Sentences with phrase «us academic departments»

Viner argued that academic departments needed to encourage their students in broader intellectual fields since solving real world problems was likely to involve skills learned in several different disciplines.

But there is no positive correlation between the degree of Christianity of an academic department and its size.

Although the University has indeed placed several distinguished Christian scholars in endowed chairs, each academic department has a high degree of autonomy in making most hiring decisions.

Behaviorism is the dominant orientation in most academic departments of psychology.

Nevertheless, because it was located within an academic department, it did little more than argue with others in that department against dualism and in favor of the relevance of scientific knowledge.

Thus there were two quite distinct styles of religious instruction on the campuses: disinterested, non-normative studies, conducted in a regular academic department, and ministerial studies based on an assumption of shared commitment, in marginal divinity schools.

What if a member of an academic department has simply done what I have done» given public testimony, or published a moral judgment on gay marriage?

But why is «bringing the athletics department to heel» so much more important than establishing quality - control measures for the academic departments in order to prevent Notre Dame from becoming a post-Christian university?

Information must flow smoothly between the school athletic departments and the academic departments to ensure appropriate physical and academic adjustments during the recovery.

Meanwhile, polytechnics seeking to be converted into Technical Universities should have the following requirements: a) satisfy the existing norms, guidelines and requirements of the National Council for Tertiary Education and the National Accreditation Board for accreditation as a Technical University, b) offer a minimum of four Bachelor of Technology degree programmes in Science and Technology based disciplines c) have academic departments headed by at least a Senior Lecturer with a PhD and professional experience; and d) have at least three full - time lecturers with relevant research master's degree, at least one of whom shall have industry experience.

Prior to joining RTPI, she was Head of the Academic Department of Urban, Environment and Leisure Studies at London South Bank University.

Brian checked with other academic departments on campus and discovered that he could get a degree in sociology on schedule.

There is no conformity in the way PhD programmes are organised and there are substantial differences in how PhD students are funded, supervised, and assessed — not only between universities, but also across different academic departments within the same university.

When Sykes arrived at Imperial in January, he found about 35 academic departments all reporting directly to him, a model he deemed totally unmanageable.

Instead of fees, the majority of the academic departments impose on students a certain number of hours work for the university each week.

It is my sincere hope that other associations, serious about dealing with the lack of diversity in academic departments, will follow its lead.

«Some institutions and academic departments recognize «engaged scholarship,» or research done in partnership with communities,» she writes.

Having experienced the loneliness of being one of only a very few minorities in an academic department, Inniss urges others seeking higher degrees to select their graduate programs very carefully.

And it was a research center, not an academic department, which gave me a different perspective.»

... Our analysis thus documents a key benefit of high - skilled immigration in the US, which relies on innovation for growth and helps to explain the vociferous complaints by US academic departments about visa restrictions on foreign graduate students.

When it finally accepts students in 2012, the Okinawa Institute for Science and Technology (OIST) aims to provide a new model of a Japanese research university, scrapping the division into traditional academic departments, focusing on interdisciplinary research, conducting business in English, and drawing roughly half of its faculty members from overseas.

Entire academic departments and corporations have been funded by the U.S. government to ponder potential dangers and tell scientists what to do.

It's common for academic departments to use confidential student reviews in promotion decisions, and at some campuses students for years have produced booklets of edited reviews to help peers choose classes.

People underestimate the job insight and networking opportunities available within their own academic departments.

Take health issues: In an article in The Chronicle of Higher Education, a chair of an academic department estimated that in a group of 50 professors and five office staff, serious illness affects at least three or four of them — in addition to close friends and relatives — during a given month.

There are also some advantages to the Chinese approach to research, says Evans, noting that his research department is more in tune than most Western academic departments with scientific entrepreneurship.

Of these, 20 are now chairmen of academic departments, 50 full professors, 60 associate professors, and many more assistant professors.

I think the way to encourage this accountability is to prevent suspicions of misconduct from becoming uncontrolled scandals by allowing academic departments to handle these situations independently.

Data items are collected at the level of academic department and include full - time graduate students by source and mechanism of support, with data on women; part - time graduate students by sex; and citizenship and racial / ethnic background of all graduate students, including first - time students.

Eight of the 12 PDAs were at universities (five of which were private) and collected data from across academic departments, divisions, and schools.

However, the actual length of time seems to vary considerably, depending on the academic department.

At the Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History, Kearney managed seven academic departments with some 120 scientists and museum professionals.

Start - up grants were also available for the 15 young faculty members I recruited as I built two new academic departments at the Dana - Farber Cancer Institute.

However, it is established practice to require a master's degree, and some academic departments have also incorporated this requirement in their statement of running PhD courses within the department.

For instance, if your career fair is going to include graduate students, then your task is relatively simple: You target academic departments at your institution or at surrounding universities.

In fact, within academic departments women of different social or professional «ranks» cooperate with each other less well than men do, according to Joyce Benenson, an Associate of Harvard's Human Evolutionary Biology Department and Professor of Psychology at Emmanuel College, Richard Wrangham, the Ruth Moore Professor of Biological Anthropology and Henry Markovits, from the University of Quebec at Montreal, the study's co-authors.

The budget cuts will be accompanied by the dissolution, on 1 January, of the 120 - year - old institution's classical academic departments — zoology, botany, geology and anthropology — and by the shuffling of member scientists into a new, leaner organization, broadly titled Science and Education.

With more than 30 tenured and tenure - track faculty members and lecturers, UMBC's Department of Biological Sciences is one of the university's largest academic departments encompassing a wide breadth of research and teaching.

The happy hours routinely draw 40 - 50 or more postdocs each month from across 10 - 20 academic departments and divisions.

He served as president of the Association of Professors of Medicine, the leading society for chairpersons of academic departments of medicine in the United States, and is a past president of the 13,000 - member American Thoracic Society, the premier subspecialty organization for those in the field of respiratory medicine, critical care, and sleep - disordered breathing.

There are 16 academic Departments under the Faculty of Agriculture.

The campus enrolls more than 36,000 undergraduate and graduate students, and has more than 1,500 full - time and 500 part - time faculty members in more than 130 academic departments and more than 110 interdisciplinary research units and field stations.

The Breast Cancer Program (BC) includes 28 members from 11 academic departments from Vanderbilt University School of Medicine (VUSM), School of Nursing, and School of Engineering.

The scope of its work has increased dramatically in recent years, and the institute now has affiliated faculty spanning 19 academic departments, including clinical departments in the Warren Alpert Medical School.

Contributing to the DECIPHER database is an international community of academic departments of clinical genetics and rare disease genomics now numbering more than 250 projects and having uploaded more than 19,000 cases.

St. Jude is home to more than 200 basic scientists and clinicians working across 21 academic departments.

As inaugural director of the Transplantation Institute, Fung will work with faculty from multiple academic departments to grow UChicago Medicine's programs in solid organ transplantation.

Are there other institutes or other academic departments or schools that are kind of focusing on similar things and that you are collaborating with?

Students will be contacted by their academic department or the Compliance and Risk Manager regarding these requirements and their completion.

Responsible academic departments of nutrition actually question the accuracy of many of the claims about fat.