Over half agree
their university experience did more for their social life than their education, with nearly one in five leaving university having met their partner.
Whether you'll miss out on the university experience depends very much on which aspects of the university experience you don't want to miss.
Not exact matches
Haile: I started out with little
experience but during
university I got this idea that I wanted to
do this.
And you don't have to lose your job to feel it: a report from London's Roehampton
University last year revealed that over half the people whose salary or hours were cut
experienced symptoms of depression.
Governance expert Richard Leblanc, who teaches law, governance, and ethics at York
University, echoes this and says that while people like Curran come with the appropriate transactional
experience a board would be interested in, many in - house lawyers
do not.
Unfortunately, the typical educational
experience in today's secularized
university does little to help students in their quest for meaning and moral guidance.
«Before «I
Do»,» a new study published by the
University of Virginia's National Marriage Project, offers evidence of the ways certain common individual and cultural pre-marital practices can shape the
experience and quality of a marriage.
She confesses to
experiencing a distinct pleasure every time she reads in the paper, «Disagreeing with the Pope, Father Charles Curran of Southern Methodist
University said...» It
does seem to reduce his already reduced credibility as an authority on Catholic faith and life.
What
does your
experience as a
university chaplain tell you about the future of the Church in the world?
I feel incredibly grateful for my high school education and also for my
university education — I know that is a privilege that most women in the world
do NOT yet
experience (but give us time....).
My answer is that the
university does not encourage the needed critique of assumptions and that the
experience and convictions of the church enable it to make a valuable contribution.
History professor Tracy McKenzie wrote that he «had
experienced much greater academic freedom at Wheaton than I ever
did at the secular
university that I left.»
However, through my
experiences at Strathclyde
University's Catholic Chaplaincy, I have found that not only
do these young people rely on books and endless hours of studying in order to pass their exams, but increasingly they also look for spiritual support.
Having
done a Masters in Digital Futures from OCAD
University she has both education and industry
experience in Digital Marketing.
I initially got involved in volunteering at MMU sport because I had no idea what I wanted to
do when I finished
university, I thought it would give me many transferable skills and
experience in many different areas that I thought I might want to
do when I finished
university.
If you're a student at
university and wish to peek behind the curtain at how covering a team works, writing for a SBNation site is a great way to gain
experience getting credentials and getting a chance to cover things like press conferences and
doing interviews.
That's something we're only beginning to understandi In a lovely short essay at Edge.org, psychology professor Linda Wilbrecht, a colleague at the
University of California, Berkeley, highlights what we
do — and don't — yet know about the impacts of early life
experiences on later development.
The
University of Roehampton is researching the
experience of grief and counselling for fathers who have lost a baby due to late miscarriage, stillbirth or early neonatal loss and who sought support for their bereavement in the form of group, individual or couples counselling (even if they didn't continue with it).
Breastfeeding moms are more likely to stand up for their babies» rights, according to a recent study from the
University of California, Los Angeles, and the
experience doesn't leave them feeling rattled.
One of the people Feilding started working with was professor David Nutt, of Imperial
University, whose own
experience of clashing with authorities over drug research came to a head in 2009 when he was sacked as chair of the Advisory Council of the Misuse of Drugs for ranking drugs according to the harm they
do the user and society.
She served as energy undersecretary in the Obama Administration and was the provost at Johns Hopkins
University, though she doesn't have a New York background or
experience with public
universities.
Young
does have
experience in setting up schools, but schools are regulated quite differently from
universities.
David Willetts: «The Shadow
Universities Secretary was full of praise for Mr McCain's
experience and independence, but said an Obama victory would restore «the world's faith in America» and would represent the more «vivid change»... When the show's presenter later interpreted this as support for Mr Obama, Mr Willetts
did not contradict him.
They add to the
experience of college or
university and they are more likely to
do business with Britain later.
Also mentioned by sources is Stanford
University professor Linda Darling - Hammond, who
does not have administration
experience, and Kathleen Cashin, a former city superintendent and member of the state Board of Regents, who has yet to get an audience with de Blasio, sources said.
In science news around the world, eastern Asia is
experiencing an unprecedented urbanization boom, the European Commission announces a plan to create a unified energy market for the European Union, an external review of the
University of Minnesota's clinical trials procedures says the university didn't adequately protect its most vulnerable subjects, a new data repository of the world's oldest fossils is launched, and the Argonne National Laboratory's 24 - year - old Ask A Scientist service closes its virt
University of Minnesota's clinical trials procedures says the
university didn't adequately protect its most vulnerable subjects, a new data repository of the world's oldest fossils is launched, and the Argonne National Laboratory's 24 - year - old Ask A Scientist service closes its virt
university didn't adequately protect its most vulnerable subjects, a new data repository of the world's oldest fossils is launched, and the Argonne National Laboratory's 24 - year - old Ask A Scientist service closes its virtual doors.
How
does the
experience of
doing a postdoc at a company such as MedImmune compare to
doing one at a
university?
This opportunity to
experience life and studying in another country was offered to me by a brilliant Hungarian young researcher whom I got to know as an undergraduate student,
doing my diploma work at the same department where he was
doing research (department of anthropology,
University of Szeged, Hungary).
