Sentences with phrase «college research institution»

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«An excise tax on the endowments of some private colleges and universities, regardless of how many or how few institutions it affects, is a remarkably bad idea that takes money that would otherwise be used for student aid, research, and faculty salaries and sends it to the Department of the Treasury to finance corporate tax cuts,» said Ted Mitchell, president of the American Council on Education, a higher education trade group.

«Ontario's No. 1 industry is the manufacturing of cars and car parts,» says Peter Purslow, the associate dean of research and innovation at the University of Guelph's Agricultural College, one of the institutions involved with the project.

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Composed of leaders from the private sector, universities, colleges and polytechnics, the Roundtable works to help young Canadians transition from education to the workplace, strengthen research collaboration between industry and institutions, and help Canadian employers as they adapt to the economy of the future.

Made up of the heads of Canadian companies, universities and colleges, BHER works to support young Canadians as they transition from education to the workplace, strengthen research collaboration between industry and institutions, and help Canadian employers as they adapt to the economy of the future.

Composed of leaders from the private sector, universities, colleges and polytechnics, BHER works to support young Canadians as they transition from education to the workplace, strengthen research collaboration between industry and institutions, and help Canadian employers as they adapt to the economy of the future.

In an effort to save you some research time (and a possible nervous breakdown), we spoke to several admissions counselors from various types of educational institutions (Christian university, state school, media school and private college) about the most important elements to consider when deciding on a school.

Acknowledging that the American system of advanced learning, with its openness, diversity, freedom from suffocating ideology and unmatched vitality, is the envy of the world, Boyer, through extensive research, nevertheless confirms what every informed observer already knows: «the undergraduate college, the very heart of higher learning, is a troubled institution» (p. 2) One's first thought is, Here comes ammunition for the next barrage by William Bennett!

However, I will not focus on those features of the university that are clearly not relevant to the college, such as its vocational and professional schools and its research institutions with their close ties with the military - industrial complex.

We may argue over that assertion, but still accept the point that students, teachers, and administrators at religious institutions respect the humanities much more than those at elite colleges and research universities do.

I have been student or teacher at many types of institutions: the small liberal - arts college, the «Research I» state university that completely dominates a small town,....

Adding all two - year public institutions would alleviate concerns of free community college redirecting students away from the four - year schools, which research showed occurred in Tennessee, said Martha Kanter, executive director of the national College Promise Campaign and senior fellow at the Steinhardt Inscollege redirecting students away from the four - year schools, which research showed occurred in Tennessee, said Martha Kanter, executive director of the national College Promise Campaign and senior fellow at the Steinhardt InsCollege Promise Campaign and senior fellow at the Steinhardt Institute.

Promote Rockland Community College to become a full fledge 4 - year institution with advance research and degree programs.

«The Albert Einstein College of Medicine is a top - notch institution for medical education and research.

He and other local community college instructors have organized the STEM - ENGINES undergraduate research collaborative to promote research at their institutions.

Last month, the joint team was awarded a National Science Foundation (NSF) grant of $ 591,622 for a 2 - year research project involving 300 students, with and without disabilities, at seven institutions, including three colleges for the blind.

Ontario Innovation Trust — A $ 750 million fund created in 1999 to improve research infrastructure at universities, colleges, hospitals, and research institutions.

NIH's 10 - year - old Bridges to the Baccalaureate program, for example, spends $ 8 million a year to support partnerships between 2 - year and 4 - year institutions, providing money for institutional coordination, facilities, tutoring, peer mentoring, seminar series and workshops, and summer research opportunities for community college students.

Elite schools, both liberal arts colleges and research universities, do a better job overall of retaining undergraduates in the sciences: At these institutions 54 % of women but only 39 percent of men drop out of science before attaining a degree.

At the University of Pennsylvania's PENN Postdoctoral Opportunities in Research and Teaching (PENN - PORT) program, which just had its 5 - year IRACDA grant renewed for a second term, first - year postdocs spend about 85 % of their time doing mentored research and about 15 % taking pedagogy classes and preparing to teach at one of three minority - serving institutions nearby: Lincoln University, which is recognized as the United States» first historically black university, in unincorporated southern Pennsylvania; Delaware County Community College (DCCC), which is in Pennsylvania; and Rutgers University, Camden, in NewResearch and Teaching (PENN - PORT) program, which just had its 5 - year IRACDA grant renewed for a second term, first - year postdocs spend about 85 % of their time doing mentored research and about 15 % taking pedagogy classes and preparing to teach at one of three minority - serving institutions nearby: Lincoln University, which is recognized as the United States» first historically black university, in unincorporated southern Pennsylvania; Delaware County Community College (DCCC), which is in Pennsylvania; and Rutgers University, Camden, in Newresearch and about 15 % taking pedagogy classes and preparing to teach at one of three minority - serving institutions nearby: Lincoln University, which is recognized as the United States» first historically black university, in unincorporated southern Pennsylvania; Delaware County Community College (DCCC), which is in Pennsylvania; and Rutgers University, Camden, in New Jersey.

