Sentences with phrase «academic groups who»
The governor's office said the proposal by the Talon subsidiary will create 73 permanent jobs and is supported by the Long Island Association, among other business and academic groups who agree with Cuomo's plan.
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An academic who served for a decade as President of McGill University, she is currently a Director of Royal Bank of Canada and CGI Group and previously served on the boards of Four Seasons Hotels, Alcan, Yellow Media Inc., and Ontario's Hydro One among others.
According to The News & Observer, Wednesday's report «found a new culprit: the Academic Support Program for Student - Athletes... The report describes a fairly broad group of academic and athletic officials who knew about athletes getting better grades in classes that only required papers, yet taking little or no actionAcademic Support Program for Student - Athletes... The report describes a fairly broad group of academic and athletic officials who knew about athletes getting better grades in classes that only required papers, yet taking little or no actionacademic and athletic officials who knew about athletes getting better grades in classes that only required papers, yet taking little or no action.»
Gregory Simon, the chief executive of large - scale crowdfunding site Poliwogg, told the Washington Post: «There's another kind of fraud, and that's when Congress and the president pass and sign a law, and thousands of companies organize according to the principles in that law... but academics and people in consumer groups who disagree with the law make it their mission to prevent the law from going into effect.»
A series of events, being co-hosted by the World Bank and WHO on 13 - 14 April, as part of the World Bank Group - International Monetary Fund Spring Meetings in Washington DC, is bringing ministers of finance, development agencies, academic experts and practitioners together to discuss how to put mental health at the centre of the health and development agenda globally and in countries.
PEP is in talks with unlisted Auckland - based Academic Colleges Group (ACG) and is expected to decide in several weeks whether to make an offer or not, said the source who asked not to be identified because the discussions were confidential.
The event will feature 250 + speakers and 4,000 + attendees from the leading industry startups, investors, financial institutions, enterprise tech leaders, and academic and policy groups who are building the foundations of the blockchain and digital currency economy.
Contact community groups and local schools to see how you can work with students who could use extra academic support.
Consensus 2018 will feature 250 + speakers and 4,000 + attendees from the leading industry startups, investors, financial institutions, enterprise tech leaders, and academic and policy groups who are building the foundations of the blockchain and digital currency economy.
Prominent academics and civil liberties organizations have raised the prospect of stripping churches of their tax exemptions and pursuing litigation to require private companies and civic groups to be led and staffed by people who pledge allegiance to the moral creed of the left.
As Whitehead's thought became better understood among academic theologians and philosophers, it attracted a small but staunch group of followers who found his explanation of God to be both intellectually satisfying and religiously credible.
Those who share in the criticisms but believe that they can be internalized into Christianity are in the minority among the academic students of religion and are often ridiculed and ostracized by the dominant group.
Their defence of scrapping the cap follows another letter written on Tuesday to the Daily Telegraph by a group of 70 faith leaders, politicians and academics who warned lifting the cap would be «deleterious to social cohesion and respect».
The real danger comes from a much larger group of persons who believe that Notre Dame can strive for ever - higher standards of academic excellence — and use the same criteria of excellence by which the best secular universities in the land are judged to be excellent — without forfeiting the Catholic character of the University.
If such relatively affluent communities do in fact attempt to move beyond their technically and psychologically sophisticated understandings of themselves to tell their household stories, they will encounter there the narrative of groups deprived of technical and academic sophistication who have little but story by which to understand and modify their corporate existence.
One can see the same mind - set at any gathering of the American Academy of Religion, the group of academics who teach religion in public and private colleges and universities.
Though the Seminar expects to encounter hostile criticism, its work is said to be under attack principally «by conservative Christian groups» and by «those who lack academic credentials.»
It is an abstraction, the frame of reference of which, I have noticed in reading some of the literature, changes depending on who uses it, what intellectual tendencies he or she represents, what academic discipline he or she comes from, and specially what political persuasion, inclination or group he or she belongs to.
Others, who admit the importance of religion in the curriculum, nevertheless have an instinctive fear that such a step might become the opening wedge of a wholesale invasion of religious groups into the academic institution.
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.
With the NCAA enforcement staff, our internal working group of University Counsel Leslie Strohm, Senior Associate Dean Jonathan Hartlyn, and former faculty athletics representative Jack Evans interviewed faculty and staff in the Department of African and Afro - American Studies, academic support counselors, and student - athletes who had taken multiple courses in the department.
Some teens may benefit from being around a private school group of peers who are almost universally serious about academics.
We seek to enroll a diverse group of students who are excited by our many academic, creative, and enriching offerings.
The DOR is comprised of a group of clinicians, academics, research and policy experts, and database developers who share the desire to increase knowledge about midwifery care and help midwives become more fluent in conducting research, critically appraising the available data, and incorporating t
That reflects the balance of probabilities as assessed by the Political Studies Association, a group of unspeakably clever academics who suggest the most likely scenario is bad news for Cameron.
Throughout the collection, we were keen to showcase the different parts of the UN system, not just its structures and programmes, but also the various actors who make up what is often lazily referred to as «the UN»: member states, staff and the host of groups — NGOs, academics, private sector companies, foundations, regional organisations, etc. — with which it works.
