Sentences with phrase «academic center where»

The Community Youth Center (CYC) is a non-profit sports and academic center where youth ages 3 - 18 can participate in 11 programs: ten sports and our Academ - ic Excellence program.

Not exact matches

The initiative focuses on the bottleneck that academic research centers and their faculty face in advancing their high - potential but early - stage and therefore high - risk ideas and inventions to the point where they can attract private sector investment.

can only occur where there exists some institutional umbrella that can protect human rights advocates and offer both political and material support for human rights activities: a church...; a press sufficiently independent so that it can report information the government would prefer not be made public and that can offer a forum for some opponents of the government; professional associations, academic and intellectual centers which are financially solvent and not directly controlled by military or government officials.

Fox tells the story from beginning to end: childhood in the German - American parsonage; nine grades of school followed by three years in a denominational «college» that was not yet a college and three year's in Eden Seminary, with graduation at 21; a five - month pastorate due to his father's death; Yale Divinity School, where despite academic probation because he had no accredited degree, he earned the B.D. and M.A.; the Detroit pastorate (1915 - 1918) in which he encountered industrial America and the race problem; his growing reputation as lecturer and writer (especially for The Christian Century); the teaching career at Union Theological Seminary (1928 - 1960); marriage and family; the landmark books Moral Man and Immoral Society and The Nature and Destiny of Man; the founding of the Fellowship of Socialist Christians and its journal Radical Religion; the gradual move from Socialist to liberal Democratic politics, and from leader of the Fellowship of Reconciliation to critic of pacifism; the break with Charles Clayton Morrison's Christian Century and the inauguration of Christianity and Crisis; the founding of the Union for Democratic Action, then later of Americans for Democratic Action; participation in the ecumenical movement, especially the Oxford Conference and the Amsterdam Assembly; increasing friendship with government officials and service with George Kennan's policy - planning group in the State Department; the first stroke in 1952 and the subsequent struggles with ill health; retirement from Union in 1960, followed by short appointments at Harvard, at the Center for the Study of Democratic Institutions, and at Columbia's Institute of War and Peace Studies; intense suffering from ill health; and death in Stockbridge, Massachusetts, in 1971.

So rather than traveling into Boston for medical appointments, you and your family can stay right where you are, and still receive the advanced care provided by an Academic Medical Center.

The Joep Lange Institute was formally announced on Wednesday, along with a new, rotating chair and fellowship program at the Academic Medical Center, where Lange was a professor and founded the Amsterdam Institute for Global Health and Development.

Starting at the beginning of this academic term, the Career Center at Humboldt University has built up a network of small companies and enterprises where students and graduates get the chance to gain work experience.

«Where a child grows up in impoverished conditions... with limited cognitive stimulation, high levels of stress, and so forth, that person is more likely to grow up with compromised physical and mental health and lowered academic achievement,» said Martha Farah, director of the Center for Neuroscience and Society at the University of Pennsylvania.

«This is the first instance I am aware of where an academic drug discovery group moved a molecule designed to hopefully treat a chronic brain disorder all the way from early discovery to human trials without there being, at some point along the way, a pharmaceutical partner,» said P. Jeffrey Conn, Ph.D., Lee E. Limbird Professor of Pharmacology in the Vanderbilt University School of Medicine and director of the Vanderbilt Center for Neuroscience Drug Discovery (VCNDD).

He moved to Boston where he obtained the F32 National Research Scholarship Award (NIH) and completed a Post-Doctoral Fellowship in the laboratory of C. Ronald Kahn, M.D., Chief Academic Officer and Senior Investigator at Joslin Diabetes Center and the Mary K. Iacocca Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School.

universities and academic medical centers across the country and the world, where doctors, professors, fellows, and students unravel the complexity of cancer

One of the most notable «laboratories of democracy» was Texas, where governors on both sides of the aisle pursued a reform agenda, starting in the early 1980s, centered on higher academic standards, standardized testing, school accountability, competition, and choice.

A study of six Texas community colleges where higher - than - expected numbers of poor and first - generation students progress to four - year schools finds that a structured academic pathway, student - centered culture, and culturally sensitive leadership are common threads among them.

