Sentences with phrase «american studies department»

The programme will be developed in partnership with the American Studies Department at Kings College London and the London Review of Books.

Thomas F. DeFrantz, professor and chair of Duke's African and African American Studies Department, and SLIPPAGE presented an exhilarating performance of a dance duet in response to Kara Walker's Harper's Pictorial History of the Civil War (Annotated) prints.

Upritchard's interest in folk, myth and ancient rituals links well with the historic fine art and museum heritage collections at Victoria Gallery & Museum, especially with a group of Peruvian pots collected by the university's Latin American studies department.

Many members of the Duke Community watch a performance art piece entitlled reVERSE — gesture — reVIEWed by Thomas F. DeFrantz, professor and chair of Duke's African and African American Studies Department and SLIPPAGE.

About California Countercultures Thinking Through the Arts and Design at Berkeley: California Countercultures is a UC Berkeley course cotaught by Natasha Boas, independent curator and critic of contemporary art and theory, and Michael Cohen, associate teaching professor in the African American studies department.

Janelle Scott is a Chancellor's Associate Professor at the University of California at Berkeley in the Graduate School of Education, Goldman School of Public Policy, and African American Studies Department.

The board of trustees at City University, which oversees the City College campus, voted last week to replace Mr. Jeffries with Edmund W. Gordon, the former chairman of the African - American studies department at Yale University and a professor emeritus of psychology.

The issue with the NCAA and their investigation, is that they completely missed the fact that the African - American studies department has had 54 fake, no - show classes.

North Carolina Tar Heels athletes were directed by their academic advisers into questionable classes in the school's African and Afro - American Studies department, according to a special subcommittee report.

Cornel West is currently in the Afro - American Studies Department at Harvard University and a member of the Harvard Divinity School's Faculty of Divinity.

One of the largest referrers to these fake courses, which were run by the African and Afro - American studies department, was UNC's fraternity system.

This fall, Lewis will teach a course titled Vision & Justice at Harvard, where she is a member of the art history and African - American studies departments, and she will organize a companion exhibition to her Aperture issue at the Harvard Art Museums.

Not exact matches

Richard J. Reddick is an associate professor of educational leadership and policy at the University of Texas at Austin, where he also holds courtesy appointments in the Department of African and African Diaspora Studies, the Institute for Urban Policy Research and Analysis, and the Warfield Center for African and African American Studies.

And Ross, who had gone quiet on NAFTA after it looked for a while like he would be running the show, re-emerged last week to promote a new Commerce department study that he said proves American auto workers are the victims of a flawed arrangement that favours Canada and Mexico.

A previous report released in 2012 revealed a long history at UNC of classes in the Department of Afro and African - American Studies that never met, as well as a culture of changing and improving grades.

Glaude is the chair of the Department of African American Studies at Princeton University and the author of Democracy in Black.

Americans, on average, consume twice as much added sugar as is recommended, according to Marion Nestle, PhD., professor in the department of Nutrition, Food Studies, and Public Health at New York University who posted a comment on the nutrition label proposals.

A 2003 study commissioned by the U.S. Department of Defense and published in the American Journal of Industrial Medicine backs this up.

His biography contains elements of an epic novel: growing up the son of a jailed Trotskyist labor leader in whose Chicago home he met Rosa Luxembourg's and Karl Liebknecht's colleagues; serving as a young balance of payments analyst for David Rockefeller whose Chase Manhattan Bank was calculating how much interest the bank could extract on loans to South American countries; touring America on Vatican - sponsored economics lectures; turning after a riot at a UN Third World debt meeting in Mexico to the study of ancient debt cancellation practices through Harvard's Babylonian Archeology department; authoring many books about finance from Super Imperialism: The Economic Strategy of American Empire [1972] to J is For Junk Economics: A Guide to Reality in an Age of Deception [2017]; and lately, among many other ventures, commuting from his Queens home to lecture at Peking University in Beijing where he hopes to convince the Chinese to avoid the debt - fuelled economic model off which Western big bankers feast and apply lessons he and his colleagues have learned about the debt relief practices of the ancient civilizations of Mesopotamia.

In consultation with the U.S. Department of the Treasury and President Bush's Advisory Council on Financial Literacy, the FINRA Investor Education Foundation commissioned the first national study of the financial capability of American adults in 2009.

«It's all rooted in the notion of idol worship,» says Akbar Ahmed, who chairs the Islamic Studies department at American University.

