Sentences with phrase «about open universities»

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Following a request for comment by Business Insider about the recent allegations regarding Yale University's DKE chapter, the fraternity said it was opening an investigation and suspending the fraternity's social events:

«I'm not going to stop using my mobile phone in the light of this,» Kevin McConway, emeritus professor of applied statistics at The Open University, said in a statement about that study.

Startup Management is a daily destination where entrepreneurs learn about managing, growing and scaling startups, almost like an virtual open university.

Wild responded to the crisis generated by the aficionados of the former nickname by stating that the university was not for sale, by teaching about the true idea of a Catholic university as transcending athletics and nicknames, and by opening the door to a reconsideration of nicknames as long as the nickname did not violate Catholic teaching.

Empirical claims about institutional dynamics have to be open to counter-examples, and an interesting one in the theological world these days can be seen at the Free University — Vrije Universiteit — in Amsterdam, a school founded by the great Calvinist theologian - statesman Abraham Kuyper.

When we approach this university community with the message that we are an open church espousing a progressive Christianity, we will be speaking the truth about our ongoing process.

Curtis Berger shocked his Columbia University Law School associates at a convocation for the opening of the school year by saying, «I do not assert that legal education makes our graduates evil, but I do believe that [it makes them] less feeling, less caring, less sensitive to the needs of others,... even less alarmed about the injustices of our society than they were when they entered law school.»

Then you talked about a new paradigm that you were trying to develop to help you understand what «being a Christian means», to you it meaning being very broad, opening, inclusive and generous to other religions as well and «I wouldn't be apologising for being a Christian University»cause people know, he's a Christian but we can actually talk with this guy and they get to know that through relationship.

It's not about having enough money to fund a university, but open - mindedness.

Keegan Bradley was prepared to do just about anything to get from the final round of the Phoenix Open at TPC Scottsdale to the Super Bowl some 30 miles away at the University of Phoenix Stadium in Glendale in time for kickoff on Sunday.

I have also manned stalls on open days and I thoroughly enjoy these as it allows me to inform people about what we offer at the University.

About the Author: Emily Dick has recently graduated with an Honors Degree from the Open University in the field of social science.

Crystal Hass has taught about open adoption with Lori Holden at Colorado Free University and at adoption agencies.

Two people complained to the ASA about radio and newspaper adverts which proclaimed: «The diploma, opening the doors to university and work.»

Become open to learning about the law and policies pertaining to your office and ask questions often, and partner with local universities» academic as they know more about your ministerial needs and guides understand the domestic culture than an expatriate of Euro / American background.

Professor Kath Woodward is a researcher at the Open University and the ESRC's Centre for Research into Socio - Cultural Change and is organising the event, she said: «This event will provide important answers on what is social about sport and how it fits into the wider society.»

A group at the Open University, led by Professor Andy Lane, has taken the first systematic look at what large - scale, commodity farmers - not those mainly involved in organic growing - think about genetically - modified crops.

Manchester Policy Blogs is one of the ways in which we are opening up communications between ourselves, policy audiences and the wider public about the policy implications of our work as a world - leading University.

Syracuse University Chancellor Kent Syverud on Monday confirmed he has talked with Mahoney and Miner in recent months about building a new arena to replace SU's aging Carrier Dome, which opened in 1980.

Commanding an army of workers bearing chisels and brushes, the iconoclastic Israel Finkelstein, a Tel Aviv University archaeologist and director of the Megiddo Expedition, orchestrates an upheaval of his own: By opening the belly of Megiddo, he is challenging the narrative of the Bible, upending ancient Israeli history and derailing what we thought we knew about the Iron Age in this region called the Levant.

Theoretical cosmologist Katie Mack of North Carolina State University in Raleigh first opened the book when she was about 10 years old.

The field is extremely competitive, with only about a half dozen permanent positions opening each year at national facilities and universities.

When Matthew Conklin left his postdoc position at the University of California, San Diego, and moved back home to Madison, Wisconsin, for example, he didn't rely on job boards to find open positions; instead, he emailed PIs whose work matched his interests about the possibility of working in their labs.

The research, led by researchers from the Department of Pathology and Experimental Therapeutics of the Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences of the University of Barcelona and the Bellvitge Biomedical Research Institute (IDIBELL), contributes to increase the knowledge about this complex and multi-factor inflammatory disease and opens doors to the development of new therapeutic strategies.

«Geoff's inappropriate actions toward and around women in astronomy is one of the biggest «open secrets» at any exoplanets or AAS [American Astronomical Society] meeting,» said John Johnson of Harvard University, a former student of Marcy's, in a blog post about his actions.

'' [This study] opens a new option for reevaluating phenomena which we have been wondering about for decades,» says Kay Brune, a pharmacologist at the University of Erlangen in Germany.

Dr Marco Andreoli, a Research Fellow at the School of Geosciences at the University of the Witwatersrand, and a member of the Hypatia research team says, «When Hypatia was first found to be extraterrestrial, it was a sensation, but these latest results are opening up even bigger questions about its origins.»

