Sentences with phrase «fien endowed professorship»

Ironically, while black theology theoretically relies heavily upon expressions of the people, such as freedom and sorrow songs and sermons, the more academic elites of black theology — those who have the luxury of tenure and endowed professorships in prestigious white seminaries and universities — seem to have little respect for the modern black church.
She was the first woman to hold an endowed professorship at Vanderbilt University, and she recently received the Goodnow Award from the American Political Science Association for lifetime accomplishment.
Our effort to endow a professorship in evangelical studies is intended both to nourish and recruit more of these students, as well as to study a major American religious movement.
He has served as an Associate Professor, Assistant Professor and Extension Specialist at the University of Florida, held the Rodger B. Jensen Endowed Professorship in Pistachio Physiology and Pomology at California State University and is the current Research Program Director for CAC.
For example, donors can decide to use a portion of an endowment's scheduled income to provide funding for endowed professorships, which are used to attract world - class lecturers.
In 1960, the Royal Society appointed her to an endowed professorship.
The Foundation's mission is implemented through an international program of research institutes in the fields of astrophysics, nanoscience, neuroscience, and theoretical physics, and through the support of conferences, symposia, endowed professorships, and other activities, including the Kavli Science Journalism Workshops at the Knight Science Journalism Fellowships at MIT.
This research was funded by the H. Mason Keeler Endowed Professorship and CNPq (Science without Borders).
«Margery's experiments showed that the NS1 protein can alter expression of Hedgehog target genes on its own, without other viral proteins,» said Bier, professor and newly named holder of the Tata Chancellor's Endowed Professorship in Cell and Developmental Biology.
He also endowed a professorship in civil engineering at the School.
An endowed professorship is considered the highest honor in academic medicine and recognizes extraordinary talent in research, clinical care and teaching, and it provides solid and sustaining funding to an accomplished faculty member to support his or her continued focus on radiation oncology research and its clinical translation.
The popularity of the Apple Watch, along with its high - quality heart - rate sensor, makes it an attractive tool for large - scale AF screening, said Marcus, holder of the Endowed Professorship of AF research in the UCSF School of Medicine.
The Carneys, of Houston, are long - time supporters of Brown, including as the donors of two endowed professorships — the Robert J. and Nancy D. Carney University Professor of Economics and the Robert J. and Nancy D. Carney Assistant Professor of Neuroscience.
Bulik, who holds the first endowed professorship in the field of eating disorders in the country, is currently leading a global research initiative called The Anorexia Nervosa Genetics Initiative — or ANGI — to analyze 26,000 genetic samples and isolate genes that play important roles in the underlying biology of eating disorders.
As a result of his work on brain tumours an endowed professorship in perpetuity, the James D. Murray Chair in Applied Mathematics and Neuropatholgy, was established in the University of Washington in 2007.
Murphy also led the School's record - breaking capital campaign, which tripled the number of endowed professorships, and raised $ 111 million dollars, the largest sum ever raised by a school of education.
When she retires, it will become the Sara Lawrence - Lightfoot Chair, making her the first African - American woman in Harvard's history to have an endowed professorship named in her honor.
This enabled a tripling of the number of endowed professorships and earmarked $ 11,000,000 for student financial aid.
She also has an endowed professorship named in her honor at Swarthmore College.
In March 1998, she was the recipient of the Emily Hargroves Fisher professorship, which, upon her retirement, will become the Sara Lawrence - Lightfoot professorship, making her the first African American woman in Harvard's history to have an endowed professorship named in her honor.
In 1993, the Sara Lawrence - Lightfoot Chair, an endowed professorship, was established at Swarthmore College; and in 1998 she was the recipient of the Emily Hargroves Fisher Endowed Chair at Harvard University.
Upon her retirement, the Emily Hargroves Fisher Endowed Chair will become the Sara Lawrence - Lightfoot Chair, making Sara Lawrence - Lightfoot the first African - American woman in Harvard's history to have an endowed professorship named in her honor.
A measure of the University's strong commitment to the mission of CECH is that one of the institution's first four endowed professorships funded a position in citizenship education.
One year later, the University, with a financial gift from Teresa and Aaron Fischer, created an endowed professorship in Citizenship Education.
He held the William C. Shreeve Endowed Professorship in Educational Administration at Eastern Washington University (EWU), where he now serves as a Professor Emeritus.
A member of ASCD's Differentiated Instruction Cadre, Kristina Doubet is a professor in the Department of Middle, Secondary, and Mathematics Education at James Madison University, where she received the College of Education's Distinguished Teaching Award, Madison Scholar Award, and Sarah M. Luck Endowed Professorship for Excellence in Education.
Endowed Professorship in Early Childhood Studies at the COE.
Kristina J. Doubet is a professor in the College of Education at James Madison University in Harrisonburg, Virginia, where she has received the Distinguished Teacher Award, the Madison Scholar Award, and the Sarah Miller Luck Endowed Professorship for Excellence in Education.
Endowing a professorship in Shelter Medicine is one of the most meaningful contributions to the health and welfare of companion animals possible.
Exemplified by world - class scholarship and instruction, endowed professorships and chairs are among the most significant awards conferred to faculty.
One of the most notable contributions is an endowed professorship and Dr. Seaks explained the decision to create the professorship in a 2008 Commentary column he wrote for the CVM Magazine.
The gift will also endow professorships, fund equipment purchases and assist in the construction of new and renovated facilities.
In 2009, they endowed the Emily R. and Gerald S. Leischuck Endowed Professorship for Educational Leadership, which enables the College of Education to recruit and retain educational leadership faculty.
While a member of the board, Terry happened to hear then - dean of the College, now provost the the University, Warwick Arden, report that there were no endowed professorships on the faculty of the CVM.
A leading figure in the field of user research, Dr. Dennis Wixon holds the Microsoft Endowed Professorship in User Experience.
He also created endowed professorships in Cooper Union's Irwin S. Chanin School of Architecture, School of Art and Albert Nerken School of Engineering.
Meanwhile, Bucksbaum kept finding ways to support art: endowing a professorship in urban planning and design at Harvard University; establishing the eponymous $ 100,000 Bucksbaum Award, given to one Whitney Biennial artist.
He was awarded an endowed professorship at MIT in 1983.
Darby Dickerson is the Dean of Texas Tech University School of Law, and she holds the W. Frank Newton Endowed Professorship.
Most committees, boards of directors and academic departments all have a «chairman» and many endowed professorships are referred to as chairs.

