Sentences with phrase «academic colleagues at»

The authors of the paper were later victimized by their academic colleagues at the instigation of environmental extremists because they had stated — correctly — that it was the storm, and not global warming, that had killed the bears.

Indeed, I suspect that your academic colleagues at Duke are more likely than your fellow Christians to approve the disdain» and, insofar as that is at all true, you yourself should have reason to pause and think again.

His academic colleagues at Union were taken aback by his brash, outspoken touting of socialism and pacifism when he joined the faculty, but they were even less ready when he attacked theological and political liberalism in this book.

Not exact matches

«It's a good example of a domino effect to building relationships with academics that they want their colleagues to succeed,» Jerel Davis at Versant Ventures said.

Sociologist Pontell and his colleagues Kitty Calavita, at U.C. Irvine, and Robert Tillman, at New York's St. John's University, have demonstrated this in a number of compelling academic studies.

My colleague Leslie Doolittle, assistant dean and director of academic support services at Bentley, has found that many millennials consider central to their lives the following priorities: family, friends and making a difference in their community.

In the academic profession each person tends to look at the colleague who is a step ahead.

At a time when their colleagues who spoke for the church were conspicuously incapable of giving the faith a good account in the eyes of the learned, the Vanderbilt academics preferred to dissociate themselves from their religious leaders rather than take up their cause as allies and persuade them that sound scholarship was God's good servant too.

When colleagues at academic conferences marvel at the latest of my seven pregnancies, my immediate reaction — so they don't think I am the world's worst professor and colleague — is to tell them that I have never, ever taken standard maternity leave.

I might look at my savvy colleagues and judge their clever aperçus nothing but idle academic chatter.

I base this interpretation, moreover, not on any published material, but on lecture notes taken by Whitehead's Harvard colleague, William Ernest Hocking, during Whitehead's first lecture course at Harvard during the academic year 1924 - 25.

(I owe the term to the late Arthur Fishkin, my former colleague at Creighton University, who once explained the lack of consistent academic standards as stemming from the consistent Jesuit policy of mercification.)

A colleague recently commented at an academic conference on revolutionary movements that, «There is no Bob Marley for today's generation of Black African and Caribbean Artists.»

These fellowships permit professors, researchers and other senior academics to find temporary refuge at universities and colleges anywhere in the world, enabling them to pursue their academic work and to continue to share their knowledge with students, colleagues, and the community at large.

His colleague, MIT professor and Data - Pop Alliance academic director Alex «Sandy» Pentland, has called for a «new deal on data,» a set of workable guarantees that the data needed for public goods are readily available while, at the same time, protecting personal privacy and freedom.

The influence academics like Al - Handal have among students and colleagues can be part of what puts them at risk, says Willcox.

At the same time, Rogers says, academic researchers should be ready to recognize their own limitations and partner with colleagues who can bring other crucial expertise to the enterprise, adding, «People should do what they know and find other people to do the things they don't know.»

But Suresh has proved himself adroit at securing backing from fellow academics for endeavors such as revamping the engineering curriculum at MIT, his colleagues say.

I have a few grants under review at the moment to build on my research identifying the challenges faced by disabled academics in the workplace and develop training for line managers and universities on how to best support their disabled colleagues.

In a 14 May Next Wave article, NIH's Ruth Kirschstein and colleagues noted that «portable or transitional grant awards to promising fellows should be considered as a means of facilitating their advancement into independent positions at academic institutions»; this, indeed, is one of several proposals «under consideration by the senior staff of NIH and the Advisory Committee to the director of NIH.»

Shore and her colleagues are based in U-M's Kresge Hearing Research Institute, which is part of the Department of Otolaryngology at Michigan Medicine, U-M's academic medical center.

Dr. Abbara and his colleagues evaluated plasma kisspeptin levels in 993 asymptomatic pregnant women who were, on average, 11 weeks pregnant and were visiting their doctor for a routine prenatal exam at an urban academic obstetric center.

