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Your College Bound Kid | Admission Tips, Admission Trends & Admission InterviewsBrown and Cornell are probably admitting less students through Early DecisionIn this episode you will hear: (02:30) Mark and Susan discuss admissions file reading. They discuss three articles on the rise of college applications, especially early applications, and they discuss how some colleges are re-evaluating whether their early decision policies need to be altered to save their mission. (47:48) Lisa and Julia answer a question about how the changes in Affirmative Action are likely to impact Native students. (01:03:26) Mark and Julia interview Michael Keaton, the VP of enrollment of Ursinus College; they discuss how changes to the FAFSA are impacting students and colleges. Preview o Michael shares his bio o Michael shares some of the cha...2024-02-011h 57
Your College Bound Kid | Admission Tips, Admission Trends & Admission InterviewsCollege admissions file readingIn this episode you will hear: (02:08) Mark and Susan discuss admissions file reading. This is a preview before they discuss three articles on the rise of college applications but that will air in part 2 on February 1st (51:10) Lisa and Mark answer a question from a listener who wants to know, should a kid with a 36 ACT who is standard strong focus on general institutional merit based scholarships or should they be applying to highly selective colleges who give generous need-based gift aid. (01:12:00) Mark interviews Dan and Mary LaChance of Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT) and they discuss RIT. This is our C...2024-01-251h 28
Your College Bound Kid | Admission Tips, Admission Trends & Admission InterviewsCollege admissions is a lot like footballIn this episode you will hear: (34:20) Julia and Mark discuss, an article by Rick Clark, Admissions VP at Georgia Tech entitled “The Committees and Decisions of College Admission” This article was written on December 18th, 2023 and it appeared in the Georgia Tech Admissions Blog: (01:09:05) Lisa and Mark answer a question from a listener who wants to know how hard is it to get a full tuition scholarship or a full cost of attendance scholarship (01:22:30) Mark interviews Dan and Mary LaChance of Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT) and they discuss RIT. This is our College Spotlight-Part 1 of 2 Preview of part 1 § Dan shares what...2024-01-181h 42
Your College Bound Kid | Admission Tips, Admission Trends & Admission InterviewsColleges search for students a long way away from homeIn this episode you will hear: (10:02) Dave and Mark discuss, “Recruiting to Campuses Far, Far Away” Demographic shifts and funding woes have led a diverse and growing array of colleges to hire recruiters who live and work hundreds of miles from campus. Is it worth it? By Liam Knox, November 28th, 2023 (43:14) Julia and Mark answer a question from a mom who wants to know, if her student doesn’t take four years of the same language, is she dead on arrival at highly selective colleges. (01:04:40) Mark interviews Dan and Mary LaChance about the incredible opportunities that exist in cybersecurity careers. Dan is a c...2024-01-111h 49
Your College Bound Kid | Admission Tips, Admission Trends & Admission InterviewsArlene Cash, wisdom from 5 decades as an admissions leaderIn this episode you will hear: Mark reveals one more must-have reference book and he takes a look at where are we with Student Loan forgiveness in light of the announcement on November 10th. Mark does a Preview of the content of his interview with Arlene Cash Part 1 Arlene gives her illustrious background at 11 different institutions of Higher Ed from the east to the south to the west Arlene shares the highlights of her career Arlene shares what she is doing at the Character Collaborative Arlene shares what students and parents are overlooking when it comes to picking a college Arl...2022-11-1442 min
Your College Bound Kid | Admission Tips, Admission Trends & Admission InterviewsThere is still one big trick for getting into an elite collegeIn this episode you will hear: (17:18) Mark and Vince discuss an opinion piece that was written by current Stanford Student, Sophie Callcott. The column appeared in the New York Times. The name of the guest column is, “There is still one big trick for getting into an elite college” Mark and Vince share what they respect about the angle this Stanford student takes, but they don’t hesitate to point out where they disagree: https://www.nytimes.com/2022/10/01/opinion/school-private-college.html (38:46) Mark and Lisa discuss how students should answer the following question that The University of Texas at Austin is asking a...2022-11-101h 49
Your College Bound Kid | Admission Tips, Admission Trends & Admission InterviewsDr. Martha Saunders, President, Understanding U of West FloridaIn this episode you will hear: Mark shares why the admission profession is in crisis right now. Mark shares three reference books he recommends every family have in their college admissions library. Mark shares one pet peeve he has in the vocabulary that so many people use. Mark does a Preview of the content of his interview with Dr. Martha Saunders-Part 3/3 Part 3-Preview Saunders talks about what makes the University of West Florida special and distinct from other colleges? Saunders talks about what are the programs that will draw a student to come to UWF from across the country. She poi...2022-11-0744 min
Your College Bound Kid | Admission Tips, Admission Trends & Admission Interviews10 Things to know if you want to major in businessIn this episode you will hear: (30:18) Mark and Susan discuss a Sara Harberson article entitled, “10 Things to know if you want to major in business” The February 10th, 2022 article appeared in her blog: (56:04) Mark and Lisa discuss how students should answer the following question that North Carolina State is asking all of its applicants to answer this year: NC State University is committed to building a just and inclusive community, one that does not tolerate unjust or inhumane treatment, and that denounces it, clearly and loudly. Please describe what those words mean to you and how you will contribute to a more...2022-11-032h 10Your College Bound Kid | Admission Tips, Admission Trends & Admission InterviewsDr. Martha Saunders, President of UWF, Miscellaneous Topics 2/2In this episode you will hear: Mark answers two questions he has been asked 12-15 times in the month of October. Mark does a Preview of the content of his interview with Dr. Martha Saunders-Part 2/2 Preview of Part 2 Saunders shares a time she had to sunset or get rid of some programs that had to go; she talks about how the college responded to that and she talked about the best way to implement this without too much chaos Saunders talks about her seven kids, all of whom are college grads. She shares some lessons she learned from her own se...2022-10-3141 min
RaumzeitHumanoide Robotik
Anwendungsgebiete und Entwicklungsstand "menschenähnlicher" Roboter
Die Robotik ist schon seit langem ein vertrautes Forschungsfeld der Wissenschaft, jedoch stehen noch viele Durchbrüche der Technologie in diesem Feld aus. Beim Deutschen Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt (DLR) wird Robotik für eine Vielzahl von Anwendungen erforscht.
Nachdem wir in Raumzeit #014 schon einmal auf die Anwendungsfelder in der Raumfahrt geschaut haben, wollen wir in der aktuellen Ausgabe die Robotik als Gesamtforschungsfeld betrachten - mit einem Schwerpunkt auf humanoide Roboter.
Dauer:
1 Stunde
43 Minuten
Aufnahme:
21.11.2012
Christoph Borst
Leiter Abteilung Autonomie und...2012-12-071h 43