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Reading for Class and Research Papers
Category: Static/study skills
... ideas, graphs, and or charts. Familiarize yourself with resource databases. Colleges and Universities subscribe to hundreds of resource databases that are not available for free on the internet. ... Tuesday, 17 August 2010 -
Time Management
Category: Static/study skills
... Learn your pyramid! Exercise. Exercising energizes your body and provides a break from your studies. Many colleges and universities offer low- ... Tuesday, 17 August 2010 -
Study Skills for Budding Scientists
Category: Static/study skills
... College National Center for Research Resources / Research Centers in Minority Institutions ... Tuesday, 17 August 2010 -
Speakers
Category: videoslides/africagreen
... Sanchez became a Visiting Professor of Tropical Resources at the College of Natural Resources, University of California, Berkeley. He joined the Earth Institute in 2003. He also serves as co-chair of ... Wednesday, 28 April 2010 -
Speakers
Category: videoslides/Hammers
... of Nurse Executives. She has coached executives at the New York Hospital for Special Surgery and the Medical Education Group. Terry holds a Bachelors degree from Hunter College and numerous certifications ... Wednesday, 28 April 2010 -
Research Funding to Increase in 2010
Category: Progress Magazine/Spring 2009
... of American Medical Colleges. Bonham noted that the success rate for NIH grants in 2008 and 2009 was between 20 and 22%. In 2003, when the doubling of the NIH budget was just completed, the overall success ... Tuesday, 22 December 2009 -
Stimulus Funds Aid Minority Serving Institutions
Category: Progress Magazine/Spring 2009
... can be completed in the original three years, she added. Funds from the stimulus act are also supporting programs that benefit minority college and university students. California State University, Los ... Friday, 09 October 2009 -
Puerto Rican Neurobiologist Strives for MORE
Category: Progress Magazine/Spring 2009
... community college to postdoctoral level to consider a career in biomedical research. He also initiates research projects and oversees grants offered by the NIGMS. “We need people who love science, ... Monday, 28 September 2009 -
Long Thao, M.D.: A Lifelong Commitment to Helping Hmong
Category: Progress Magazine/Spring 2009
... which provides scholarships and mentoring to Southeast Asian students, Thao visits colleges in his area, plus Minnesota and Wisconsin. He encourages undergraduates to go into medicine and related careers, ... Wednesday, 27 May 2009 -
Landless Hmong Find a Home in the U.S.
Category: Progress Magazine/Spring 2009
... promoting community in immigrant neighborhoods, so Pajnhiag never felt like a member of a minority. Still, few Hmong children that she knew went on to college. She remembers only one in her high school, ... Wednesday, 06 May 2009 -
Diabetes-Education Disparity Widens for Minorities
Category: Progress Magazine/Spring 2009
... and Human Services, to reduce disparities in diabetes deaths, a recently published study has found that the disparity in deaths between people with little education and those with at least a college degree ... Sunday, 03 May 2009 -
Yes We Did! Now What?
Category: Progress Magazine/Spring 2009
... to be a struggle. Centrist President Obama can’t solve all the problems. And, we have no choice but to persevere." Robert Dottin, Hunter College, City University of New York “Today, ... Wednesday, 18 March 2009 -
Mixed-Race Americans Face Wage Discrimination
Category: Progress Magazine/Spring 2009
... This was despite the fact that 18 per cent of mixed-race people had college degrees, compared with 11 per cent of black people and 28 per cent of white people. The wage gap remained even after Fairlie ... Wednesday, 11 March 2009 -
Obama Goes 'All In' For Science
Category: Progress Magazine/Spring 2009
... at College Park, a former director of the US National Science Foundation. Yet given the scale of the global economic crisis, most science leaders back Obama's decision to go "all in" rather than tackle ... Wednesday, 11 March 2009 -
Economy Squeezes Minority Students
Category: Progress Magazine/Spring 2009
by Jessica M. Scully The current economic crisis is taking a toll on many aspects of American life, including students’ ability to pay for college. According to several education experts, the ... Wednesday, 04 March 2009 -
Witnessing Democracy
Category: Progress Magazine/Spring 2009
... into college rang the bell; as a 40-person extended family took turns ringing the bell and told their twelve year old niece they were there so she would have a chance to study biology; as members of the ... Wednesday, 04 March 2009 -
The Path to Success:
Category: Progress Magazine/End of Summer 2004 Edition2004 Vol. 1 No. 4
... the subject matter well--it seemed only natural to continue pursuing science in college," she explained. As an undergraduate student at Delaware State University (DSU), King had several professors ... Wednesday, 18 February 2009 -
New Research Venture
Category: Progress Magazine/End of Summer 2004 Edition2004 Vol. 1 No. 4
... your own abilities is what successful leaders draw from, says Chemers. This is true also for successful students, particularly for the first person in a family to attend college, he added. Chemers has ... Wednesday, 18 February 2009 -
Immigrant High School Graduates Likely To Succeed.
Category: Progress Magazine/End of Summer 2004 Edition2004 Vol. 1 No. 4
High school graduates from immigrant families are as likely to go on to college and to perform as well academically as their peers from American-born families, according to a study funded in part by the ... Wednesday, 18 February 2009 -
HHMI Ups Investment in Undergraduate Science
Category: Progress Magazine/End of Summer 2004 Edition2004 Vol. 1 No. 4
Colleges face a number of tough challenges in teaching science today. New fields that blur the lines between disciplines are emerging, and biologists, chemists, physicists and mathematicians are forging ... Wednesday, 18 February 2009 -
Bush and Kerry Duke It Out
Category: Progress Magazine/End of Summer 2004 Edition2004 Vol. 1 No. 4
... children. Offer $4,000 a year tax credits for college. Help states subsidize their state schools. Also help kids who might run out of money stay in college. Set up a “Service for College” ... Wednesday, 18 February 2009 -
UNCF: An example of Public/Private Partnership
Category: Progress Magazine/Mid Summer2004 Vol. 1 No. 3
By Camille Mojica Rey “A mind is a terrible thing to waste.” It was one of the most enduring ad campaigns of its time and helped the United Negro College Fund (UNCF) diversify higher education in the ... Wednesday, 18 February 2009 -
Students Taste Outer Space
Category: Progress Magazine/Mid Summer2004 Vol. 1 No. 3
... this country," Gregory W. Hayes, director of external relations for the Johnson Space Center, said to several teams of college students who had traveled to Houston for a one-week program that culminates ... Wednesday, 18 February 2009 -
Colleges Join Hands to Help Kids, Teachers
Category: Progress Magazine/Mid Summer2004 Vol. 1 No. 3
Bryn Mawr and Haverford Colleges, neighbors in suburban Philadelphia, are teaming up to collectively apply their strengths in the life sciences to school children and teachers in the city nearby. Haverford's ... Wednesday, 18 February 2009 -
Alderete Receives ASM Award
Category: Progress Magazine/Mid Summer2004 Vol. 1 No. 3
... to encouraging pre-college-age students to consider a career in science, through a host of programs including weekend laboratory tours, career days, and summer institutes. Particularly successful are the ... Wednesday, 18 February 2009