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Master's degree

A master's degree is an academic degree granted to individuals who have undergone study demonstrating a mastery or high-order overview of a specific field of study or area of professional practice.


Aaryn Gries

Aaryn Elizabeth Gries (born September 3, 1990 in San Angelo, Texas) is an American student and former model from San Marcos, Texas.

Albert Rhys Williams

After that Williams returned to his main profession as a minister of the Maverick Square Congregational Church in East Boston (1908–14).

Art Seaberg

An attorney by profession, he represented District 38B in Dakota County as an Independent-Republican.

Benson Commission

The Royal Commission on Legal Services, commonly known as the Benson Commission (after its chairman Sir Henry Benson) was a Royal Commission set up the by Labour government of Harold Wilson to "examine the structure, organisation, training and regulation of the legal profession and to recommend those changes that would be desirable to the interests of justice".

BVA Publications

BVA Publications is the publishing department of the British Veterinary Association (BVA), the national representative body of the veterinary profession in the UK, which publishes the BVA's journals, The Veterinary Record and In Practice.

Carmen Baroja

Closing down after six issues her father went back to his profession as a mining engineer taking the family to Burjassot near València, Cestona in Guipúzcoa and San Sebastián.

Charles Gurdon

Gurdon chose to enter the legal profession and was admitted to the Inner Temple in 1877.

Cherokee Inspired Comfort Award

Alarmed at the disturbing number of nurses leaving the profession within their first few years in practice, Cherokee Uniforms provided a grant to Emmy Award and Peabody Award-winning director David Hoffman to create a film for nurses and nursing students that would encourage, inspire and instruct.

Claud A. Jones Award

The award is named in memory of Medal of Honor recipient Admiral Claud Ashton Jones for "extraordinary heroism in the line of his profession" as a result of his courageous actions in 1916 while serving as engineer on USS Memphis (CA-10) when she was wrecked in the harbor of Santo Domingo by an unexpected tidal wave.

Dezső Lauber

He was an architect by profession, and a close associate of 1896 Olympic swimming champion Alfréd Hajós.

Drexel University College of Nursing and Health Professions

Along with promoting education in the areas of health profession the college is host to a chapter of Sigma Theta Tau, an international honor society for nursing.

Fletcher Hale

Later, he moved to Laconia in 1912 and continued the practice of his profession, serving as city solicitor of Laconia in 1915 and as solicitor for Belknap County 1915-1920.

George Adam Scott

He prepared for a teaching profession at the Normal School of Winnipeg, after which he taught for seven years, three of which he was the principal of the public schools of Wawanesa, Manitoba.

Gilli Davies

Gilli Davies is a Cordon Bleu cook from Wales who has been involved with food, food journalism and broadcasting since about 1975.

Henry B. Carrington

In 1847 he studied at Yale Law School, taught school briefly at a women's institute, and the following year moved to Columbus, Ohio, where he practiced his profession in partnership with William Dennison, Jr. (who was to become Governor of Ohio in 1860).

Holly Weber

Since then she began pursuing acting as a full-time profession and has had uncredited background roles in Ron Howard's Oscar nominated Frost/Nixon, Fast & Furious and The Devil's Tomb, directed by Jason Connery.

Ian Player

The famous movie director and producer Howard Hawks, wanted a movie about people who catch animals in Africa for zoos, a dangerous profession with exciting scenes the likes of which had never been seen on-screen before.

Idolatry in Sikhism

Bhagat Sadhana got Shaligram Shilas and used them as weights in his profession i.e. Butcher.

Jalkanen

If Finnish names were used to indicate a family's original trade (as with English and German names, like Miller, Shoemaker, Brewer, Smith, etc.) then the term "foot" or "Jalka" could refer to a profession such as a cobbler or tracker.

James MacKaye

MacKaye entered the academic profession only in 1931, when he became a lecturer at Rollins College.

Juan Carlos Riss Cecin

An economist by profession, Riss Cecin served as a parliamentarian in the Chamber of Deputies 1989–1993, Senator 1993–1997 and again in the Chamber of Deputies (elected from Pando through proportional representation on the list of the Revolutionary Nationalist Movement).

Jyoti Mirdha

She is a doctor by profession and is the granddaughter of the well-known politician, Shri Nathuram Mirdha.

Kathryn McGuire

Selected one of the WAMPAS Baby Stars in 1922, she came from a family who had never had a member partake in the acting profession before.

Lars Kristian Abrahamsen

A district stipendiary magistrate by profession, he served in Gunnar Knudsen's first and second Governments (1908–1910 and 1913–1920).

Lyman Abbott

Abbott soon abandoned the legal profession, however, and after studying theology with his uncle, John Stevens Cabot Abbott, was ordained a minister of the Congregational Church in 1860.

