This post is by Shifa Desai, a part-time PhD student at the University of Exeter in the UK. Shifa is doing research on self-initiated expatriate academics who have spent most of their careers working in different countries. She is also an ESL teacher, teetering on the edge of burn-out between full-t ...
Posted Friday, April 28th 2017 at 10:31AM
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Back to Basics
It’s been a while since I’ve geeked out here on Study Hacks about the latest productivity hack to earn my enthusiasm. So it’s with some excitement that I bring up my latest favorite tip: the inbox sort folder.
It’s not uncommon f ...
Posted Friday, April 28th 2017 at 9:53AM
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Eloise Best
Content Writer
Close your eyes, and imagine the best possible version of yourself. Are you similar to your current self, with a few minor improvements? Or are you a whole different person?
If you feel like you’ve got a long way to go, don’t worry. Self actualization, or the reac ...
Posted Friday, April 28th 2017 at 9:50AM
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by Lee Skallerup Bessette
It’s that time of the (academic) year for many of us: we are neck-deep in grading, in stressed-out student, in wondering if we’ll even have a job in the fall and how are going to make ends meet over the summer. Typically, this would be the time to share self-care pieces ...
Posted Friday, April 28th 2017 at 9:43AM
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I've produced these lists before, using the reputational data from U.S. News surveys. This year, they did new surveys of humanities and social science fields (as well as the professional fields). In the past, I gave more weight to breadth of strength; this time I've used a weighting system tha ...
Posted Friday, April 28th 2017 at 9:39AM
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Caroline Winter
As the academic year is winding down, we’re seeking bloggers for the summer months: June through August.
This blog is a space for graduate scholars of Romanticism to share their work, their ideas, and their inklings in an intera ...
Posted Friday, April 28th 2017 at 9:35AM
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by Alan Marnett.
We’re very excited to announce our new partnership with Genetic Engineering & Biotechnology News (GEN) to help bring two new video-based services to scientists. For more information, see the original release below. To learn mo ...
Posted Friday, April 28th 2017 at 9:28AM
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by Behnam Esmayli
In posts 1-3 we were able to reduce all of the geometry of a curve in 3-space to an interval [a,b]\subset \mathbb{R} along with two or three real-valued functions. We also discussed when two sets of such data give equivalent (overlapping) curves. This enabled us to patch tog ...
Posted Friday, April 28th 2017 at 9:25AM
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by Jeri Dansky
Some people expect that since I’m a professional organizer my home will be somewhat like that of minimalist Joshua Fields Millburn, and it’s not at all. I get a lot of pleasure from having carefully selected art work on my walls and ...
Posted Friday, April 28th 2017 at 9:19AM
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BY SYLVIA KOHL
As I have mentioned in my previous article ‘Why Hobbies at College Are No Less Important Than Classes’, engaging in your hobby is an excellent way to take your mind off your studies, freshen up after an intensive day. In general, it will help improve your mental and physical ...
Posted Friday, April 28th 2017 at 9:16AM
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by Dora Farkas, PhD
Does Writing a Thesis Have to Be Painful?
“Writing a thesis is probably so stressful,” said the kind doctor at the emergency room, as he examined my elbows throbbing with pain.
“You may be able to avoid surgery because you are young”, I heard him say, “but if I were you ...
Posted Friday, April 28th 2017 at 9:12AM
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By Nancy Messieh
Trello is a popular productivity tool and for good reason. It’s easy to use, customizable, and there’s a great ecosystem of third-party plugins built around it. Part of the reason it’s such a powerful tool is because of the great productivity features built right into the plat ...
Posted Friday, April 28th 2017 at 9:10AM
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Being Prepared Is Extremely Important to Success
by Tara Kuther, Ph.D.
Getting an interview is a significant step toward winning acceptance to the graduate program of your dreams. However, in some competitive fields as many as three-fourths of applicants who are interviewed are rejected. ...
Posted Friday, April 28th 2017 at 9:04AM
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Thursday, March 09, 2017 @ 06:00 PM - 08:00 PM
Graduate Open House
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https://www.eventbrite.com/o/graduate-recruitment-and-admissions-division-11256190615
If you have already applied to CAU graduate programs, you are welcome to attend. However, this event is for new master's, speci ...
Posted Tuesday, March 7th 2017 at 11:44AM
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BY Jilian Woods
Like it or not, college is nothing like high school. The demands placed on you as a college student are far greater. You need to know how to finesse a tough prof to get extensions, better grades, and more.
The better the quality of your work, the more apt a professor is to ...
Posted Monday, February 20th 2017 at 6:45PM
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by Dora Farkas, PhD
Graduate School: My Rite of Passage to the World of PhD’s
It was my second year in graduate school.
I couldn’t believe how nervous I was, and no matter how slowly I tried to breathe my hands were shaking and I felt li ...
Posted Monday, February 20th 2017 at 6:38PM
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By Danika McClure
America’s rural cities have been shrinking over the past few decades, both in population size, and in college educated workforce, as educated students are choosing to abandon their rural homes after graduating, opting instead to move to cityscapes and urban areas.
Goutha ...
Posted Thursday, January 26th 2017 at 1:22PM
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Welcome to 2017. It’s started in an odd way hasn’t it? When the world seems topsy-turvy, I find it’s even more important to take a moment to pause. To think. To take stock, re-orient, reassess and set new goals. I hope many of you took a break. I’ve ...
Posted Thursday, January 26th 2017 at 11:53AM
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It’s still early in the year, which is often a good time to start fresh by doing some decluttering — and not just of our homes and workspaces. What about the gadgets we use daily: our computers, tablets, and phones?
I was reminded that this is a g ...
Posted Thursday, January 26th 2017 at 11:46AM
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This post is about Dimensional analysis practice worksheet practice these problems and try to solve them in one hour.
Question 1 The parallax of a heavenly body measured from two points diametrically opposite on the equator of the earth is 1.0 min ...
Posted Tuesday, January 24th 2017 at 1:43PM
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Readers of this blog will surely want to know about a new website: econofact.org, a "non-partisan publication designed to bring key facts and incisive analysis to the national debate on economic and social policies. It is written by leading academic ...
Posted Tuesday, January 24th 2017 at 1:38PM
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There has been an ongoing call in mathematics education for students to be engaging in problem solving and collaborative groupwork. Although, many instructors find that when they put students in groups, some students seem disengaged and we may start to worry that groupwork is not nearly as motivati ...
Posted Tuesday, January 24th 2017 at 1:34PM
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Unbelievably, this month marks 10 years since I started Zen Habits. I’ve had an amazing decade, and I’d like to reflect on those years today.
I’ve seen so much change in the last 10 years that I can’t possibly reflect on all of it.
Just a few examples of how my life has changed:
-Zen Habits ...
Posted Tuesday, January 24th 2017 at 1:30PM
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