Sentences with phrase «academic departments at»

Academic departments at Harrow arrange mock interview exchange programmes with a number of local state schools.

For instance, if your career fair is going to include graduate students, then your task is relatively simple: You target academic departments at your institution or at surrounding universities.

Start - up grants were also available for the 15 young faculty members I recruited as I built two new academic departments at the Dana - Farber Cancer Institute.

The University of Arkansas «Education Reform» department, funded by the Walton family which owns Wal - Mart, continues the tradition that many of its professors established before they became an academic department at a major state university: publishing «preliminary» studies showing that the right wing agenda is true.

Not exact matches

Federal student loans accepted by the student are dispersed from the school directly, not the Department of Education, at the time the student begins the academic year.

He was a Visiting Professor, New York University Law School, 2007; President and CEO of the C. D. Howe Institute from 1999 - 2006; Clifford Clark Visiting Economist at the Department of Finance, Ottawa; and Associate Dean (Academic) of the Faculty of Management, University of Toronto, 1993 — 1995.

Conservative academics Tom Flanagan, Barry Cooper, Ranier Knopff, David Bercuson, and former Alberta Finance Minister Ted Morton at the «Calgary School» in the University of Calgary Political Science department long ago made it their mission to drive the Conservative agenda in Canada.

My background was as an academic, I was chairman of the economics department at Princeton.

On National Poetry Day, poet, academic and chair of the department of apologetics at Houston Baptist University Holly Ordway explains how poetry... More

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.

To name just four academics sympathetic to sociobiology at work in the biology departments of American universities: Timothy Goldsmith of Yale teaches a course called «Biological Roots of Human Nature»; William Zimmerman of Amherst teaches the «Evolutionary Biology of Human Social Behavior»; David Sloan Wilson (Department of Biology, SUNY «Binghamton) researches the evolutionary basis of human behavior; and Randy Thornhill at the University of New Mexico coauthored the infamous book on the evolution of rape.

The committee included an international group of academics with expertise in various aspects of food culture and gastronomy such as Joxe Mari Aizega, General Manager of Basque Culinary Center; Jorge Ruiz Carrascal, Professor of the Department of Food Science at the University of Copenhagen; Marta Miguel Castro, a Research Associate at the CIAL Institute of Research in Food Science, who studies how food components could prevent disorders such as diabetes and obesity; Melina Shannon Dipietro, executive director of Rene Redzepi's MAD project; and Dr F. Xavier Medina, author, social anthropologist and leading scholar of Food and Culture at the Universitat Oberta de Catalunya (UOC) in Barcelona.

She holds an academic / research appointment as Assistant Professor at UCLA in the Departments of Pediatrics, Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences.

Dr Paul Ramchandani — a researcher and clinical psychiatrist now based at the Academic Unit of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Department of Medicine, Imperial College London — led the study, which assessed father - infant interactions in the family home when the child was aged three months and compared them against the child's behaviour at the age of twelve months.

Hosted by Oxford's Rothermere American Institute and the Politics Departments at Oxford and Cambridge universities, Elections 2012 is a forum for academic discussion and debate surrounding the US Presidential, Congressional and local elections.

During the Michaelmas Term 2012, he was an academic visitor at the Department of Politics and International Relations, University of Oxford.

Meanwhile, polytechnics seeking to be converted into Technical Universities should have the following requirements: a) satisfy the existing norms, guidelines and requirements of the National Council for Tertiary Education and the National Accreditation Board for accreditation as a Technical University, b) offer a minimum of four Bachelor of Technology degree programmes in Science and Technology based disciplines c) have academic departments headed by at least a Senior Lecturer with a PhD and professional experience; and d) have at least three full - time lecturers with relevant research master's degree, at least one of whom shall have industry experience.

Prior to joining RTPI, she was Head of the Academic Department of Urban, Environment and Leisure Studies at London South Bank University.

NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio will close 14 New York City schools at the end of this academic year, nine of which are in the Renewal program for struggling schools, the Department of Education announced.

According to Page S. Morahan, former chair of the department of microbiology and immunology and current co-director of ELAM (an executive leadership program for women in academic medicine) at Drexel University College of Medicine in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, a mentor can make a difference in two ways.

For example, upon my arrival in Canada in 1969 (after completing a master's degree in zoology at the University of Kansas), I took two positions simultaneously - one as a part - time teaching assistant in the zoology department at the University of Toronto, the other as part - time editorial assistant for a professor who was the editor of an academic journal.

Brian Kay, head of the department of biological sciences at the University of Illinois, Chicago, says that academics can benefit from mentoring all the way up the career ladder.

When Sykes arrived at Imperial in January, he found about 35 academic departments all reporting directly to him, a model he deemed totally unmanageable.

Blogs that support the traditional academic activities of teaching and outreach are often valued as a nonresearch activity — but only at institutions, and in departments, that value nonresearch activity.

