Sentences with phrase «leading university academics»

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But an academic study by Thomas Herndon, Michael Ash and Robert Pollin of the University of Massachusetts debunked it — turns out the profs had it backward, and that slower growth leads to more debt.

Moderator: Dr. David Wheeler, President, Cape Breton University Panel: Dr. Mary Kilfoil, Academic Lead for the Starting Lean Initiative, Dalhousie University Calvin Milbury, President and CEO, New Brunswick Innovation Foundation Gerry Pond, Co-Founder, Mariner

For BTN's 2016 Corporate Travel Index, the 32nd annual, BCD Travel's Advito provided the average hotel and car rental costs paid by BCD corporate clients, BTN collected hotel taxes and surcharges from hotels, and eight New York University School of Professional Studies Advanced Research Seminar students, led by academic chair and clinical assistant professor Lynn Minnaert, called restaurants in October and November to gather meal prices.

About MaRS Innovation MaRS Innovation is the commercialization agent for Ontario's exceptional discovery pipeline from 15 leading academic institutions, including Baycrest Centre for Geriatric Care, Centre for Addiction and Mental Health, Holland Bloorview Kids Rehabilitation Hospital, The Hospital for Sick Children (SickKids), MaRS Discovery District, Mount Sinai Hospital, Ontario Institute for Cancer Research, St. Michael's Hospital, Ryerson University, Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre, Thunder Bay Regional Research Institute, University Health Network, University of Toronto, Women's College Hospital and York University.

I hope that Our Lady's University will come to lead the academic world away from the disparagement of disciplines, and to be a beacon of true scholarship, like the Catholic universities of the European Middle Ages.

The committee included an international group of academics with expertise in various aspects of food culture and gastronomy such as Joxe Mari Aizega, General Manager of Basque Culinary Center; Jorge Ruiz Carrascal, Professor of the Department of Food Science at the University of Copenhagen; Marta Miguel Castro, a Research Associate at the CIAL Institute of Research in Food Science, who studies how food components could prevent disorders such as diabetes and obesity; Melina Shannon Dipietro, executive director of Rene Redzepi's MAD project; and Dr F. Xavier Medina, author, social anthropologist and leading scholar of Food and Culture at the Universitat Oberta de Catalunya (UOC) in Barcelona.

A prize committee led by chef Elena Arzak of the Arzak Restaurant and made up of academics from different universities chose the 20 finalists from whom the panel of judges ultimately picked a winner.

Former U.S. Justice Department official Kenneth Wainstein led the investigation after the NCAA reopened the academic misconduct probe into the university in June, when new information became available.

And colleges and universities spend time and money running seminars led by academics and mental health workers that cater to the concerns and preoccupations of anxious parents as they leave their children in the hands of strangers.

The various speakers were academics speaking about research they have done for their respective institution's rather than HIPP organic and I did not necessarily feel they were giving formula the hard sell; however, the topics were obliquely related to formula feeding the most recent being «Food, mood and children's behaviour» led by Dr Alex Richardson of Oxford University this focussed on the benefits of Omega 3.

She led the creation of the Blavatnik School of Government at Oxford University and, before her appointment as Dean, served as the School's Academic Director.

Indeed, a recent US academic study led by Dr Kurt Hübner, director of the Institute for European Studies at the University of British Columbia, makes the case that Irish unity could be worth 36 billion euros for the island of Ireland overall, with long - term improvements in productivity and growth.

The University of Birmingham established a Policy Commission on the Distribution of Wealth in September of last year to bring leading figures from the public, private and third sectors together with Birmingham academics to generate new thinking on this issue.

Both reports were instrumental in setting up the Faculty of Law at Legon, leading to the current bifurcated legal education system, which includes the academic component at a University followed by a professional component at Makola or an equivalent professional school.

He recalled with nostalgic feelings the combative exploits of the National Democratic Coalition, Civil Liberties Organisation, Academic Staff Union of Universities and students» protest that led to the positive changes in the country, most especially during the military era.

Thom Brooks, an academic at Newcastle University who has led the campaign, told politics.co.uk: «The next step is to call on others to join us in resigning from the Peer Review College.

Most recently, she directed faculty and graduate affairs in the Walsh School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University, one of the world's leading academic and research institutions in global affairs.

They regret «the absence of important elements» they had suggested, such as merging agency and university researcher status to replace the separate agency and university academic researcher categories, and turning the leading agencies into mere suppliers of cash.

«Past research has found a link between violent crimes and performance on tests, but researchers haven't been able to say why crime affects academic performance,» explains Jennifer A. Heissel, a PhD graduate in human development and sociology at Northwestern University, who led the study.

Prichard, like many other leading academics, recommends that universities accept corporate funding only if it does not limit the ability of researchers to publish their findings.

In the 5 years since former president of Harvard University Lawrence Summers made a household name for himself by suggesting that women may lack an «intrinsic aptitude» for science, there's been a heightened sensitivity toward the factors in academic science and medicine that lead so many women to veer from the academic career path.

The pioneering research led by academics from the Sheffield Institute of Translational Neuroscience (SITraN), in collaboration with scientists from the University of York, supports the fast - tracking of the drug ursodeoxycholic acid (UDCA) for a clinical trial in Parkinson's patients.

We enjoy ties with many of the area's world - class universities, and we also partner with leading academic institutions globally.

