This year, as Catherine finishes up her first year of college, she looks forward to many possibilities, such as medical research and graduate school.

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She has been Associate Faculty of the Laboratory of Comparative Human Cognition at the University of California at San Diego since 2002 and Professor Emerita of Social Research Methodology at the Graduate School of Education and Information Sciences at the University of California at Los Angeles, where she taught from 1989 to 2009.

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Epstein, PhD is Distinguished Research Professor of Management at Jones Graduate School of Business at Rice University.

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As a young woman growing up in Louisiana, a career in the Foreign Service was never really on my list of life dreams -- but all that changed, beginning with graduate school and a research project in Africa that opened my eyes to the possibilities of diplomatic life.

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She has been responsible for the Research Center for Philosophy and Epistemology School of Graduate Studies in Humanity and Society since July 2009 and was Vice-President of the Scientific Committee of CODESRIA until recently.

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According to research by Professor Yijiang Wang of the Cheung Kong Graduate School of Business in Beijing, SMEs are the backbone of the Chinese economy.

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In its present form the New School is indeed new: It is a recent amalgam of a graduate program called the New School for Social Research with two conservatory-like schools (the Parsons School of Design and the Mannes College of Music) and several less well-known entities.

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The spokeswoman stressed that the separately run education charity responsible for charitable activities at the Pantperthog site, including a graduate school, visitor centre, schools visits and research projects, are not affected by the closures.

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