Post Doc and Research Assistantship Opportunity
March 18, 2008 by app2usadvisor
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Wireless Sensors and Mobile Ad Hoc Networks (WiSe MANet) Lab at the University of Memphis is doing some cool research. Dr. Santosh Kumar and his team of researchers are working in the areas of coverage, connectivity, and deployment, with emphasis on localized design, and energy efficiency.
WiSe MANet Lab is looking for an exceptional [...]
Recognition for Accreditation system of Indian Medical Education
December 15, 2007 by app2usadvisor
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I came across this headline at msn:US grants parity to India’s medical education
The United States has recognized that the Accreditation system for India’s under-graduate medical courses is at par with theirs.
If you read the news item carefully, it would be clear that the US body has merely recognized that India’s Accreditation system of the [...]
University of California loses lawsuit
November 7, 2007 by app2usadvisor
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An appeals court has upheld a ruling that the University of California owes $33.8 million to past students whose fees were unfairly raised. The three-judge, San Francisco-based court ruled unanimously on November 2 that UC broke promises to about 35,000 graduate and undergraduate students – mostly at UC-Berkeley and UCLA – in 2003.
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US News 2008 Rankings
August 20, 2007 by app2usadvisor
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US News 2008 College rankings are now available here
US News is one of the reputable rankings. Full rankings can be seen on a payment basis. Rankings often help in benchmarking when you are trying to figure out where to apply. It may be a good investment in your long process of applying to US Universities. [...]
GRE General Test has new question Types
August 8, 2007 by app2usadvisor
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Test takers may encounter one of these new questions in the Verbal Reasoning or Quantitative Reasoning sections of the computer-based GRE General Test. The new Verbal question type is a text completion question that requires the test taker to fill in two or three blanks within a passage from separate multiple-choice lists. Currently, the [...]
ETS To Acquire Thomson Prometric
July 3, 2007 by app2usadvisor
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ETS, the world’s largest educational assessment and research organization, is acquiring Thomson Prometric, the global leader in technology-enabled testing and assessment services. Prometric is part of The Thomson Corporation.
ETS is Prometric’s largest customer for technology-based delivery of tests and assessments. Prometric delivers ETS’s TOEFL® (Test of English as a Foreign Language™) test, the GRE® (Graduate [...]
Harvard Essays for the Class of 2010
June 28, 2007 by app2usadvisor
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What are your three most substantial accomplishments and why do you view them as such? (600-word limit)
What have you learned from a mistake? (400-word limit)
Please respond to three of the following (400-word limit each))
Discuss a defining experience in your leadership development. How did this experience highlight your strengths and weaknesses?
How have you experienced culture shock?
What [...]