Sentences with phrase «university age students»

A recent study by University of California, Dominguez Hills, of middle school, high school, and university age students, «found that the average student studied for fewer than six minutes before switching tasks, often distracted by technology including social media or texting.»

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In September, Southern California's Biola University — founded as the Bible Institute of Los Angeles in 1908 — lifted its ban on alcohol and tobacco for of - age graduate students, noting that the changes «shift the responsibility of conduct from the institution to the individual.»

Without God, we are torn in two directions: universities praise diversity, but students still form cliques; politicians promise a bright future, but our news programmes are distressing; people are obsessed with scientific explanations of everything, and equally obsessed with the sentimental love expressed in pop songs; sexual abuse with a minor is the most shameful of all crimes, but everyone has a right to complete sexual liberation once they reach the age of consent; we relocate all over the world, preferring to live anywhere but home, yet we still agonise over our local sports club; we own many things, and still feel we don't have enough; we believe in discipline at school or at work, but we all have a right to «let ourselves go» at the weekend; we tolerate everything, except people that don't agree with us.

Strack is also the founder and president of Student Leadership University (SLU), which puts on faith - based programs to train high school and college - aged Christians in Orlando, San Antonio, and other major cities.

One Catholic university, which had for years professed that it «does not discriminate on the basis of age, sex, race, handicap, color, (or) religion» and «welcomes applications without distinction on the basis of race or religious beliefs,» discovered that Catholics had thereby declined from 70 percent to 59 percent of its student body in only ten years.

The age - old distinction between schoolchildren and university students is fast losing its meaning.

Without God, we are torn in two directions: universities praise diversity, but students still form cliques; politicians promise a bright future, but all our news programs are distressing; people are obsessed with scientific explanations of everything, and equally obsessed with sentimental love in every pop song; sexual abuse with a minor is the most shameful of all crimes, but everyone has a right to complete sexual liberation once they reach the age of consent; we relocate all over the world, preferring to live anywhere but home, yet we still agonize over our local sports team; we own many things, and still feel like we don't have enough; we believe in discipline at school or at work, but we all have a right to «let ourselves go» on the weekend; we tolerate everything, except people that don't agree with us.

We are delighted to be working with Cardiac Risk in the Young (CRY) to offer a free heart test for students at Manchester Metropolitan University aged between 14 and 35.

Anyone over the age of 16 can take out a membership at Oxford University Sport whether they are students, staff or members of the local community.

TICKETS ARE NOW SOLD OUT WE STILL NEED VOLUNTEERS TO STEWARD THE EVENT, SIGN UP HERE Students must show valid student ID, and children or over 60s proof of age Venue: Fletcher Field, Oxford University Sport, Iffley Road, OX4 1EQ.

Lindsey Yeager Core Class Facilitator Lindsey holds a Bachelor's degree in Mathematics and has worked with students of all ages at tutoring centers and universities.

Baylor University on Stress and Coping Strategies A doctoral student is looking for parents of children ages 5 - 12 in three categories: 1.

Before you begin figuring out a way to halt your son or daughter's aging process, take consolation from this — nine out of 10 students who take a gap year are more focused when they return to university.

On 8th January, 2017 about 1500 hours, one Elijah OYEBODE, aged twenty - two (22) years, was arrested in connection with the disappearance of one Damilola Rofiat ADEBISI (F), a 400 level student of the Department of Chemistry Education, Osun State University, Ipetu - Ijesa campus, Oriade LGA.

Age is referenced constantly and shops are told to be wary of selling to «student university halls of residence».

By late April, University at Buffalo will begin a two - year research project studying the operation and challenges of running a driverless bus — with an eye toward the day it could eventually shuttle students and faculty to and from other modes of travel and be integrated into a new transportation age.

The budget included a deal to raise the age of criminal responsibility («a legacy accomplishment,» the governor said), allow the expansion of ride - hailing services like Uber and Lyft into upstate and Long Island, and create a college affordability plan for public university students.

Notably, this includes a range of initiatives aimed at school - age students, the establishment of the university Academic Centre of Excellence, and a number of schemes designed to allow individuals to transition into a career in cyber security.

He was a high - flying student and gained entry to Edinburgh University at the early age of 16.

Three - hundred and eighty - nine non-Hispanic white women ages 18 to 30 who had used an indoor tanning device one or more times in the prior 12 months completed online questionnaires; 46.7 percent of the participants were current college or university students.

Applicants who attended community college after high school before transferring to a four - year college or university were 30 percent less likely to be admitted, compared to those students who never attended a community college or only attended a four - year university to medical school, after adjusting for age, gender, race and ethnicity, parental education, grade point average and MCAT score.

The Rochester team, which included several undergraduate students, collaborated with archaeologist Thomas Huffman of the University of Witwatersrand in South Africa, a leading expert on Iron Age southern Africa.

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.

Supported by a large student team, Kurth and her colleagues, Monique LeBourgeois professor at the University of Colorado Boulder, and Sean Deoni, professor at Brown University, studied the effects of 50 % sleep deprivation in a group of 13 children between the ages of 5 and 12 years.

Candace Pert, who made one of the most pivotal discoveries of recent decades while a graduate student of pharmacology at Johns Hopkins University in the 1970s, died on 12 September, at age 67, of what The Washington Post called «apparent cardiovascular arrest.»

