Sentences with phrase «university debate team»

In October, a Harvard University debate team (three - time recent champions of the American Parliamentary Debate Association) lost a match to a team of prisoners from the maximum - security Eastern New York Correctional Facility, Chuck Shepherd»...

Not exact matches

A Chinese - American team led by Loukas Barton, an archaeologist at the University of California, Davis, and Seth Newsome, an ecologist at the Carnegie Institution of Washington in Washington, D.C., tackled the debate at the early farming village of Dadiwan in northwest China.

To find out whether the bodies themselves could shed some light on the debate, a team led by archaeologist Douglas Kennett of Pennsylvania State University in State College analyzed their remains, found in room 33 of the Pueblo Bonito complex and now stored at the American Museum of Natural History in New York City, using DNA sequencing.

That's why top neuroscientist Olaf Sporns of Indiana University at Bloomington and his team are hoping for some lively debate about their new blueprint to map those connections.

The new findings, published in JCI Insight by a team of University of Michigan researchers, come at a critical time for the debate over the future of U.S. federal research funding.

Convention highlights included a series of public debates on key issues and challenges facing Mars exploration and the future of the U.S. space program, as well as the final face - off of university student teams presenting designs for the Mars Society's International Gemini Mars competition.

Denzel Washington stars in and directs this inspiring drama about a college professor who challenges the entrenched racism and prejudice of the 1930's by assembling and training a first - class African - American debate team, a talented group that makes its way to a national championship against Harvard University.

That is the question which begs to be answered in the course of appraising The Great Debaters, an inspirational bio-pic about a professor who, in 1935, allegedly forged the fledgling debate team at a tiny black college into a nationally - ranked powerhouse that took on Harvard University in a big showdown aired on radio live all across the country.

The idea for red team, blue team climate debates originated with Steven Koonin, a physicist at New York University... Mr. Koonin in April wrote an op - ed in The Wall Street Journal calling for using the military - style exercise — in which one team attacks and another defends — to test the robustness of climate change science...

While in college, he was a member of the university's debate team.

The following year we debated the future of the legal profession in light of Richard Susskind's book The End of Lawyers, and despite being teamed up with the inestimable intellect of UVic law school dean Donna Greschner, and the two of us giving away free dinosaur toys to all the attendees in an attempt to bribe them, we were trounced by University of British Columbia law dean Mary Anne Bobinski and her partner in crime, litigator, rock star and Paul McCartney's good friend, Michal Bain (who tires of being described as the «Bain» of my existence).

For example, one study conducted by a psychology professor at the University of California, Berkely, found that teams that debate and critique one another's ideas produce an average of 25 percent more ideas than those that do not.

Other activities such as writing for your university newspaper, being a member of the debating team, and other such societies could certainly enhance your future chances of success, as long as they relate to the industry you're interested in.

CAMPUS INVOLVEMENT AND VOLUNTEER WORK • Active member of the science and business clubs • Worked as a community server at the SOS Children's Village for three months • Active member of the debating society • Managed workshops for educational development • Captain of the university soccer team

Volleyball is one of my passions, and I am part of my university's debate team.