What's the difference between alumni and alumnus?

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.

Alumnus


Definition:

  • (n.) A pupil; especially, a graduate of a college or other seminary of learning.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) You're an alumnus of Nottingham's respected Television Workshop (past students include Samantha Morton).
  • (2) Though Chasez has pursued a relatively successful post-Sync career, as a solo artist and reality TV judge, the group has a yet more famous alumnus.
  • (3) LTPA was measured with the Lipid Research Clinics (LRC), Godin Leisure-Time Exercise, and the College Alumnus physical activity questionnaires.
  • (4) Just before the Murdoch tweet, Colin Moynihan – a former Tory minister, alumnus of Monmouth school and chair of the British Olympic Association – cited the fact that 50% of Britain's gold-medal winners at the Beijing Olympics were from private schools as "one of the worst statistics in British sport".
  • (5) Some years ago, in company with Divya Narendra, another Harvard alumnus who had worked with them on the original concept, they launched a lawsuit against the Facebook founder that resulted in two things: a $65m legal settlement in which the Winklevii got $20m in cash and $45m-worth of Facebook shares; and a major Hollywood movie – The Social Network – which tells the story in colourful terms.
  • (6) I hope that King’s will listen to its most beloved alumnus and a man revered around the world as a moral voice,” said Mark Horowitz, from the Fossil Free KCL campaign.
  • (7) What clearly will not influence Davies, a Manchester Grammar School boy, Oxford graduate and alumnus of Stanford Graduate School of Business, is the prime minister's notion of a happiness index, once promoted by David Cameron as a rival barometer of success to growth which, it was said, would play a key role in the big future policy decisions.
  • (8) Market abuse An alumnus of Clifton College, a leading private school, and Oxford University, Sants is invariably described as smooth by anyone who has had dealings with him.
  • (9) As a black alumnus who walked past that statue for four years, I think Rhodes should be left exactly where he is “He was racist.
  • (10) "Well, if you were to pick up our March edition (on sale February 5), you could see the single healthiest foodstuff available at each and every Premiership ground in the country," writes kindly GU alumnus and now commisioning editor at Men's Health magazine, Dan Jones.
  • (11) He was elected to that post on his second attempt, in 1978, helped by another St John’s alumnus and Catholic politician, the Democratic governor, Hugh Carey .
  • (12) A lawyer and University of Michigan alumnus, Orr helped steer Chrysler out of bankruptcy, but this is a dilemma of an altogether greater magnitude.
  • (13) It may also say something about modern debate that the most teeth-grinding aspect of Osborne's move barely attracted comment – but the spectacle of an alumnus of St Paul's School worth an estimated £4m kicking the poor in order to preserve his political skin is irksome, to say the least.
  • (14) The Mackintosh Building is not just part of Glasgow's heritage - it is a national treasure May 23, 2014 3.53pm BST Another alumnus of the GSA is the broadcaster and journalist Muriel Gray, pictured here in tears near the scene of the fire.
  • (15) A Procter and Gamble alumnus, Bret is a past board member of Stanley Park Ecological Society and licensee for TEDxUBC.
  • (16) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Trump arrived just in time to do the monologue where a gag about how Trump actually thought plus-sized brunette cast member Aidy Bryant was Rosie O’Donnell was moderately amusing, as was Trump standing cheek to impressive jowl with two of his impersonators from the show, current cast member Taran Killam and alumnus Darrell Hammond, who did fake-Trump duties back in 2004 when he last hosted the show, at the height of his The Apprentice resurgence.
  • (17) Ralph Egwu, 27, is working with Edinburgh University alumnus Amy Burridge towards an A-level in government and politics in what is his first experience of formal education.
  • (18) Updated at 12.59pm BST 12.41pm BST Shiv Malik has joined the blog with this dispatch from a Hounslow school that boasts a fairly famous alumnus: I’m here at Feltham community college on the outskirts of west London where pupils and teachers have delivered a “truly outstanding” set of academic results.
  • (19) Relations were at a low during Boris Yeltsin's presidency, but there was a marked thaw after Aliev's fellow KGB alumnus, Vladimir Putin came to power.
  • (20) With regard to all-cause mortality, cigarette smoking and hypertension were most hazardous for the individual; smoking and lack of vigorous recreational play were most hazardous for the alumnus population as a whole.

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