We hypothesized that non biology majors enrolled in a biology course would have the greatest interest in and understanding of biology among the population of non biology majors on campus, and thus we thought this population would be most representative of university-level biology novices.
They belonged to 166 of the 346 municipalities (comunas) in which Chile is divided, so that the socio-economic status of the sample can be considered broad and representative of universities from this country.
On the 16th, the National Academies of Science NASS) hosted 252 interested parties--including postdocs, representatives of university programs and funding agencies, members of the media, and a small number of principal investigators--at its august main building facing the National Mall.
First, the study was carried out only in two universities which might not be representative of Tanzania university female students, thus results may not be generalizable to other universities in Tanzania.
No study to date in Syria has documented the smoking and quitting characteristics in a representative sample of university students, and this study aims to fill this void.
While senior representatives of universities are pushing through deflated salaries, academics are being asked to undertake more and more administrative tasks.
A11 Beliefs A11 EDUCATION Overture to Apparel Makers Representatives of universities belonging to a new group set up by students to monitor apparel factories led a call to give companies a greater say in the group's work.
But when their performances were evaluated -- by independent observers, school principals and representatives of universities participating in the program -- it turned out that these teachers were as good as, if not better than, their colleagues with traditional teaching backgrounds.
Representatives of universities belonging to a new group set up by students to monitor apparel factories led a call yesterday to give companies a greater say in the group's work.
A newly created California Institute for Regenerative Medicine, which is to award the research grants, would be governed by a twenty-nine-member board, consisting of representatives of universities, medical-research institutions, and patient-advocacy groups; some would be appointed by various state officials, including the governor, the treasurer, and the controller.
