Sentences with phrase «great research universities»

Great research universities are often thought of in relation to their contributions to the advancement of science and technology.

In the more than 100 years since Tohoku University was founded in 1907, the constant goal has been to become one of the world's great research universities.

These detailed observations yield insight not just into those countries but also into the enormous scientific strengths possessed by the United States, which prominently include its peerless array of great research universities.

The museum draws on the intellectual resources of a great research university and serves as a laboratory of the arts dedicated to multidisciplinary approaches to learning.

Not exact matches

Murdoch University vice-chancellor John Yovich says the university has three main priorities for moving forward — establishing a new campus south of Perth, maintaining and growing research intensity, and diversifying income sources from endowments through to greater businUniversity vice-chancellor John Yovich says the university has three main priorities for moving forward — establishing a new campus south of Perth, maintaining and growing research intensity, and diversifying income sources from endowments through to greater businuniversity has three main priorities for moving forward — establishing a new campus south of Perth, maintaining and growing research intensity, and diversifying income sources from endowments through to greater business links.

The labs of large, multinational companies and academic research efforts at major universities or governments are great at churning out innovations that become the basis for startups.

«The great majority of U.S. - educated professionals from places like India and China remained in this country to work at research labs, universities, and private companies,» reads a new report from the entrepreneurship - focused Kauffman Foundation, The Grass Is Indeed Greener in India and China.

«MaRS is a great example of the value of partnerships between innovative companies, universities, academic hospitals, research institutes and government,» said Reza Moridi, Ontario Minister of Research and Innresearch institutes and government,» said Reza Moridi, Ontario Minister of Research and InnResearch and Innovation.

«Each site has a great set of opportunities and I think each site on its merits could possibly win,» said Daraius Irani, vice president of Innovation and Applied Research at Towson University.

About The University of Toronto As Canada's top ranked university, with three campuses in the Greater Toronto Area and affiliations with nine teaching hospitals, the University of Toronto is a research and innovation powerhouse with a growing entrepreneurship University of Toronto As Canada's top ranked university, with three campuses in the Greater Toronto Area and affiliations with nine teaching hospitals, the University of Toronto is a research and innovation powerhouse with a growing entrepreneurship university, with three campuses in the Greater Toronto Area and affiliations with nine teaching hospitals, the University of Toronto is a research and innovation powerhouse with a growing entrepreneurship University of Toronto is a research and innovation powerhouse with a growing entrepreneurship ecosystem.

Research on venture capital returns from research at the University of British Columbia (UBC) shows we are very good at early exits and it makes BC a great place to do startups and invesResearch on venture capital returns from research at the University of British Columbia (UBC) shows we are very good at early exits and it makes BC a great place to do startups and invesresearch at the University of British Columbia (UBC) shows we are very good at early exits and it makes BC a great place to do startups and invest early.

Having a degree is, statistically, the greatest corollary to becoming a self - made millionaire as roughly 90 out of 100 rich households in the United States are headed by someone with a four year degree or higher according to research done by the late Dr. Thomas Stanley at the University of Georgia.

«Our hospitals, health centres, research centres and universities are incredible incubators of innovation to meet this demand and create great success, but financing, marketing and the creation of healthy companies remains a challenge,» said Alan MacIntosh, Managing Partner, Real Ventures.

On the other hand, Erwin Chargaff, retired biochemist at Columbia University and an outspoken opponent of the research, says that «anyone affirming immediate disaster is a charlatan, but anyone denying the possibility of its occurring is an even greater one» (quoted in «Recombinant DNA: The Argument Shifts,» by Tabith M. Powledge, the Hastings Center Retort [April 1977], p. 19).

Many of their projects were welcome — Irish universities e.g., are woefully underfunded, and Atlantic Philanthropies» money funded a great deal of new research and teaching.

Dawkins was also well known by the public as a great scientist, though his true talent was in communicating scientific ideas in books such as The Selfish Gene (Oxford University Press) rather than in his actual research.

A multi-million-dollar research and clinical institute is under construction in Toronto, and plans for joint appointments of senior staff with the University and the Institute are underway; a great portion of the Foundation's current program is dispersed throughout the province.

And my reason for thinking this includes, among other things, the fact that my scientific friends in a great college of a great university (among them many agnostics and self - identified «atheists») are the very people who often seem to me most aware of mystery in the world, even in the scientific research that they carry on with such devotion and yet with such humility.

This defect, in turn, tends to deprive many of those who spend their lives in the universities of the American Church of the admirable industry and unremitting labor in research and publication which characterize a far greater proportion of their colleagues on the faculties of the secular universities.»

But the changes I have proposed would still not orient the university to the greatest needs of society for advanced study and research.

Because of the vast amount of research in the social sciences, American universities are especially well equipped to become great centers for the study of the history of religions.

This research is being carried out in collaboration with Lactation Consultants of Great Britain and has received ethical approval from the University of Bristol.

But a great high school that is next door to a recognized research university?