In a 10 - page paper released May 12, Harwatt and her colleagues noted that dietary alteration for climate change mitigation is currently a hot topic among policymakers, academics and members of society at large.

A colleague at her university had just published a paper for free in another journal from the same publisher: Scientific & Academic Publishing Co. (SAP), whose website does not mention fees.

Elke U. Weber, a professor of psychology and public affairs at Princeton's Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, conducted the study — which appears in the academic journal PLOS ONE — along with Ph.D. candidate Claudia R. Schneider (who is visiting Princeton's Department of Psychology through the Ivy League Exchange Scholar Program) and colleagues at Columbia University and the University of Massachusetts Amherst.

Radiologists at several academic hospitals are searching for ways to reduce children's radiation exposure, Daldrup - Link said, adding that she is sharing the new technique with colleagues around the country.

When academic allergist Sanjiv Sur at the University of Texas in Galveston and colleagues exposed mice to ragweed pollen, they noticed the animals produced highly - reactive forms of oxygen in their lungs after 15 minutes.

Female academics face several challenges that their male colleagues don't, says lead author Joyce Benenson, a psychologist at Emmanuel College in Boston (who co-authored the paper with Richard Wrangham, a full professor at Harvard University where Berenson worked previously as junior faculty).

To work out why stimulation has this effect, Damiaan Denys and Martijn Figee at the Academic Medical Center in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, and colleagues recorded neural activity in people with electrodes implanted into a part of the brain called the nucleus accumbens.

Davis - Kean and colleagues Jacquelynne Eccles, also of the University of Michigan, and Miriam Linver of Columbia University presented their findings in a paper titled «Influences of Gender on Academic Achievement» at the biennial meeting of the Society for Research on Adolescence in New Orleans on April 13.

Milestone in cancer genetics: a common genetic variant conferring significant risk of a common cancer in the general population Scientists at deCODE genetics (Nasdaq: DCGN) along with academic colleagues in Iceland, the US and Sweden today report the discovery of a common genetic variant that predisposes to prostate cancer.

She and her colleague, Greg Siegle, Ph.D., the director for the cognitive neuroscience program at University of Pittsburgh, have come up with an academic description for it: «voluntary engagement with negative high - arousal stimuli.»

UT Southwestern, along with colleagues at seven other academic medical centers and The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society, is enrolling patients 60 and older with newly diagnosed AML in the Master Protocol for Biomarker - Based Treatment of AML (Beat AML) trial.

Dr Han is an excellent academic representative of his country and we all hope to see him and his colleagues at future meetings of the Society.»

Reykjavik, ICELAND, 6 March 2011 — Scientists at deCODE genetics and academic colleagues from Iceland, The Netherlands, Denmark, USA and Illumina, Inc., today report the discovery of single - letter variants (SNPs) in the sequence of the human genome associated with high risk of sick sinus syndrome (SSS).

Reykjavik, ICELAND, May 17, 2009 — In a paper published today in the online edition of Nature Genetics, scientists from deCODE genetics (Nasdaq: DCGN) and academic colleagues from Iceland, Denmark and the Netherlands present the discovery of single letter variations in the sequence of the human genome (SNPs) that influence the age of girls at menarche, the first menstrual period.

May 7, 2006 Milestone in cancer genetics: a common genetic variant conferring significant risk of a common cancer in the general population Scientists at deCODE genetics (Nasdaq: DCGN) along with academic colleagues in Iceland, the US and Sweden today report the...

Scientists at deCODE genetics (Nasdaq: DCGN) and academic colleagues from the United States today report the discovery of a common genetic variant that confers increased risk of myocardial infarction (MI), or heart attack.

Study is part of broad effort to make genetic risk factors discovered in one part of the world relevant to people of other continental ancestries Reykjavik, ICELAND, 7 October 2010 — In a study published today, scientists at deCODE genetics and academic colleagues in...

Points to novel pathway for drug discovery, will be incorporated into tests to improve screening and early detection of abdominal aortic aneurysm, heart attack and PAD Reykjavik, ICELAND, 11 July 2010 — Scientists at deCODE genetics and academic colleagues from the...