Mike Botha

Mike Botha is a master diamond cutter, with close to four decades in the profession, his training and subsequent career began in South Africa and has led him to Mauritius, Russia and Canada – from Vancouver to the Northwest Territories to Saskatchewan.

Muhammad Afzal Lone

His interest in law and the legal profession motivated him to join the Punjab University Law College wherefrom he got his degree in Law and Jurisprudence.

Ninkasi

In ancient Mesopotamia the brewer's craft was the only profession which derived social sanction and divine protection from female deities/goddesses, specificially: Ninkasi, who covered the production of beer, Siris, who was used in a metonymic way to refer to beer, and Siduri, who covered the enjoyment of beer.

Notary public

Notaries are appointed for life by the Supreme Court of British Columbia and as a self-regulating profession, the Society of Notaries Public of British Columbia is the regulatory body overseeing and setting standards to maintain public confidence.

Olof Hanson

In 1891 he returned to Minnesota and worked at his profession in Duluth and Minneapolis.

Pascual Racuyal

Unlike Harold Stassen, the former Minnesota governor whose repeated runs for the American presidency earned him renown of a similar nature, Racuyal, a mechanic by profession, was never a credible political figure at any point in his life.

Percy Stuart

After 52 episodes which were often physically demanding even for the athletically skilled Claus Wilcke and which moreover had to be produced within tight schemes and budgets, its cherished star Claus Wilcke turned his back on the increasingly more violent show, decided successfully to return to stage acting, founded a family and worked later also successfully as a voice-over actor (which is in Germany, where people are used to dubbed TV shows, a highly respected profession).

Pi Kappa Chi

Pi Kappa Chi is a professional fraternity which promotes the Doctor of Chiropractic and the chiropractic profession.

Piper aduncum

It was introduced into the profession of medicine in the United States and Europe by a Liverpool physician in 1839 as a styptic and astringent for wounds.

Private member's bill

It received very wide support from New South Wales organisations related to child health and welfare and was backed by several prominent members of the medical profession, particularly in the paediatric field, notably Dr. John Yu, CEO of Royal Alexandra Hospital for Children, Sydney (who had been honoured by the Australian Government with the prestigious Australian of the Year award in 1996).

Randy Stumpfhauser

Single question interview asked of Stumpfhauser and four other profession racers including Christophe Lévêque, Michelle Cairns, Neal Wood, and Jamie Lilly.

Roy Erskine

An optician by profession, Roy Erskine is the maternal grandfather of professional tennis players Jamie and Andy Murray by his daughter Judith "Judy" Murray.

Roy Perry

Perry graduated from the University of Exeter with a degree in Government and Politics and was formerly a senior lecturer in Politics before entering the profession himself as a member of Test Valley Borough Council from 1979 to 1994.

Schooling in Capitalist America: Educational Reform and the Contradictions of Economic Life

Michael Apple (1982, 1986) examined the hidden curriculum and concludes teachers are being proletarianised as the profession is de-skilled through the standardised curriculum.

Sir Christopher Robinson

He gained conspicuous success in this branch of the profession, was knighted on 6 February 1809, and was appointed, on 1 March 1809, to succeed Sir John Nicholl as king's advocate.

Sydney Mufamadi

In 1981, he left the teaching profession to work as a messenger for a firm of attorneys and subsequently joined the General and Allied Workers Union and participated in the 16 June stay-away that year.

The Battle of the Kegs

The kegs themselves were made by Colonel Joseph Borden's cooperage to the specifications of Caleb Carman and designed by David Bushnell, an inventor and graduate of Yale College.

Thomas Henty

In an archive interview with the television personality Frank Bough included in the 2001 ITV documentary The Unforgettable Tommy Cooper, Henty explained that he did not want people in the acting profession to know that he was Cooper's son, presumably because he was fearful of claims of nepotism.

Thomas of Bayeux

Herbert de Losinga was appointed a papal legate in 1093 by Pope Urban II to investigate the matter of Thomas' profession of obedience to Lanfranc.

Virginia Bar

Virginia State Bar - an administrative agency of the Supreme Court of Virginia responsible for regulation of the legal profession in the Commonwealth.

Virginie Klès

Toxicological veterinarian by profession, Virginia Klès was elected mayor of Châteaubourg (Ille-et-Vilaine) following the municipal elections of 2001 in a three-way race against the exiting mayor and a socialist candidate.

Watcyn Thomas

A teacher by profession, he moved to St Helens to teach at Cowley Grammar School in 1929, and played rugby for Waterloo and Lancashire, captaining Lancashire to the championship in 1934-35.

Zille Huma

In the early 1990s, after having decided to make music her profession, she commenced formal education in music under Ghulam Mohammed, her mother's Ustad.


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