Do science students have opportunities to gain real - world research
experience through individual or institutional partnerships with faculty members at
universities?
«Most
universities don't understand what tenure track is,» and his
experience suggests that their leaders don't necessarily see the need for change.
«The experimenters
did a lot of controls to exclude alternative explanations, although from my
experience the results are simply too good,» says Ádám Miklósi, founder of the Family Dog Project at Eötvös Loránd
University in Budapest, Hungary.
«These results suggest that the rich and poor
do not simply have different attitudes about how wealth should be distributed across society; rather, they subjectively
experience living in different societies,» adds psychological scientist Rael Dawtry at the
University of Kent, the study's lead author.
Vanderbilt
University postdoc Lindsey Morris, who has participated in some of the university's NIH - funded Broadening Experiences in Scientific Training (BEST) career - development programs, knows first - hand the importance of such training, which she did not receive in gradua
University postdoc Lindsey Morris, who has participated in some of the
university's NIH - funded Broadening Experiences in Scientific Training (BEST) career - development programs, knows first - hand the importance of such training, which she did not receive in gradua
university's NIH - funded Broadening
Experiences in Scientific Training (BEST) career - development programs, knows first - hand the importance of such training, which she
did not receive in graduate school.
A tiny country with a world - class high - tech and scientific scene — but only a few
universities and research institutes — Israel
does not provide a wide range of the professional and training opportunities would - be postdocs need to broaden their
experience and contacts.
Charles Tart, a psychologist at the
University of California at Davis, who
did the first major study of out - of - body
experiences in 1969, and Raymond Moody... designed experiments of questionable rigor and made matters worse by ignoring the peer - review process and publishing their results in best - selling books.»
Customers care more about their past
experiences with service firms when the economy is
doing well, according to a research team from the J. Mack Robinson College of Business at Georgia State
University.
The
experience did not just inform his music; it landed him in a graduate program at the
University of Texas.
For example, according to Sam Castañeda, visiting scholar and postdoctoral appointment coordinator at the
University of California, Berkeley, their definition of a postdoc is «an individual who holds a Ph.D. and has less than 5 years postdoctoral
experience, possesses a source of funding,
does not have a professorial title, and is being mentored by faculty to gain advanced training and skills.»
Florian Peissker, a PhD student at the
University of Cologne in Germany, who
did much of the observing, says: «Being at the telescope and seeing the data arriving in real time was a fascinating
experience,» and Monica Valencia - S., a post-doctoral researcher also at the
University of Cologne, who then worked on the challenging data processing adds: «It was amazing to see that the glow from the dusty cloud stayed compact before and after the close approach to the black hole.»
An important reason for this is the current setup of most
university programs: Although German students
experience great latitude during their
university educations, they study much longer than
do their competitors in other countries.
In a 2005 study of 454 undergraduates, psychologist Sari Gold of Temple
University and her colleagues revealed that students who had
experienced nontraumatic stressors, such as serious illness in a loved one, divorce of their parents, relationship problems or imprisonment of someone close to them, reported even higher rates of PTSD symptoms than
did students who had lived through bona fide trauma.
«Results from this study are based on current climate projections, and it doesn't necessarily mean that lesser prairie - chickens will
experience a population decline,» said Blake Grisham, Texas Tech
University scientist and lead author of the study.
Grais
did all of her training at a single institution — Johns Hopkins
University in her native United States — yet she has accumulated an unusual breadth of
experience.
«This points to two possible explanations: There are protective measures we don't see, such as resilience, or we're not asking the right questions that address adverse
experiences specific to immigrant children such as fear of deportation of separation,» says Tania Caballero, M.D., M.H.S., a pediatrics research and clinical fellow at the Johns Hopkins
University School of Medicine and the paper's first author.
«In the OB field, individual practice styles, training and anecdotal
experience shape how we practice, but we didn't expect to see such wide differences in maternal outcomes, which is all we studied here,» said Glantz, of the
University of Rochester.
After graduating from the
University of Arizona, Ahmat returned to Malaysia to
do a master's but found the
experience of studying in her home country disappointing.
«We found that perimenopausal women
experience more sleep disturbances prior to menstruation during the luteal phase than they
did during the phase after menstruation,» said one of the study's authors, Fiona C. Baker, PhD, of the Center for Health Sciences at SRI International in Menlo Park, CA, and the
University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg, South Africa.
As law enforcement agencies, community organizations, and public health officials work to develop effective crime - prevention strategies, new research from the
University of Iowa finds that individuals who report being victims of crime to police are less likely to become future victims of crime than those who
do not report their initial
experiences.
Dr Josephine Mollon from King's IoPPN, now with Yale
University, said: «For individuals with psychotic disorders, cognitive decline
does not just begin in adulthood, when individuals start to
experience symptoms such as hallucinations and delusions, but rather many years prior — when difficulties with intellectual tasks first emerge — and worsen over time.
WS sufferers
experience a high incidence of cancer, for example, but «they include rare, weird cancers that you don't see too often,» says George M. Martin of the
University of Washington.