An interview
with graduate faculty, faculty from the Rehabilitation Counseling program, and representatives of public, community, or private rehabilitation.
Even if you do not have a completed portfolio to share
with the graduate faculty, we invite you to attend to ask questions and gather more information about the various schools.
Not exact matches
Amy Cuddy, a
faculty member at the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard, has conducted an experiment
with her
graduate students demonstrating that holding an assertive body posture for as little as two minutes increases the amount of testosterone in the body, in men and women.
They are essential members of the Rotman and University of Toronto communities, conducting research
with Rotman
faculty and engaging
with our
graduate students.
Reports are marked by
faculty and must be completed satisfactorily to meet the University of Calgary's academic requirement to
graduate with a Co-op designation.
But the worry that the pool of future
faculty will be dominated by
graduates of religious studies programs whose whole training is outside the fields and institutions of theological study and who would not want to be associated
with such schools is misplaced.
In one project, which I codirected
with Katarina Schuth, O.S.F., we surveyed current theological
faculty and all current
graduate students in theology and religion.
Consider a partial list of developments since just World War II: a broad national decline in denominational loyalty, changes in ethnic identity as hyphenated Americans enter the third and subsequent generations after immigration, the great explosion in the number of competing secular colleges and universities, the professionalization of academic disciplines
with concomitant professional formation of
faculty members during
graduate education, the dramatic rise in the percentage of the population who seek higher education, the sharp trend toward seeing education largely in vocational and economic terms, the rise in government regulation and financing, the great increase in the complexity and cost of higher education, the development of a more litigious society, the legal end of in loco parentis, an exponential and accelerating growth in human knowledge, and so on.
I'm a little pessimistic, because
faculty members come out of
graduate schools
with a loyalty to a particular field, and it's very hard to get their attention or arouse their passion for larger sets of problems, such as pedagogy or the reform of theological education.
It may be an arrangement that factors out different aspects of the school's common life to the reign of each model of excellent schooling: the research university model may reign for
faculty, for example, or for
faculty in certain fields (say, church history, or biblical studies) but not in others (say, practical theology), while paideia reigns as the model for students, or only for students
with a declared vocation to ordained ministry (so that other students aspiring to
graduate school are free to attempt to meet standards set by the research university model); or research university values may be celebrated in relation to the school's official «academic» program, including both classroom expectations and the selection and rewarding of
faculty, while the school's extracurricular life is shaped by commitments coming from the model provided by paideia so that, for example, common worship is made central to their common life and a high premium is placed on the school being a residential community.
A scholar - theologian who once taught on a theological
faculty and later went to a department of religion in a secular university has written poignantly about his pilgrimage through the kind of identity crises I have just described: one who in college had a kind of neo-fundamentalist faith, went through
graduate school, established peer relationships
with scholars, and then found himself in a crisis of belief, now speaks about the morality of belief — the importance of being true and honest in what one can actually avow and affirm
with integrity.
Because of the close relationship between SFUSD officials and
faculty researchers from Stanford
Graduate School of Education (GSE), projects can be launched and completed quickly,
with the findings then put into action in classrooms and schools without delay.
A
graduate of Wesleyan University, and a member of the Sunbridge
faculty since 2002, he lives
with his wife and two children in Gloucester, MA.
May I also congratulate the national directors present here, the eminent members of
faculty and the non-teaching administrative staff for producing these fresh
graduates, who, I am confident, would illuminate the African continent and beyond
with productive, ground - breaking contributions that would make our world a more secure place than it is today.
However, as a
faculty member and
graduate advisor, I take issue
with some of Julio's comments in particular.
Graduate school programs in such fields will only admit an exceptional applicant if that person matches with a faculty member who is willing to be the graduate sup
Graduate school programs in such fields will only admit an exceptional applicant if that person matches
with a
faculty member who is willing to be the
graduate sup
graduate supervisor.
The authors found some differences between the genders in
graduate school — for example, women were more likely than men to work
with women
faculty members — but «no clear disadvantages in the aspects of training environments that we can measure,» they write.
Most students begin the search for a
graduate advisor by visiting the departmental websites at a number of candidate universities, and scanning the list of
faculty members and research areas, until they come up
with a reasonable match
with their own interests.
A contest will recognize ongoing or prospective public science engagement by affiliated
graduate students, postdoctoral researchers, and
faculty working in or beyond the university community,
with four $ 1000 awards per institution.
A contest to recognize ongoing or prospective science engagement activities in the university's community by affiliated
graduate students, postdoctoral researchers and / or
faculty,
with four awards of $ 1000 each;
There are many opportunities for
graduate and postdoctoral work in mathematical biology, which are occasionally listed
with faculty jobs on SMB's job page.
First, when I arrived for the Early Start summer program in June 1994, the department chair, Dr. Matthew Platz, had lunch
with all of the African - American chemistry
graduate students at the
faculty club on campus.
Over the year that EDG has been running, attendees have included interested
graduate students, postdocs, and
faculty (
with or without technology ideas), MBA students, venture capitalists, biotech executives, and potential angel investors.
And though I think we've done pretty well
with the first two items, I'm not convinced that we're doing so well
with the third — creating the next generation — and I think we need to convene thoughtful
faculty members to talk through,
with postdocs and
graduate students, what we need to enable effective postdoc training.
A DOE blue - ribbon panel, charged in 1999
with finding ways to bolster nuclear energy education in the United States, recommended new
graduate fellowships and grants for
faculty research including special programs for new
faculty.
