Sentences with phrase «university research initiative»

The study was partially funded by Columbia University Research Initiatives for Science and Engineering (RISE) award; the Office of Naval Research; NOAA's Climate Program Office's Modeling, Analysis, Predictions and Projections; Willis Research Network; and the National Science Foundation.

The Camille and Henry Dreyfus Foundation and the U.S. Army Research Office (Multidisciplinary University Research Initiatives grants W911NF -15-1-0447 and W911NF -15-1-0189) supported the research.

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«No matter how open you are as a manager, our research shows, many of your people are more likely to keep mum than to question initiatives or suggest new ideas at work,» wrote James Detert of Cornell and Ethan Burris of University of Texas as Austin on HBR recently.

As an entity that promotes the high tech growth of the region, the Florida High Tech Corridor Council is an economic development initiative of three of the country's largest research institutions — the University of Central Florida, the University of South Florida and the University of Florida.

By: Dylan Slater 5th August 2016 The Johannesburg - based University of the Witwatersrand (Wits) School of Mining Engineering plans to increase normalised research output as a primary strategic initiative in its quest to join the top 100 universities in the world by 2022.

The new tower will also host the Medicine by Design initiative, set to become a leading centre in regenerative medicine at the University of Toronto with the federal government committing $ 114 - million for this project through the Canada First Research Excellence Fund.

The CMP is a six - year research and public engagement initiative jointly led by the University of Victoria, the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives» BC and Saskatchewan Offices, and the Alberta - based Parkland Institute.

On Thursday evening, October 20, Stanford Law Professor Michael McConnell (left) will deliver a lecture, «Tradition and the Constitution,» to inaugurate the Tradition Project, a new research initiative of the St. John's University Center for Law and Religion.

Perusing the index of Origins, the weekly publication of representative documents and speeches compiled by Catholic News Service, our imaginary historian will note, for example, the following initiatives undertaken at the national, diocesan and parish levels in 1994 - 95: providing alternatives to abortion; staffing adoption agencies; conducting adult education courses; addressing African American Catholics» pastoral needs; funding programs to prevent alcohol abuse; implementing a new policy on altar servers and guidelines for the Anointing of the Sick; lobbying for arms control; eliminating asbestos in public housing; supporting the activities of the Association of Catholic Colleges and Universities (227 strong); challenging atheism in American society; establishing base communities (also known as small faith communities); providing aid to war victims in Bosnia; conducting Catholic research in bioethics; publicizing the new Catechism of the Catholic Church; battling child abuse; strengthening the relationship between church and labor unions; and deepening the structures and expressions of collegiality in the local and diocesan church.

Sonoco announces a new research partnership with Clemson University: the Sonoco FRESH (Food Research Excellence for Safety and Health) initiative will develop new technologies and new forms of packaging to optimize the fresh food liresearch partnership with Clemson University: the Sonoco FRESH (Food Research Excellence for Safety and Health) initiative will develop new technologies and new forms of packaging to optimize the fresh food liResearch Excellence for Safety and Health) initiative will develop new technologies and new forms of packaging to optimize the fresh food lifecycle.

We use our Global Technology & Innovation Centres to advance scientific research, long term initiatives and innovation in collaboration with key institutes and universities.

«Sustainability research and policy initiatives need to focus more on the practices underlying how and why we consume resources rather than the technology,» says Dr Chris Foulds, Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Anglia Ruskin Uniresearch and policy initiatives need to focus more on the practices underlying how and why we consume resources rather than the technology,» says Dr Chris Foulds, Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Anglia Ruskin UniResearch Fellow at Anglia Ruskin University.

The APC national leader said the theme of the symposium was apt and timely, commending the Aminu Kano Centre for Democratic Research and Training and Bayero University for the initiative.

Erie County is home to many colleges and universities that engage in a multitude of intellectual community events and progressive research initiatives.

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.

The Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) and the Scottish Government are pleased to announce that they have jointly awarded just under # 3 million to the Universities of Glasgow and Edinburgh, for a new What Works Scotland (WWS) initiative.

The center is an initiative spearheading research collaboration between The University of Manchester and three other universities, in technologies related to the oil and gas industry.

I attended the daylong «National Convocation on Revitalizing the University - Industry - Government Partnership in Support of Research in Science, Engineering, and Medicine» in hopes of learning about initiatives to help students and postdocs who are preparing to leave academe and find careers in those other, unfamiliar sectors.

A new angel initiative, the Cambridge Enterprise Accelerator, aims to provide considerable private investment for companies linked to university research.

Joseph Michels, director for research initiatives at Princeton University's Institute for the Science and Technology of Materials, agrees.

Maria Fitzpatrick, and Michael Lovenheim, both assistant professors of Policy Analysis and Management at Cornell University, researched the impact of early retirement initiatives in public education.

However, students should not feel inhibited from taking the initiative if they feel they need to speak with their supervisor, and this approach is strongly recommended in the guidelines for research students and supervisors given by most universities around the UK.

A spokesperson has confirmed that the university will establish a research initiative with support from radiation health experts at Nagasaki and Hiroshima universities.

The team is led by University of Utah materials science and engineering professor Ling Zang, who also is a faculty member with the Utah Science, Technology and Research (USTAR) economic development initiative.

Initiatives include the creation of a new funding agency in 2005, the National Research Agency (ANR, L'Agence nationale de la recherché), a decentralization of universities to give them more independence, and financial incentives to internationalize laboratories, which is part of the «government push to attract faculty from abroad,» he describes.

This impetus to improve the higher learning institutes is one slice of a pie composed of three federal initiatives, which will support research and development, student funding, and university infrastructure.

The new center is «definitely a good initiative,» says Camillo Ricordi, scientific director of the Diabetes Research Institute at the University of Miami in Florida.

