Sentences with phrase «which first year students»

The negative impact on team performance is particularly acute in those high school sports in which first year students are more likely to be on the playing field alongside seniors.

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For the last seven years he has served full - time as president of Cristo Rey Brooklyn HS, which educates minority students, mostly immigrants or first - generation Americans of modest means.

It gives students the option to major in either Forest Operations or Forest Resources Management, which you can easily switch between in your first year.

Students begin crafting their network and community within the business world the minute they arrive at Columbia, thanks in part to the school's cluster system, which places first - year students in «clusters» of 65 to 70 people who take all their core classes tStudents begin crafting their network and community within the business world the minute they arrive at Columbia, thanks in part to the school's cluster system, which places first - year students in «clusters» of 65 to 70 people who take all their core classes tstudents in «clusters» of 65 to 70 people who take all their core classes together.

The idea came out of a brainstorming session during which the students recognized that access to information among applicants varies widely, says May Lam, 27, a first year student who had worked in private equity before going to Harvard.

Nate Alder, a student at Brigham Young University, has won first or second place in 11 competitions over the past year for his company, Klymit, which has developed a way to insulate outerwear and outdoor gear using argon.

As the first Singaporean athlete to ever win an Olympic gold medal, the 21 - year - old University of Texas student received a $ 753,000 bonus for the win, which he was able to accept as part of the allowable NCAA guidelines — but that's it, for now.

After winning first place in this year's U.S. Imagine Cup, a student technology competition sponsored by Microsoft, Irvin received a flurry of media attention for his Tempe, Ariz., company, FlashFood, which delivers restaurant and catering leftovers to food banks and shelters.

This program requires that students pay back the first 120 payments (which turns out to be ten years) of their loan.

Remember that your intern is also a student, which is their first priority, so the school year will be the biggest obstacle in scheduling.

Household debt outstanding, which includes mortgages, credit cards, auto loans and student loans, rose $ 127 billion between July and September to $ 11.28 trillion, the first increase since late last year and the biggest in more than five years, Federal Reserve Bank of New York figures showed Thursday.

The way the university is constructed is indicative of its fragmentation: many first year students live in one part of the campus, virtually devoid of contact with the rest of the student population; some the colleges within the university have their own dormitories, which also contain classrooms and faculty offices; many of the dormitories house only students with certain majors and contain the classrooms and faculty offices of those disciplines.

In ethics classes, in which most of the students are in their first or second year of college, I first show (after giving advance warning and making it clear that attendance is optional) the Canadian Film Board's documentary Not a Love Story, which portrays some of the most violent and degrading pornography available.

Any other coach but Adolph Rupp would have been satisfied with an 18 - 7 record, but The Baron, audibly piqued because Kentucky wasn't tournament - bound for the first time in seven years, took occasion to blame his troubles on 1) the school band, which stopped tooting for the Wildcats after midyear exams left most of its members on probation; 2) student fans, who were absent in droves for the final game; 3) the lack of a more intensive recruiting program.

Intercollegiate rules kept first - year students from playing varsity, so Trice worked out with the freshmen team, which played no games other than scrimmages against the varsity.

It was against this background that, in the year in which Oxford and Cambridge celebrated the 75th anniversary of the first Varsity match, 2005, we were pleased to be able to offer a week of hospitality in our two cities to a group of about 20 Japanese students representing the Tokyo Students Judo Assostudents representing the Tokyo Students Judo AssoStudents Judo Association.

Until recently, the ESA program required students to be either rising kindergarteners or first - graders, or to have been enrolled in a North Carolina public school during the school year prior to the one in which they planned to utilize the ESA.

To me, the solution to the attrition issue, whether it's at a KIPP middle school or the Promise Academy middle school, is the Harlem Children's Zone's «conveyor belt» model, which provides continuous, high - quality early - childhood and elementary education to precisely those «disengaged families and students,» so that when those children arrive in middle school, they won't have the kind of difficulty doing demanding work as did the kids who left the Bay Area KIPP schools or who underperformed at the Promise Academy middle school in its first few years.

This was during the first few years of the Harlem Children Zone's middle school, which were a struggle, and those KIPP schools, which had very good test results, were for the Promise Academy administrators both a standard to be aspired to and a frustrating reminder that their own students weren't performing at the same high level as KIPP's students.

On the first day of medical school, they tell students that half of what they are about to learn will be overturned or changed in the next five years; the problem is that we don't know which half.

The addition of the upper school, which opened programming to students in grades 10 - 12 for the 2015 - 16 school year, makes Hershey Montessori School the first in the world to fully implement Dr. Maria Montessori's vision for educating children from birth through 18 years, with an adolescent residential program on a working farm.

The company believes that the USDA's new «Smart Snacks in School» rule, which is the first change to competitive food guidelines in more than 30 years, will lead to significant improvements in student health, happiness and overall performance — both in the classroom and on the athletic field.

Students still have to pay for their room and board, which on average is twice the cost of tuition per year, and will have to graduate in four years, caveats made clear when Cuomo first announced the plan back in January.

