Alan J. Heeger

My undergraduate years at the University of Nebraska were a special time in my life: the combination of partying and intellectual awakening that is what the undergraduate years are supposed to be. I went to the university with the goal of becoming an engineer; I had no concept that one could pursue science as a career.

American Physicist

Carol S. Dweck

My undergraduates, at first, get all starry-eyed about the idea of finding their passion, but over time, they get far more excited about developing their passion and seeing it through. They come to understand that that's how they and their futures will be shaped and how they will ultimately make their contributions.

American Educator

Christina Romer

The basic idea that if you increase government spending or you cut people's taxes that stimulates the economy and lowers the unemployment rate, is a very widely accepted idea. It's in every economics textbook, that's what we teach our undergraduates, and I certainly try to teach them the truth.

American Economist

Paul Bloom

It's really difficult working with kids and with babies because they are not cooperative subjects: they are not socialized into the idea that they should cheerfully and cooperatively give you information. They're not like undergraduates, who you can bribe with beer money or course credit.

Canadian Psychologist

Frank Rich

In the bubble decade, making money as an end in itself boomed as a calling among students at elite universities like Harvard, siphoning off gifted undergraduates who might otherwise have been scientists, teachers, doctors, entrepreneurs, artists or inventors.

American Journalist

Alonzo Church

I was an undergraduate at Princeton, and I was pressed by the math department to go on to graduate school. Actually they gave me fellowships that paid my way, otherwise I would not have been able to continue.

American Mathematician

Woodrow Wilson

Generally young men are regarded as radicals. This is a popular misconception. The most conservative persons I ever met are college undergraduates. The radicals are the men past middle life.

American President

Derek Bok

Despite the hours spent debating different models of general education, the choices faculties make rarely lead to any significant difference in the cognitive development of undergraduates.

American Lawyer

Marco Rubio

The loans I took out for my undergraduate degree were manageable. But my legal education was more expensive, and I paid for it almost entirely through public and private loans.

American Politician

Ana Kasparian

Before I finished my undergraduate degree, I found 'TYT' and dedicated myself to helping it grow into a digital news empire.

Refers to students working towards their first university degree, often a bachelor's degree.

Education Status

Often used to differentiate from 'graduate' students, who are pursuing advanced degrees beyond their first.

Degree Progress

Used to describe both the education level and the type of courses or degree program.

Academic Level

 a piece of research where he found evidence of precognitive powers in undergraduate students, and this was published in a peer-reviewed academic journal and most of the people who read this just said, "Okay, well, fair enough, but I think that's a fluke, that's a freak, because I know that if I did a study where I found no evidence

What doctors don't know...

 sense of smell works and how the brain might be working, and, well, frankly, it's kind of exhilarating. But at the same time, it's my responsibility to teach a large course to undergraduates on the brain, and that's a big subject, and it takes quite a while to organize that, and it's quite challenging and it's quite interesting,

Stuart Firestein: The...

 anjali just said um so when um we're looking at the kinds of instruments that people use to analyze fossils and fossil organic matter and molecules that has definitely changed quite a lot in the past so when i started out of god as an undergraduate student everyone was all about mass spectrometry people are still all about mass

Reimagining Dinosaurs...

 We find this is a strengthener of relationships. And fun versus philanthropy. It's so heartening to be in a group like this, in which so many of you have turned your lives to philanthropy. Well, my undergraduates and the people I work with haven't discovered this, so we actually have people do something altruistic

The new era of positive...

 The other lesson is that general wisdom carries no weight. I showed that to you already, like we looked at the fact that despite a lot of screen time, those action gamers have a lot of very good vision, etc. Here, what was really striking is that these undergraduates that actually report engaging in a lot of high

Your brain on video...

 and even some undergraduates. And I was able to attract really, really good people, people who share my passion for science and service to society, not science and service for career building. And if you ask these people why they work on liquid metal battery, their answer would hearken back

Donald Sadoway: The...

 participating around the world congregating they're all undergraduates this overwhelming enthusiasm to invent and contribute still has a shortage of one other very important resource it's very simple space where these new ideas can actually be tested that's when a

Unleash your inner...

 strengths and we find this is a strengthener of relationships and fun versus philanthropy by that so heartening to be in a group like this in which so many of you have turned your lives to philanthropy well my undergraduates and the people I

On positive psychology -...

 statistics is almost the reverse of that. But actually, I was a late convert to the world of statistics myself. If you'd asked my undergraduate professors what two subjects would I be least likely to excel in after university,

Why you should love...

 to genetically engineer an organism and include a gene drive, is something that basically any lab in the world can do. An undergraduate can do it. A talented high schooler with some equipment can do it.

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