Proof of this change lies in the new or expanded departments of Jewish studies in over 100 major universities — staffed by an American - born and - trained new generation of Jewish scholars.

The American pattern of a religion department in a state university is totally different from the German model, though a few small departments for the study of comparative religions and the sociology and philosophy of religion exist in various German universities.

How is this man Department Chair of American Indian Studies?

The book is an interesting, although somewhat disjointed, exhibit that will find its place in departments of American Studies.

Fox tells the story from beginning to end: childhood in the German - American parsonage; nine grades of school followed by three years in a denominational «college» that was not yet a college and three year's in Eden Seminary, with graduation at 21; a five - month pastorate due to his father's death; Yale Divinity School, where despite academic probation because he had no accredited degree, he earned the B.D. and M.A.; the Detroit pastorate (1915 - 1918) in which he encountered industrial America and the race problem; his growing reputation as lecturer and writer (especially for The Christian Century); the teaching career at Union Theological Seminary (1928 - 1960); marriage and family; the landmark books Moral Man and Immoral Society and The Nature and Destiny of Man; the founding of the Fellowship of Socialist Christians and its journal Radical Religion; the gradual move from Socialist to liberal Democratic politics, and from leader of the Fellowship of Reconciliation to critic of pacifism; the break with Charles Clayton Morrison's Christian Century and the inauguration of Christianity and Crisis; the founding of the Union for Democratic Action, then later of Americans for Democratic Action; participation in the ecumenical movement, especially the Oxford Conference and the Amsterdam Assembly; increasing friendship with government officials and service with George Kennan's policy - planning group in the State Department; the first stroke in 1952 and the subsequent struggles with ill health; retirement from Union in 1960, followed by short appointments at Harvard, at the Center for the Study of Democratic Institutions, and at Columbia's Institute of War and Peace Studies; intense suffering from ill health; and death in Stockbridge, Massachusetts, in 1971.

What's noticeable is that Peppers received high grades - some of his best at UNC - in classes in the Department of African and Afro - American Studies.

With the NCAA enforcement staff, our internal working group of University Counsel Leslie Strohm, Senior Associate Dean Jonathan Hartlyn, and former faculty athletics representative Jack Evans interviewed faculty and staff in the Department of African and Afro - American Studies, academic support counselors, and student - athletes who had taken multiple courses in the dDepartment of African and Afro - American Studies, academic support counselors, and student - athletes who had taken multiple courses in the departmentdepartment.

A Division I Committee on Infractions hearing panel could not conclude that the University of North Carolina violated NCAA academic rules when it made available deficient Department of African and Afro - American Studies «paper courses» to the general student body, including student - athletes.

We thank the North American Registry of Midwives Board for helping facilitate the study; Tim Putt for help with layout of the data forms; Jennesse Oakhurst, Shannon Salisbury, and a team of five others for data entry; Adam Slade for computer programming support; Amelia Johnson, Phaedra Muirhead, Shannon Salisbury, Tanya Stotsky, Carrie Whelan, and Kim Yates for office support; Kelly Klick and Sheena Jardin for the satisfaction survey; members of our advisory council (Eugene Declerq (Boston University School of Public Health), Susan Hodges (Citizens for Midwifery and consumer panel of the Cochrane Collaboration's Pregnancy and Childbirth Group), Jonathan Kotch (University of North Carolina Department of Maternal and Child Health), Patricia Aikins Murphy (University of Utah College of Nursing), and Lawrence Oppenheimer (University of Ottawa Division of Maternal Fetal Medicine); and the midwives and mothers who agreed to participate in the study.

It featured contributions from Blake Ewing (Graduate Editor, Politics in Spires, DPIR), Chris Gilson (Managing Editor, LSE USApp — American Politics and Policy), Sierra Williams (Managing Editor, LSE Impact of Social Sciences blog), Chris Bertram (Department of Philosophy, University of Bristol, blogger with the group blog Crooked Timber), William Dutton (Oxford Internet Institute), David Levy (Director, Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism) and Will de Frietas (Business & Economy Editor, The Conversation).

During a speech at Baruch College, Ambassador Caroline Kennedy and State Department officials urged students in the United States to study abroad in an effort to better foreign relations and keep young Americans globally competitive.

NYSUT, PEF, CSEA, the New York State Department of Labor and the American Labor Studies Center provided support for the program!