Huang Xiaojuan, director of Educational Cooperation and Exchanges at the BGI Education and Training Department, explains that the program started in 2009 with the Southern China University of Technology as the first academic partner.

When identifying potential mentors, trainees should not limit themselves to their principal investigators (PIs) or academic advisers, advised session co-chair Dina Myers Stroud, a research assistant professor in the physics department at Vanderbilt University in Nashville and the executive director of the Fisk - Vanderbilt Master's - to - Ph.

Over the past 2 academic years, Ph.D. students funded by the French government have been given the opportunity to become doctorants - conseil — «a kind of junior consultant,» says Djimila Canet, who has been involved in implementing the program at the University of La Rochelle as the director of its Career Services Department.

It's common for academic departments to use confidential student reviews in promotion decisions, and at some campuses students for years have produced booklets of edited reviews to help peers choose classes.

The research team also included Dr. Amitai Abromovich, Texas State University; Sagi Raveh - Gottfried, psychology department, BGU; Dr. Jonathan S. Abramowitz, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; and Naama Hamo, Ruppin Academic Center, Israel.

At the end of the spectrum, technology stands to engineering in the same relationship as engineering stands to science: it lives in the pool created by the efforts of academic research engineering departments and the research laboratories of government and industry.

In the search process anyone you ask for guidance, from your academic adviser to counselors at your institution's career resources department, will tell you, «Get out there and network.»

Schmidt, research group leader at the Department of Evolutionary Biology and Environmental Sciences at the University of Zurich and academic associate for the Swiss Amphibian and Reptile Conservation Programme, says, «Our mark - and - recapture data shows that only 13 percent of the infected salamanders survive over a 10 - day period.»

Take health issues: In an article in The Chronicle of Higher Education, a chair of an academic department estimated that in a group of 50 professors and five office staff, serious illness affects at least three or four of them — in addition to close friends and relatives — during a given month.

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.

According to AIP's 2010 Academic Workforce Survey, 1 % of bachelor's only — granting departments have only women with rank of at least assistant professor, and 47 % of bachelor's only — granting departments have only men.

The Physics Unit, the final remnant of the former Department of Natural Philosophy, closes at the end of the academic year, bringing to an end nearly half a millenium of physics teaching.

«Conventional wisdom is that academic performance in high school is important for college admission, but this is the first study to clearly demonstrate the link between high school GPA and labor market earnings many years later,» says French, director of the Health Economics Research Group (HERG) in the Department of Sociology at the UM College of Arts and Sciences, and corresponding author of the study.

Co-author Professor Angus Kirkland, from the Department of Materials at Oxford University and Science Director at the new electron Physical Science Imaging Centre (ePSIC) at Harwell Science and Innovation Campus, described the breakthrough as an exemplar of how Oxford is able to respond to key academic and industrial problems by using interdisciplinary resources and expertise.

Data items are collected at the level of academic department and include full - time graduate students by source and mechanism of support, with data on women; part - time graduate students by sex; and citizenship and racial / ethnic background of all graduate students, including first - time students.

Per Clausen, president of the academics» union, the Magisterforeningen, says: «In principle we regard the science department's handling of the situation as the only proper response, but at the same time it is clear that blocking staff renewal will badly hurt the university and its research.»

For those embarking on a chemistry career in Canada, the new resource at Careerchem.com helps students to identify leading scientists in emerging areas of chemistry, to locate alumni from a department or a particular advisor's group who were successful in obtaining academic positions in Canada and the United States, and to discover particular patterns of recruitment for faculty positions at chemistry departments in Canada.

* Dr. Saundra McGuire is an adjunct professor in the Department of Chemistry and director of the Center for Academic Success at Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge.

Ford, an associate professor in the Department of Anatomy and Neurobiology and an investigator at the Neuroscience Institute at the Morehouse School of Medicine (MSM) in Atlanta, Georgia, says that when he came to the historically black MSM four years ago he chose stroke research as the area he wanted to concentrate on for two reasons: The medical school recognized the racial and regional disparities of the disease and placed stroke high on its list of illnesses to study, and the field combines the several prongs of his varied academic training and interests.

Eight of the 12 PDAs were at universities (five of which were private) and collected data from across academic departments, divisions, and schools.

At the Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History, Kearney managed seven academic departments with some 120 scientists and museum professionals.

It involved academics at the University of East Anglia's (UEA) Norwich Business School, the Department of Psychology at Sapienza University of Rome, Uninettuno Telematic International University, and the Centre for Advances in Behavioural Science at Coventry University.

Concha Gomez is an academic staff member in the mathematics department at the University of Wisconsin - Madison.

Stephen Kilgus, an associate professor in the Department of Educational, School and Counseling Psychology in the College of Education at the University of Missouri, is analyzing how a new screening tool, which is completed by students, can help teachers identify potential academic, social and emotional problems.

After earning a doctorate in sociology at Brandeis University in 1979, he embarked on a career as an academic, soon joining the sociology department at Brown University.

President Barack Obama has added two academic researchers to his new science team at the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE).