His specific areas of study include how our immune systems play a key role in our emotional lives and using compassion meditation to prevent depression in college students by reducing stress-related inflammatory activity.
Despite the breadth of private scholarships available, the actual number of students who receive these funds is low--only about 1 in 15 college students, or about 6.7%, according to Mark Kantrowitz, publisher of Finaid.org, an online scholarship resource.
The benchmarks are calculated using grades earned in college by students who have been tested by ACT.
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That's one reason why college enrollment jumped by a third last decade and why for-profit schools that make getting a diploma ultraconvenient now enroll 1 in 10 college students.
The paper demonstrated the hypothesis through a complicated experiment in which college students were asked to make a judgment about something they could not know for certain -- guessing someone's weight in a photo -- before having their moods swayed either positively, negatively or neutrally by snippets from films intended to provoke either anger, euphoria or no strong feelings.
To attract talented young teachers to the toughest assignments, I recommend a sixfold increase in scholarships for college students who commit to teach in the inner cities, isolated rural areas and Indian communities.
If we increased the number of international students by 5 million then around 1-in-5 college students would be international.
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In Houston, college students and young adults were the most engaged audience while in Orlando it was families and seniors.
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For instance, in one study, college students studying for an exam in an important course were significantly more motivated to study after being told that they had 52% of the material left to cover, compared to being told that they had already completed 48%.
The accident was a summer program Graham started in 2005 for college students who were tinkering with business ideas.
In addition, students who enroll in college take on more debt to stay there.
In West Allis, a blue-collar suburb of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, clean-cut college students in pressed white shirts sat with Palm Pilots and a big box of Krispy Kreme doughnuts, monitoring the flow of voters into the polls.
This year's winner, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, already offers an undergraduate business degree with a concentration in entrepreneurship, and next fall will allow students in its College of Arts and Sciences to minor in entrepreneurship.
In fact, 2 out of 3 college students graduated with debt in 2008 as compared to less than half in 1993, reports FinAid.org.
Many a job was neglected for employees in their cubicles and for college students, classes either skipped or attended, but with a laptop in tow as the world caught on to that sweet, sweet Pac-Man fever.
We'll learn why authorities in Alabama believe three college students set churches on fire.
Mezrich is also the author of a best-seller, published in 2003, about college students striking it rich.
Only one in five students entering college are prepared for college-level work in math, reading, writing, and biology.
In the experiment, college students remembered less information when they knew they would have access to it later.
In one experiment, college students drank an energy drink and then solved puzzles.
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There are currently around 21 million college students in the U.S., with around 18 million in undergrad and 3 million in graduate.
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Younger college students in particular may be willing to pay a premium to spend at least some of their undergraduate years on a campus.
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As a Kiwanis advisor to the Grambling State University Circle K Club, I guide the college students in tutoring and mentoring children in third through eighth grade.
But advances in both are only accelerating in an era when college students all over the country are downloading bootleg versions of Avatar within hours of its release.
It is widely known that public schools nationwide lack the resources and time to provide students with the level of college counseling that students in independent schools receive.
Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius made her pitch at the University of Maryland, while Democratic National Committee Chairman Tim Kaine spoke to college students in Delaware.
In the offending column, I was not trying to describe the individual lives of the estimated 1.4 million undocumented high school and college students in the United States.
She founded iCAREweCARE, a global network of high school and college students in an effort to find the causes they care about and make a difference in the world.
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One member shared her experience with JumpStart, a member of the AmeriCorps network, which prepares children for kindergarten and keeps college students in school through the federal work study program.
The evolutionary psychologists have spent decades administering questionnaires to college students in an effort to confirm their ideas about what sort of partner was desirable in bed before there were beds.
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