Darcy Kelley, a professor at Columbia University, has been a HHMI Professor since 2002. The HHMI Professors are innovative individuals recognized for their dedication to making science education more rewarding for undergraduates. Dr. Kelley recently entertained and educated attendees of the 2007 Symposium for Young Neuroscientists & Professors of the Southeast (SYNAPSE). Before her engaging key...

It is widely acknowledged that emotion is deeply embedded in literary criticism. Even when we aspire to scientific analysis and objectivity, we assume that we share a love of literature. Loving Literature is a deep and fascinating exploration of this important assumption. Literary critics and professors of literature are expected not only to know but also to love their work. In the case of prof...

The purpose of this national survey was to explain the relationships between professors’ contextual characteristics, teaching conceptualizations and motivation, and the use of learnercentered teaching (LCT) methods in colleges of environmental, agricultural, applied, and life sciences. Three hundred and twenty-nine professors from land-grant universities (1862 & 1890) and state colleges partici...

SINotas is a data-to-text NLG application intended to produce short textual reports on students’ academic performance from a database conveying their grades, weekly attendance rates and related academic information. Although developed primarily as a testbed for Portuguese Natural Language Generation, SINotas generates reports of interest to both students keen to learn how their professors would...

Pachyonychia congenita (PC) is a rare genodermatosis affecting the nails and other ectodermal tissues. It is mainly characterized by gross thickening of all finger and toe nails. Different additional clinical features are observed; they fit into two major types: the Jadassohn-Lewandowsky and the Jackson-Lawler syndrome. The condition is usually transmitted as an autosomal dominant trait, though...

the major objective of the present writer is to survey some of the problems that iranian learners of english encounter as to the use of english stress patterns and intonation. it seems rather obvious that the main source of difficulty in the use of english stress and intonation is the interference comingfrom the learners' mother tongue, i.e. persian. the present writer also tries to offer ...

This study aimed to investigate EFL (English as a foreign language) teachers’ and students' perceptions towards using CS (code-switching) in teaching learning English at Saudi secondary schools. It also attempted identify teachers reasons for high The sample of the consisted 100 122 students who were randomly selected from schools city Riyadh. data collected via five-point Likert scale question...

Among the linguistic resources for creating grammatical metaphor, nominalization rewords   processes and properties metaphorically as nouns within the experiential metafunction of language. Following Halliday's (1998a) classification of grammatical metaphor, the current study investigated nominalization exploited in an English applied linguistics textbook and its corresponding Persian translati...