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Studebaker Silver Hawk
The Studebaker Silver Hawk is a two-door coupe produced by the Studebaker Corporation in South Bend, Indiana, for 1957 through 1959, the mid-priced member of the Hawk line.
Studenica Monastery
Studenica Monastery (Манастир Студеница) is a Serbian Orthodox monastery in central Serbia, founded in 1186 by Stefan Nemanja, Serbia's biggest and wealthiest Orthodox monastery, inscribed by UNESCO in 1986.
Student
Student: an individual enrolled in an education programme for learning (UNESCO definition; pupil for those under about 18-20). Covers global scale (1.4 billion enrolled, 2024), engagement and motivation, attendance consequences, and PISA evidence on disadvantage and well-being.
Student accommodation
Student accommodation covers university halls, purpose-built student accommodation (PBSA), private rentals, and family housing. Key facts: first dorm North Hall 1851, first purpose-built hall Edinburgh 1887, London PBSA rent £13,595 exceeding the £13,348 maintenance loan.
Student and amateur satellites
Student and amateur satellites are spacecraft built for education and hobby radio rather than profit, mostly CubeSats; amateur-radio satellites traditionally bear the OSCAR name, begun with OSCAR-1 in 1961.
Student council
Student council (student government, SRC, seitokai): elected student representative body in schools and universities, organizing activities and giving students voice; powers range from event planning to school board seats, with quality varying by school resources and national law.
Student epistemological beliefs in physics learning
Student epistemological beliefs in physics are learners' ideas about whether physics is coherent formulas or connected concepts, measured by surveys such as MPEX, EBAPS, and CLASS.
Student exchange program
Student exchange program: reciprocal short-term study abroad while enrolled at a home institution (e.g., Erasmus+, Fulbright), distinct from degree mobility; defined by credit transfer, 3-month-plus stays, and measured academic, career, and intercultural outcomes.
Student literary magazine
A student literary magazine is a periodical of creative writing and art produced and edited by students at a school or university, sometimes publishing major writers early in their careers.
Student loan
A student loan, also called a college loan or education loan, is money borrowed to pay for education that must be repaid with interest, usually after the borrower finishes studying.
Student loans in the United States
Student loans in the United States are debts incurred to finance postsecondary education, dominated by federal Direct Loans totaling $1.7 trillion owed by 42.6 million borrowers as of June 2026.
Student misconceptions in physics
Student misconceptions in physics are alternative conceptions students bring to or retain through instruction, documented across mechanics, electricity, and thermodynamics, and often resistant to teaching.
Student No. 1 (స్టూడెంట్ నంబర్ 1)
Student No. 1 (స్టూడెంట్ నంబర్ 1) is a 2001 Telugu coming-of-age action drama, S. S. Rajamouli's directorial debut and Jr NTR's second lead film, produced by K. Raghavendra Rao and C. Aswini Dutt on Swapna Cinema, with music by M. M. Keeravani.
Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee
Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC, "SNICK"), US civil rights organization founded April 1960 at Shaw University, Raleigh, by Ella Baker's sit-in leadership meeting; ran Freedom Rides, Mississippi Freedom Summer, Selma; turned to Black Power under Carmichael in 1966.
Student of the Year
Student of the Year (SOTY) is a 2012 Hindi romantic comedy-drama directed by Karan Johar, marking the debuts of Alia Bhatt, Sidharth Malhotra, and Varun Dhawan in a St. Teresa's trophy competition love triangle.
Student of the Year 2 (स्टूडेंट ऑफ द ईयर 2)
Student of the Year 2 (स्टूडेंट ऑफ द ईयर 2) is a 2019 Hindi teen drama, sequel to Student of the Year, directed by Punit Malhotra, starring Tiger Shroff, Tara Sutaria, and Ananya Panday, released 10 May 2019.
Student teaching
Student teaching is the culminating clinical experience of a teacher education program, in which a candidate practices teaching in a P–12 classroom under an experienced cooperating teacher, typically for 10 to 16 weeks.
Student Teams-Achievement Divisions
Student Teams-Achievement Divisions (STAD) is a cooperative learning method, developed in the late 1970s at Johns Hopkins, in which mixed-ability teams earn rewards for each member's improvement.
Student television station
A student television station is a television production organization run by students at a university or college, producing programming for campus and local audiences, mostly distributed by cable and streaming.
Student's t copula
The Student's t copula is a copula built from the multivariate t distribution, parameterized by a correlation matrix and degrees of freedom, with positive symmetric tail dependence.
Student's t-distribution
Student's t-distribution, also called Student t or Gosset's t, is a bell-shaped probability distribution with heavier tails than the normal, derived by William Gosset in 1908 under the pseudonym Student and used in t-tests.
Student's t-test
Student's t-test is a statistical hypothesis test that compares sample means using Student's t-distribution, introduced in 1908 by Guinness brewer William Gosset under the pen name "Student".
Students Against Discrimination
Students Against Discrimination (বৈষম্যবিরোধী ছাত্র আন্দোলন), also Anti-Discrimination Student Movement, is a Bangladeshi student platform formed from Ganatantrik Chhatra Shakti that led the 2024 quota reform protests and the uprising ousting Sheikh Hasina on 5 August 2024, enabling the Yunus interim government.
Students for a Democratic Society
Students for a Democratic Society (SDS), American New Left student organization founded 1960 from the League for Industrial Democracy's student branch; author of the 1962 Port Huron Statement on participatory democracy; leading anti-Vietnam War group; split into Weatherman, PL, and RYM factions in June 1969.
Students' Federation of India
Students' Federation of India (SFI), founded 27-30 December 1970 at Thiruvananthapuram, is the left-wing student wing of the Communist Party of India (Marxist), organized via biennial All India Conferences, campaigning under "Independence, Democracy and Socialism" and "Study & Struggle".
Studer (company)
Studer (Fritz Studer AG) is a Swiss manufacturer of precision cylindrical grinding machines based in Steffisburg, founded by Fritz Studer in 1912 and part of the UNITED GRINDING Group since 1994.
Studforth Hill
Studforth Hill, Aldborough, North Yorkshire: earthwork hill carrying the Roman amphitheatre of Isurium Brigantum (60 by 40 m, confirmed by magnetometry) and later a medieval motte, the Stuteville castle confiscated by the Crown in 1205.
Studio
Studio: the workspace of artists, designers, and architects, from the medieval workshop and master's atelier through the academies to studio-laboratories, crit-based pedagogy, and today's subsidized studio spaces.
Studio 338
Studio 338 is a large nightclub on London's Greenwich Peninsula, opened in 2014 and known for house and techno on one of Europe's largest covered terraces.
Studio 4°C (スタジオよんどしい)
Studio 4°C (スタジオよんどしい) is a Japanese animation studio founded in 1986 by producer Eiko Tanaka and animator Koji Morimoto; known for Mind Game, Tekkonkinkreet, Memories, Children of the Sea, CGI innovation, and international co-productions like The Animatrix.