What's the difference between alumni and association?

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.

Association


Definition:

  • (n.) The act of associating, or state of being associated; union; connection, whether of persons of things.
  • (n.) Mental connection, or that which is mentally linked or associated with a thing.
  • (n.) Union of persons in a company or society for some particular purpose; as, the American Association for the Advancement of Science; a benevolent association. Specifically, as among the Congregationalists, a society, consisting of a number of ministers, generally the pastors of neighboring churches, united for promoting the interests of religion and the harmony of the churches.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) All mutant proteins could associate with troponin I and troponin T to form a troponin complex.
  • (2) Patients with papillary carcinoma with a good cell-mediated immune response occurred with much lower infiltration of the tumor boundary with lymphocyte whereas the follicular carcinoma less cell-mediated immunity was associated with dense lymphocytic infiltration, suggesting the biological relevance of lymphocytic infiltration may be different for the two histologic variants.
  • (3) Disease stabilisation was associated with prolonged periods of comparatively high plasma levels of drug, which appeared to be determined primarily by reduced drug clearance.
  • (4) Perinatal mortality is strongly associated with obstetrical factors, respiratory distress syndrome, and prematurity.
  • (5) We also show that proliferation of primary amnion cells is not dependent on a high c-fos expression, suggesting that the function of c-fos is more likely to be associated with other cellular functions in the differentiated amnion cell.
  • (6) Increased plasmin activity was associated with advancing stage of lactation and older cows after appropriate adjustments were made for the effects of milk yield and SCC.
  • (7) We propose that this dependence on coexpression reflects the association between the LTA::STa hybrids and LTB subunits.
  • (8) Weddellite calcification was associated with benign lesions in 16 cases, but incidental atypical lobular hyperplasia and lobular carcinoma in situ were present, each in one case.
  • (9) The fraction of the viral dose which became cell associated was independent of the incubation temperature and increased with increasing target membrane concentration.
  • (10) Together these results suggest that IVC may operate as a selective activator of calpain both in the cytosol and at the membrane level; in the latter case in synergism with the activation induced by association of the proteinase to the cell membrane.
  • (11) The combined analysis of pathogenesis and genetics associated with the salmonella virulence plasmids may identify new systems of bacterial virulence and the genetic basis for this virulence.
  • (12) Histological studies showed that the resulting pancreatitis was usually mild to moderate, being severe only in association with sepsis.
  • (13) Meanwhile the efficiency of muscarinic antagonists in inhibition of tremor reaction induced by arecoline administration is associated with interaction between the drugs and the M2-subtype.
  • (14) Biden will meet with representatives from six gun groups on Thursday, including the NRA and the Independent Firearms Owners Association, which are both publicly opposed to stricter gun-control laws.
  • (15) This clinical improvement was also associated with a decrease of erythrocyte sedimentation rate (p less than 0.001), decrease of C-reactive protein (p less than 0.0001) and with improvement of anaemia (p less than 0.05).
  • (16) Some of those drugs are able to stimulate the macrophages, even in an aspecific way, via the gut associated lymphatic tissue (GALT), that is in connection with the bronchial associated lymphatic tissue (BALT).
  • (17) Most of the radioactivity in spleen cells from these rats were associated with antigen-reactive cells which formed rosettes specifically with HO erythrocytes.
  • (18) The findings suggest that these two syndromes are associated with dysfunction at two different sites within the frontal lobes.
  • (19) The strongest predictor of non-sudden cardiac death was the New York Heart Association functional class.
  • (20) Male sex, age under 19 or over 45, few social supports, and a history of previous suicide attempts are all factors associated with increased suicide rates.

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