Sentences with phrase «academic professor john»

Extensive research by education academic Professor John Hattie has over time revealed what works best in maximising student learning.

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That was the eye - opening opening of a keynote address given yesterday by the brilliant John Quackenbush, a professor of biostatistics and computational biology at Dana - Farber Cancer Institute who has a dual professorship at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and ample other academic credits after his name.

Then John Montalbano stepped down as chair of the university's board of governors over the mishandling of a case involving a professor's academic freedom.

Finally, special thanks should be extended to Rev. Charles Currie, S.J., President of Xavier University, Dr. John Minahan, Academic Vice-President, and Rev. Edward Brueggeman, S.J., Professor Emeritus of Theology, who as an advisory committee in the fall of 1982 gave their consent and support to the project.

In a case that explores questions of academic integrity and the intricacies of copyright law, biotech entrepreneur Andrew Mallon is suing Brown University professor John Marshall, Mallon's former postdoc adviser, for an alleged breach of copyright.

Being a rotator can be a heady experience for an academic, says John Conway, who recently retired as a mathematics professor at George Washington University in Washington, D.C. «When you first start work here you are often told that you make recommendations only,» Conway wrote in 2005 about serving as a program officer (PO) in NSF's division of mathematics sciences.

Front row left to right: Dr Paul Ho, Director General, East Asian Observatory, Professor Matt Platz, Assistant Chancellor for Academic Affairs, University of Hawaii, Professor John Womersley, Chief Executive STFC.

She also pokes fun at academic chitchat and ultra-competitiveness between ficto - critical anthropology professor John (Ethan Hawke) and his super successful wife Georgette (Julianne Moore).

Delegates attending the BNF conference heard from a panel of eminent scientific experts including Professor Ashley Adamson from University of Newcastle, Dr Graham Moore from University of Cardiff, Professor John Reilly of University of Strathclyde, and Professor Jeanne Goldberg from Tufts University in Massachusetts, USA, about the role and impact of a whole school approach to nutrition; the association between breakfast consumption and education outcomes in primary schools, with particular reference to deprivation; the impact of obesity, and of physical activity, on academic attainment; and research which points to the most effective methods of communicating about nutrition with school children.

John Reilly, professor of physical activity and public health science at the University of Strathclyde, said: «Lifestyle in childhood and adolescence is not «just» about health, but is also important to academic attainment.

Thompson Professor and Academic Dean Richard Murnane in collaboration with Anrig Professor Richard Elmore, Eliot Professor John Willett, and doctoral student Sergio Cardenas are studying the program that decentralizes decision - making in schools.

[Professor] Bridget Terry Long, the Harvard Graduate School of Education academic dean and the chairwoman of the National Board for Education Sciences, IES» advisory board, noted that IES under Director John Q. Easton has required more partnerships between researchers and practitioners, and is launching a new center devoted to evaluating how well research is being translated into usable knowledge.»

The lawyer - doctoral students also received support from Dean Kathleen McCartney, Academic Dean Hiro Yoshikawa, and Shaw's advisor, Associate Professor John Diamond, as well as the Office of Student Affairs.

The commission will be co-chaired by three familiar names to those active in the social - emotional learning field: Linda Darling - Hammond, a Stanford University professor and the president and CEO of the Learning Policy Institute; John Engler, the president of the Business Roundtable and a former three - term governor of Michigan; and Timothy Shriver, the co-founder and chairman of the Collaborative for Academic, Social, and Emotional Learning, or CASEL, and chairman of the Special Olympics.

The Teacher Development Trust is delighted to announce the following appointments: Lord Andrew Adonis, politician, academic, journalist and former Minister of State for Education, joins the Trust as our Honorary President Sir John Holman, Emeritus Professor of Chemistry at the University of York and...

In a new publication entitled «Applying Goal - Based Investing Principles to the Retirement Problem», EDHEC - Risk Institute and Professor John Mulvey of the Operations Research & Financial Engineering Department at Princeton University outline the shortcomings of existing retirement products, and lay the academic foundations for a new generation of risk - controlled target - date funds (TDFs).

Speakers include Johanna Burton, CCS Bard Graduate Program Director; Maria Cecire, Assistant Professor of Literature, founder of the Experimental Humanities Initiative; Tom Keenan, Associate Professor of Comparative Literature; Director, Human Rights Project; Joan Retallack, John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Professor of Humanities; and Tirdad Zolghadr, LUMA Fellow and Senior Academic Advisor, CCS Bard Graduate Program.

Garry Jenkins, Associate Dean for Academic Affairs; John C. Elam / Vorys Sater Professor of Law; Director, Program on Law and Leadership, The Ohio State University Moritz College of Law (Segment Video)

Perhaps the most influential academics in bringing the issue to the fore were Professor John Edwards, who founded the Centre for Criminology at the University of Toronto in 1963, and Professor Tony Doob, whom Edwards brought to the Centre in 1971.

Larry Cunningham, Associate Academic Dean and Professor of Legal Writing, St. John's University School of Law Nevada Law Journal, Vol.

Keynote speakers at the event today (Tuesday) will include Professor Ian Anderson, Deputy Secretary for Indigenous Affairs in the Department of Prime Minister and Cabinet, and Donna Ah Chee and John Paterson from the Central Australian Academic Health Science Centre.

In a later panel discussion, leading Indigenous academic Professor Marcia Langton told delegates that former Prime Minister John Howard, who long resisted delivering an apology, considered the Stolen Generation had in fact been «rescued».