Sentences with phrase «around diversity in»

There was a LOT of discussion generally in the publishing and blogging world around diversity in fiction, which is fantastic, though it still hasn't translated into a marked uptick in diverse fiction being published yet.

So Jack did what made the most sense: He set out to change the research — and the national conversation around diversity in higher education.

The first week of Sundance was dominated by the biggest film story of the past year: the debate around diversity in the industry.

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In concept, the fund is not that different form others that have been around for decades, such as the Gabelli social index funds, which invest in socially responsible companies committed to diversity, the environment, or good corporate governancIn concept, the fund is not that different form others that have been around for decades, such as the Gabelli social index funds, which invest in socially responsible companies committed to diversity, the environment, or good corporate governancin socially responsible companies committed to diversity, the environment, or good corporate governance.

The Kapors, who invested early in Uber, are known in Silicon Valley for both their investing prowess but also their passion and engagement around issues of diversity in the tech industry.

When Tim Cook, the chief executive of Apple, the largest publicly traded company in the world, came out as gay on Thursday, it sent a pretty powerful message to business owners around the globe: Openness and inclusion of diversity are key drivers of innovation and productivity.

That project sees him travel around the world in 90 days in a four - seater plane piloted by his close friend, stopping in 22 countries along the way and making a documentary on global diversity.

More visible women investors will help to begin to turn around the dreadful track record of diversity in venture capital, they hope.

The questions around diversity tend to be reactive: «We don't have enough diversity in this department.

«This year's selections — independently elected by 16 committees around the country meeting simultaneously — reflects the rich diversity of America,» Elliot F. Gerson, American secretary of the Rhodes Trust, said in a news release.

«What I am struck by is that Uber is not significantly worse than companies that have been around twice as many years and have spent hundreds of millions of dollars on diversity in the last three years and have diversity departments of a dozen people,» Klein said, speaking of Uber's much larger tech brethren such as Facebook, Apple and Google.

A recent Deloitte survey finds employers» priorities regarding workplace diversity is centered around recruiting and the use of new tools to reduce bias in recruiting.

He has co-authored published studies with titles such as «On wealth and the diversity of friendships: High social class people around the world have fewer international friends,» and «The Role of Positive Self - Evaluation on Cross-Cultural Differences in Well - Being.»

Titled «On wealth and the diversity of friendships: High social class people around the world have fewer international friends,» it studied the social ties between wealthy people around the world and was published in the journal Personality and Individual Differences in 2015.

Why, asks John Leo in U.S. News & World Report, is his own constituency so willing to bring him down with protests, disrupted basketball games, and boycotts, when Pres. Lawrence worked so hard to make Rutgers a campus that «bristles with the enforcement tools of diversity: a speech code, real courses replaced by «multicultural curricular change,» diversity awareness «training» in lectures and freshman orientation sessions, a tolerance for ethnic and racial segregation in dorms («a self - affirming environment,» as Lawrence puts it), and professors who learn not to raise unapproved ideas about race, gender, and the campus power system built around multiculturalism»?

The Vineyard is particular in that it contains a fair bit of diversity, but we rally around a common set of values (those are readily available on any or our national websites — if you are really interested).

Science has disproven that the world was created 6000 years ago in your Christian world, has disproven the church's theory that the sun rotated around the earth, that the earth is flat, that creationism is responsible for the diversity of species.

As I rooted around in the text, I discovered several eco-spiritual themes embedded within: the mystery of creation, the goodness of nature, the power of limits, the importance of diversity and sustainability, the ecology of time, the balance of work and rest, the interdependence of everything, and a sense of place, order, and harmony.

The reasons for the lack of diversity in leadership are complex, but Henry says that proactively encouraging it can only be a positive thing: «The experience of the secular world confirms that diversity around the board table adds great value and makes sense.

Heritage Fire will showcase more than 45 notable chefs and butchers from Colorado alongside top chefs from around the country, cooking 3,000 pounds of heritage breed animals in celebration of breed diversity and family farming.

If some recipes help reconnect with my roots then the other recipes are woven around my personal experiences reflecting the cultural diversities I live in.

«Diversity» and «inclusion» are terms that are thrown around a lot in recent times, and of course, people only have the best intentions with respect to these ideas.

IRRI uses the International Rice Genebank - the most comprehensive collection of rice genetic diversity in the world with around 110,000 different types of rice - as a source of rice genes associated with traits that help rice cope with climate change.

Despite the pursuit of early - stage geographical diversity, seeding, which has been around in one form or another for most of the tournament's history, has kept them apart in the group stage, and this strange double - helix - like relationship does the rest.

Over two days, organizers seek to highlight the many cultures and diversity found in and around Salem.

A California native, Christina grew up in a culture that placed emphasis on dishes created around a diversity of fruits and vegetables with a wide variety of flavors.

While being outside all the time is very different in Chicago, she has enjoyed living here for more than 15 years, experiencing four distinct seasons and the rich diversity of nature in and around the city.

