The Center - funded Playgrounds for
Useful Knowledge project, a collaboration between Mural Arts and Cohabitation Strategies, culminates in a convening exploring questions of cooperation, civic engagement, and gentrification.
Not exact matches
Projects that allow the general public to collaborate with scientists are becoming
useful sources of
knowledge on a large scale.
For the majority of scientists who won't get tenure - track positions — and may not want them — Research Universities states that the great need is to «better position new PhDs for the careers they will have by providing more information about career options and by providing opportunities to acquire, in addition to the
knowledge of one's field, skills that are
useful for academic positions (teaching, grant writing, publishing, presentations) and positions in government, business and non-profits (oral and written communication,
project management, regulatory compliance, business ethics and innovation.)»
«The
project has generated both valuable theoretical
knowledge and practically
useful results.
The
project, which he calls, The Chastened Dream, will look at how publicly - oriented professional schools, including those focused on education, public health, public policy, and urban planning and design, develop
knowledge that they hope will be
useful for ameliorating poverty, curing disease, improving education, and increasing the quality of life for us all.
Recent
projects by WHW include the festival Meeting Points 7 that took place in Zagreb, Antwerp, Cairo, Hong - Kong, Beirut, Vienna and Moscow under title Ten thousand wiles and a hundred thousand tricks in 2013 and 2014, and exhibition Really
Useful Knowledge, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia in Madrid in 2014.
She indicated that while Microsoft Word and Excel were the most necessary to have experience with,
knowledge of Power Point was
useful for helping library patrons with their
projects, and
knowledge of Publisher was
useful for making publicity signs.