Professor Caroline Argo from the University of Surrey, who was the academic lead for the project adds: «At the moment, we can freeze stallion sperm reliably but not horse eggs or embryos.

Vaccines are successful in preventing pandemic flu and reducing the number of patients hospitalised as a result of the illness, a study led by academics at The University of Nottingham has found.

Kazuyoshi Maejima of the School of Medicine at Keio University in Tokyo led a team of academics that developed the Koken rat jointly with company researchers.

A team of scientists, led by academics from King's College London and Erasmus MC University Medical Center Rotterdam, have discovered 124 genes that play a major role in determining human hair colour variation.

A team from La Trobe University's School of Life Sciences, led by Dr Richard Peters, worked with academics from Monash University's Faculty of IT to create, using 3D animation, a series of varied environmental settings and weather conditions, comprising different plant environments and wind conditions, to quantify how lizard displays are affected by this variation.

The strong U.S. economy and the dynamism of many fields of biomedicine, in both academic and industrial arenas, combined with a tight market for tenure - track positions at research universities in the United States, have led to a somewhat paradoxical situation.

Professor Pierre Friedlingstein and Professor Peter Cox, from the University of Exeter, collaborated with an international team of researchers from China, Germany, France and the USA, to produce the new study, which is published in the leading academic journal Nature.

Newcastle University and the NorthEast England Stem Cell Institute are aware that the research paper «Derivation of Human Sperm from Embryonic Stem Cells» by a group led by Professor Karim Nayernia has been withdrawn from the academic journal Stem Cells and Development.

«There is no scientist shortage,» says Harvard University economist Richard Freeman, a leading expert on the academic labor force.

This past April, that dispute led Harvard to place him on academic probation, and on 16 May it withdrew him from the university, saying he had violated the terms of the probation.

Lower temperatures can activate the body's «good» fat formation at a cellular level, a new study led by academics at The University of Nottingham has found.

Leading the group's work are two faculty members, Elizabeth Watkins, dean of the Graduate Division and vice chancellor for student academic affairs at the University of California, San Francisco, and Peter Espenshade, associate dean for graduate biomedical education at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine.

Genetically analysing lesions in the food pipe could provide an early and accurate test for esophageal cancer, according to research led by Queen Mary University of London (QMUL), Academic Medical Center in Amsterdam and Arizona State University.

They created coarse - grained molecular dynamics simulations of the Ras protein using the Lonestar and Stampede supercomputers at the Texas Advanced Computing Center, one of the nation's leading academic supercomputer centers and part of The University of Texas at Austin.

Controversial deals that delay generic versions of drugs coming onto the market can lead to consumers paying significantly more for some treatments, according to new research by an academic from the University of East Anglia.

Funded by MacArthur, Oak and Open Society Foundations, SITU has undertaken collaborations with a diverse range of partners, including the International Criminal Court, the United Nations, Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch, B'tselem, International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH), as well as projects with international legal teams, award - winning journalists and leading academic institutions such as Carnegie Mellon and Princeton Universities.

The Prodromakis Group at the University of Southampton is acknowledged as world - leading in this field, collaborating among others with Leon Chua (a Diamond Jubilee Visiting Academic at the University of Southampton), who theoretically predicted the existence of memristors in 1971.

Professor Nicholas Harvey, Professor of Rheumatology and Clinical Epidemiology at the MRC Lifecourse Epidemiology Unit, University of Southampton, led the study with Dr Elizabeth Curtis, Academic Clinical Fellow in Rheumatology.

A new study published in the academic journal Scientific Reports, led by Professor Mark Purnell from the University of Leicester's Department of Geology, has discovered the best kind of rubber for reproduction.

But one unusual set of diamond - coated blades from an even more unusual inventor has prompted enthusiastic outbursts from leading academics: «I can not emphasise too strongly that you are potentially on the threshold of a multibillion pound industry,» said one, Ekhard Salje, co-director of the superconductivity research centre at the University of Cambridge.

Universities need to get better at sharing patented seeds and other products of publicly - funded agricultural science if the United States wants to keep producing bountiful harvests, argues a new report from a group of leading academic researchers.

One of the key skills in BI, as in academic research, is the ability to ask the right question, says Raif Majeed, who leads a quality assurance engineering subteam in Seattle at Tableau, a BI company that was founded by two Stanford University computer scientists.

Led by Professor Jari Kinaret, from Sweden's Chalmers University, the Flagship involves over 126 academic and industrial research groups in 17 European countries, with 136 principal investigators, including four Nobel laureates.

A 2012 study on the U.S. biomedical workforce, requested by NIH and led by Princeton University molecular biologist Shirley Tilghman, found that the output of biomedical Ph.D. s exceeded the supply of academic jobs.

Rather than being created as pranks, it seems that many of the fake papers were coming from China where they were «bought by academics and students» to pad their publication records, says the lead researcher behind the investigation, Cyril Labbé, a computer scientist at Joseph Fourier University in Grenoble, France.

A major international research project led by a University of Sussex academic provides new evidence that the common belief in a cultural divide between the West and the rest of the world is little more than a myth.

A similar pattern emerged in both studies, one led by Gleeson, with Murat Gunel, MD, of the Yale University School of Medicine and Frank Baas, PhD, of the Academic Medical Center in the Netherlands, and the other by Josef Penninger and Javier Martinez of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, teamed with James R. Lupski, MD, PhD, of the Baylor College of Medicine.