AGU will also initiate opportunities for bringing teachers and science students from Minority Serving Institutions (MSIs), 2 - year colleges and precollege programs serving underrepresented communities to its annual meetings, in order to expose them to research and career opportunities in the earth and space sciences.

Because I am a faculty member at a small liberal arts college — specifically, Williams College in Williamstown, Massachusetts — I was surprised to get an invitation to give a presentation at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute's Janelia Farm Research Campus in Ashburn, Virginia, an elite, prestigious research institution where no formal classroom teaching college — specifically, Williams College in Williamstown, Massachusetts — I was surprised to get an invitation to give a presentation at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute's Janelia Farm Research Campus in Ashburn, Virginia, an elite, prestigious research institution where no formal classroom teaching College in Williamstown, Massachusetts — I was surprised to get an invitation to give a presentation at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute's Janelia Farm Research Campus in Ashburn, Virginia, an elite, prestigious research institution where no formal classroom teachingResearch Campus in Ashburn, Virginia, an elite, prestigious research institution where no formal classroom teachingresearch institution where no formal classroom teaching occurs.

Nearly 300 species have appeared on the shores of Hawaii and the U.S. West Coast attached to tsunami debris, marine biologists from the Smithsonian Environmental Research Center, Williams College and other institutions reported in the journal Science on Thursday.

«There should be a study,» says graduate school dean Lawrence Martin of the State University of New York, Stony Brook, who is also head of a panel of land - grant colleges that has drafted a position paper urging coverage of more fields, greater use of objective research criteria, exploration of some measures of program outcome, and ranking institutions by cluster rather than individually.

This collaborative study, involving 26 research institutions in eight different countries, was led by researchers from the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation, Australia; BGI and the Kunming Institute of Zoology, China; Utah State University and Baylor College of Medicine in the US; and The Roslin Inresearch institutions in eight different countries, was led by researchers from the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation, Australia; BGI and the Kunming Institute of Zoology, China; Utah State University and Baylor College of Medicine in the US; and The Roslin InResearch Organisation, Australia; BGI and the Kunming Institute of Zoology, China; Utah State University and Baylor College of Medicine in the US; and The Roslin Institute.

Citing a recent Boston Globe article, Blaser said that while larger research institutions like Harvard University have put many faculty searches on hold, smaller neighboring universities like Tufts and colleges like Emerson, Holy Cross, and Amherst are looking to hire «top scientists discouraged by the stiff competition» at larger institutions.

«Our research reinforces the understanding that institutions with low - income students, who begin college less academically prepared, have lower graduation rates,» said Attewell.

«College Selectivity and Degree Completion,» by Scott Heil of the City University of New York (CUNY), Liza Reisel of the Institute for Social Research in Oslo, and Paul Attewell of the CUNY Graduate Center, is the first study on this topic to use nationally representative data and to account for the higher graduation rates of highly selective institutions in terms of their ability to attract and enroll higher achieving students.

The article, titled «Sexual dimorphism in striatal dopaminergic responses promotes monogamy in social songbirds» is a collaboration of researchers from three City University of New York (CUNY) institutions — Hunter College, the Graduate Center, and City College — as well as Weill Cornell Medicine and Houston Methodist Research Institute.

After completing his B.S. in biology at Grambling State University — he finished in 1989 — Ford decided to do his Ph.D. at the institution that sparked his interest in research, the historically black Meharry Medical College.

In doing so, I hope to inspire established scientists at all institutions to involve more community college students in research projects and to remind these researchers of the tremendous potential many of these students have to influence the future of the scientific community.

Littler, a PhD student from University College London, was lucky enough to experience life on board the JOIDES Resolution, a retired oil exploration vessel now used as a research ship by the Integrated Ocean Drilling Program (IODP), an international partnership of research institutions that focuses on exploring Earth's structure and history through ocean drilling.

The research, from scientists at a number of institutions, including Imperial College London and Northwestern University, analysed the diets of over 4,000 people.

The NSF / SRS Federal Funds for Research and Development surveys for 1998 estimate federal contributions to universities and colleges to total more than $ 15 billion, which is almost 60 % of all research funds that academic institutions received thResearch and Development surveys for 1998 estimate federal contributions to universities and colleges to total more than $ 15 billion, which is almost 60 % of all research funds that academic institutions received thresearch funds that academic institutions received that year.

The medical center trains future leaders and includes the dedicated work of many physicians, scientists, public health professionals, dentists, and nurses at the College of Physicians and Surgeons, the Mailman School of Public Health, the College of Dental Medicine, the School of Nursing, the biomedical departments of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, and allied research centers and institutions.

