(n. fem.) A female pupil; especially, a graduate of a school or college.
Example Sentences:
(1) As a result of these divided loyalties, the nurses did not meet the alumnae organizational goals they set for themselves.
(2) The prevalence (lifetime occurrence) rate of cancers of the reproductive system (uterus, ovary, cervix and vagina) and breast cancer was determined for 5,398 living alumnae, 2,622 of whom were former college athletes and 2,776 non-athletes, from data on medical and reproductive history, athletic training and diet.
(3) Of 6,867 alumnae to whom questionnaires were mailed, 3,084 responded.
(4) We report on data relating to nonalcoholic carbonated beverage consumption and bone fractures in 5,398 college alumnae, 2,622 former college athletes and 2,776 nonathletes, who responded to a detailed mailed questionnaire.
(5) In a questionnaire sent to alumnae of Swiss schools for dental assistants the choice of the profession, the schools themselves, working conditions for the pupils and the causes for changing the profession or giving it up were examined.
(6) This study was designed to explore the relationship between the minutes of the alumnae association of a training school for nurses, from 1895 to 1916, and the occupational evolution of nursing.
(7) The sample was comprised of 308 women, aged 50 to 70, who were alumnae of a master's program in nursing.
(8) We found that cigarette smoking is significantly associated with the occurrence of cysts of the ovary among 5,398 college alumnae ranging in age from 21 to 80 years.
(9) Alumnae that include two ministers, a deputy governor of the Bank of England and one national newspaper editor (Rosie Boycott) constitutes a good record by girls' school standards, but nothing compared to Eton, Westminster or Winchester.
(10) In order to throw light on this controversy, CNS and NP alumnae from a Master of Science program in upper New York State were surveyed.
(11) Results of multiple logistic regression analysis, which included only alumnae greater than or equal to 50 years of age and which controlled for current exercise and other potential confounding factors, were as follows: (a) for athletes, the OR for the association of drinking nonalcoholic carbonated beverages and a first bone fracture at or after age 40 was 2.28, 95% CL (1.36, 3.84); (b) for all alumnae, a low milk diet was a risk factor for first bone fractures at or after age 40, OR = 1.92, 95% CL (1.15, 3.16); (c) former college athletes had a significantly lower risk of first fractures at or after age 40 than did nonathletes; OR = 0.63, 95% CL (0.40, 0.99).
(12) The prevalence (lifetime occurrence) rate of cancers of the reproductive system (uterus, ovary, cervix, and vagina) and breast was determined for 5,398 living college alumnae, 2,622 of whom were former college athletes and 2,776 nonathletes, from data on medical and reproductive history, athletic training, and diet.
(13) The prevalence rate of diabetes was determined for 5398 living college alumnae (2622 former college athletes and 2776 nonathletes) from data on medical history, athletic training, and diet.
(14) Data are presented on the prevalence (lifetime occurrence) of bone fractures among 5398 college alumnae, 2622 former college athletes, and 2776 nonathletes, ranging in age from 21 to 80 years.
(15) The prevalence (lifetime occurrence) rates of cancers of nonreproductive organs and tissues were determined for 5,398 living alumnae, 2,622 of whom were former college athletes and 2,776 who had been nonathletes, from data on medical history, reproductive history, athletic training, and diet.
(16) Between their early 40s and early 50s, 101 alumnae in the Mills longitudinal study decreased in dependence and self-criticism and increased in confidence and decisiveness.
(17) The members of the St Luke's Alumnae Association, even in their initial statement of purpose, consistently affirmed their ties to other nurses, thus implicitly supporting the cause of trained nursing.
(18) Based on a survey of nursing students and alumnae from a small, New York state college, the project further explored the channels through which they became aware of the significant links between these two aspects of their education.
(19) Marianne Bigg, an alumna from the third cohort, says: "The National Skills Academy helped me to reach my potential.
(20) Instead, most of them seem to have been partially informed, apparently in individual conversations with the reporter's wife (an LSE alumna, who was organising the trip) and the cameraman.
Alumni
Definition:
(pl. ) of Alumnus
Example Sentences:
(1) Twenty-five of the 29 eligible doctoral programs in nursing participated in the study; results are based on the responses of 326 faculty, 659 students, and 296 alumni.
(2) The club’s alumni president, Charles Storey, had previously written a letter to the student newspaper to argue that “forcing single-gender organizations to accept members of the opposite sex could potentially increase, not decrease, the potential for sexual misconduct”.
(3) It is the alumni of great research universities that drive economic growth through the opportunity to use their expertise and creativity in businesses, in particular by solving problems and developing new products for demanding customers.
(4) With or without consideration of hypertension, cigarette smoking, extremes or gains in body weight, or early parental death, alumni mortality rates were significantly lower among the physically active.
(5) Curb them, now | Owen Jones Read more The inquiry followed findings by the education charity the Sutton Trust in 2016, which showed that the UK’s most high-profile jobs – from the entertainment industry to politics and journalism – were disproportionately populated by alumni of private schools and Oxbridge .
(6) Last weekend, one of the most glittering alumni of the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) in Kharagpur did not show up to give a school prize as he had promised.
(7) But few, if any, of its alumni celebrated its 30th birthday earlier this year.
(8) Replies of the 728 respondents to the second survey confirm that HUCM's predominantly black alumni were continuing to provide patient care to a substantial number of poor blacks in urban areas.
(9) The author describes how an active alumni association can meet the needs of nursing schools and their graduates by increasing revenues and student recruitment, providing opportunities to network, and disseminating information.
(10) Alumni saw a need for more training in orthopedics, rehabilitation, and office management.
(11) In the present study, the authors assessed the impact of these programs by a review of grant proposals and a survey of alumni for each program.
(12) This article is based on the speech he delivered in that capacity on October 30, 1987, at the Annual Scientific Program of the Alumni Association, supplemented by material he presented at a three-day International Conference on the Ilizarov Techniques for the Management of Difficult Skeletal Problems which was sponsored by HJDOI November 1-3, 1987.
(13) The second issue is that a third of our undergraduate alumni have said that while they’d like to do a postgraduate course they don’t want to add to their debt burden.” The consortium consists of the universities of Sheffield, Leeds, Manchester, Newcastle, Warwick and York.
(14) Surveying alumni of a college of optometry provides vital information on the effectiveness of academic and clinical programs which prepare students for the practice of optometry and for advancement of the profession.
(15) A survey of alumni of the Cleveland Clinic's graduate training programs was conducted in September 1986.
(16) We used questionnaires to examine patterns of physical activity and other personal characteristics in relation to the subsequent development of NIDDM in 5990 male alumni of the University of Pennsylvania.
(17) Guardian columnist Suzanne Moore, Professor Lorraine Gamman of Central Saint Martins College of Art & Design, and Janet Lee, editor of the The Culture Show, are all Middlesex Polytechnic alumni who were given grants to study there: Suzanne Moore: Everything Middlesex gave me happened because I had a grant When I first started working in newspapers people kept asking me which college I had been to.
(18) Physical and social characteristics recorded at college physical examination and reported in subsequent questionnaires to alumni in 1962 or 1966 by 50,000 former students from Harvard University and the University of Pennsylvania were reviewed for their relationship to major site-specific cancer occurrence.
(19) Analyses indicated that alumni and those who dropped out were remarkedly similar with regard to demographic characteristics such as age, sex, ethnicity, and prior academic achievement.
(20) The annual figure was some £50m higher than the previous record of £753m raised in 2011-12, and included contributions from 251,000 donors including 183,000 alumni, as universities increased their efforts in contacting graduates and their families.