Sentences with phrase «university research foundation»

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«I realized I wanted to be one of the people creating and defining organizational strategy, not just implementing it,» explains the University of Minnesota's Audrey Klein, a foundation head whose research examines treatments for alcohol and drug addiction.

Kesselman, who holds the Canada Research Chair in Public Finance with the School of Public Policy at Simon Fraser University, co-authored the 2001 study that laid the foundation for the TFSA introduced in 2009 with a $ 5,000 annual contribution limit.

The Investor Protect Institute collaborates with strategic partners such as nonprofit organizations, colleges and universities, government agencies, and foundations to fulfill its mission of protecting investors through research and education.

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This programme, the «Science, Theology & the Ontological Quest» came into being in 2003 as a joint project undertaken by three of the pontifical universities of Rome under the auspices of the Pontifical Council for Culture, and sponsored by the John Templeton foundation which funds research on the borders of science and religion.

Some parts of the state university system, including the construction fund and the research foundation, also are exempt from oversight by the comptroller.

The research foundation, a nonprofit affiliated with the university, had managed IGPE — a violation of state law and SUNY policy, Leahy said in her letter, citing a report prepared by SUNY and the foundation.

ALBANY — Two powerful state investigative agencies announced new inquiries Wednesday into the inner workings of the Research Foundation of the State University of New York amid accusations that the foundation's president violated state ethics laws.

Indeed, universities and similar research institutions provide a fertile foundation for crafting multiple career paths, and offer diverse opportunities.

RCP assists countries, states, agencies, universities, foundations, and others in the strategic planning, management, and evaluation of programmatic activities in order to help them improve their research competitiveness and capacity.

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.

Like virtually all British universities, running costs are covered by government grants and minimal tuition fees paid by students, whereas research is supported by the government - funded research councils, foundations, and industrial contracts.

To address this problem, a research team led by Associate Professor Shunsuke Utsumi and a doctoral student Shinnosuke Kagiya of Hokkaido University studied genomic variation in a foundation tree species to predict an arthropod community.

If the payments matched what foundations paid, he said, some universities, particularly state schools, would not be able to continue hosting NIH - funded research.

Major funding for the EDF's 30 - month methane research series, including their portion of the University of Texas study, is provided for by the following individuals and foundations: Fiona and Stan Druckenmiller, the Heising - Simons Foundation, Bill and Susan Oberndorf, Betsy and Sam Reeves, the Robertson Foundation, TomKat Charitable Trust and the Walton Family Foundation.

McGill receives over $ 235 million in research funding annually; currently the university is involved in more than 100 international projects worth in excess of $ 70 million, funded by federal and provincial government agencies, foreign governments, international financial institutions, and private foundations.

The Kaitokudo and Tekijuku are the foundations and inspiration of the «Handai style» that places emphasis on cutting - edge research, creation of new research fields, respect for liberal arts at the graduate school level, and contributions to society by active university - industrial collaboration.

Until now, research in France has been divided among five different types of organizations: universities, elite higher education institutions (the grandes écoles), national research agencies such as the National Center for Scientific Research (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, CNRS), foundations such as the Pasteur Institute, and privaresearch in France has been divided among five different types of organizations: universities, elite higher education institutions (the grandes écoles), national research agencies such as the National Center for Scientific Research (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, CNRS), foundations such as the Pasteur Institute, and privaresearch agencies such as the National Center for Scientific Research (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, CNRS), foundations such as the Pasteur Institute, and privaResearch (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, CNRS), foundations such as the Pasteur Institute, and private labs.

Our research centers address production challenges in the diverse agro-ecosystems of the state and provide the foundation upon which the research and teaching missions of the university stay relevant to needs of agriculture in the state of Montana.

NIH, by the way, has recently recognized that «the career outcomes of NRSA - supported training programs include both research - intensive careers in academia and industry and research - related careers in various sectors, e.g. academic institutions, government agencies, for - profit businesses, and private foundations» and is encouraging universities with T32 programs to provide «structured, career development advising and learning opportunities» to prepare trainees for those opportunities, according to a notice issued in September 2013, near the end of the study period.

As a part of the foundation's mandate to maximize the impact of an excess of $ 2 million spent on research every day at the University of Toronto and its affiliated institutions, the first business plan competition was held last year.

To accomplish this, the foundation funds positions, which are tenured from the start, at local universities and nonprofit research centers.

At this foundation, universities, research institutes, and private companies work together toward a central Dutch bioinformatics strategy.

The foundation's special achievement award went to University of California, San Francisco, biochemist Bruce Alberts for his research into DNA replication and his work on reforming science education worldwide.

For its basic research award, the foundation picked the work of biomedical researchers William Kaelin Jr. of Harvard Medical School in Boston, Peter Ratcliffe of the University of Oxford in the United Kingdom, and Gregg Semenza of Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine in Baltimore, Maryland.

But it said the foundation's funding agreement didn't appear to give the foundation that veto, and noted that «there was no appointment against the will of the university,» so «freedom of research and teaching are not affected.»