Radical plans to democratise the internet were today set out by Jeremy Corbyn — and an academic who runs a group preparing for «the cybernetic communist revolution».
Fang is among a small yet tenacious group of scientists who study the culture of academic science alongside their other lines of research.
Because the lack of role models in the professoriate can be a barrier to participation, the BPC program also aims to develop effective strategies for identifying and supporting members of the targeted groups who want to pursue academic careers in computing.
The research was undertaken by the University College London Energy & Development group, a group of researchers and academics at UCL who work on issues related to energy in low and middle - income countries.
While this year's inventors were already talking about possible collaborations among the group, 2015 - 16 ambassadors Juan Gilbert, whose inventions include a universally designed voting technology; Lisa DeLuca, who is IBM's most prolific female inventor; and Michael Smith, who is director of the Intel Academic Program for Data Science and the Internet of Things, said the friendships and networks begun during the program will endure.
Specifically, the authors — who include members of the International Spine Study Group (ISSG) from multiple academic centers — found that fusing the lower portion of the lumbar spine results in a decreased risk of PJK.
Free food is always appreciated by starving students, but the group lunch is also valued because it gives current MD / PhD students who work at different research institutes and who are at differing stages in the program a chance to catch up with each other at the beginning of a new academic year.
The survey, conducted by a health - policy group led by David Blumenthal at the Massachusetts General Hospital, found that almost 20 % of the 2167 academic life scientists who responded to a questionnaire said they had delayed publication of data by more than 6 months.
But in a paper published today in the journal Depression and Anxiety, academics, from Manchester and Newcastle Universities, show that women who attended a yoga class a week for eight weeks had decreased anxiety scores compared to the control group who received normal antenatal treatment.
The system is so elegant, mathematically, and so beautifully spare in its notation that there is now a small cult of siteswapping numbers jugglers, a geeky, largely male group of computer programmers, academics, and engineers who eschew razzle - dazzle tricks — chain - saw juggling, for instance — in favor of such sublime challenges as keeping 10 balls aloft.
While previous studies have shown that children and adolescents who self - harm are at a higher risk of suicide, the paper by academics from UCL and the University of Leeds, argues that the risks apply to a larger group of adolescents.
Some of the things you do may be transient,» says Carter, who interviewed for an academic post but chose instead to join a large group practice before going out on his own 2 years ago.
They would look stupid if they back down now,» says Rosenhead, who chairs the British Committee for the Universities of Palestine, an academic group that opposes the Israeli occupation of Palestinian lands.
By the fall of their kindergarten year, children who participated in Head Start and the REDI - P group scored higher than the children in the control group on several measures, showing greater increases in their vocabulary, literacy skills, reading fluency and academic performance upon entering kindergarten.
The Prodromakis Group at the University of Southampton is acknowledged as world - leading in this field, collaborating among others with Leon Chua (a Diamond Jubilee Visiting Academic at the University of Southampton), who theoretically predicted the existence of memristors in 1971.
And because of the absence of patents, programmers could develop software using these innovations,» says Richard Stallman of the Free Software Foundation, a group of academics who believe software should be free.
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.
The Clinical Research Forum, a consortium of leading academic health centers headed by Crowley, has asked pharmaceutical companies for a combined $ 10 million per year for 3 years (the minimum length of time the group expects NIH budget problems to persist), to create «bridging awards» for young investigators who have completed an NIH clinical research training grant, have narrowly missed receiving funding for an independent grant, and are employed at institutions that will match the funding and allow recipients to spend at least 75 % of their time on research.
The objective of the group is straightforward, says Tate: to encourage women graduate students, who are interested in pursuing an academic career, «to take time to think about where we are going, ask questions we're afraid to ask, and discuss the many paths that a successful academic career can follow.»
He endorses the conclusions of No Place to Learn and enlarges the debate by discussing a subject that Pocklington and Tupper don't emphasize, the poisoning of university life by rights - seeking groups who insist (Whitaker writes) that academic life is naturally «sexist and racist and can only by kept in check through intensive regulation and control... Everything that goes on must be monitored and policed.»
It was written by a working group that included an academic statistician, biometric engineer, a psychologist who focuses on decision making and judgment and a forensic scientist.
She has over 90 academic publications and has held several leadership and advisory positions, including Chair of the Gordon Conference on Science and Technology Policy, Secretary and Council Member of the Society for Risk Analysis, the European Commission Expert Group for Science in Society and the EU's «SYNTH - ETHICS» project, the FDA Blood Products Advisory Committee, and the UN WHO - FAO Expert Group for Agrifood Nanotechnology.
All Asian ethnic groups outperform whites in academic achievement, including Southeast Asians, who came from poorer and less educated families relative to whites (Table S2).
Students who practiced the Transcendental Meditation program showed significant increases in math and English scale scores and performance level scores over a one - year period.A significant portion of the meditating students — 41 percent — showed a gain of at least one performance level in math, compared to 15 percent of the non-meditating students in the control group.Among the students with the lowest levels of academic performance, «below basic» and «far below basic,» the meditating students showed a significant improvement in overall academic achievement compared to students in the control group, which showed only a slight gain.