Michelle Frankel chose to take an extra internship placement in her Masters program on speech-language pathology at Hofstra University.

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Through a friend I connected with Steven Wade, 27, a recent graduate of New York University's Food Studies masters program who started a cookbook club last year.

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In addition to standing up to deadbeat customers, Young championed Union Pacific's Fuel Masters Program, an employee-driven initiative that rewards the most efficient engineers with debit cards they can use to fill up their own vehicles.

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Lanier is studying fiction writing in a masters' program, and said she plans to record her campfire conversations with her traveling buddy, who plays in a band called I Need Sleep and will also offer some free musical entertainment.

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Lovell expects the program will provide undergraduate, masters and Ph.

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The U.S. Army Foreign Area Office Program is one of several government agencies that have sent staff to Title VI centers for Masters degrees in language and area studies.

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And then like in a band called the Jazz Masters, it was conducted by Slide Hampton, I met Jimmy and he told me I'm working the program, jazz program at Queens College, so if you want to finish your Master's, maybe we can work out something.

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"We were motivated by a desire to design a system for anyone to both build with fabric in a way similar to playing with Lego and create objects that are rich with relevant context-aware computation without having to program, " said Nanda, who devised the patches for a project towards a Media Arts and Sciences masters degree.

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