Results 241 to 250 of about 30,006 (292)
Some of the next articles are maybe not open access.
From Grade School to Grad School
2012The STEM pipeline is an often-used analogy for efforts to increase the number of people entering the critical areas of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics. The analogy references the attempt to get young students into the educational conduit and have them emerge from the other end as professionals with graduate and post-graduate degrees ...
Ross A. Mead +2 more
openaire +1 more source
C&EN Global Enterprise, 2018
One night during my junior year of college, I stayed late in my adviser’s biochemistry lab to run some kinetics experiments on catalytic antibodies—data that would become part of my senior thesis. I was so absorbed that I didn’t notice at first when my adviser poked her head in. “You would make a great graduate student,” she said with a smile.
openaire +1 more source
One night during my junior year of college, I stayed late in my adviser’s biochemistry lab to run some kinetics experiments on catalytic antibodies—data that would become part of my senior thesis. I was so absorbed that I didn’t notice at first when my adviser poked her head in. “You would make a great graduate student,” she said with a smile.
openaire +1 more source
Perspective from grad school: When you are blind and in grad school
C&EN Global Enterprise, 2018The hardest part about being a blind student in graduate school is the inaccessibility I face everywhere. I part crowds with a wave of my hand ... OK, maybe it’s my cane, but people scatter like mice that just saw a cat either way. Searching for the copy room or projector lounge can feel like a scavenger hunt as I walk through hallways marked only with
openaire +1 more source
From grad school, to startup to acquisition
Proceedings of the 20th annual international conference on Mobile computing and networking, 2014In 2006, John Bicket and Sanjit Biswas took a leave from their graduate research at MIT to start a networking company called Meraki, which eventually grew to a fast-growing, profitable company acquired by Cisco in 2012 for $1.2 billion. In this talk, Sanjit will recount the history of Meraki, from the Roofnet project at MIT CSAIL, to bootstrapping the ...
openaire +1 more source
Chemistry and chemE grad school
C&EN Global Enterprise, 2018The Council of Graduate Schools every two years releases data analyzing the previous decade of graduate school enrollment and degree awards. The department-specific data, which is not publicly available, can help disciplines see trends in first-time and total enrollment, as well as specific demographic changes.
openaire +1 more source