The McKnight Alumni Association has established its own formal mentoring program to match each new fellow
with McKnight
graduates who may be on the
faculty either at their current institutions or at another one nearby.
One indication of the success of this effort is the fact that some program
graduates who obtained their Ph.D. s in mathematics now have
faculty appointments in biology departments, and some
with Ph.D. s in ecology have
faculty appointments in mathematics.
The success of the NIH MRSP in its various manifestations is evidenced by the finding that its
graduates are more likely to go on to receive NIH postdoctoral research grants and medical school
faculty appointments
with research responsibility5.
Here's the result that has gotten the most press: Academic research careers were less popular
with the late cohorts than the early ones in all disciplines, suggesting, perhaps, that
graduate students are disillusioned by exposure to the lives and careers of their
faculty advisers.
As the authors of the new UNC study write, admissions committees often assume that «[t] ypical selection criteria [such as] standardized test scores, undergraduate GPA, letters of recommendation, a resume and / or personal statement highlighting relevant research or professional experience, and feedback from interviews
with training
faculty... correlate
with research success in
graduate school.»
Because most
faculty members were cloned from their
graduate advisers and academic research is all they know, as a group they can offer little help to someone
with «alternative» interests.
Faculty members generally «don't feel that [unionization] impairs their educational relationship,» says the author of an influential and widely cited study of
faculty attitudes on five campuses
with graduate unions.
From
graduate school and two postdocs to my first nontenure - track
faculty position, I haven't lost my desire to push forward, bit by bit, the frontiers of my field — to watch
with increasing precision the dance of proteins, DNA replication and repair, and chromosome segregation.
In collaboration
with many researchers (
graduate students, postdocs, and
faculty elsewhere), we have examined the role of cross-immunity on the evolution and dynamics of influenza; the impact of behavioral changes, long periods of infectiousness, variable infectivity, co-infections, prostitution, social networks, and vaccine efficacy on HIV dynamics; the role of exogenous re-infection, variable progression rates, vaccination, public transportation, close and casual contacts on tuberculosis dynamics and control; the impact of life - history vector dynamics on dengue epidemics; and on the identification of time - response scales for epidemics of foot and mouth disease.
Computer science also seems healthy,
with a relative few finding work in academia but a very good
faculty - to - postdoc ratio, suggesting that Ph.D. computer science
graduates have very strong nonacademic career prospects.
We are very, very hard strapped just to support the basic research going on
with faculty and
graduate students.
LaNessa Jackson, a sophomore majoring in computer science, says a scholarship would reduce her debt and let her spend more time
with faculty members in preparation for
graduate school.
With 82 tenured / tenure - track and 40 additional full - time faculty, 1,300 undergraduate students, 700 graduate students and more than 23,000 alumni, we are working to leverage our partnerships with academic and industry partners — across disciplines and across the world — to contribute to solving the greatest global challenges of the 21st cent
With 82 tenured / tenure - track and 40 additional full - time
faculty, 1,300 undergraduate students, 700
graduate students and more than 23,000 alumni, we are working to leverage our partnerships
with academic and industry partners — across disciplines and across the world — to contribute to solving the greatest global challenges of the 21st cent
with academic and industry partners — across disciplines and across the world — to contribute to solving the greatest global challenges of the 21st century.
Its activities include assisting undergraduates
with the
graduate admissions process, mentoring local high school students, connecting black
graduate students
with faculty of color, as well as several social activities, including bowling, barbeques, and an annual formal
with alumni.
Besides learning research techniques and problem - solving skills, students can use the time to chat
with graduate students, postdoctoral researchers, and
faculty about science and scientific careers.
Timbuktu Academy - Mentoring Future Scientists by C. Parks, 6 May 2005 The mentoring methods provided by
faculty at the Timbuktu Academy at Southern University in Baton Rouge, Louisiana provides science and engineering students, primarily underrepresented minorities,
with the support they need to be successful in
graduate school.
Boehme conducted the study
with fellow University of Utah physicists: first author and postdoctoral fellow Hans Malissa; research professor and co-senior author John Lupton, who also is on the
faculty of the University of Regensburg, Germany; distinguished professor Z. Valy Vardeny; professor Brian Saam;
graduate students Marzieh Kavand and David Waters; and postdoctoral fellow Kipp van Schooten.
They should see that the postdoc experience is needed not only for future progression to
faculty appointments but also to fulfil their role of providing the nation
with highly skilled people at all levels (
graduate, postgraduate, and postdoctoral).
The one alumnus hired this year — 1995 HMC
graduate Elizabeth Orwin — studied
with an all - male engineering
faculty.
The UAB Office of Postdoctoral Education was formed in 1999 following a series of focus groups
with faculty and postdocs, organized by the
graduate school.
Nearly a year since it was established, 20
faculty members work at OISB, along
with 41 postdocs, 59
graduate students, and 114 undergraduates.
When he heard that a fellow
faculty member at Cornell had taken on a
graduate student, Sophie Rittner, to replicate Chan and Kim's experiment, Reppy suggested that she work
with him instead: just as in climbing, he needed a partner.
Depending upon how they are organized,
graduate training programs may present students
with anything from a dozen to a few hundred
faculty members who are approved to be thesis mentors.
The study, published in Science Advances, was led by ASU School of Earth and Space Exploration
graduate student Feifei Zhang,
with direction from school
faculty member Ariel Anbar.
Even
with the ever - growing awareness toward problems concerning women in science, a number of challenges still plague female
graduate students, postdoctoral fellows, and
faculty.