The School of Medicine set recruitment records with this year’s new class of doctoral students, receiving the largest-ever pool of applicants and boasting the highest acceptance rate in the school’s history. Of the 2,030 applicants to Stanford’s biosciences PhD programs, 174 were offered admission and 116 accepted, according to William Talbot, PhD, the medical school’s senior associate dean for...

Improvement in the proportion of underrepresented racial and ethnic minorities (URMs) in academic positions has been unsatisfactory. Although this is a complex problem, one key issue is that graduate students often rely on research mentors for career-related support, the effectiveness of which can be variable. We present results from a novel academic career "coaching" intervention, one aim of w...

BACKGROUND The Medical Student Research Programme is a national education and grant scheme for medical students who wish to carry out research in parallel with their studies. The purpose of the programme is to increase recruitment of people with a standard medical degree to medical research. The Research Programme was established in 2002 and underwent a thorough evaluation during the spring of ...

The genesis of this editorial was a conversation about an article in which Ball (1991) provided descriptions of three teachers’ approaches to working with their students. In Ball’s article, teachers without PhDs in mathematics or mathematics education struggled to engage their students in developing meaningful concepts of mathematics. They could not p r o v i d e m u l t i p l e i n t e r p r e...

This study aimed to evaluate the effectiveness of an intervention to reduce bicycle injuries among rural middle school students in China. A one-year cluster-randomized controlled trial was conducted with seventh grade students from six middle schools in two towns in rural Chaoshan, China. The two towns were randomly assigned to either the intervention or control group. Road safety education mat...

3 Kolmas sessioon / 3rd session 6 3.1 WeiWei Heng: Mini Heartcatcher : IntelligentWeb-based Arrhythmia detection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 3.2 Airiin Laaneväli . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 3.3 Ehsan Ebrahimi: Quantum age is coming. Are you feeling (in)secure? (PostQuantum Cryptography) . . . . . . . ....

With the goal of promoting the development of early career investigators in the fields of Internet technologies and the information society, Future Internet welcomed applications for the 2018 Future Internet Travel Award for PhD students. We received 30 applications for the award, and the overall quality of the applications was outstanding. On behalf of the Editors of Future Internet, I am plea...

Kerry Grosch, MA; Louis Medvene, PhD; and Hannah Wolcott, MA AbStrAct This research describes the development and evaluation of a 2-hour program that taught geriatric nursing assistant students person-centered caregiving skills. The person centeredness of caregiving skills among students who completed the training, as well as those who did not, was evaluated by coding their videotaped interacti...