semester
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Each Friday during the spring semester, students practice the basic techniques of archaeological fieldwork while investigating Mission San Francisco de Potano, a centuries-old site in northwest Gainesville.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 22, 2026
Last semester one team, led by a cancer survivor, proposed an AI-native care coordinator for cancer patients.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 12, 2026
Their stories reveal the trade-offs of early graduation: Every semester saved in tuition is also potentially one less semester to gain the internships and connections that help launch careers.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 4, 2026
The next day, she was placed on administrative leave and told her contract would end after the semester.
From Salon ● Aug. 2, 2026
The fall semester was quickly coming to a close.
From "A Very Large Expanse of Sea" by Tahereh Mafi
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For two semesters, I dressed up to teach from my living room laptop, receiving excellent evaluations.
From Salon ● Aug. 24, 2026
Lee then focused on graduating early, packing his remaining coursework into two dense semesters — taking seven classes during one of them.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 4, 2026
He is enrolling in a UF online program for the first few semesters and paying an extra fee package to access services like the campus gym and student-section football-game tickets.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 11, 2026
But what looks to some like abandonment feels to others like a new beginning – and that makes me excited to see how high the women in “Rooster” might fly in coming semesters.
From Salon ● May 11, 2026
Esther’s laugh always reminded me of Abigail, a girl I had seen during my first two semesters of secondary school in Bo Town.
From "A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier" by Ishmael Beah
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