She went on to launch the Roosevelt High Writing and Publishing Center, a campus resource where students can consult with peers (and near - peer college students) to improve their academic writing skills.

Implement with strong district and building leadership, high - quality instruction in every classroom through a highly coherent, child - centered instructional model where students meet their self - determined academic and personal goals to their highest potential.

Because many magnets are a «school within a school» — called magnet centers — students» academic achievement is not reported by the state separately from the traditional school campus where the magnet centers are located...

High Point Academy Spartanburg (HPAS) will be a community - centered school built on the principles of honor, integrity and service where academic excellence, STEM (Science Technology Engineering and Math) education, fine arts and a project - based, applied learning style of instruction produces an educational environment rich in creativity, innovation and achievement.

• Student thinking is the center of academic work where teachers and students validate each other's thinking.

Findings from the Rainbow Project, conducted by the Center for the Psychology of Abilities, Competencies, and Expertise, showed that assessing students for creativity and practicality in addition to analytic skills gave a more complete picture of student abilities, more accurately predicted academic success in college, and provided more opportunities to various ethnic groups to show where they excelled.

With only 150 students, the center offers a smaller learning environment where students are able to build relationships with staff, focus on positive social behavior, and enjoy an opportunity for academic recovery.

An Academic Center is similar to a Community Resource Center in that it is a place where students use computers to complete their school work.

The schools would do much better if they concentrated on turning classrooms into academic places where ideas really count, places in which discussion of those ideas is at the center of classroom activity.

Unlike LSCA where only public libraries were eligible for grants, LSTA funds are available to school library media centers, academic libraries, qualified private / research libraries, special libraries, library consortia, libraries in residential and correctional institutions as well as public libraries.

In addition his academic career during veterinary school included an externship in endocrinology at the Animal Medical Center in New York City where he was again published in a leading, peer - reviewed veterinary journal.

From 2000 - 2004 he was Director of the Rooseum Center for Contemporary Art, Malmö where he made solo exhibitions with Surasi Kusolwong, Nedko Solakov and Superflex a.o. and group shows including «Baltic Babel» and «Intentional Communities» From 1998 - 2002 he organised the international art academic research project called «protoacademy» at Edinburgh College of Art.

He holds an MA in Cultural Studies at the University of Leuven and was affiliated with the Center for Art, Design and Visual Culture at UMBC in Baltimore, where he translated academic research into accessible and often confrontational exhibitions.

The academic experience transpires partially in the Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts, where thinking and making — physical contact with various materials — intersect to enable students from a variety of disciplinary studies to be aware of their visual environment.

The Massachusetts Institute of Technology has an amazing program where students can borrow a framed work by major artists from their List Visual Arts Center «s collection for an entire academic...

The change in policy could have a significant effect, both at City College, where student resentment about the community center has repeatedly boiled over, and across the entire university system, where faculty resistance to Pathways, a contested academic initiative, is at a high simmer.

The technology is being developed as part of the i2M Standards initiative of the Global Center of Innovation at the University at Albany, where a large crew of scientists, academics, curators, conservators, artists, lawyers and insurance specialists are collaborating to establish new standards of authentication.

Academics have been writing about this since the 80s; user - centered system design was a concept that came out of the early 80s, and it's taken 25 years to get to a point where we can at least argue that we've made some progress.

Tia received her doctorate in developmental psychology at the University of California, Riverside, and completed three years of post-doctoral training at the Academic Center of Excellence on Youth Violence Prevention where her research focused on the etiology and prevention of youth violence and aggression.

Robert E. Emery, Ph.D., is Professor of Psychology and Director of the Center for Children, Families, and the Law at the University of Virginia, where he has spent his entire academic career (beginning in 1981).

Robert Emery, Ph.D. is Professor of Psychology and Director of the Center for Children, Families, and the Law at the University of Virginia, where he has spent his entire academic career (beginning in 1981).

Frank was as the first - ever associate vice chancellor of community partnerships at the University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA), where he built a strong program of academic civic engagement through the Center for Community Partnerships.