The opening session was replete with stories about policies that university administrators and scientists described as misguided — or worse.

Three ancient river systems, now buried, may have created viable routes for human migration across the Sahara to the Mediterranean region about 100,000 years ago, according to research published September 11 in the open access journal PLOS ONE by Tom Coulthard from the University of Hull, UK, and colleagues from other institutions.

John Zarnecki of the Open University in the United Kingdom, who led the experiment, reported that the 705 - pound Huygens, falling 10 miles per hour, first broke through a relatively stiff layer, about half an inch thick, then sank about six inches.

A 1998 report from the National Research Council recommended that the Ph.D. remain a research - intensive degree but added that «graduate programs should expand their efforts to help students learn about the diversity of career opportunities open to them, and university departments should examine possible alternatives to the research Ph.D.»

Some senior academic scientists have told Teitelbaum they are «very worried» about the fact that the supply of scientists that this country's universities train is thus totally unrelated to the demand for researchers in the market for career positions, but they find it «difficult to be open about it because it's very threatening to the structure by which research is done,» Teitelbaum says.

An international team of scientists, including one from the University of Colorado Denver and another from the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus in Aurora, announced the discovery Thursday of a new species of hominin, a small creature with a tiny brain that opens the door to a new way of thinking about our ancient ancestors.

«Learning more about primordial life, and how it can be re-manipulated, will open up a lot of new avenues for science, and shed light on the puzzle of how complex biological systems evolve at the most fundamental molecular level» underlines Lynn Kamerlin, corresponding author, from the Department of Cell and Molecular Biology, Uppsala University.

Professor Allinson, who will also be talking about his research to prospective students at the University of Lincoln open day on Saturday, 20th September, said: «PRaVDA will ensure more difficult tumours will become treatable and more patients overall will be able to receive this revolutionary treatment.»

In 1999, Professor Yoshiaki Taniguchi (currently at the Open University of Japan), the team leader of the current Subaru study, published a paper about the driving mechanism of the active nucleus of Seyfert galaxies such as M 77.

To test their ideas about why the central region of M77 beams massive amounts of radiation, a team of researchers at the National Astronomical Observatory of Japan and the Open University of Japan used the Subaru Telescope to study M77.

I can remember when I was a full professor at the Open University, suddenly realizing that I was probably secure enough, established enough, that I could afford to start making trouble, thinking about other women and not just about my own career.

According to the study at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, although most parents said they were open to such discussions, one - third of the parents who own firearms indicated they did not want to be asked about household firearms and would take offense to or ignore physician advice to remove guns from the home.

«Eric has given us good news about access, not open access,» says Stevan Harnad of the University of Quebec in Montreal, who thinks that delayed access shouldn't count.

«I think this is a really important study that urges us to keep open minds about the evolution of tool behaviour,» says Marc Bekoff of the University of Colorado, Boulder.

Chad Lembke and colleagues at the University of South Florida in St Petersburg have designed an algorithm that enables a camera to detect the true horizon — rather than the edge of a nearby wave — even as it is tossed about in the open ocean.

When you consider that during this 10 - year period the number of physical science job openings is projected to be about half the number of physical science degrees granted by U.S. universities, occupations such as radiation therapy (median salary $ 74,980, according to BLS) and nuclear medicine technology (median salary $ 68,560) start to seem attractive.

Separate research by Daniel Rubenstein, a Princeton University professor of ecology and evolutionary biology and a co-author of the Open Science paper, and Princeton undergraduate Damaris Iriondo strongly suggests that boldly striped zebras have external body temperatures about five degrees Fahrenheit cooler than other animals of the same size — like antelopes — that do not have stripes but live in the same areas.

«We are pleased about this agreement as it facilitates a sustainable transition to Open Access,» said Prof. Gerard Meijer, chief negotiator for the VSNU and Chairman of Radboud University Nijmegen.

«We are dedicated to spreading information about cereal science and technology, processing, and the health benefits of cereals,» said Hamit Köksel, president of the ICC and professor at Hacettepe University, Turkey, to open the event.

He holds an S.B in Electrical Engineering & Computer Science from MIT and a D.Phil in Statistical Genetics from the University of Oxford and is passionate about data sharing and free open source software.

Western University will host an open house Saturday, March 10 to provide an opportunity for prospective students to learn more about the university and tour tUniversity will host an open house Saturday, March 10 to provide an opportunity for prospective students to learn more about the university and tour tuniversity and tour the campus.

We believe pilot facility projects calls are an important source for new technologies and the management group is discussing with universities and the national board about the possibility of arranging a new joint pilot technology / facility call during 2018, which hopefully could also be open to the rest of the Swedish research community.

«While this paper is an important contribution, we still face several open questions about other drivers of change on fire regimes,» said Max Moritz, a fire ecology and management scientist at the University of California, Berkeley.