Sentences with phrase «ambitious initiative»

In recent years, the museum has embarked on ambitious initiatives designed to build attendance and revenue, says the New York Times.

I heard about a number of ambitious initiatives at various stages of implementation, including design thinking, makerspaces, and project - based learning.

School districts from coast to coast are launching ambitious initiatives to attract and retain teachers, especially teachers who belong to minority groups and teachers certified in critical - need areas or those willing to teach in urban or rural schools.

It also shows that Google may be interested in exploring how the technology could be used for its own ambitious initiatives like its self - driving car project.

Bratton, once LA's top cop, told «The Cats Roundtable» radio show on AM 970 that while the NYPD can't solve homelessness on its own, the department had «a very ambitious initiative under way,» including training cops on how to deal with mental illness.

The Lancet Neurology calls the AMP PD program the «most ambitious initiative so far to find a cure for Parkinson's.»

Embracing the idea that strong principals are essential to academic success, top Pittsburgh administrators have launched several ambitious initiatives based on the philosophy that school leaders need to be cultivated as carefully as their students.

This along with ambitious initiatives like Marfa Dialogues, which publicly explores the intersection of art, politics, culture, and climate change, supports a truly multidisciplinary environment.

And then a new ambitious initiative for For Freedoms, the artist - run Super PAC I cofounded with Eric Gottesman in 2016.

As a small business moving upmarket, you should find allies with like - minded companies in your industry on ambitious initiatives.

One of the state's most ambitious initiatives to reform its Medicaid program and improve care for its costliest patients has enrolled just a few hundred people during its first two months of operation, while nearly 30,000 people have opted out of the program.

Ambitious initiatives like Project Wing, which is trying to invent a drone that can deliver packages, is by definition a risky undertaking with no guarantee of success.

The ambitious initiative debuted in 2013 under the name «Project Loon» and saw its first balloon launch in February in South Africa.

The book suggests ways that Muslims may liberalize Islam through what she calls «operation ijtihad,» an ambitious initiative that would empower more Muslim women economically, align Islamic human rights codes with those of the modern world, reform radio and television outlets, create a less militant paradigm for the relationship between mosque and state, incorporate more democracy into the Muslim world and allow for engagement in interfaith activity.

Being a leading player in Ghana's beverage industry, Accra Brewery Limited (ABL), has since 2015 been embarking on an ambitious initiative to equip retailers of its products with some basic business skills, to enable them improve on their trading activities.

Spinola said some form of the program will be necessary as Mayor Bill de Blasio embarks on his ambitious initiative to build 80,000 affordable housing units within a decade.

The Fort Schuyler and Fuller Road Management Corporations, which act as the real estate arms of the SUNY Polytechnic Institute, administer many of Cuomo's most ambitious initiatives to boost the upstate economy, from the vast solar panel factory nearing completion in Buffalo, to high - tech hubs in Albany, Utica, Syracuse and Rochester.

His address in 2016 featured 10 ambitious initiatives that he previously joked would be enough to cover him for the next several years.

Some of them have helped organize an ambitious initiative that will bring women scientists from some 20 Muslim countries in the Middle East and Northern Africa to Kuwait in January for three days of dialogue with U.S. scientists, business leaders and diplomats.

It's an ambitious initiative, involving some 65 countries that are home to two thirds of the world's population and cover one - third of the global economy.

Oncology is a natural choice as the initial focus for this ambitious initiative.

This ambitious initiative builds on a half century of tortoise research and conservation carried out by the Charles Darwin Research Station, the GNPD, and numerous visiting scientists and volunteers.

Many actors — especially women but also some men — wore black on the Hollywood Foreign Press Association's Globes telecast to show solidarity with victims of harassment and abuse and donned Time's Up pins promoting the newly launched vast and ambitious initiative to fight systemic sexual harassment not only in Hollywood a but also in blue - collar workplaces nationwide.

We are excited to be part of an ambitious initiative that will provide hard evidence about whether and how building a complete pipeline of effective principals can boost student achievement.»

It was an ambitious initiative that, in subsequent years, fell victim to a political backlash against Common Core and led more than two dozen states to back away from the standards - based tests.

New York State United Teachers, an NEA affiliate representing more than 600,000 education and health care professionals in New York, began partnering with business leaders and community groups to launch an ambitious initiative aimed at providing these high - tech companies with the steady supply of skilled workers they would need.

Adapt Learning, the highly popular authoring language pioneered by the UK e-learning industry is set to benefit from an ambitious initiative led by Learning Pool.

For communities, states, and policymakers seeking to improve educational out - comes for our nation's students, this ambitious initiative holds important lessons regarding:

This ambitious initiative builds on a half century of tortoise research and conservation carried out by the Charles Darwin Research Station, the GNPD, and numerous visiting scientists and volunteers.

In its Reforming the Energy Vision proceeding, the New York Public Service Commission has undertaken an ambitious initiative to improve the New York electricity system through better incorporation of distributed energy resources (DERs): distributed generation, distributed storage, energy efficiency, and demand response.

NYSERDA and DPS have engaged with over 60 public and private sector stakeholder organizations in developing a strategy for this innovative and ambitious initiative.

Unger, in stark contrast, proposes a not - ambitious initiative: Don't Plant Trees.

Reach 20 is a bold and ambitious initiative that calls on our generous community to make a significant commitment to people who can not access the justice system.

«It's been enormously ambitious and audacious in many respects, but it needs to continue to find revenue sources — partly because of all those ambitious initiatives,» Sterling added.

The company now says its ambitious initiative is far from dead.

Project Tango is an ambitious initiative of both the firms to make use of 3D motion tracking and depth sensing on mobile devices like smartphones and tablets to determine their position relative to the world without making use of GPS and other external signals.

Google has halted work on Project Ara, it's ambitious initiative to build the world's first fully modular smartphone, reports Reuters.

NASA's ambitious initiative to fly astronauts on commercial spacecraft continues to suffer from schedule delays, as well as questions regarding the program's safety — and Congress isn't happy about it.

Google Gears is an ambitious initiative that promises to supercharge the ability of online applications to work just like the ones installed on your computer.

And for Dan Nussbaum, a former dentist, licensed real estate broker, and founder of The International Multiple Listing Service (IMLS), the global portal and membership platform is the result of years of planning — an ambitious initiative designed to bridge the needs of agents, brokers, developers and associations, MLSs, and homebuyers and sellers worldwide.