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Informing Students about Their College Options: A Proposal for Broadening the Expanding College Opportunities Project [PDF]

open access: yes, 2013
Most high-achieving, low-income students do not even apply to selective colleges despite being highly qualified for admission and success at these institutions.
Caroline M. Hoxby, Sarah Turner
core  

Archeo‐Inspiration from the Cultural History of Glass: Historic Accounts, Anecdotes and Hard Facts as Challenges to Modern Material Science

open access: yesAdvanced Materials, EarlyView.
Glass, historically valued for its purity and durability, has long inspired artists and societies. This article introduces the concept of “Archeo‐Inspiration”, drawing on cultural and historical contexts of glass to guide future material innovations.
Eva von Contzen   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Ensuring academic success of student-athletes: Research on the relationship of academic measures of success and graduation rates

open access: yesJournal of Global Education and Research, 2018
The National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) has implemented metrics to track the academic success of student-athletes in higher education. This study was designed to evaluate the relationship between three metrics used by the NCAA as part of it ...
Jessica Chrabaszcz   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

What explains the academic success of second-year economics students? An exploratory analysis [PDF]

open access: yes
The factors influencing academic success of first-year Economics students have received much attention from researchers. Very little attention, however, has been given to the determinants of success of senior Economics students.
Ada Jansen, Derek Yu, Pietie Horn
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Rebels with a Cause: VCU Student Emergency Fund [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
The project’s mission is to establish a VCU Student Emergency Fund to support the well-being of students who face financial emergencies and to increase student retention and academic success.
at Virginia Commonwealth University, The Grace E. Harris Leadership Institute   +7 more
core   +1 more source

Perspective on Aqueous Batteries: Historical Milestones and Modern Revival

open access: yesAdvanced Materials, EarlyView.
This review retraces the development of aqueous batteries from classical Zn‐MnO2 chemistry to modern Zn and Ni systems, correlating voltage, capacity, and electrolyte formulation with practical performance. By mapping historical success and failure onto current and future research directions, it identifies guiding principles that steer the design of ...
Fangwang Ming   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Printed Interconnects for Heterogeneous Systems Integration on Flexible Substrates

open access: yesAdvanced Materials Technologies, Volume 10, Issue 6, March 18, 2025.
Key components (sensors, energy devices, communication devices, computing chips, and interconnects) of flexible hybrid electronic (FHE) system connected via conductive printed metal tracks. The figure in the insets shows out‐of‐plane printed interconnects providing opportunities for lithography‐free formation of VIAs, in‐plane access of UTCs pads, and ...
Abhishek Singh Dahiya   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

The importance of very high life satisfaction for students’ academic success

open access: yes, 2017
This study investigated whether very high levels of life satisfaction were associated with academic success at the college level. Three-hundred fifty-seven university students reported on their life satisfaction and various indicators of educational ...
Susan Antaramian
semanticscholar   +1 more source

From the Discovery of the Giant Magnetocaloric Effect to the Development of High‐Power‐Density Systems

open access: yesAdvanced Materials Technologies, EarlyView.
The article overviews past and current efforts on caloric materials and systems, highlighting the contributions of Ames National Laboratory to the field. Solid‐state caloric heat pumping is an innovative method that can be implemented in a wide range of cooling and heating applications.
Agata Czernuszewicz   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

First-year university students’ academic success: the importance of academic adjustment

open access: yes, 2018
Considering the pivotal role of academic adjustment for student success, it is important to gain insight into how several motivational and behavioural factors affect academic adjustment and the extent to which academic adjustment influences student ...
E. V. Rooij, E. Jansen, W. Grift
semanticscholar   +1 more source

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