva, who enrolled at the University of Toronto in Canada after obtaining an M.D. in ophthalmology in her native Ukraine.

«We have so many problems with Ebola, let's not make another one that, of course, is theoretically possible but is pretty way down on the list of likely issues,» says infectious diseases expert William Schaffner of Vanderbilt University.

For example, the average child in the United States has taken three courses of antibiotics by the time he or she is 2 years old, says Martin Blaser, an infectious disease specialist and microbiologist at New York University in New York City.

«No one has ever looked at how the brain varies over the course of days, weeks and months,» says Poldrack, a psychologist and neuroscientist at Stanford University.

MOOCs could change the way students select paid courses by functioning as a taster course, says Charles Cockell, an astrobiologist at the University of Edinburgh who developed one of the first UK - based MOOCs.

And this year, the university said, more than 60 students have already registered for the courses.

Shore says that anyone who works with patient materials — even if they never meet a patient — has to complete an online course provided by the university explaining federal patient privacy rules as spelled out in the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996.

The lead researcher for the study, Professor Gita Mishra, Professor of Life Course Epidemiology and Director of the Australian Longitudinal Study on Women's Health at the University of Queensland, Australia, said: «If the findings from our study were incorporated into clinical guidelines for advising childless women from around the age of 35 years who had their first period aged 11 or younger, clinicians could gain valuable time to prepare these women for the possibility of premature or early menopause.

McGregor says that in 2014 the UI, one of the participating universities, was allowed to add two questions to the nearly 200 - question survey: «Do you have any learning disabilities that affect how you read, study, or do your course work?»