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Student
hideThe word student is etymologically derived through Middle English from the Latin second-type conjugation verb "studēre", meaning "to direct one's zeal at"; hence a student could be described as 'one who directs zeal at a subject'. In its widest use, "student" is used for anyone who is learning.
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News tagged with students
Drinking, Smoking Often Intertwine for Students
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Mark and Mimi Nichter have published a series of articles recently about the smoking behaviors of college students, offering important insights about smoking related to drinking, gender and ...
Underdogs Have More Motivation? Not So Fast, Study Says
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Feb 08, 2010 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Members of a group or team will work harder when they're competing against a group with lower status than when pitted against a more highly ranked group, according to a new study.
Bioethics memory aid can help assess patient decision-making capacity in medical emergencies
Feb 05, 2010 |
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Physicians in training and bioethicists at Johns Hopkins have created an easy-to-remember checklist to help medical students and clinicians quickly assess a patient's decision-making capacity in an emergency.
Health stories by experts more credible than blogs
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Health information written by a doctor is rated as more credible when it appears on a Web site than in a blog or a homepage, according to a study of college students.
Economist's study finds that immigration doesn't threaten US-born students' chances at college
Feb 04, 2010 |
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High school students born in the United States need not view their immigrant classmates as a threat to getting a good standardized test score and, ultimately, into a good college, according to a Kansas State University economist.
Class size, number of rivals fuels competiveness
Other Sciences / Social Sciences
Jan 29, 2010 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Class size or the number of rivals in any competitive situation matters, according to University of Michigan research showing students are more willing to try hard as the number of competitors decreases.
The Scientific State of the Union
Jan 29, 2010 |
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The guest list for Wednesday night's State of the Union address included two young but elite members of the scientific community. High school students Li Boynton and Gabriela Farfan spent the school night ...
No cheating: Study finds plagiarism reduced by tutorial intervention
Other Sciences / Social Sciences
Jan 26, 2010 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- A 15-minute Web-based tutorial that teaches students what constitutes plagiarism and how to avoid it reduces cases of plagiarism by 65 percent, a new study shows.
Elementary school women teachers transfer their fear of doing math to girls
Other Sciences / Social Sciences
Jan 25, 2010 |
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Female elementary school teachers who are anxious about math pass on to female students the stereotype that boys, not girls, are good at math. Girls who endorse this belief then do worse at math, research at the University ...
Recession hits California students at school and at home, report finds
Other Sciences / Social Sciences
Jan 22, 2010 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- The recession has had a devastating impact on the state's public schools, with major layoffs, budget cuts and homeless students moving in with staff and faculty, according to a new UCLA report.
Med students say conventional medicine would benefit by integrating alternative therapies
Jan 20, 2010 |
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In the largest national survey of its kind, researchers from UCLA and UC San Diego measured medical students' attitudes and beliefs about complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) and found that three-quarters of them ...
Teams selected for 'Fly Your Thesis!' 2010 microgravity programme
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Jan 18, 2010 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Following the debut of ESA’s ‘Fly Your Thesis!’ programme in 2009, four teams of university students have been selected to conduct their microgravity experiments during a second series of ...
Justice Dept. settles Kindle-on-campus cases
Jan 13, 2010 |
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(AP) -- Three universities testing Amazon's Kindle in the classroom have agreed to shelve the electronic book readers until they are fully functional for blind students, under a deal struck Wednesday with the Justice Department.
Nursing students twice as likely to smoke as the general population
Jan 13, 2010 |
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Public health experts are calling for urgent steps to reduce the number of healthcare professionals who smoke, after a survey of over 800 new nursing students found that more than half were current or former smokers.
Study quantifies minority enrollment losses if affirmative action is eliminated
Jan 11, 2010 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- A nationwide ban on affirmative action in college admissions would cause a 10 percent drop in black and Hispanic enrollment at the nation’s most selective colleges and universities, according to a new study. ...