After earning a doctorate in pharmacology and completing a residency in orthopaedic surgery, he travelled to the University of California, San Francisco, where he laid the foundations for his current research.

And he said language requiring the university to get prepublication consent from the foundation for press releases and «publications,» which could include research papers, was an «error.»

In a new project, it's a good idea to test different methods and we wanted to lay a good foundation for future studies, says researcher Eero Vesterinen from the University of Helsinki, who in his earlier research has specialised in the research of feeding biology, especially by applying molecular research methods based on DNA.

What is required is an organized partnership among research universities; local, state, and federal governments; private foundations; and private industry, all of which have a substantial stake in the future of science.»

The foundation hopes the grants will enhance the quality of research at those universities by using generous stipends to attract outstanding postdocs.

In the biggest gift to Harvard University in more than 20 years, a private Swiss foundation has given $ 20 million to the university's School of Public Health to fund research into the links between health and humUniversity in more than 20 years, a private Swiss foundation has given $ 20 million to the university's School of Public Health to fund research into the links between health and humuniversity's School of Public Health to fund research into the links between health and human rights.

LeRoy said it's incumbent for faculty leaders and prominent university presidents to craft principles of academic freedom that deal with 21st - century issues such as extramural speech in social media, academic freedom for research that has political implications, and professional speech that is tied to corporate and foundation funding.

The members of the alliance — the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation; the Kavli, Simons, and Sloan foundations; the Howard Hughes Medical Institute; and the Research Corporation for Science Advancement — want to ease that crisis by getting more people and organizations to emulate what they are already doing: giving money to the nation's universities for basic science.

Kastner is the first president of the Science Philanthropy Alliance, a new effort by six foundations to boost private giving to basic science research, which is largely conducted at universities.

«This is very exciting research that lays the foundation for generating EPSCs from human embryos,» says Jan Brosens of the University of Warwick, UK.

Once fully operational, the CRG — a nonprofit foundation formed by the Department of Universities and Research (DURSI), the Department of Health of the Catalan government, and the 4 - year - old Faculty of Human Biology of the public University Pompeu Fabra (UPF)-- will employ about 220 scientists.

We thank the Norwegian Research Council for awarding funding to A.K. Sweetman, L.A. Levin, A.R. Thurber and C.R. Smith to run the workshop «CLIDEEP — Workshop to explore the impacts of climate change on deep - sea pelagic and benthic ecosystems» (NFR grant No. 216598) at Friday Harbor Laboratories, University of Washington, where the foundations for this paper were laid.

Other Institutions also belong to the Campus: the University of Milan; Cogentech, an IFOM - IEO consortium committed to developing leading genomic technologies (nanotechnologies, proteomics, bioinformatics, disease models), the European School of Molecular Medicine (SEMM), that organizes training in emerging sectors of Biomedicine, offering the first European PhDs in Molecular Medicine, Medical Nanotechnologies, Foundations of the Life Sciences and their Ethical Consequences; Genextra, a biotech company whose mission is to develop new therapies against cancer and aging - related disease; Biopolo, a not for profit company involved in the technological transfer of basic research to the productive system.

The University of Tübingen combines these guiding principles in its research and teaching and has done so since its foundation.

The Kavli Foundation was established in December 2000 by its founder and benefactor, Fred Kavli, a prominent California business leader and noted philanthropist whose foundation is currently actively involved in establishing major research institutes at leading universities throughout the United States and in Europe and Asia.

Ahn laid a foundation for this kinetic and pharmacological research as a freshman at Hamline University in St. Paul, Minnesota.

All in all, a number of factors that constitute the foundations of AAU research culture have helped to build inspiring research environments at the University; they include complete methodological freedom in conducting research, the recognition of diversity as a value creator, and a focus on strengthening regional, national and international cooperation.

At the University of Chicago Medicine campus, care is based on a foundation of advanced, research - driven medicine.

The trainees obtain a basic foundation of knowledge through lecture and seminar courses and obtain experimental research experience at the University of Pennsylvania or within The Wistar Institute.

The German - Japanese University Network (HeKKSaGOn) was established in 2010 as a foundation to further develop international cooperation and exchange of ideas in education, research and innovation fields to further advance science, technology, industry and culture between member universities.

SEMM is a private foundation for higher education in Biomedicine established in 2001 by a joint ministerial decree of three Italian Ministries, Health, Treasury, and University & Research.

«AISD officials had to struggle with the competing agendas of numerous outside partners such as Austin's business leaders, the «First Things First» program of the Institute for Research and Reform in Education, the University of Pittsburgh Institute for Learning's work in «Disciplined Literacy,» the Dana Center for Mathematics at the University of Texas, the Gates and Dell Foundations, and other organizations... As one upset veteran high school teacher put it: «We're getting this academy, and then... we're going to do this and that....

«The goal of this program is to build a new kind of school - university partnership that provides a solid, long - term foundation for meaningful connection of research and practice,» Fischer says.

In 2000 the foundation committed $ 150 million over five years to improving leadership at the school and district level and is now underwriting in 24 states a wide variety of programs: leadership academies, university - school district partnerships, research, changes in what it takes to become certified as a principal, and superintendent training.