The report finds makes a list of recommendations for business, industry, professional bodies and government, namely: Construction businesses · Focus on better human resource management · Introduce and / or expand mentoring schemes · Boost investment in training · Develop talent from the trades as potential managers and professionals · Engage with the community and local education establishments Industry · Rally around social mobility as a collective theme · Promote better human resource management and support the effort of businesses · Promote and develop the UK as an international hub of construction excellence · Support diversity and schemes that widen access to management and the professions · Emphasise and spread understanding of the built environment's impact on social mobility Professional bodies and institutions · Drive the aspirations of Professions for Good for promoting social mobility and diversity · Support wider access to the professions and support those from less - privileged backgrounds · Promote and develop the UK as an international hub of construction excellence · Emphasise and spread understanding of the built environment's impact on social mobility · Provide greater routes for degree - level learning among those working within construction Government · Produce with urgency a plan to boost the UK as an international hub of construction excellence, as a core part of the Industrial Strategy · Provide greater funding to support the travel costs of apprentices · Support wider access to the professions and support those from less - privileged backgrounds · Place greater weight in project appraisal on the impact the built environment has on social mobility The report is being formally launched at an event in the House of Commons later today.

Perhaps they don't like the way diversity puts burdens on their worklife in the form of regulations around disability access, harassment, health and safety.

Theresa May overtly framed her reshuffle around the appeal of increasing diversity in her refreshed administration.

BHA Faith Schools Campaigner Richy Thompson commented, «We will continue to campaign for this information to be published, as while we are not opposed to Free Schools, we do have concerns around the diversity of religious and pseudoscientific Free Schools which are being backed to open by the Government, and believe there therefore needs to be more transparency in the approval process.»

We are particularly concerned that the additional freedoms that Academies and Free Schools enjoy around admissions, employment and the curriculum allow them to religiously discriminate more than has previously been possible in state - funded schools, and that a wider diversity of state «faith» schools are opening than ever before.

And it was that image of this city - an image of modern Britain in all its diversity, compassion and strength - that was shared around the globe.

As Scott Stringer was endorsed by a group of about 50 clergy from around the city, he touted his plan to appoint a chief diversity officer in the comptroller's office and to pursue diversity goals for businesses and city agencies.

He said Trump will try to divide the Democrats to force through a draconian anti-immigration reform plan that includes funding for a wall at the Mexican border, an end to a diversity visa lottery that brings in people from around the world and a curtailing of family reunification efforts, which Trump calls «chain migration.»

«Rotating ring of complex organic molecules discovered around newborn star: Chemical diversity in planet forming regions unveiled.»

Deep in Arctic Norway sits a collection of seeds from around the world, a stockpile of genetic diversity that's fast disappearing from cultivation.

In most universities, individuals are not trained to deal with the social issues that revolve around diversity.

«Around 20,000 years ago, at the height of the ice age, the environment became very, very cold and dry, and we see a major drop - off in the diversity of forbs,» says Willerslev.

Diets for most people around the world are becoming increasingly limited in biological and nutritional diversity.

Since 2013, exploration and survey of around 70 cave systems — part of an interdisciplinary study of past human activity on Mona Island — has revealed that Mona's caves include the greatest diversity of preserved indigenous iconography in the Caribbean, with thousands of motifs recorded in darkzone chambers far from cave entrances.

They used a variety of population genetics and bioinformatics approaches to analyze genetic diversity along the chromosomes in multiple wheat varieties around the world.

By the beginning of the period, dinosaurs had been around for more than 85 million years, but some researchers have suggested that the spread of flowers sparked a surge in dinosaur diversity, with many new species evolving to feast on the green bounty — or to devour the plant - eaters.

What the gardens we constructed for the study are trying to replicate are landscaping decisions that people might make if they wanted to support native insect communities that in turn support much of the diversity around us.»

«Our findings capture which critical regions around the world hold the wild diversity we need for the stability of global agriculture,» says study co-author Colin Khoury, a crop diversity specialist at the International Center for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT) in Cali, Colombia.

Legacy from our ancestors — limited diversity «In the domestication process for agriculture, our Neolithic ancestors domesticated a rather small portion of wild plants that had around them,» said Fowler.

In the Lyme disease system, the researchers got around this confounding factor by looking at diversity in the unexpressed cassettes, which would not have been the object of direct selection because they have no known function on their own; they simply exist as a way of increasing the potential diversity of the VlsE proteiIn the Lyme disease system, the researchers got around this confounding factor by looking at diversity in the unexpressed cassettes, which would not have been the object of direct selection because they have no known function on their own; they simply exist as a way of increasing the potential diversity of the VlsE proteiin the unexpressed cassettes, which would not have been the object of direct selection because they have no known function on their own; they simply exist as a way of increasing the potential diversity of the VlsE protein.

The technique, similar to DNA profiling in humans, enables scientists to study genetic diversity and connectivity among the Acropora coral populations, thus finding clues to help with the conservation of coral reef ecosystems in waters around Okinawa and the world.

The study reveals that the diversity of coat colors in horses has been strongly affected by cultural differences since their initial domestication around 3,500 BC.

«This find means that, around 15 million years ago when there were a lot of large sperm whales with big teeth like Albicetus, it may have been a moment of peak richness in the number and diversity of marine mammals serving as prey to these whales,» Boersma suggests.