Sentences with phrase «as centers of learning»

As centers of learning, college libraries are reinventing their spaces to facilitate just about anything students may dream up.

«The magnificence of Alexandria as a center of learning was not just a myth,» says Willeke Wendrich, an archaeologist at UCLA.

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Data suggests the hourglass may be nearing empty: A January 2016 Pew Research Center survey found that just 5 % of U.S. adults who had learned about the presidential election in the past week named print newspapers as their «most helpful» source — trailing nearly every other category by wide margins.

As we learned from ex-Regus employee Susan Smith, the global business center giant has decided to shift its traditional Senior Client Service Representative role to one of a Community Manager.

The briefing focused on a vision of STEM learning opportunities as a network of charging stations in which children power up their learning by plugging into activities at school, after school, at science centers and libraries, as well as online.

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Nvidia, a hardware firm whose graphic processing units (GPUs) have seen booming sales as a result of the rise of deep learning, lists uses on its website that range from Adobe's DeepFont, which identifies the fonts used in an image, to the National Center for Supercomputing Applications, which detects gravitational waves millions of miles away in real time.

Special emphasis is given to the rise of JTS as one of the great centers of Jewish learning.

I prefer to apply lessons learned from a wider range of human experience and condemn those biblical passages as the product of an ignorant, arrogant, bloodthirsty tribe of self - centered nomadic shepherds whose primary characteristics were a raging persecution complex and an unending quest for justification for their major case of the hots for the little girls in the naboring tribes.

A theology of nature is needed when the guiding images at the center of theology as such are not informed by what needs to be learned in reflection on nature.

Consultation may become a primary function of the entire mental health center staff as more is learned about how to use the resources of community caretakers more effectively.

We were delighted to learn yesterday that the American Bar Association Journal has named the Center for Law and Religion Forum as one of the top 100 blogs on law and lawyers in its annual «Blawg 100» survey.

Andrew Tatusko joined Seton Hall University as a faculty consultant with the Teaching, Learning, and Technology Center in May of 2000.

Anybody can be part of a Centered Set as long as they want to live like Jesus, love like Jesus, and learn from Jesus.

Before every thing, they need to learn to follow truth in life, than to preach hinduism fabrications of hindu secular s, criminal self centered as faith.

The result has been several precious families coming to our body, a host of kids coming up the hill to our AWANA program where they can be loved and learn about Jesus and a group of people form India who use our church as their community center.

Some say the clergy should develop more self - esteem, be more assertive, learn to say No, demand a day off — in brief, become as self - centered as many of the people in their congregations.

As Shamblin puts it in The Weigh Down Diet, the purpose of a Christ - centered diet program is to «learn how to replace head hunger with the will of God so that you transfer this urge for a pan of brownies to that of hungering and thirsting after righteousness.»

I relate with some of your dangers, I use to experience some of them when I first «left the church»... But I will say, years later... now that I have learned to center the majority of my relationships around Christ, that this builds lasting relationships and it is fulfilling for all in so many ways... I am learning to «live in community» with some close believers and feel as though I am experiencing Love like I have never experienced it before.

In the early days, before modern means of communication were available, the religious center was especially important, but even today it serves as a means by which Muslims learn to live together in unity and diversity.

Christology — I have had to learn to refocus all my theology upon the cross of Jesus Christ, and have come to see Jesus as the center of God's revelation, the lens by which Scripture is read, and truly the «image of the invisible God.»

And yet let him center upon preaching as a learned act and the measure of his mastery of speech arts will be the measure of his arrogance.

Mohamed Elfilali, executive director of the Islamic Center of Passaic County, laughed when he learned the Arabic billboard would go up in the same town as his office.

So they're kind of the same in some deep mathematical sense, and as of today we don't really know what happens at the center of a black hole and we don't really know what happened at the moment of the big bang so these are two puzzles that are cousins of one another and anything that we learn about one is certainly going to shed light on the other.»

But have we not long since learned that the great poetic visionaries of the modern West have employed a non-Christian mystical language and symbolism as a way to the center of a uniquely modern immanence?

As an obedient son of the Church, Loyola went to the University of Salamanca and then to the University of Paris, the most renowned center of theological learning of his day.

Centering on Jesus or on Christ often functions as a form of closure, as an insistence that nothing more needs to be learned.

I wondered if that might be a nudge from the Holy Spirit, so I took a few steps back and, as I got to know Chris and the rest of the team, I learned they were centered on empowering and resourcing local leaders for the long - haul precisely because of their great love for God.

This is part of what we do at the Billy Graham Center, different types of research into culture and evangelism, so take the time to read and learn about a unique context where Jesus is as work.

In this conversation with those who being dead yet speak we learn the logic as well as the language of the community that centers in God.

