Sentences with phrase «area university first»
The fall ruling stemmed from an appeal filed by TCF, which the Boston - area university first banished last April.
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Three weeks after finishing his first year in mechanical engineering at Queen's University in Ontario, Neil Pandya was in a remote area of northeast Alberta at Cenovus Energy's Christina Lake oil sands project.
«A first analysis of the Iran 2006 census results shows a sensationally low fertility level of 1.9 for the whole country and only 1.5 for the Tehran area (which has about 8 million people),» Tehran University demographer Mohammad Jalal Abbasi - Shavazi recently observed.
The Centre of Governance and Human Rights at Cambridge University is a multi-disciplinary research endeavour committed to advancing thought and practice within areas of critical importance to global justice and human well - being in the twenty - first century.
Investing in the nation's newest veterinary college and the first in the New York metropolitan area is a transformative event for Long Island University, for the region, and for animal health, which will create great New York jobs and research opportunities.
$ 12 Million to Build the First Veterinary College in the New York Metropolitan Area, Located at Long Island University
The agitators under the auspices of 21st Century Youth of Niger Delta in a statement by the spokesperson, W O I Izon Ebi, said: «First is what is still holding the resumption of academic activities at the Nigerian Maritime University, NMU, Okerenkoko, Warrior South West Local Government Area, Delta State?»
The first phase of Sêr Cymru committed up to # 50 million (US$ 66.2 million) to bring prestigious research chairs to Welsh universities and also to support national research networks in three «grand challenge» areas: life sciences and health; low carbon, energy, and environment; and advanced engineering and materials.
«Our study shows the validity of two scales for assessing how cognitive impairments are associated with many substance disorders including alcohol, cannabis, cocaine and one's ability to function well in important interpersonal or occupational areas,» said Efrat Aharonovich, PhD, Department of Psychiatry, Columbia University Medical Center, and first author.
For example at the Nanyang Technological University (NTU), recruitment of international faculty is occurring across a wide range of subject areas, including engineering and science, with special emphasis on its Nanyang Assistant Professorship scheme, awarding 10 to 12 distinguished young faculty each year with a competitive salary and up to $ 1 million startup funds over the first three years.
«This discovery is significant in that it is the first known case of a pharmaceutical causing major ecological damage over a huge geographic area,» says lead author J. Lindsay Oaks, a veterinary microbiologist at Washington State University, Pullman.
The University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health is launching the nation's first official obstetrics — gynecology residency program for «very rural» areas, with the first resident slated to be selected next month.
To evaluate the effects of a little bedtime math, Beilock, psychologist Susan Levine, and colleagues at the University of Chicago recruited 587 first - graders from 22 schools, public and private, richer and poorer, in the Chicago metropolitan area.
The research, led by the Royal Veterinary College, University of London, proves for the first time that birds precisely time when they flap their wings and position themselves in aerodynamic optimal positions, to maximise the capture of upwash, or «good air», throughout the entire flap cycle, while avoiding areas of downwash or «bad air».
«Our findings suggest that if the Amazonian climate becomes drier, forests will probably collapse first in the seasonally in undated areas,» says the lead author Bernardo M. Flores, and a former PhD candidate at Brazil's Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte (UFRN) and Wageningen University & Research in the Netherlands.
For the first time ever, a team of medical researchers led by Richard Davidson, director of the Laboratory for Affective Neuroscience at the University of Wisconsin at Madison, showed that meditation activates an area of the brain associated with positive emotions.
After originating in Africa possibly around 300,000 years ago and inhabiting areas close to the Middle East (SN: 7/8/17, p. 6), H. sapiens likely first reached the Middle East more than 200,000 years ago, proposes an international team of paleoanthropologists led by Quam, Israel Hershkovitz of Tel Aviv University and Gerhard Weber of the University of Vienna.
Archaeologist Ladislav Nejman of the University of Sydney said one of the biggest questions is the beginnings of human exploration of this landscape by Homo sapiens who arrived in this area for the first time.
«These new data are an important first step in determining the amount of weight gain (or loss) that is appropriate for women who enter pregnancy with obesity — data which are sorely needed by obstetric providers to better serve their patients,» says Sharon Herring, MD, MPH, an expert in this area who is a member of The Obesity Society and Assistant Professor at Temple University.
A new study by a University of Texas at Arlington physics team in collaboration with bioengineering and psychology researchers shows for the first time how a small area of the brain can be optically stimulated to control pain.
«First Best Guess» Wiedinmyer pored through existing data and inventories and consulted one of the few people already investigating the phenomenon, Bob Yokelson, an atmospheric chemist at the University of Montana in Missoula, who had traveled widely to developing areas and was familiar with the trash burning around homes and villages.
Dr Richard Unsworth, from Swansea University's Biosciences department, led the study and said: «Our research is for the first time recording how an area of the world so critically important for its biodiversity is rapidly losing a key marine resource.
«To protect individual and public health, it is important to ensure women in areas with high rates of HIV infection have access to affordable contraceptive options,» said the review's first author, Prof. Janet P. Hapgood, Ph.D., of the University of Cape Town in Cape Town, South Africa.
