News tagged with graduate student

Geology student drills into Tohoku quake source

(Phys.org) -- For the past eight weeks, geoscience graduate student Tamara Jeppson has traded her usual commute, from her Madison apartment to Weeks Hall on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus, for ...

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created May 23, 2012 | popularity 4 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Study: Prepare grad students for work beyond academia

Universities need to work more closely with business, nonprofit and government sectors to better prepare graduate students for careers beyond academia, according to the report for a national project that a UC Davis dean helped ...

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

created May 10, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Google's 1Q lobbying bill more than triples to $5M

(AP) -- Google's U.S. lobbying bill more than tripled to $5 million during the first three months of the year amid increased government scrutiny of the Internet search leader's business and privacy practices.

Technology / Business

created Apr 23, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Researcher cuts teeth in new method

University of Alberta researcher Nicole Burt took up an odd moonlighting job to further her research. She became a surrogate tooth fairy.

Chemistry / Other

created Apr 06, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Study: LinkedIn resumes more honest -- in some ways

A new study says people are less likely to lie about big things on resumes they post on the professional network LinkedIn compared with traditional resumes.

Technology / Internet

created Mar 15, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Advancing scientific discovery

Every other Wednesday, University of Delaware graduate student Michael Salciccioli meets with faculty, students and postdoctoral researchers from UD along with colleagues from the University of Pennsylvania ...

Chemistry / Materials Science

created Mar 13, 2012 | popularity 3 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Q&A: Allan Sly on probability theory and random processes

Newly awarded a 2012 Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellowship, Allan Sly, assistant professor of statistics, talks about his research into probability theory, his students and his own days as a UC Berkeley graduate ...

Other Sciences / Other

created Feb 16, 2012 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Trimming time in the stacks

A sophisticated text-analyzing tool developed by a UC Berkeley graduate student could speed literary searches for humanities scholars and other researchers.

Technology / Computer Sciences

created Dec 21, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Physicists report nanotechnology feat with proteins

(PhysOrg.com) -- UCLA physicists have made nanomechanical measurements of unprecedented resolution on protein molecules.

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Dec 17, 2011 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (10) | comments 2 | with audio podcast

Listening to the stars

It is almost night on the island of Puerto Rico. Astronomer Joanna Rankin raises her head toward the sky. A few of the brightest stars shine through blue cracks in a ragged dome of gray clouds. To her back, ...

Space & Earth / Astronomy

created Dec 01, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 3 | with audio podcast

Why are California birds getting bigger?

Alfred Hitchcock would have appreciated this twist: The birds in central California are getting bigger.

Biology / Ecology

created Nov 11, 2011 | popularity 3 / 5 (8) | comments 17 | with audio podcast

Can plagiarism be weeded out?

To cheat or not to cheat? It's a question scholars have grappled with for generations. For the majority of students, cheating is out of the question because success can only be achieved through honest and hard work, i.e. ...

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

created Oct 26, 2011 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 2

PHD Comics hits the big screen

(PhysOrg.com) -- If you are a graduate student, you are more than likely aware of the popular Piled Higher and Deeper, or PHD, Comics created by Jorge Cham. These comics cover the everyday struggles that s ...

Other Sciences / Other

created Sep 16, 2011 | popularity 3.3 / 5 (11) | comments 6 | with audio podcast report

Safe and scientifically sound

In August, federal officials sent a letter to Yale University formally criticizing its safety practices in connection to the accidental death of a student.

Other Sciences / Other

created Sep 09, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 3

Scientists seek to increase science literacy

A scientist at the University of Alaska Fairbanks and colleague at Emory University are seeking to persuade the National Science Foundation to reevaluate its decision to cancel a program that has placed 10,000 science graduate ...

Other Sciences / Other

created Jul 18, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0