Saskia Hagenaars, a PhD student from The University of Edinburgh's Centre for Cognitive Ageing and Cognitive Epidemiology, who jointly led the research, said: «We identified hundreds of new genetic signals.

He went to New York University in New York City, where he researched the effectiveness of The Geometer's Sketchpad software, which helps students of all ages learn mathematics.

Detmar Meurers, professor for computational linguistics at the University of Tübingen, summarizes: «Authors of textbooks should consider much more systematically what makes texts suitable for students of different age groups and performance levels in order to advance students in terms of language and content.

«We know that our brains change over time, but fully understanding how we make and recall memories as we age has been a mystery,» said Renante Rondina, a University of Toronto and Rotman graduate student in the Department of Psychology and lead author of the study.

At age 15, university - bound Dutch secondary students must choose among four possible programs.

Ameisen was a stellar medical student at the University of Paris — which he entered at the age of 16.

Two years later, a group of more than 100 U.S. university presidents and chancellors known as the Amethyst Initiative called for a re-evaluation of the legal drinking age — citing a «clandestine» culture of heavy drinking episodes among college students as one reason that the age - 21 law is not working.

The Canadian Healthy Infant Longitudinal Development (CHILD) Study, directed by Malcolm Sears, MB, ChB, professor in the Department of Medicine at McMaster University, is believed to be «the first to determine the effects of timing of food introduction to cow's milk products, egg, and peanut, on food sensitization at age one in a general population - based cohort,» said lead investigator Maxwell Tran, a research student at McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada.

In this study, Dr Deborah Hasin, Professor of Epidemiology at Columbia University Medical Center, New York, USA and colleagues examined the relationship between the legalisation of medical marijuana and adolescent marijuana use by analysing national «Monitoring the Future» survey data * from over one million students in the 8th, 10th, and 12th grades (aged 13 - 18) between 1991 and 2014 — a period when 21 contiguous states passed laws allowing marijuana use for medical purposes.

In the late»60s at Rockefeller University in New York City, biology graduate student Caleb «Tuck» Finch gave a talk on his Ph.D. research, titled «Cellular Activities During Aging in Mammals.»

Wayne Bowen, biology professor and co-director of the Molecular Pharmacology, Physiology and Biotechnology Graduate program at Brown University, agrees that reaching African - American students at a young age is crucial.

The study, carried out by undergraduate student, Rie Davies, and academics Dr Maddie Ohl and Dr Anne Manyande from the School of Psychology at the University of West London, explored the pro-sociability, co-operation and problem - solving abilities of 24 girls and 24 boys aged four.

«One example of an intervention might be treating the underlying causes of anemia, such as iron deficiency, which is common in this age group,» said Raphae Barlas, co-author and medical student at the University of Aberdeen, who carried out the project as a summer research program scholarship recipient.

Results of new study led by Linda Pagani, professor at the University of Montreal's School of Psychoeducation, show that young children who watch too much television are at risk of victimization and social isolation and adopting violent and antisocial behaviour toward other students at age 13.

The research group of Computational Intelligence Group (CIG) from the School of Computing at Universidad Politécnica de Madrid (UPM), in collaboration with a veterinary student from Universidad Alfonso X El Sabio and the Department of Ethology from Eötvös Loránd University of Budapest have carried out a research on canine behavior showing that gender, age, context and individual recognition can be identified with a high percentage of success through statistical and computational methods of pattern recognition applied to their barking.

The researchers analysed the data from 145 Chinese exchange students aged between 18 and 21 at VIT University, Vellore, India.

Working with Miller and doctoral student Abraham Padilla at Vanderbilt, Joe Wooden at Stanford University, Axel Schmitt and Rita Economos from UCLA, Ilya Bindeman at the University of Oregon and Brennan Jordan at the University of South Dakota, Carley analyzed about 1,000 zircon crystals for their age and elemental and isotopic compositions.

More than 2800 Australian students aged 12 - 17 took part in a survey of drinking behaviour, conducted by researchers from the University of Adelaide's School of Psychology and the Population Health group at the South Australian Health and Medical Research Institute (SAHMRI).

Kypros Kypri, Ph.D., of the University of Newcastle, Callaghan, NSW, Australia, and colleagues emailed invitations containing hyperlinks to the Alcohol Use Disorders Identification Test - Consumption (AUDIT - C) screening test to 14,991 students (ages 17 to 24 years) at 7 New Zealand universities.

The pre-Ice Age marine mammal community of the North Pacific formed a strangely eclectic scene, research by a Geology PhD student at New Zealand's University of Otago reveals.

Vaghefi, with the help of Hamed Qahri - Saremi of DePaul University, collected self - reported data from nearly 300 college - aged students, and found that three personality traits in particular — neuroticism, conscientiousness and agreeableness — were related to social network addiction.

The researchers studied 3,432 UK university staff and students aged 18 - 40 who had been bereaved, to examine the specific impacts associated with bereavement by suicide.

In 1964, a University of North Carolina graduate student named Donald Currey broke two expensive borers trying to age a Great Basin Bristlecone Pine near Wheeler Peak, just south of Highway 50 near the Utah - Nevada border.

He earned his MBBS, (the equivalent of the MD degree) in 1967, at the age of 22, from Punjab University Medical College, in Amritsar, where he was named «Best Medical Graduate» for that year, winning the Pfizer Award and the Gold Medal for highest achievement as a medical student.

He currently is a student in the Biology of Aging program between the University of Southern California and the Buck Institute.