Sentences with phrase «university team challenge»

For the first time, this year has seen OULTC enter a team into the University Team Challenge, a mixed league run by the LTA for those teams on the cusp of the BUCS divisions.

Not exact matches

In 2013 the challenge involved sustainable food, and the winning team, from McGill University's Desautels MBA program, offered up a plan to promote better insect farming practices for insect consumption in developing countries.

Last year, a team of four students from New York University's Abu Dhabi campus and I presented in front of a panel of judges at the Hult Prize, which awards $ 1 million in seed funding to innovative startup ideas that address a global social challenge.

For example, our Institute for Sustainable Investing helps develop the next generation of long - term - oriented business leaders, in partnership with INSEAD and the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University, challenging teams of graduate students from around the world to demonstrate how investing can go hand - in - hand with positive social impact.

With the objective of learning from the rich experiences and lessons that other countries have gained from their own programs, teams of researchers at Ryerson University and California Lutheran University looked at a wide range of assistance programs targeting branding, financing, and management - associated challenges, among other issues.

The grant was awarded to teams of researchers at Ryerson University and California Lutheran University who looked at a wide range of assistance programs targeting branding, financing, and management - associated challenges, among other issues.

The research team, led by Glyn Howatson and Phillip G. Bell at Northumbria University in the U.K., conducted this double - blind, placebo - controlled study to identify the effects of Montmorency tart cherry juice on recovery from a metabolically challenging exercise: prolonged, high - intensity cycling.

As Executive Chef of the University Center Club (Tallahassee, Fla.) and Regional Executive Chef for ClubCorp's Business and Sports Club Division in the management firm's Southeast Region, Tim Drown is experienced in identifying challenges, resolving them effectively and leading teams to success.

Our internal teams are complemented by a network of professional institutions such as Monell and other leading universities and our Technical Expert Advisory Council, which is composed of sensory and consumer science experts who provide an external lens into the challenges that affect the food and beverage industry.

The too - small field is only one of the many challenges faced by this young team at a university that historically has faced legal troubles relating to how it manages women's sports.

From Challenge Success, her team learned how to use strategies, grounded in university - based research, that would change the pace at school and allow kids to work in ways that felt meaningful.

A team of researchers from Iowa State University found that though a legacy of divorce is a significant and challenging factor, there are other factors involved, like the quality of the one - on - one relationships with their parents after the divorce.

They conferred together briefly, like a University Challenge team playing out the clock, before refusing to give an answer.

[7] He was the Captain of the Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge team that won the 1979 series of University Challenge.

The man picked to take over from Damian Green (but not given the same title) holds the rare distinction of twice captaining a winning team on University Challenge.

Australia - based RMIT University has been awarded first place in the Chartered Institute of Building's Global Student Challenge competition, fending off opposition from five other teams from leading international universities.

Team Saltire from Glasgow Caledonian University have won the second annual Chartered Institute of Building (CIOB) Global Student Challenge competition.

An example: After Molyneux mentioned the need for a simple, low - cost respirator that could help a sick or fragile newborn breathe, bioengineering student Jocelyn Brown and a team of Rice University seniors rose to the challenge, fashioning a breathing machine out a $ 30 aquarium pump and a water bottle.

A new study by a team of scientists from the University of Malta and the Institut de Génétique Moléculaire de Montpellier (CNRS / Université de Montpellier) could help develop treatment strategies for a crippling disorder that was the focus of the Ice Bucket Challenge, the world's largest global social media phenomenon.

«The yoctogram mass sensitivity achieved by the Catalan team is certainly spectacular the challenge ahead will be to routinely manufacture nanotube sensors at low cost,» says Rachel McKendry, a nanoscientist at University College London.

Researchers from Royal Holloway, University of London, together with an international team from across the United States and Europe, have found evidence which challenges the belief that a type of technology known as Levallois — where the flakes and blades of stones were used to make useful products such as hunting weapons — was invented in Africa and then spread to other continents as the human population expanded.

These relics of ancient South Americans add to evidence from nearby sites challenging the longstanding view of Clovis people as the first Americans (SN: 8/11/12, p. 15), a team led by geochronologist Christelle Lahaye of the University of Bordeaux 3 and archaeologist Eric Boëda of the University of Paris X reports March 4 in the

The next challenge for the research team at the University of Helsinki is to reinforce the new findings by deciphering the fine developmental mechanisms explaining the diversity of bone structure in reptiles.

«Investment has increased vastly,» says William «Red» Whittaker of Carnegie Mellon University, who led the second - and third - place Grand Challenge teams.