Three members of the TricorBraun Design and Engineering Group will be conducting a webinar on Thursday, October 20, 2016 as part of the IoPP Packaging Learning Center.

The ceremony will include a ribbon cutting for the library, a book reading by Batali of Dr. Seuss» Green Eggs and Ham, as well as remarks from the Mario Batali Foundation; Books for Kids; Variety Early Learning Center and a special thank you from the children.

The Organic Valley Good Food Commons features 30 minute micro-workshops organized thematically by resource centers, each focusing on important topics within the Good Food movement such as growing food, raising animals, learning culinary skills, and composting as well as testing your own where attendees are invited to bring in a sample of their backyard soil for testing.

He needs to contest shots better and he needs to learn to use his lower center of gravity against bigger Centers and not jump as much.

Students learn the basics of storytelling, music and performance as they take center stage in our all - inclusive performing arts camp!

Paul will discuss grit, character, and How Children Succeed with David Levin, co-founder of KIPP, and Dominic Randolph, head of the Riverdale Country School, at the Jewish Community Center in New York City as part of the JCC's Learning Matters conversation series hosted by John Merrow.

Thanks to ICANtweets I learned that the Today Show aired a live Cesarean section from Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston as part of the «Today Goes Inside the OR» series.

Keller Williams Realty, in partnership with the N.C. State University College of Design's Natural Learning Initiative and Wake County Smart Start, deployed 80 volunteers to eight child care centers across the county as part of its RED Day of Service May 14.

It's an incredible opportunity for school nutrition professionals in Arizona to learn more about breakfast - in - the - classroom, to hear from their peers who have successfully implementing BIC, and to network with state - level partners as well as the original Partners for Breakfast in the Classroom: Food Research and Action Center (FRAC), the National Association of Elementary School Principals Foundation (NAESPF), the National Education Association Health Information Network (NEA HIN), and the School Nutrition Foundation (SNF).

As a developmental psychologist, I am horrified to see in the photo that there is a shades - of - pink Rock - a-Stack, not only because of the absurdity of gender - typing toys by color alone, but also because it cripples the educational potential of the toy: the reduced contrast between the colors makes the rings harder to tell apart, and the use of only three colors (bottom ring is purple, center pole is yellow) reduces opportunities for basic color learning.

Visitors will be able to see up close and learn about live raptors from the Blue Hills Trailside Museum, visit the Animal Adventures petting zoo, and take part in activities led by Boston Nature Center's teacher - naturalists as well as collaborating organizations including Boston Natural Areas Network, the Museum of Science, Renew Boston, and the U.S. Forest Service.

Under the new name of «Sunbridge Institute» — in tribute to its roots as the Waldorf Institute as well as its nearly 25 years of educating Waldorf teachers as Sunbridge College — a new adult learning center was born.

Adapted from the Mindfulness - Based Stress Reduction Program at the University of Massachusetts Medical Center developed by Jon Kabat - Zinn, Ph.D., the class is an opportunity to learn a life skill that will serve us not only during this profound life transition, but can continue as a lifelong practice for healthy living and wise parenting.

«If you're inconsistent, the baby learns to hold out — she'll just up the ante and cry twice as long tomorrow night,» says Deborah Givan, M.D., director of the Children's Sleep Disorders Center at Riley Hospital for Children, in Indianapolis.

The cafe was actually a comfortable lounge at Naperville's Rubin Riverwalk Community Center, and the sisters were among the roles assigned to five members of a Naperville Park District class learning how to find work as movie and television extras.

It has a built - in footrest, EVA foam tires that won't puncture, and is designed to help your child find their natural center of gravity as they learn how to balance on two wheels.

A sense of mastery is also very valuable to kids with diagnoses such as reactive attachment disorder, bipolar, cognitive learning disorders, and autism, says Michael Kaufmann, director of farm and wildlife at Green Chimneys, a therapeutic day school and residential treatment center in Putnam County, New York.

At Generation Mindful we believe 1) play belongs in the center of childhood, 2) discipline means to lead and guide by example, not to shame, 3) nurturing the heart is just as important as nurturing the head, and 4) MAGIC happens when learning is hands - on, child - led, battery - free and, whenever possible, outside!

As a co-worker in the Fellowship Community beginning in 1975, learning biodynamic methods directly from former co-workers of Ehrenfried Pfeiffer, Mac helped start the third grade farming block at Green Meadow Waldorf School and taught that block for 15 years; he also helped initiate the Pfeiffer Center's public school outreach program, The Outdoor Lesson.

Tough, whose new book is «How Children Succeed: Grit, Curiosity and the Hidden Power of Character,» will offer a free public lecture today as part of an education conference put on by the Oregon Social Learning Center.