A # 150 million national scholarships programme is also being set up which will guarantee student benefits such as a free first year or foundation year to the «brightest students from poor backgrounds», officials said.

The event is the first in a series to mark the anniversary year, which will include competitions for students and researchers and the annual Festival of Social Science in November.

A few months ago the Sutton Trust, which I chair, recommended exempting low - income students from paying first - year university fees as part of a range of measures to protect the most vulnerable.

Schools are using the exams to establish student growth for the purpose of state - mandated teacher evaluations, which are in their second year in most of the state and their first year in New York City.

About 11,000 students currently attend Success schools, which run from pre-kindergarten to high school for the first time this year.

When he visited Syracuse University in February, he held a brief press conference about the Reducing Educational Debt Act, a bill that would make the first two years of community college free, allow student loan borrowers to refinance at lower rates and increase the number of Pell Grants, which, unlike loans, do not have to be paid back.

As a major manifesto pledge of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) since 2008, the government has commenced the programme which has seen only first year students entering public senior high schools for free.

The bill, which the City Council passed on Monday, will reimburse private and parochial schools with at least 300 students for the cost of hiring unarmed guards, up to a total of $ 19.8 million in the first year, and possibly more in future years.

The management of Bongo Senior High School in the Upper East Region, which charged first - year students GHc75 despite the free secondary education policy, has assured the affected students of a refund.

So, even though my first year as a Ph.D. student was filled with happiness and excitement, I went to see Counseling and Psychological Services to touch base and establish care in case I would come to need it — which I did the following year, when I started experiencing depression and anxiety symptoms.

For example, we would like to start a journal club in which experienced students volunteer to discuss scientific papers with their younger counterparts (i.e., advanced pupils and first - year students) to stimulate interest in and fascination for the world of science.

«The old model was about generating interest,» says STARS co-director and neurogeneticist Robert Wyman about the former program, which paired first - year students with graduate students for 1 year.

In some departments, particularly in the life sciences, this advice is formalized into «rotations,» in which each grad student spends most of their first year in several different labs.

«We wanted a vehicle that exerted only this function — that of a vehicle that was small (a peptide), and that has permanence in blood,» says Roger Prades, PhD students and first author of the study, which has taken four years of research into peptide chemistry.

In a recent intervention at Northwestern by Nicole M. Stephens and her colleagues, some first - year students attended a panel in which other students discussed their experiences by drawing attention to difference (the experimental group)-- in this case, their status as first - generation college students.

When interacting with groups in which they were the only woman, the participants — especially first - year students — were more likely to perceive the upcoming group work as a threat.

893 first - year female students at three Canadian universities (the universities of Calgary, Guelph and Windsor) were randomly assigned to either the EAAA resistance program or brief exposure to brochures about sexual assault (control group), which is what most universities have available to students on campus.

The first year as a postgraduate differs, depending on whether the student chooses a professional track (which leads to the DESS — «Diplôme d'Etudes Supérieures Spécialisés,» or Specialized Higher Studies Diploma) or a research track (which leads to the DEA — «Diplômes d'Etudes Approfondies,» or Thorough Studies Diploma).

The sample was limited to first - time undergraduate students at 420 four - year public and nonprofit private institutions, slightly more than half of which were public colleges.

Led by graduate student Ross Mitchell, the researchers first looked back beyond Pangaea and determined the location of supercontinents Rodinia, which formed about a billion years earlier, and Nuna, 700 million years before that.

They took top honors 3 years running in the FIRST Lego League in Oman, an international competition in which elementary and middle school students build a LEGO Mindstorm robot.

Human anatomy, physiology and biochemistry are complementary basic medical sciences, which are generally taught to medical students in their first year at medical school.

First year Durham University archaeology student Alex Kirton found the artefact, which measures about 20 cm by 10 cm, in buried late Roman rubbish within what was probably a bath house.

The center, which will open its doors this October under Hanna's direction, received a # 3.5 million grant from the MRC to support its first 5 years, including the Ph.D. training of six biology students and two medical doctors.

Students could do worse than get a crash course in Freud via the text and cartoons in the reissued Freud For Beginners, which was first published 10 years ago.

Zayna Khayat, organizer of the series and past president of the Biochemistry Graduate Students» Union at U of T, agrees: I think students are starting to get more aware, for two reasons: First, there was a similar event held last year, which a lot of people found helpful; and second, I think students are finding more and more that the academy isn't what it useStudents» Union at U of T, agrees: I think students are starting to get more aware, for two reasons: First, there was a similar event held last year, which a lot of people found helpful; and second, I think students are finding more and more that the academy isn't what it usestudents are starting to get more aware, for two reasons: First, there was a similar event held last year, which a lot of people found helpful; and second, I think students are finding more and more that the academy isn't what it usestudents are finding more and more that the academy isn't what it used to be.

This is the first year of the competition where students could use Azure or Windows 7 (both of which debuted in the past year — Azure is an operating system optimized for remotely hosted computing).