Not exact matches

Shleifer eventually was stripped of his endowed chair but retained his professorship, and faculty dean Knowles sealed the Committee on Professional Conduct thorough and painstaking report.
Naming an endowed Chair or Professorship at the Rotman School will help recruit and retain the world's leading teachers and researchers, enhance our curriculum, foster research and advance the academic performance of tomorrow's business leaders.
They found that women are less likely to be awarded named professorships and that they derive lower returns from their scholarly achievements when it comes to appointments to endowed chairs.
He holds the Doris and Donald Fisher Distinguished Professorship in Clinical Cancer Research and the Stanford W. Ascherman and Norman R. Ascherman Endowed Chair at UCSF.
The MacLean Center is currently the largest clinical medical ethics program in the world, having trained more than 300 physicians and other health professionals — many of whom hold professorships, endowed chairs and directorships of ethics programs in the U.S., Canada and Europe.
A fellowship program in clinical medical ethics that started in 1981 and has graduated 320 fellows, many of whom now hold endowed university professorships and direct clinical ethics programs in the U.S., Canada, Europe and China.
The Institute has named Ooguri as its first Fred Kavli Professor of Theoretical Physics, a new professorship endowed by The Kavli Foundation.
In addition, he held the endowed Chancellor's Associates Chair of Physics professorship from 1997 until his retirement last March.
July 21, 2015 Central Illinois physician donates $ 3.5 million for cancer research Anjuli Nayak, a renowned allergist and immunologist from Bloomington who received cancer treatment at the University of Chicago Medicine, is endowing a $ 3.5 million professorship at the medical center for leukemia research.
The Visiting Professorship was initially endowed by Metzler Bank and Edmond de Rothschild Group in 2014 on the occasion of Goethe University's centennial.
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