Sentences with phrase «year graduate student when»

I first met Sage as a second year graduate student when she gave an information session about the S&T Policy Fellowships program.

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Hawking was diagnosed with the degenerative disorder in 1963, when he was just a 21 - year - old graduate student.

When students graduate, they are assigned a standard 10 - year repayment schedule.

When I was teaching at the New School already 50 years ago, graduate students were dropping out of the field because they couldn't fit reality into the curriculum.

I will be graduating with my PhD (Physics) next year when I'm... 33 and I only started investing in a Roth IRA last year using my petty grad student stipend.

I have straddled both sides of this fence, having had a near - death experience myself at age 29 (when my daughter was 3 years old) and, years later, at age 46, when I served as a student chaplain in a Level - One trauma center during graduate school.

I didn't take any of Robbie's courses when I was a student at Princeton, but I was his research assistant for two years after graduating.

When I was a graduate student at Emory University about 29 years ago (Winter, 1961) studying metaphysics with Hartshorne, I put the foregoing question to Hartshorne himself.

At any rate, in a paper I wrote a couple of years later in graduate school, I argued both the pro and anti-abortion positions, and when another student» an antiabortion activist, I think» angrily demanded to know my opinion, I said, honestly, that I didn't know.

I found that in May of that year, when he was a graduate student at Cambridge, he was elected to a small discussion club.

In 1976 I was a 31 - year - old graduate student at Harvard when I discovered a lump on my wrist.

Share Our Strength's No Kid Hungry campaign reported in 2013 that on average, students who eat school breakfast attend 1.5 more days of school per year and score 17.5 percent higher on standardized math tests; when combined, these factors translate into a student being twenty percent more likely to graduate high school.

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.

Astorino, 46, said he smoked pot when he was a college student, but noted he graduated nearly 25 years ago.

Chancellor Nancy Zimpher, who heads the 64 - campus SUNY system, set the bar high last year when she outlined goals and strategies designed to move the system to the head of the educational pack: the crown jewel of 2013's address was the three - year program to graduate students faster than the traditional four years of study...

White students in Troy were graduating at higher rates than all others until last year, when they were edged out by black and Hispanic students.

«When I hear the word mentor, I think of Dr. Pat Marsteller,» says Holly Carpenter, a fourth - year graduate student in chemistry at Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia.

When the workshop ended, one graduate student thanked Eroy - Reveles, teary - eyed because the discussion legitimized pain she'd felt for years in a male - dominated engineering lab.

Her practical skills stood her in good stead in 1991, when she was scouting for a research group to join after her first year as a graduate student at MIT.

Coss» paper grew out of a 2015 study in which he and a former graduate student reported that zebras living near human settlements could not be approached as closely before fleeing as wild horses when they saw a human approaching on foot — staying just outside the effective range of poisoned arrows used by African hunters for at least 24,000 years.

The other coauthor is Wenchao Wang, who did one of the initial experiments as a graduate student in Strome's lab several years ago when she was at Indiana University.

Louis Lanzerotti, a physicist at New Jersey Institute of Technology who spent many years at Bell Labs and worked on space missions such as Voyager, Ulysses and Galileo, was a graduate student in nuclear physics at Harvard University when Telstar 1 went into orbit.

Spencer, with graduate student Janna Mantua and undergraduates Keenan Mahan and Owen Henry, found that individuals who had sustained a mild TBI more than a year earlier had greater recall in a word memorization task after they had slept than when tested after an equal period awake.

When faced by these challenges, graduate students can whine and complain, or they can take matters into their own hands, as a group of students at the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) did a few years ago by creating the Industry Roundtable (IR).

A few years ago at a bar in Reno, graduate student John Zablocki was talking about his research on the rediscovery of lost species — those presumed to have gone extinct only to turn up again alive and well — when a stranger chimed in.

«Usually, when researchers want a mouse or other animal model to express fluorescent proteins in certain cells, they need to develop genetically modified animals that can take months to years to make and characterize,» says former graduate student and first author Ken Chan (PhD» 17).

As the investigation into the horrific murder of 24 - year - old Yale University pharmacology graduate student Annie Le has moved into high gear, the building in which she was found has been closed and no one knows when things will return to normal.

While the number of graduate students supported by research grants has been higher than the number supported on training grants since the early 1980s, the gap steadily widened as NIH's research budget grew — then shot up in the early 2000s when NIH's budget doubled over 5 years (see graph below).

