Sentences with phrase «as academy president»
«We had to produce [a document] that contained neither over-specific recommendations nor a compromise that was so general we would have looked ridiculous,» said Brézin, who will take over as Academy president from endocrinologist Etienne - Emile Baulieu next January.
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If it involves the business of music, Allan Reid has done it — having worked as a major label A&R exec and an indie artist manager (among other gigs) before becoming president and CEO of Canada's music industry association, the Canadian Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences.
Neil Portnow, the President and CEO of The Recording Academy, said in a statement: «Edwin Hawkins was a celebrated recording artist recognized as a founder of modern gospel music»
Tomas Halik, a Catholic priest, teaches in the Faculty of Philosophy at Charles University in Prague and serves as President of the Czech Christian Academy.
And because the underlying commitment is philosophical, the flimsiest facts are counted as evidence - as when the president of the National Academy of Sciences recently published an article arguing that evolution is confirmed by differences in the size of finch beaks, as though the sprawling evolutionary drama from biochemicals to the human brain could rest on instances of trivial, limited variation.
President Jimmy Carter played sprint, then known as «lightweight football,» at the Naval Academy.
Hoeness, who was reinstated as the club's president last year, oversaw Bayern's youth academy while on parole during a 20 - month prison sentence for tax evasion.
,» relationship editor Monica Gabriel Marshall quotes Joslin Davis, president of the American Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers, who observes that millennials are «particularly choosing prenups as the best option to cover separate property holdings, business interests, anticipated family inheritances, and potential alimony claims.»
Dr. Arthur I. Eidelman, former president of the Academy of Breastfeeding Medicine, told Reuters, «It must be emphasized that breastfeeding should not be conceived as a lifestyle choice of the mother but rather as a basic and priority health decision that each mother must make and thus it is critical to create a supportive environment for this decision process.»
She is a member of the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics, Northern Virginia Dietetic Association where she serves is the current Social Media Chair and past Council on Practice chair, Virginia Dietetic Association, School Nutrition Association where she serves on the Young Professionals Taskforce, School Nutrition Association of Loudoun County where she serves as President, Nutrition Entrepreneurs Dietetics Practice Group, Sports and Cardiovascular Nutrition Dietetics Practice Group, Dietitians in Business and Communications Dietetics Practice Group, and is an active member of the Young Professionals Committee for the Loudoun County Chamber of Commerce where she serves as Social Media Chair.
Stay tuned to Beyond Breakfast for Part Two of our interview with Burke County Public Schools» Nutrition Director and Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics president - elect Donna Martin, to find out how teachers reacted to breakfast - in - the - classroom as the program was expanded district - wide, and some student - favorite school breakfast menu items.
In February 2016, the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics announced that Martin was selected to serve as president - elect of their Board of Directors, including a year as president of the Academy.
He was one of the first trainers for TSNA Culinary Academy in 2013 and served as TSNA President for the 2015 - 2016 term.
Joined at the event by Dr. Sandra Hassink, president of the American Academy of Pediatrics, and by Jessica Donze Black, head of the Kids» Safe and Healthful Foods Project at the Pew Charitable Trusts, Vilsack movingly described how, as the son of a drug - and alcohol - addicted adoptive mother, he was shamed for being overweight which in turn impacted his performance in school.
«When Wole Soyinka won the Nobel prize for literature, he belonged to all of Africa, not just Nigeria, and when Lupita Nyong» o won the Academy Award, she was holding that Oscar for all of Africa, not just for Kenya, and, so, when 14 - year - old Abraham Attah won the Independent Spirit Award, he was not just representing his country, he was being applauded by all of Africa, though I'm sure we applauded the loudest because he is one of us and he is a face of our proud country Ghana,» Mr Mahama told the anniversary celebration, which was honoured by Kenyan president Uhuru Kenyatta and President of Guinea Bissau José Mário Vaz, as well as former Ghanaian presidents John Rawlings and Johpresident Uhuru Kenyatta and President of Guinea Bissau José Mário Vaz, as well as former Ghanaian presidents John Rawlings and JohPresident of Guinea Bissau José Mário Vaz, as well as former Ghanaian presidents John Rawlings and John Kufuor.
He also serves as President of the Board of Nyack Hospital, and formerly served as President of the Nyack School Board and as a Member of the Board of the Edwin Gould Academy in Ramapo.
visited Success Academy 1 charter school — part of a network of charter schools run by Eva Moskowitz, who was once under consideration to serve as President Donald Trump's education secretary.
Following months of preparation, which saw five operators compete during practical challenges earlier this month at the state - of - the - art premises of S&B Automotive Academy in Bristol, scores of leading industry representatives applauded as IRTE (Institute of Road Transport Engineers) President Chris Grime announced the winners.
Geoffrey Rush announced Saturday he's stepping down as president of Australia's screen industry academy, days after a theater company revealed it had received a complaint against the Oscar - winning actor of «inappropriate behavior.»
Lord Rix, president of Mencap, wanted confirmation that the bill would not be used as an opportunity to deny disabled children access to mainstream education in an academy if that was their wish.
Bob Bellafiore, a former Pataki administration official and regular participant on our weekly «Insiders» segment on «Capital Tonight» has landed a new job as vice president of Partner Services and Strategic Initiatives at National Heritage Academies, A Michigan - based public charter school organization.
On Thursday, January 28, 2016, Bronx Borough President Ruben Diaz Jr. joined Principal Jasmine Gonzalez, as well as the students and faculty at P.S. 65 — Mother Hale Academy, to declare it «Mr. G Day in The Bronx.»
Outside of his work with the coalition, Justin also serves as President of the Board of Directors for the Chautauqua Leadership Network, is a classroom volunteer for Junior Achievement of WNY, is a mentor for the WNY P - TECH STEM College & Career Academy and is a member of the WNY STEM Hub.