Jenifer Fenton, assistant professor and researcher in the Department of Food Science and Human Nutrition, and Kari Hortos, associate dean in MSU's College of Osteopathic Medicine at the Macomb University Center, led the 18 - month, cross-sectional study, which followed 126 healthy, white American males ranging from 48 to 65 years of age.

Supported by a U.S. Department of Defense grant, the National Institutes of Health and the American Heart Association, Barker and his team have created what they call platelet - like particles, or PLPs, according to a study published in Nature Materials.

In the field results of a study by Brianna Lam, a graduate student in the J.M.U. Department of Biology, published in the journal Biological Conservation in 2009 (as well results published by Vredenburg and Harris in 2008 in Abstracts of the General Meeting of the American Society for Microbiology), revealed that wild mountain yellow - legged frog populations in the Sierras differed greatly in their amount of cutaneous J. lividum.

Preventing a tragedy is understandable and good, but we have to do this in ways that are sensible rather than just reactionary,» says Kupchik, an assistant professor in the Department of Sociology and Criminal Justice at the University of Delaware, Newark, who is leading a study of discipline in American public high schools.

Nelson's report corroborates a recently released study by the U.S. Department of Education that emphasizes the disproportionately high number of male S&E professors.10 The report also cites the salary advantage men of all racial groups enjoy over women.10 While the unadjusted salaries of African - American faculty members were lower than those of whites, when variables were controlled, the wage gap disappeared.10 However, the study cautions that the markedly lower numbers of tenured and working African - American faculty at doctoral institutions could obscure racially biased salary discrepancies.10

«There are clearly molecular differences between African - American and Caucasian multiple myeloma cases, and it will be critical to pursue these observations to better improve clinical management of the disease for all patients,» said John D. Carpten, senior author of the study and chair of the Department of Translational Genomics at the Keck School of Medicine.

Dr. Philip Wells, head of the Department of Medicine and senior scientist at The Ottawa Hospital and the University of Ottawa and an author of the study, will present the research at the American College of Cardiology's 66th Annual Scientific Session today.

She holds undergraduate degrees in mathematics and anthropology from the University of Arizona and studied abroad at the American University in Cairo as a U.S. Department of Defense National Security Education Program / Boren Fellow.

Rachel Watkins (pictured above), an assistant professor in the Department of Anthropology at American University in Washington, D.C., is a biocultural anthropologist, which means she studies how people's physiological conditions — their health and disease states — reflect the social, cultural, economic, and political environment in which they lived.

It doesn't matter if you're a snake or a bird, it probably makes it hard to live there,» said Frank Burbrink, an associate curator in the American Museum of Natural History's Department of Herpetology and lead author of the study.

«In 2011, 8.35 percent of Americans over age 60 faced the threat of hunger — that translates to 4.8 million people,» said Craig Gundersen, University of Illinois soybean industry endowed professor in agricultural strategy in the Department of Agricultural and Consumer Economics and executive director of the National Soybean Research Laboratory who led the data analysis on the study.

«Bioluminescence is quite common in the deep sea, and many fishes inhabiting this region exhibit complex, species - specific patterns of light - producing structures,» said John Sparks, a curator in the American Museum of Natural History's Department of Ichthyology and one of the co-authors on the study.

During the 69th Annual Meeting of the American Physical Society's Division of Fluid Dynamics (DFD), being held Nov. 20 - 22, in Portland, Oregon, Randy Ewoldt, an assistant professor who runs the Ewoldt Research Group in the Department of Mechanical Science and Engineering, and Jeremy Koch, a doctoral candidate, will present their work studying bubbles within complex fluids.

Prof. Gopher, Prof. Ran Barkai and PhD candidate Miki Ben - Dor, all of TAU's Department of Archaeology and Ancient Near Eastern Cultures, co-authored the study, which was recently published in the American Journal of Physical Anthropology.

Study lead author Joseph DiGrazia, a doctoral student in the Department of Sociology, will present the findings at the 108th Annual Meeting of the American Sociological Association.

«Americans who are opposed to abortion are less likely to hear that their sister, mother, or friend had an abortion than their pro-choice peers,» says Sarah K. Cowan, an assistant professor in NYU's Department of Sociology and the study's author.

The team is led by Angelia Seyfferth, assistant professor in the Department of Plant and Soil Sciences in the College of Agriculture and Natural Resources, who worked with a group of research technicians and undergraduate researchers from diverse areas of study on the project, the results of which were recently published in the Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry, which is an American Chemical Society journal.