In the Science perspective, the researchers discuss the gains they have made in understanding latency over the past five years and the challenges that remain as the team of academic and industry investigators — from UNC, Duke University, Merck, GlaxoSmithKline, the University of California at San Diego, Emory University, MacroGenics, and other institutions — embark on the next steps in HIV cure research.

That daunting challenge has now been attempted by a team of three astronomers: Inwoo Han of the Korea Astronomy Observatory, David Black of the Lunar and Planetary Institute in Houston, Texas, and George Gatewood of the Allegheny Observatory of the University of Pittsburgh.

To get around these challenges, the Columbia University team created indices derived from environmental conditions such as wind shear, temperature and moisture.

A total of 14 research teams participated in the «Particle Tracking Challenge,» including Dr. William J. Godinez and Associate Professor Dr. Karl Rohr from Heidelberg University and the German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ).

But in a paper in the 4 April issue of Nature, a team led by James Reeves of the University of Leicester, U.K., reports findings that challenge the collapsar theory's assertion that the burst and supernova occur simultaneously.

Now Peter Civáň of the University of Manchester, UK, and his team are challenging this theory.

But a team led by molecular biologist Ian Lipkin at the University of California, Irvine, challenged the classification, saying the new virus most closely resembled another, related agent, the Australian Kunjin virus.

A team, including Professor Clare Mills from the Institute of Inflammation and Repair at The University of Manchester, has published an open access paper in the journal Analyst outlining a strategy to address the key measurement challenges in allergen analysis.

The work corroborates a study published in January by a team at University College London, the first to challenge the mouse virus hypothesis.

«We wanted to explore how student - athletes at top - tier universities cope with the dual challenges of meeting the expectations of their teams while simultaneously complying with their responsibilities as university students,» says Dr. Lynsey Romo, an assistant professor of communication at NC State and lead author of a paper on the work.

The Mars Society and Team Mars are jointly producing a special limited series of t - shirts and rover decals to mark the annual University Rover Challenge (URC), the leading world - wide competition for college students to design, build and field the next generation of Mars rovers.

Teams at U.S. colleges and universities have an opportunity to potentially help NASA with innovative design ideas to meet the challenges of space exploration.

In collaboration with researchers at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF), Dr. Ding and his team — once again harnessing the power of chemical reprogramming — surmounted previous challenges to generate fully mature, functional liver cells.

University of Leicester team address battery challenges that will ultimately increase the impact of batteries in improving air quality and decarbonisation

A group of academic researchers, led by cognitive and computer scientists from Brown University, is teaming up with a cross-functional team from global play and entertainment leader Hasbro to design a smart robotic companion capable of assisting older people with simple but sometimes challenging tasks of everyday living.

In 2011, the Department of Energy initiated a program involving a multidisciplinary team from national laboratories, universities and research institutes to address the fundamental challenges of economically extracting uranium from seawater.

Bringing together a group of talented, energetic, dedicated research scientists and university students willing to accept the challenge of working in a remote area, the formation of TEAM BUFO has generated an enormous increase in our understanding of cane toads and their impacts on biodiversity.

To address this challenge, Johns Hopkins University computer scientists, working with an interdisciplinary team of experts from two other institutions, have developed a new approach that uses sensors on a smartphone to generate a score that reliably reflects symptom severity in patients with Parkinson's disease.

Convention highlights included a series of public debates on key issues and challenges facing Mars exploration and the future of the U.S. space program, as well as the final face - off of university student teams presenting designs for the Mars Society's International Gemini Mars competition.

To tackle this challenge, a team from the University of New South Wales (UNSW) has created a graphene - based filter.

PULLMAN, Wash. — A student team from Washington State University is in New York this week as one of 30 national finalists in NASA's $ 2.5 million 3D - Printed Habitat Challenge to design an environment for Mars exploration using robotics and 3D printers.

The research team, led by Glyn Howatson and Phillip G. Bell at Northumbria University in the U.K., conducted this double - blind, placebo - controlled study to identify the effects of Montmorency tart cherry juice on recovery from a metabolically challenging exercise: prolonged, high - intensity cycling.

We will continue to work closely with teams of PhDs, chemists, microbiologists, and physicians at both University of California, San Francisco and University of California, Berkeley, to solve complex formulation challenges.»

Earlier this year, Marie Claire teamed up with LOFT and Rimmel London to put on our first ever Front Row College Challenge at universities across the country.

Denzel Washington stars in and directs this inspiring drama about a college professor who challenges the entrenched racism and prejudice of the 1930's by assembling and training a first - class African - American debate team, a talented group that makes its way to a national championship against Harvard University.

When Brian becomes a regular member of the University Challenge team, things run smoothly until Alice jilts him.