SNP on chromosome 7 is rare among Chinese but confers five-fold increase in risk; underscores importance of analyzing risk factors across continental ancestries Reykjavik, ICELAND, 13 September 2010 — Scientists at deCODE genetics and academic colleagues from Iceland,...

Reykjavik, ICELAND, 6 March 2011 — Scientists at deCODE genetics and academic colleagues from Iceland, The Netherlands, Denmark, USA and Illumina, Inc., today report the discovery of single - letter variants (SNPs) in the sequence of the human genome associated with...

Reykjavik, ICELAND, June 29, 2009 — A discovery by scientists at deCODE genetics (Nasdaq: DCGN) and academic colleagues from Iceland, the Netherlands and Denmark has pointed to a common biological mechanism contributing to both kidney stones and decreased bone mineral density (BMD).

Running for nearly 20 years, English School of Canada has educated over 30,000 students from more than 50 countries.Students appreciate and are engaged with the multicultural student body they study with at our fully accredited school.Finally, the third class will illuminate how to write various academic, business, professional, and functional compositions.In addition to these practical objectives, this class will show students how to put themselves in the correct mindset to write, how to plan to write as well as how to implement editing and revision strategies.The program also teaches students the specific language skills and vocabulary needed in a health care workplace.It covers speaking, listening, and reading on a wide range of topics from technical skills to ethical concerns, from communicating with patients to discussing issues with colleagues.

A few years ago, my colleagues at Cesar Tarrant Elementary School in Hampton, Virginia, discussed ways in which we might improve behavior, academics, and retention rates for the boys we taught.

Dear Friends and Colleagues: I write to let you know that I have decided to step down as Dean of HGSE at the end of the current academic year.

Harvard Graduate School of Education will work with the Strategic Education Research Partnership and other partners to complete a program of work designed to a) investigate the predictors of reading comprehension in 4th - 8th grade students, in particular the role of skills at perspective - taking, complex reasoning, and academic language in predicting deep comprehension outcomes, b) track developmental trajectories across the middle grades in perspective - taking, complex reasoning, academic language skill, and deep comprehension, c) develop and evaluate curricular and pedagogical approaches designed to promote deep comprehension in the content areas in 4th - 8th grades, and d) develop and evaluate an intervention program designed for 6th - 8th grade students reading at 3rd - 4th grade level.The HGSE team will take responsibility, in collaboration with colleagues at other institutions, for the following components of the proposed work: Instrument development: Pilot data collection using interviews and candidate assessment items, collaboration with DiscoTest colleagues to develop coding of the pilot data so as to produce well - justified learning sequences for perspective - taking, complex reasoning, academic language skill, and deep comprehension.Curricular development: HGSE investigators Fischer, Selman, Snow, and Uccelli will contribute to the development of a discussion - based curriculum for 4th - 5th graders, and to the expansion of an existing discussion - based curriculum for 6th - 8th graders, with a particular focus on science content (Fischer), social studies content (Selman), and academic language skills (Snow & Uccelli).

While I was at Drake, my colleagues and I achieved great academic results from the students as a result of a redesign of the school to support project - based learning and by building a strong, professional learning community.

While there is more emphasis on academics at all grade levels today and evidence that the middle school burden can be overcome (Williams and colleagues showed in a major 2010 study, called «Gaining Ground in the Middle Grades: Why Some Schools Do Better,» that an intense focus on academics can work), it is odd that Walcott would favor reforming middle schools instead of doing what the research suggests is better and easier — creating smaller, «elemiddle» (K — 8) schools — and what the trends are showing is happening all over the country — as David Hough, managing editor of the Middle Grades Research Journal, told me, «the trend is definitely away from stand - alone middle schools.»

«I think Joel Klein and his colleagues have gotten much more traction on reform than any previous leadership team,» said Robert B. Schwartz, the academic dean of the education and management program at the Harvard Graduate School of Education.