Brock also served in Vietnam as a Captain in the Army Military Police Corps and was appointed by President George W. Bush to the Board of Visitors to the United States Military Academy at West Point where he served as the vice chair in 2010 and 2011.
«As CEC members, we question the aggressive expansion of Success Academy,» said Mirian Lopez, vice president of the Community Education Council for District 14.
McNutt succeeds Ralph J. Cicerone, who is completing his second term as president, the maximum allowed by the Academy's bylaws.
Professor Sir Robert Lechler, President of the Academy of Medical Sciences says: «We can not ignore the significant health challenges facing our society as a result of an aging and growing population, rising obesity levels and environmental and economic change.
► Also on Monday, «Science Editor - in - Chief Marcia McNutt, a geophysicist who has served as editor - in - chief of the Science family of journals since 2013,... was nominated to stand for election as next president of the National Academy of Sciences (NAS).
As the government's chief scientist, Finkel — president of Australia's Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering and former chancellor of Monash University in Melbourne — will provide independent advice and work to lift the profile of Australian science.
Last week, a panel from the U.S. National Academies of Sciences told the president in a report that Earth is indeed heating up, as previous studies had concluded, and that humans are at least partially responsible (ScienceNOW, 7 June).
Using their star power and connections, the foursome have pushed their ideas on conspicuous occasions, a number of which they created themselves: a session at the National Academy of Sciences» annual meeting that Varmus described as «heated;» a briefing by Krischner, Tilghman, and Varmus at the President's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology; a meeting at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute that «brought together some senior... influencers to talk about the problem;» a new paper about that meeting that will soon appear in PNAS; and a presentation by Kirschner at the Future of Research symposium organized by Boston - area postdocs in October.
The warm reception at the National Academy of Sciences was also a coming - out party for President Barack Obama, cementing his reputation as a virtual rock star among U.S. scientists.
Marcia McNutt, current editor - in - chief of the Science family of journals, who will next month become president of the National Academy of Sciences, praised the selection of Moran as Science publisher.
Esad Džudžević, president of the Bosniak National Council in Serbia, told Tanjug press agency that it's Bosniaks» right to form a new academy, but he questioned the fact that the initiative comes form the top of the Islamic community and as such contributes to the «clericalization» of politics in the region.
The man with the plan now has to make it a reality while moonlighting as the president of the world's most famous science academy.
«The European directive is fully compatible with the ethical respect for the animals and should have been incorporated in Italy without [additional] restrictions as in other European countries,» says Lamberto Maffei, president of Accademia dei Lincei (the Italian science academy).
On December 29th, The New York Times quoted Gary Nickelson, president of the American Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers, as saying, «We used to fight about who gets to keep the house; now we fight about who gets stuck with the dead cow.»
The president of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Stefan Vodenicharov, has been nominated as the country's new minister of education and research.
«These sorts of juvenile - only assemblages are rare in the fossil record,» said Ted Daeschler, PhD, vice president of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Drexel University, who served as a co-author on the study published in PLOS ONE.
The National Academy of Engineering (NAE) has nominated a veteran academic administrator and science policy expert, C. Daniel Mote Jr., as its next president.
The panel, headed by National Academy of Sciences president Bruce Alberts, originally proposed organizing the more than 100 study sections run by NIH's Center for Scientific Review (CSR) under 21 supercommittees known as Integrated Review Groups (IRGs).
Regarding mentorship for young researchers, as former chairman of a final - selection committee for the ESF EURYI awards (ca 1 M EUR each) he was nominated president of an academy formed by the 100 eminent young researchers that have been awarded in total during this program.
That is the question facing a new panel to be assembled by the InterAcademy Council (IAC) in Amsterdam, a composite board of many of the world's national scientific bodies, such as the National Academy of Sciences in the U.S. «This will be an independent review,» says physicist Robbert Dijkgraaf, president of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences, one of the IAC co-chairs, about the evaluation requested by the U.N. and the IPCC.
«Fred Kavli and the Kavli Foundation stand out as innovators in finding important new ways to stimulate science in the 21st century,» says National Academy of Sciences President Ralph J. Cicerone.
Dr. Madras recently served as a panelist at the Vatican Pontifical Academy of Sciences and in 2017, was appointed as one of six members of the President's Commission on Combating Drug Addiction and the Opioid Crisis.
Over the dozen years since the cells were first derived, they've been expected to meet federal rules that change with each president, research guidelines from the National Academy of Sciences as interpreted by their institutions, and separate requirements from state and private funders.
He is Member of the European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO), has been President of the European Society of Gene and Cell Therapy (ESGCT), and has been appointed as expert on the «Human Gene Editing Study» of the US National Academies of Sciences and of Medicine, and on the Italian National Committee for Biosafety, Biotechnology and Life Sciences.
He served as president of the Royal Society (the U.K.'s science academy) from 2005 to 2010, and in 2006 he was nominated to the House of Lords.
«Park Systems is presenting this webinar as part of Park Nano Academy, which will offer valuable education and shared knowledge across many Nano Science Disciplines and Industries as a way to further enable NanoScale advancements,» comments Keibock Lee, Park Systems President.
He was the first president since John F. Kennedy to do that, and if you read that speech, which is still on the web I believe — both at the Academy web site and my friend Ralph Cicerone, president of the National Academy of Sciences, is in the front row — and it's also on the White House web site — what you will find is although the president was clear about the practical applications of science and technology to our great challenges as I've mentioned, he probably spent two thirds of that talk talking about the importance of basic science; the importance of fundamental research in science and technology to our national well - being; and the importance of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics education.