Shedd Aquarium's conservation research team launched a citizen science project this spring in collaboration with the University of Wisconsin - Madison Center for Limnology and the Lake Superior National Estuarine Research Reserve aimed at documenting long - term shifts in the timing of fish migrations into Great Lakes research team launched a citizen science project this spring in collaboration with the University of Wisconsin - Madison Center for Limnology and the Lake Superior National Estuarine Research Reserve aimed at documenting long - term shifts in the timing of fish migrations into Great Lakes Research Reserve aimed at documenting long - term shifts in the timing of fish migrations into Great Lakes streams.

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Two Shedd Aquarium researchers published a study in the Journal of Great Lakes Research last weekend on a little - known amphibian that resides in the Great Lakes region, the mudpuppy (Necturus maculosus), as part of a multi-year research project in partnership with Southern Illinois University's Department of Zoology, Center for Ecology, and Cooperative Wildlife Research LabResearch last weekend on a little - known amphibian that resides in the Great Lakes region, the mudpuppy (Necturus maculosus), as part of a multi-year research project in partnership with Southern Illinois University's Department of Zoology, Center for Ecology, and Cooperative Wildlife Research Labresearch project in partnership with Southern Illinois University's Department of Zoology, Center for Ecology, and Cooperative Wildlife Research LabResearch Laboratory.

Research led by Barry M. Lester, PhD, director of the Brown Center for the Study of Children at Risk at Women & Infants Hospital of Rhode Island and professor of psychiatry and pediatrics at The Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University, found the single greatest contributor to long - term neurobehavioral development in preterm infants is maternal involvement — and that a single - family room NICU allows for the greatest and most immediate opportunities for maternal involvement.

His research focuses on conflict, development and environment in the Horn of Africa and the Great Lakes Region and he is the convenor of the Oxford University China - Africa Network (OUCAN).

While bringing in an outsider can be a «great boost,» looking within the system shouldn't be overlooked, said John Aubrey Douglass, a senior research fellow for public policy and higher education at the Center for Studies in Higher Education at the University of California in Berkeley.

The Syracuse - based Great Lakes Research Consortium says the funds are going to Buffalo State College, the University at Buffalo, and Hobart and William Smith Colleges in Geneva.

I recruited students from the great Tulane U... a university with a long, postive tradition in higher learning and research.

Investing in the nation's newest veterinary college and the first in the New York metropolitan area is a transformative event for Long Island University, for the region, and for animal health, which will create great New York jobs and research opportunities.

Sean Ryan [email protected] The University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee might not have enough money to renovate and expand the Great Lakes Research Facility.

Mason, a research associate at the Peter Harrison Centre for Disability Sport (PHC) at Loughborough University in the United Kingdom, is one of a handful of sports scientists working with the Great Britain and Northern Ireland performance analysis team.

Responding to the concerns of committee members, Perry cited cybersecurity as one of the nation's greatest short - term challenges that should be a focus of collaborative research by the private sector, universities and government laboratories.

The cover letters — essentially all of which outlined a foundation of great science and a forward - looking vision for teaching and research — failed to articulate why the applicants were specifically interested in us, our department, or our university.

Now a physician and research fellow pursuing her Ph.D. at Charité University Hospital in Berlin, she knows that being in Germany has offered greater resources and opportunities than she would have had in Greece — not to mention double the salary.

Therefore, the amendment leads to greater practicality for universities and research centres as well as more legal certainty for scientists.

My fellowship was not only a great success in terms of my own scientific training, but it also allowed me to experience working in a different university system from which I was accustomed and to make new contacts with different research groups.

In the study, scientists from the Potsdam - based Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research, and Harvard University show that sea surface temperatures reconstructed from climate archives vary to a much greater extent on long time scales than simulated by climate models.

But the aspect of the work I enjoy most, and one that I think differentiates research in a small biotech company from research in larger institutions and a great many university departments, is that competition is replaced by cooperation.

«You're going to have great earthquakes on planet Earth, and you're going to have great tsunamis,» said Rhett Butler, a geophysicist at the University of Hawaii at Manoa and lead author of the new study published online in Geophysical Research Letters, a journal of the American Geophysical Union.

The university had many interacting groups in my field, and there was a great buzz to the research there.

Much of the concept's great impact is thanks to the close bonds that have been developed with similarly oriented partner universities and research facilities.

The Canadian Government has been pushing more aggressive technology commercialization in universities as a part of it's Innovation Strategy simply because it wants the country to derive greater commercial benefit from its ongoing investments in university research.

Robin G. Lorenz, M.D., Ph.D., is the director of the University of Alabama, Birmingham, Medical Scientist Training Program and chair - elect of the Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC) Graduate Research, Education, and Training (GREAT) Group M.D. - Ph.

Greater acidity also «impairs their ability to discriminate between the smell of kin and not, and of predators and not,» according Philip Munday, a professor and research fellow at the Coral Reef Studies center at James Cook University in Australia, who conducted the experiments and presented results at a symposium here this week called The Ocean in a High - CO2 World.

More children are living in high - poverty neighborhoods following the Great Recession — a troubling shift because children in these neighborhoods are a year behind academically, according to new research from researchers at Rice University, the University of Pennsylvania and the University of Wisconsin.

A simple colour changing test to help scientists investigate potential cancer drugs has been developed by University of Bath scientists, allowing research to progress at a much greater speed than has been possible until now.