Boston University (BU) has found that geologist David Marchant sexually harassed his former graduate student, Jane Willenbring, when they were working at an isolated field camp in Antarctica in 1999 and 2000, when Willenbring was 22 years old.

All young faculty members should try to participate in first - year graduate courses, since this is the time when most students make their choices about what to study and with whom.

Applicants aiming to become — or remain — Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) investigators must «provide ahead of time... a list of all their trainees — graduate students and postdocs — from the last 10 year period» including «the names of the people,... what they did subsequently, when they left the lab, and what they're doing currently,» HHMI president Thomas Cech tells Science Careers.

«When we analyzed the Keck data, we found the emitting region of SDSS1133 is less than 40 light - years across, and that the center of Markarian 177 shows evidence of intense star formation and other features indicating a recent disturbance that matched what we expected for a recoiling black hole,» said Chao - Ling Hung, a UH Manoa graduate student performing the analysis of the Keck Observatory imaging in the study.

Aug. 29, 2013 — When it comes to government funding of basic science training programs for graduate students and postdoctoral fellows, Vanderbilt University Medical Center hit a grand slam this year, officials said.

In 2016, his talents were recognized at the highest echelons, when he won a U. S. Department of Energy Office of Science Graduate Student Research Fellowship, allowing him to perform research for one year at Fermilab, the world - renowned Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory in Batavia, Illinois.

Throughout college and graduate school, Amelia Poplawski learned very efficiently from her textbooks and lectures, so the first - year student in Penn State College of Medicine's physician assistant program was surprised when a tool she had never heard of — team - based learning — enhanced her studying.

When it comes to government funding of basic science training programs for graduate students and postdoctoral fellows, Vanderbilt University Medical Center hit a grand slam this year, officials said this week.

A little over a year ago, Bordenstein, a biologist at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tenn., and his then - graduate student, Robert Brucker, mated two incompatible species of wasp in the lab, creating a hardy hybrid that lived when most others died.

My curiosity was thus piqued when 3 years later Carl Novina, a postdoc in Phillip Sharp's lab whom I had known when he was a graduate student at Tufts, came to me with the still - unpublished news that RNA silencing also functions in mammalian cells.

Sheltzer was astonished when a friend at Princeton University told him she was the first female graduate student at her PI's physics lab in his 20 - plus years as an academic.

Fast forward to 2014: That's when the first class of medical students graduated from Houston, TX - based Baylor College of Medicine, with a concentration in a genetics track curriculum that Dr. Potocki co-founded with Shweta Dhar, M.D., just a few years ago.

His choices widened when he looked at the work of his graduate school mentor, who had made important contributions to society by founding a Cord Blood Bank, and of a professor at a local 2 - year college, who advanced student training in scientific research by involving them in the lab production of monoclonal antibodies.

Spring is always a pretty important period for Japanese people: it's the start of the new school year for students, and that's when fresh graduates start working at their first company.

At the heart of the film is an American graduate student named Oliver (Armie Hammer, wielding dashing nonchalance to utmost charm) on archeological research in Italy and the student's host professor's 17 - year - old son, Elio (Timothée Chalamet), a sexually confident teen with the ladies who falls to emotional pieces when he crushes hard on Oliver.

... Hoekstra, a student at the Harvard Graduate School of Education HGSE, lost his vision when he was 8 years old, the result of a pseudotumor in his brain.

At a time when only seven in 10 American students graduate from high school in four years, an ambitious new president is demanding that the nation raise its educational sights even higher.

At a time when only seven in 10 American students graduate from high school in four years, President Barack Obama is demanding that the nation raise its educational sights even higher, asking all Americans to commit to at least one year of education after high school.

Hoekstra, a student at the Harvard Graduate School of Education (HGSE), lost his vision when he was 8 years old, the result of a pseudotumor in his brain.

I teach history to smart students at a good college, who, it is often said, know less when they graduate from secondary school than their counterparts of years...

When this is equated to other countries via the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development's Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA), we find (in math, for the high school graduating class of 2009) that sixteen other nations had at least twice as large a fraction of their fifteen - year - olds scoring at that level.

We focus on this three - year window (the exact dates of which vary according to the student's grade when enrolling in the study) because the most recent enrollment data available are for fall 2011 and the youngest cohort was expected to graduate high school in 2009.