US grad students win union rights

New Guidelines For Grad Students

The Univers ity Senate, at therr Jan . 12 meeting, passed measures , g iv ing Architecture an d Optometry students the o pportunity to r eceive both their baccalareate and doctorate degrees in s even years , instead of t.he us ual eight. Under the new meas nres , students wbo transfer to Washington University'S graduate -1 Archit~ciural program substitute their first year of professional studie...

Human Rights in US Foreign Policy

Students win PCI 2012 Big Beam Contest

Page 1 UT students placed very well in the 2012 Big Beam Contest, with one team earning first place in the Zone 2 and national competitions. The Big Beam Contest is organized by the Precast/ Prestressed Concrete Institute's (PCI) Student Education Committee, and sponsored by Sika Corp. The contest consists of a zone competition and a national competition. First place winners of each zone, along...

The State of the union: sexual health disparities in a national sample of US college students.

OBJECTIVE To examine sexual health disparities between blacks and whites in a national sample of US college students. PARTICIPANTS AND METHOD SUMMARY: Analyses utilized secondary data from 44,165 nonmarried undergraduates (aged 18-24; M = 20.1) responding to the Spring 2007 American College Health Association-National College Health Assessment; 64% were female and 94.7% were white. RESULTS Wh...

A win-win proposition: help us to build better evidence-based information systems for you.

As readers of Evidence-Based Medicine (EBM), you may be interested in some of the developments currently underway to enhance the match between healthcare research reports and your own practice information needs. EBM uses validity and relevance checks to identify the best evidence for clinical practice from over 100 journals, but we realise that the range of topics is broader than most clinician...