Dante and the Lobster (Free subscription) | 10 hours ago
... teacher was batty all I remember how to ask for the day's date. I took Spanish for two years as an undergrad. There was a clear rift between those instructors with Castillian accents and those without which made the department seem political. Then I needed a better grade to apply towards the language requirement for the doctorate. I spent 5 hours per day for eight weeks to get that A. There...
The Huffington Post (Free subscription) | 5 hours ago
... in English Students will be graded on papers, oral presentations and participation. Don't worry undergrads--there won't be a walk-off competition as a final. Who Is The Ultimate Game Changer In Style? VOTE NOW! And follow HuffPost Style on Twitter and become a fan of HuffPost Style on Facebook while you're at it.
Reading matters (Free subscription) | 5 hours ago
... Stone. I then went through a "green" phase (I studied environmental planning as an undergrad) and took out subscriptions to Australian Geographic and Habitat, the journal of the Australian Conservation Foundation. As a postgrad journalism student I discovered the delights of Vanity Fair and, despite the odd year or two when I made cuts to my magazine-spending budget, I've...
The Oregon Economics Blog (Free subscription) | 5 hours ago
... says "science of any kind," and this is simply untrue. Besides I bet that at least as undergrads Levitt and Dubner had classes in natural science so what do we consider that? Taking this kind of snarky and superior attitude, and resorting to ad-homonym attacks is beneath Kolbert and The New Yorker . But it interests me because this, and the greater outrage over Levitt and Dubner's...
Ionian Enchantment (Free subscription) | 8 hours ago
Michael Meadon is a graduate student in cognitive science at the University of KwaZulu Natal in Durban, South Africa. When he's not procrastinating online, he investigates the . He expects to graduate any decade now. When he was an innocent undergrad Michael studied at the University of Cape Town. Unfortunately, he had to find out for himself that "social" and "science" often don't go so well...
Called by Name (Free subscription) | 7 hours ago
Bishop Olmstead, rector of the Josephinum during my time there as an undergrad, pens another extraordinary article for the Year for Priests in his diocesan paper : Conclusion: Get ready for explosions The history of the Church is a history of martyrs. The 20th century saw more martyrs than any previous ones. Rather than stifling her growth, fierce persecution has had the opposite effect. It...
Twitter / Davos (Free subscription) | 11/09/2009
davos: 220 mil children in school in india. by 2020 we want 30 prcnt to go to undergrad educ. #wefindia
Phd Position in Biology (Free subscription) | yesterday
... RISE is an opportunity to combine serious research with a rewarding study abroad experience. RISE undergrads have the opportunity to work on cutting edge research projects at top research institutions (e.g., Max-Planck-Institutes) and universities in Germany. Students are paired with German PhD students in a unique mentoring partnership to ensure immediate integration into hands on lab work...
The Third Bit (Free subscription) | yesterday
We’re going to run some cross-country undergrad capstone projects again starting in January—the newly-updated UCOSP FAQ has some details, and I’ll post a note on that blog when we finalize the project list. Please help us get word out to profs and students who might want to take part.
NextBillion.net (Free subscription) | 11/09/2009
... Institute , seeks to be an innovative, action-based learning laboratory that brings students (both undergrads and grads) across disciplines at the University to work on solving society’s challenges – together. In this course, students will form multidisciplinary teams and take steps to launch a social venture. By the end of this course, student teams will submit...
BPS Research Digest (Free subscription) | yesterday
As psychology students past and present will be only too aware, statistics are a key part of every psychology undergrad course and they also appear in nearly every published journal article. And yet have we ever stopped to recognise the statisticians who have brought us these wonderful mathematical tools? As psychologist Daniel Wright puts it: "Statistical techniques are often taught as...
Denver Post (Free subscription) | 11/10/2009
Eli Finkel was still an undergrad when he realized "somebody could spend his life asking questions about relationships, trying to find the answers to those questions and then teaching interested young minds about the research." But when, as a newly minted psychology professor teaching a course on romantic relationships, he faced questions from a discerning student about how couples...
A Blog Around The Clock (Free subscription) | 11/09/2009
... buckyball folks: Smalley, Kroto, and Curl). I'm also a "recovering chemist" -- I did my undergrad at Iowa State University in chemistry, with a minor in biology, and I went to grad school in chemistry at the University of Michigan. I took my M.S. there when I decided that scientists and scientific communication were more interesting than atoms and molecules are! I...
News For the Mormon Legal Community (Free subscription) | 11/09/2009
Before starting law school I often wondered what's it really like? Can it really be that much harder than being an undergrad? Are professors really as mean as people have told me? Will I be able to keep up with the work load required? I spent hours visiting every blog and website I could find to learn what law school was really like. So, tomorrow I will attempt to write every hour of my 'work'...
FashionClub.com Daily (Free subscription) | 11/10/2009
Name: Jordan Crosby Age: 24 Hometown: Fort Dodge, Iowa Previous college experience: Undergrad in Business Management, and a Certificate in Entrepreneurship – University of Iowa. FIDM Grad Date, Major, and Campus: If all goes according to plan, Winter 2010 (end...
