Sentences with phrase «national hub for»

Their aim is to build not only a national hub for human rights learning and discovery, but a new era of global human rights leadership.

The UCLA School of Law has received a $ 20 million gift to launch a new institute that will serve as a national hub for human rights education and advocacy.

This summer we welcome Transition US, which is the national hub for the Transition Town Movement which was started in the UK in 2005.

Des Moines is a national hub for the insurance industry and also has a number of major financial firms and publishers.

Thanks in large part to LEAP Innovations, Chicago is becoming the national hub for education technology and personalized learning.

«Linked Learning is first and foremost about changing teaching and learning,» says Gary Hoachlander, president of ConnectEd: The California Center for College and Career, a national hub for Linked Learning practice.

FairTest is a national hub for the test resistance and reform movement.

ABOUT LEAP Connecting innovation and education to dramatically transform the way students learn, LEAP Innovations ® leads the nation in developing and scaling personalized learning practices, technology and innovations in classrooms throughout the U.S. Located at 1871, Chicago's premier incubator for technology and entrepreneurship, LEAP is quickly positioning Chicago as the national hub for education innovation.

The transformation of MEC from a crunchy clearing - house of mountaineer equipment to a national hub for outdoor lifestyle enthusiasts was a tricky exercise.

Canadian Literacy and Learning Network is the national hub for research, information and knowledge exchange, increasing literacies and essential skills across Canada.

Not exact matches

A national aerospace hub, the Marshall Space Center generates demand for high - tech workers.

What's more, Atlanta is increasingly becoming a hub for venture capital, bringing in about $ 233 million with 32 deals during the first nine months of this year, according to the National Venture Capital Association.

It probably won't surprise you to hear that Boulder has become a hub for tech startups, given the way the University of Colorado and other national research labs located in the area attract funding and talent.

About MaRS Centre for Impact Investing The MaRS Centre for Impact Investing is a national hub designed to increase the awareness and effectiveness of social finance to catalyze new capital, talent and initiatives dedicated to tackling social and environmental problems in Canada.

Home to the National Center for Simulation, the University of Central Florida Institute for Simulation and Training, all branches of the military and 10 other government agencies concentrated on simulation R&D through Team Orlando, the Florida High Tech Corridor is a veritable hub for this field.

Schultz plans to announce that Starbucks and USA TODAY will jointly publish national inserts called «Race Together,» and launch a digital hub at racetogether.usatoday.com, which will all serve as learning tools and conversation starters for Starbucks customers, partners and the nation to encourage a greater understanding, empathy, and compassion toward one another.

Opened in late 2011, the Centre for Impact Investing is a national hub designed to increase the awareness and effectiveness of social finance, which directs new capital, talent and initiatives toward tackling Canada's most pressing social and environmental problems.

Whereas Australia has made Asia an important focus of its national curriculum, Canada, where education is a provincial matter, could follow the model practiced in the US, where a network of universities across the country acts as hubs for teachers to deepen their understanding of Asian geography, history, social studies and arts, so they can introduce that content into their classrooms.

JANUARY 27, 2017 — WASHINGTON, DC — The Food Waste Reduction Alliance (FWRA) today announced its support for the Further With Food online hub for the exchange of information and solutions that can help realize the national goal of cutting food waste in half by 2030.

NEW YORK, Dec. 15, 2016 / PRNewswire / — Today, The Rockefeller Foundation announced its collaboration with the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), and a partnership of 10 private sector and non-profit organizations to create «Further With Food: Center for Food Loss and Waste Solutions,» an online hub for the exchange of information and solutions that can help realize the national goal of cutting food waste in half by 2030.

Among the initiatives up for possible state funding is Syracuse University's proposed National Veterans Resource Complex, which would help «solidify» central New York as the «hub» of research and programming connected to veterans and military affairs.

As Jamestown officials intensify efforts to market the Southern Tier city as a hub for humor, the National Comedy Center has announced its headliner for the 2017 Lucille Ball Comedy Festival.

Syverud also successfully obtained from the initiative $ 12.5 million for the National Veterans Resource Complex, part of SU's flagship effort to transform central New York into the «hub» of research and programming connected to veterans and military affairs.

In the US, for example, the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) in Bethesda, Maryland, is a hub for HIV research, and its Vaccine Research Center continues to focus on HIV in preference to other diseases.

«Considering the Southern Ocean absorbs something like 60 % of heat and anthropogenic CO2 that enters the ocean, this wind has a noticeable effect on global warming,» said lead author Dr Andy Hogg from the Australian National University Hub of the ARC Centre of Excellence for Climate System Science.

In 2016, the U.S. National Cancer Institute launched a scheme to develop more than 1000 cell culture models, including organoids, for researchers around the world to use, together with Cancer Research UK in London, the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute in Hinxton, U.K., and HUB.