Additional past and present research projects have involved collaborations with Children's Hospital of Philadelphia and the Wistar Institute, and also with researchers and clinicians at other local institutions, including Thomas Jefferson University, Drexel University, Rutgers, Swarthmore College and the Nemours / Dupont Hospital for Children.

In addition to MCG, lead institutions include Morsani College of Medicine at the University of South Florida; Pacific Northwest Research Institute in Seattle; Sweden's Lund University; the University of Colorado; Germany's Helmholtz Zentrum München and Klinikum rechts der Isar, Technische Universitӓ München and Forschergruppe Diabetes e.V.; and Finland's University of Turku and Turku University Hospital.

The College of Dental Medicine was awarded the ADEA / ADEAGies Foundation Dental Research Scholarship, given every two years by the American Dental Education Association to an academic institution with an exceptional commitment to promoting student dental rResearch Scholarship, given every two years by the American Dental Education Association to an academic institution with an exceptional commitment to promoting student dental researchresearch.

Four major health institutions, including Penn State College of Medicine, have jointly received nearly $ 7 million to develop and expand a health data research network.

The Rolanette and Berdon Lawrence Bone Disease Program of Texas, a collaborative research, clinical and education program of Baylor College of Medicine and The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, was established in 2002 to capitalize on the strengths of these two institutions.

Although the use of e-cigarettes (called vaping) is believed by many experts to be less toxic than cigarette smoking — and could even help some people quit smoking — recent research at Penn State College of Medicine and other institutions indicates that inhaled aerosols produced by vaporizing e-liquids are not harmless.

These projects connect science education and research among American Indian college students and faculty at Tribal Colleges and Universities (TCUs) with mainstream higher education institutions while helping to address Tribal community energy priorities.

The medical center trains future leaders in health care and includes the dedicated work of many physicians, scientists, nurses, dentists, and other health professionals at the College of Physicians & Surgeons, the School of Dental & Oral Surgery, the School of Nursing, the Mailman School of Public Health, the biomedical departments of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, and allied research centers and institutions.

Please keep reading, because the latest research from UCLA, Tufts University and Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons, as well as dozens of other prestigious institutions, is revealing that there are actions you can take right now to stack the odds in your favor for maintaining a healthy brain and a sharp memory throughout your entire life.

In the postsecondary space, the Gates Foundation made a number of grants — both directly and through NGLC — to intriguing ventures with the potential to improve education dramatically, including some of my disruptive favorites: start - up MyCollege Foundation, which will establish a non-profit college that blends adaptive online learning solutions with other services at a low cost; University of the People, the world's first tuition - free, non-profit, online academic institution dedicated to opening access to higher education globally; New Charter University, a competency - based university that charges only $ 199 per month for students seeking a degree and for which NGLC will fund a research study of its online students and a comparative one of students enrolled in a blended - learning environment delivered through a partnership with the Community College of the District of Columbia; Southern New Hampshire University, which under its President Paul LeBlanc has already created an autonomous online division and will now pioneer the «Pathways Project,» which will offer a self - paced and student - centric associates degree; and MIT, which will use the funds to create a free prototype computer science online course fcollege that blends adaptive online learning solutions with other services at a low cost; University of the People, the world's first tuition - free, non-profit, online academic institution dedicated to opening access to higher education globally; New Charter University, a competency - based university that charges only $ 199 per month for students seeking a degree and for which NGLC will fund a research study of its online students and a comparative one of students enrolled in a blended - learning environment delivered through a partnership with the Community College of the District of Columbia; Southern New Hampshire University, which under its President Paul LeBlanc has already created an autonomous online division and will now pioneer the «Pathways Project,» which will offer a self - paced and student - centric associates degree; and MIT, which will use the funds to create a free prototype computer science online course fCollege of the District of Columbia; Southern New Hampshire University, which under its President Paul LeBlanc has already created an autonomous online division and will now pioneer the «Pathways Project,» which will offer a self - paced and student - centric associates degree; and MIT, which will use the funds to create a free prototype computer science online course for edX.

Her research focuses on access and choice in higher education, the outcomes for college students, and the behavior of postsecondary institutions.

The group of education deans from 90 research institutions and historically black colleges announced the changes...

In a new research article for Education Next, Oded Gurantz of Stanford University, Michael Hurwitz of the College Board, and Jonathan Smith of Georgia State University find that the program boosts Hispanic enrollment at four - year institutions as well as bachelor's degree completion rates among those who were otherwise at the highest risk for dropping out of cCollege Board, and Jonathan Smith of Georgia State University find that the program boosts Hispanic enrollment at four - year institutions as well as bachelor's degree completion rates among those who were otherwise at the highest risk for dropping out of collegecollege.

In concert with that observation, just last week the Clayton Christensen Institute released new research by Alana Dunagan titled «College Transformed: Five institutions leading the charge in innovation.»

The difference in earnings between college graduates and nongraduates has risen in recent decades, and research indicates that attending selective colleges yields a larger economic return than attending less - selective institutions.