Now, it is common for university professors to found biotechnology companies, or to serve on their boards.
Gap years, taken between leaving school and starting university, are also becoming a more common way of earning money to help fund students through university, the survey found.
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Along the walls, like dioramas, are the rooms in which Ivy males lived their cosseted lives: dorm, class, locker room, common room, the local university shop.
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The IRS itself, in its regulations and rulings, has held that a 501(c)(4) can provide a substantial (but unquantified) private benefit to its members so long as its primary activity is promoting the common good, says George Washington University law professor Miriam Galston.
It is possible to change this degree once in the university but by no means common or easy.
Ms. Lu went to watch the marathon Monday with two other Chinese international students, said Lucy Huang, another graduate student at the university who had close friends in common with Ms. Lu.
Taylor, who is also former vice-president of the British Board of Film Classification and Chancellor of Bournemouth University, said it had been a common practice among peers to claim for fake journeys and enter expenses claims with a false address as a main residence, and he believed it was acceptable to do this provided there was a "family connection" with the property.
"On the domestic side, you find a lot of African-Americans and Republicans having a lot of things in common, " said Molly Cox, leader of the university's College Republicans.
Bin Xu, assistant professor at Florida International University, argues that the "settings" common to so-called "national mourning", such as crowds lining a funeral procession route, help to intensify displays of grief.
In similar fashion, Jane Miller, an academic at Rutgers University who trained as a demographer, warns against common charting errors.
In a 2002 paper James Speta of Northwestern University laid out three broad historical justifications for applying common carriage to regulate prices and access.
Kristina Killgrove, an archaeologist at Vanderbilt University has been working with the skeletons of the common people of Rome, extracting their DNA to learn their stories.
In common with many other public and private sector employers, the university and colleges are worried about the rising cost of funding their final salary pension schemes.
In a landmark study titled Boys Will Be Boys: Gender, Overconfidence and Common Stock Investment professors Brad Barber and Terrance Odean of the University of California, Davis, documented that men traded 45 percent more than women and ended up having their net returns reduced by almost a full percentage point compared to women.
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Such gifts, whether to a university in general or a business school, are a common part of alumni life in the United States, but far less so in Europe, where universities have traditionally been state funded.
In common only with Boston, London has two universities (Imperial College and University College) in the world's leading 20, so its universities are a draw too.
In the 1990s, it spun out from the Dundee University work led by Sir David Lane, finding a gene common to more than half of people who suffer from cancer.
Monique Paris of Monash University in Melbourne, Australia, has been working with the common wombat, trying to understand its reproductive cycles as a prelude to tackling the rarer northern hairy-nosed variety, of which only 100 or so survive.
The Walmartization of the university (also called the corporatization of higher ed) is a common complaint by some faculty.
Of these, the most common is withdrawal (absence, lateness, taking long breaks) says the University of South Florida's Paul Spector.
Leach, who is now the director of Harvard University's Institute of Politics and chairman of the watchdog group Common Cause, says he finds that especially troubling.
The lead researcher from Cardiff University, Professor Jacky Boivin, said that it was a "common myth" that women who were stressed would impede the effectiveness of fertility treatment.
Dr. Buddy Creech, an assistant professor of pediatric infectious diseases at Vanderbilt University, said that Aeromonas hydrophila -- which is "remarkably common in the water and in the environment" -- is one of many bacteria that can cause a flesh-eating process.
The UNESCO Chair on a priority programme area for UNESCO such as Gender Equality and Empowerment, at the University of Cyprus, aims to provide a new paradigm on how common problems faced by the populations of the region can be addressed through the gender perspective.
Last year a couple of scientists at the University of Washington fired a salvo at the notion that complex life is common anywhere but here.
So let us go forth together, students, teachers, university presidents, national Governments and the United Nations, to affirm our common purpose and the partnerships that can do so much to build a better world for all.
But freestanding islands weren't common in residential design until the post-War construction boom, says Sandy Isenstadt, University of Delaware professor of architectural history.
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University presidents, high school teachers and coaches, celebrities and ex-spouses are common subjects of fake Facebook and Twitter accounts.
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And squabbles over inheritance are more frequent in common-law countries, where wills are more casually drawn up, says Leon Verstappen of the University of Groningen.
One of the researchers involved, Prof Jeffrey Saver from the University of California, Los Angeles, told the BBC that these techniques would become more common, as they are more likely to clear clots than drugs.
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