Speaking to reporters at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C., on 15 September, Isaacs echoed a theme enunciated in congressional testimony and elsewhere by Energy Secretary Steven Chu, who has presented a detailed proposal for eight mission - oriented research centers that he calls «innovation hubs.»

National Science Foundation project, GeoLink, could become search hub for the geoscience community.

The ASBMB aims to develop and support sustainable hubs of regional science advocates throughout the U.S. Delegates become the regional link to ASBMB, building networks and mobilizing local grassroots efforts for national ASBMB advocacy campaigns.

M.T.B. was supported by NERC grant NE / J024082 / 1, J.A.B. acknowledges support from the ARCCSS (CE110001028), E.C.J.O. by ARC grants FS110200029 and CE110001028, N.J.H. acknowledges funding support from the ARC Centre of Excellence for Climate Extremes (CE170100023) and the National Environmental Science Programme (NESP) Earth Systems and Climate Change (ESCC) Hub Project 2.3 (grant B0024391), P.J.M. by Marie Curie CIG PCIG10 - GA -2011-303685 and NERC grant NE / J024082 / 1, S.C.S. by an Australian Government RTP Scholarshipin, M.F. by a CAS - CSIRO collaborative project on Marine Science and the Blue Economy and the Western Australia Marine Science Institution.

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CellLines is the hub for news from across SCN's national network.

CalCars is a nonprofit PHEV advocacy group that acts as a networking hub for engineers, investors and entrepreneurs... «Our first goal is to make PHEVs a contender in the national policy debate arena,» says Kramer.

In the long run, the National Library of Medicine (NLM) might become the home for such databases, as part of its mission to serve as the datascience hub at NIH.

Are there any Industry Canada plans in the works for developing new assessment tools given that, unlike many countries, Canada does not have a national nanotechnology funding hub?

This strand included a panel debate which brought out some key examples of SEND best practice from the Music Education Council's national awards for music services, with contributions from music education hubs in Hertfordshire, Brighton & Hove and Bristol (which is currently working to set up the first specialist training centre for young musicians with SEND).

Visit the National Implementation Research Network's Active Implementation Hub for more information.

He talks about maths for nearly two hours, stops for photos in the park, and then asks if I will join him — recording device still on — in the walk to the tube station so that he can tell me more about maths hubs, a national network of hubs led by an outstanding school or college to spread good practice.

For more ideas, check out Safe Schools Hub (from Australia) and their National Safe Schools Framework.

«St. Louis was a gateway for the nation in the 19th century, and is poised to do so again for the freight community in the 21st — important to both national and international markets and representing a premier freight hub in our nation.»

Though statistically not a hub for arts and entertainment, Boise's unemployment is well below the national average, and it's one of the safest cities in the country.

The city is a hub for the arts, entertainment, dining, pubbing, clubbing and shopping, and is known for its variety of live music concerts, music festivals and related events such as the National Celtic Festival, the Royal Geelong Show and the city's Gala Day Parade and Geelong Heritage Festival.

The high performance modular facility, currently on track for LEED Gold certification, will serve not only as a hub of sustainability programming in the Golden Gate National Recreation Area, but also as a convening spot and resource for local community organizations, visiting diplomats, politicians, and educational leaders on both national and internationalNational Recreation Area, but also as a convening spot and resource for local community organizations, visiting diplomats, politicians, and educational leaders on both national and internationalnational and international fronts.

We stop briefly in Te Anau, the hub and gateway town for Fiordland National Park and Milford Sound and your last chance to get supplies for those doing the Routeburn Track tomorrow.

Arrive this morning in Manitoba's capital city of Winnipeg, where you will disembark the train for time to explore this historic city, including Forks National Historic Site, a commercial hub for more than 5,000 years and now home to the Forks Market that boasts a vast number of boutiques and restaurants.

National flag carrier Garuda Indonesia is in negotiations with Japanese authorities to use the latter's Narita International Airport as a transit hub for Jakarta - Los Angeles flights next year.

Dangriga is the perfect hub to explore mainland Belize to the West and South (Maya temples, caves, national parks, zipline system) before heading to the Reef for rest and relaxation, underwater exploration (dive and snorkel) or to pursue your Grand Slam!

As both a popular leisure destination for Saudi nationals and important commercial hub, attracting the highest proportion of ex-pats in KSA, Jeddah is a growing tourism market with a clear need for varied accommodation and hospitality offerings.

The sparkling Channel Islands Harbor — gateway to the Channel Islands National Park is a hub for boating, sport fishing, kayaking and whale - watching excursions.

Crissy Field Center is a dynamic hub of youth engagement for the Golden Gate National Parks and a model program of the National Park Service.