The economic climate has forced Beckmann to improvise by bulking up on fee - for - service assaying work in her state - of - the - art labs, partnering on research proposals with universities and biotech businesses, and beginning several of OTRADI's own research initiatives aimed at commercialization.

The authors — Ralph W. Muller, CEO of the University of Pennsylvania Health System, Ezekiel J. Emanuel, MD, PhD, vice provost for global initiatives and chair of the Department of Medical Ethics and Health Policy at the University of Pennsylvania, Andrew Steinmetz, research assistant to Dr. Emanuel, and Steven M. Altschuler, MD, president and CEO of The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia — surveyed 74 senior executives from large hospitals and health systems across the United States.

But the AAU initiative also calls on universities and colleges to offer undergraduate students more opportunities to do research, shorten the time it takes for students to earn Ph.D. s, reduce attrition rates, and train better K - 12 science and math teachers.

University of Surrey research into innovative entrepreneurs starting to work in tourism has found, in some of the first analysis undertaken, how they have to use initiative and hard work — and often work for nothing — to overcome the barriers in setting up their innovation.

WASHINGTON, D.C. — As part of President Barack Obama's high - profile initiative to study the brain, the Kavli Foundation and several university partners today announced $ 100 million in new funding for neuroscience research, including three new institutes at universities in Maryland, New York, and California.

A team of VIB and Ghent University researchers set out to shed more light on this vital topic through a research initiative led by Professor Dirk Inzé.

The initiative comes along with an additional 170 million DM cash injection that will help make research programs and university curricula more international, create a more friendly and customer - oriented working environment for foreign scientists, and launch a professional international marketing of Germany's universities and research institutions.

To spur Connecticut's economy, CI invests in early - stage technology companies, university - industry research collaborations, technology transfer, and clean energy initiatives (www.ctinnovations.com).

Ryan is a researcher at the University of Limerick and a contributing partner to the Vision Inspired Driver Assistance Systems (VI - DAS) initiative, a grant - funded project under the European Union's Horizon 2020 Research and Innovation Programme.

William Schuler, Ph.D., a linguistics professor at The Ohio State University, is part of a project called Low Resource Languages for Emergent Incidents (LORELEI), an initiative through the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA).

«Normally, whenever there is a solid material sitting on a surface, there is a certain concentration of that substance lingering in the air above it in a gas phase,» says physicist Kurt Becker, Polytechnic Institute of New York University's associate provost for research and technology initiatives.

The so - called Excellence Initiatives (IdEx), big clusters of top universities and research organizations, are especially controversial because winners are showered with money while entire regions lose out.

Dr. Gil Pogozelich, chairman of Goldman Hirsh Partners Ltd., which holds the controlling interest in TyrNovo, says that he sees great importance in the cooperation on this project with the Hebrew University, and that TyrNovo represents a good example of how scientific and research initiatives can further health care together with economic benefits.

A group of people at Osaka University (Eiji Umemoto [Associate Professor, Laboratory of Immune Regulation, Osaka University Graduate School of Medicine] and Masayuki Miyasaka [Specially Appointed Professor, Institute for Academic Initiatives]-RRB- and University of Turku, Finland (Akira Takeda, Postdoctoral researcher at MediCity Research Laboratory) has found for the first time that a lipid called lysophosphatidic acid (LPA) plays a vital role in regulating lymphocyte motility within lymph nodes.

The various public initiatives enjoy wide support among leaders of research agencies, universities, libraries and research charities.

This year, the DFG will receive a hefty portion of the windfall from the government's sale of frequency bands to launch an initiative that could make a big difference to a few universities: a fund to establish or expand large research centers and help pay for their buildings, equipment, and salaries.

In 2000, a federal initiative got under way with $ 900 million set aside by the government for the establishment of 2000 research professorships, known as Canada Research Chairs (CRCs), in universities across the research professorships, known as Canada Research Chairs (CRCs), in universities across the Research Chairs (CRCs), in universities across the country.

The first initiative — a combined effort of several U.K. Research Councils called the Energy Programme — will engage universities and businesses that share an interest in energy and work with them to establish research - and - training priorities, and concurrently build on existing research funded by the councils in thisResearch Councils called the Energy Programme — will engage universities and businesses that share an interest in energy and work with them to establish research - and - training priorities, and concurrently build on existing research funded by the councils in thisresearch - and - training priorities, and concurrently build on existing research funded by the councils in thisresearch funded by the councils in this sector.

RUMPEL's development has been part of the overall Hub - of - All - Things (HAT) initiative, a # 1.2 million Research Councils UK digital economy project, involving six UK universities — Warwick, Cambridge, Edinburgh, Nottingham, Surrey and the University of the West of England — plus a host of industry partners and advisors including Dyson, Arup and GlaxoSmithKline.

The university recruited him with one of the first awards for established investigators from the Cancer Prevention and Research Institute of Texas (CPRIT), a $ 3 billion, 10 - year cancer research fund along the lines of California's stem cell iniResearch Institute of Texas (CPRIT), a $ 3 billion, 10 - year cancer research fund along the lines of California's stem cell iniresearch fund along the lines of California's stem cell initiative.

A decade ago, the business network London First tried to foster collaboration between industry and academia in the capital, while the Oxford to Cambridge Arc initiative attempted to create a ribbon of research - based companies between the two university towns.

Moncada, who heads the Wolfson Institute for Biomedical Research at University College in London, has brought his vast experience and vision to bear in helping plan and direct the Spanish initiative.

The creation of a «data science for all» ecosystem is the goal of a new initiative at Purdue University that will make data science education part of every student's learning experience on campus while also boosting research and partnerships to help grow the data - driven economy.