«Synthetic biology is a new area that's really exciting to young scientists — to have things begin to work in this way is a sort of validation of the field,» says Pamela Silver, a professor of systems biology at Harvard University Medical School and co-author of a study demonstrating one of the first synthetic restructurings of a eukaryotic cell that is described in the journal Genes & Development.
Furthermore, dads with more growth in these brain areas were less likely to show depressive symptoms, says first author Pilyoung Kim, who directs the Family and Child Neuroscience Lab at the University of Denver.
A Georgetown University undergraduate working to develop the first microbial collection device of its kind was named the winner of the Lab to Launch competition, a new program created by AAAS to identify and support young technology innovators in the Washington, D.C., area.
«This discovery highlights the need for increased study throughout the tropics, for example Manu NP and its surrounding areas have been well studied, but despite these efforts, new species are being continuously discovered,» points out first author Alex Shepack, a PhD student in the laboratory of co-author Dr Alessandro Catenazzi at Southern Illinois University.
However, noise pollution poses novel threats to these protected areas, according to a first - of - its - kind study from scientists at Colorado State University and the U.S. National Park Service.
That pairing marked another first; never before had two Category 3 storms been in that area at the same time, according to hurricane researcher and forecaster Phil Klotzbach of Colorado State University.
University of Chicago radiation oncologists were the first in the Chicago area to offer this advanced type of radiation therapy.
CRGGH published the first GWAS for blood pressure (BP) in AA using data from the Howard University Family Study, a population - based sample of ~ 2,000 related and unrelated African Americans from the Washington, DC area that was collected by Dr. Rotimi and his group.
University of Chicago radiation oncologists were the first in the Chicago area to offer IMRT.
March 29, 2011 Survey: University of Chicago Medical Center one of top Chicago - area hospitals The University of Chicago Medical Center, long recognized as one of the finest hospitals in the country, has now been named one of the best in the city in the first Best Hospitals metro - area rankings from U.S.News & World Report.
January 14, 2011 UHI donates $ 50,000 grant to first CommunityHealth Englewood Clinic The Urban Health Initiative of the University of Chicago Medical Center has provided a $ 50,000 grant to the inaugural CommunityHealth Englewood Clinic to support area residents in need of health care services.
The University of Chicago Medical Center, long recognized as one of the finest hospitals in the country, has now been named one of the best in the city in the first Best Hospitals metro - area rankings from U.S.News & World Report.
New research from the University of Michigan examined the individual social, financial, and emotional consequences of being overweight in one of the first long - term studies in this area.
A group of six arts colleges and universities in the Boston area, the ProArts Consortium, pushed the city to open the school and then guided Nathan through its first year.
At SUNY - Albany, for instance, in response to a huge budget shortfall, President George Philip announced in an email sent out to the university in late September, «As a first step in this more difficult phase of reallocation planning, I have issued a directive today to suspend all new admissions to five program areas — Classics, French, Italian, Russian, and Theatre.»
BPS was burdened by a turnover rate for new teachers of 50 percent in the first three years and, despite an abundance of university - based teacher preparation programs in the greater Boston area, lacked teachers of color, teachers equipped for urban school challenges, and those certified in the hard - to - staff areas of math, science, and special education.
We might first look at Monroe Community College, the two - year postsecondary institution attended by high school graduates in the area who do not feel that they are ready for the university.
A science graduate of the University of Colorado, the first - year teacher was eager to begin working in the county, one the state had identified as a critical needs area lacking teachers.
Looking at course grades in dozens of subject areas, it found few differences between students who took the first course through dual enrollment compared with students who took the first course after matriculating to a community college or university.
James Noble - Rogers, the executive director of the Universities» Council for the Education of Teachers (UCET), echoed the sentiment, and said Teach First would «leave a hole» if it moved out of struggling areas in the capital.
Although I have spent my whole professional life (more than 30 years) in areas of writing and communications as either a professional writer or a university professor teaching writing - based courses, still, it wasn't until last year that I finally published my first novel.
Located at 4545 La Jolla Village Drive, Westfield UTC is an upscale, outdoor shopping mall that matches the style and retailers of University Village, the Seattle - area mall where Amazon opened its first bookstore.
She was the Director of Content for the Rocket eBook, the first handheld electronic reading device, and has held a variety of marketing roles in New York and the San Francisco Bay Area with Macmillan, Oxford University Press, The Crown Publishing Group, HarperSanFrancisco and IDG Books.
She left the Bay Area for college and received her first bachelors in psychology from the University of California, Santa Barbara.
The Sanctuary, California Department of Fish and Wildlife, Channel Islands National Park and the Partnership for Interdisciplinary Studies of Coastal Oceans (PISCO) at the University of California, Santa Barbara sponsored a public symposium on the first five years of monitoring, enforcement and education programs for the Channel Islands Marine Protected Area Network.
The first of these lectures will take place on Wednesday, September 23rd at 18:00 at Aalborg University Copenhagen (near the Sydhavn S - train station), in the Guest Canteen area.
The Great Dismal Swamp is the artist's first solo exhibition in the DC metro area, although he has previously participated in group exhibitions at the Smithsonian, the Corcoran, and the David C. Driskell Center at the University of Maryland.