Sentences with phrase «at large research universities»

Sixth, in relatively rare situations (usually at large research universities) the institution may create a tenure track position for a partner.

This past winter, for example, I received such an email from a former student at a large research university in the United States.

So, just this once, Matthew — an assistant professor at a large research university in the American South whom I've known since graduate school — decided not to wait until Monday.

James Gates, a physicist at the University of Maryland, College Park, and the report's other co-chair, says that it's just as important to help students at 2 - year colleges and those seeking technical training as it is to address the challenges at a large research university like his.

The following story was related to me by a friend who works at a large research university that is up to its eyeballs in environmental nonsense generally and AGW in particular: «We were interviewing prospective graduate students.

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After more than a decade of research on the use of machine learning to detect disease - causing mutations in DNA, Brendan Frey, biomedical engineering professor at the University of Toronto, this week launched his company, Deep Genomics, to bring the technology his team developed to the public at large.

The labs of large, multinational companies and academic research efforts at major universities or governments are great at churning out innovations that become the basis for startups.

After retiring in 2003, he donated $ 105 million to the university's business school and various medical research programs — at the time, the largest single cash donation to a post-secondary institution in Canada's history.

The Millennial generation is now the largest in the U.S. and has the power to determine the 2016 election, according to a study by The Center for Information and Research on Civic Learning and Engagement at Tufts University.

«Overstock would be the largest existing company to launch an ICO to date,» said Garrick Hileman, a research fellow at the University of Cambridge who studies cryptocurrency.

He's got a PhD in Economics from the University of Minnesota, he's a CFA charterholder, and he's worked at the Federal Reserve bank in Atlanta, and he currently works in the research department of a large investment manager here in San Francisco.

The University of Michigan — one of the largest public research institutions in the country — has the No. 3 - ranked graduate entrepreneurship program in the country at its Stephen M. Ross School of Business.

The German universities expressed less opposition to the growth of Nazism in the 1930's than did the churches and labor unions; their failure at this point has been attributed in large part to their neutral pursuit of truth without concern for the life of the nation.14 By contrast, an example of intellectual responsibility occurred a few years ago when the University of Chicago was building a new cancer research hospital.

Especially at a large public research university, where the average lecture hall reaches maximum capacity at 500 students, the grueling pressure to excel, to set the curve, and to be the best, drives many students to purchase the «study drug.»

«There's a large body of research that shows that home birth is safe in other high - resource countries... but there's been some ongoing question about whether those data can actually transfer to the United States,» Melissa Cheyney, an associate professor of Medical Anthropology at Oregon State University, told The Huffington Post.

The plan will impact nearly all positions at Long Island's largest public research university that are funded by the state budget.

The research on PFOA is stronger than on most chemicals and the documented connections between the chemical and cancers has grown exponentially in recent years, building a uniquely large of body of research, compared to most chemicals, said Phil Brown, director of the Social Science Environmental Health Research Institute at Northeastern Uniresearch on PFOA is stronger than on most chemicals and the documented connections between the chemical and cancers has grown exponentially in recent years, building a uniquely large of body of research, compared to most chemicals, said Phil Brown, director of the Social Science Environmental Health Research Institute at Northeastern Uniresearch, compared to most chemicals, said Phil Brown, director of the Social Science Environmental Health Research Institute at Northeastern UniResearch Institute at Northeastern University.

Subsequent research undertaken at the University of Glasgow has indicated that such health inequalities may be due, at least in part, to epigenetic effects resulting from socio - economic circumstances - http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-01-health-inequalities-imprinted-dna.html The Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) is the UK's largest organisation for funding research on economic and socialresearch undertaken at the University of Glasgow has indicated that such health inequalities may be due, at least in part, to epigenetic effects resulting from socio - economic circumstances - http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-01-health-inequalities-imprinted-dna.html The Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) is the UK's largest organisation for funding research on economic and socialResearch Council (ESRC) is the UK's largest organisation for funding research on economic and socialresearch on economic and social issues.

Katherine will build relationships with state and local policymakers and other stakeholders to identify policy issues of importance to Idaho and look into research opportunities for the Center and university at large.

The author group included individuals from a large spread of nationalities and scientific and institutional backgrounds, but consensus was easy to reach, says declaration co-author Charoula Tzanakou, a research fellow at the University of Warwick in the United Kingdom who investigates gender balance in academia.

A number of giant super-eruptions between 8 and 12 million years ago that could be larger than the colossal eruptions known to have taken place at Yellowstone have been identified in the United States through research led by the University of Leicester.

The research, by the University of Sydney's Marine Studies Institute and the Centre for Coastal Biogeochemistry at Southern Cross University, is the first long term study of such a large and important Southern Hemisphere system referred to as a drowned river valley, which in Sydney spans estuaries from Middle Harbour to Lane Cove and Parramatta.

«Wolves rely on large prey to survive,» said Benson, assistant professor of vertebrate ecology who conducted the research as a doctoral student at Trent University.

«This paper details an approach that we feel capitalizes on the best aspects of both research techniques to advance our understanding of the behavior of large groups and advance the field,» says Ned Smith, an associate professor of management and organizations at Northwestern University's Kellogg School of Management, who is co-lead author of the paper.

Researchers at the Pharmacy Department of the CEU Cardenal Herrera University have published the design of a new bioadhesive ocular insert which is placed inside the eyelid and releases a larger amount of medicine through the cornea in a controlled way in the international journal Drug Delivery and Translational Research.

A team led by Margaret Pericak - Vance of Duke University, Jonathan Haines of Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee, and Allen Roses — a former Duke researcher now in charge of genetics research at the Glaxo Wellcome Company in Research Triangle Park, North Carolina — scanned the DNA of members of 16 large families with a high rate of Alzheimer's, looking at 280 genetic markers that might help identify candidatresearch at the Glaxo Wellcome Company in Research Triangle Park, North Carolina — scanned the DNA of members of 16 large families with a high rate of Alzheimer's, looking at 280 genetic markers that might help identify candidatResearch Triangle Park, North Carolina — scanned the DNA of members of 16 large families with a high rate of Alzheimer's, looking at 280 genetic markers that might help identify candidate genes.

Those explanations miss the larger point, says Beau Lotto, a brain research at University College London.

A recent study from the Center for Injury Research and Policy at Nationwide Children's Hospital done in conjunction with researchers from Colorado School of Public Health at the University at Colorado and Temple University used data from a large, national sports injury surveillance system to determine the effect of state - level TBI laws on trends of new and recurrent concussions among US high school athletes.

The Brain Science Institute (BSI) at RIKEN, Japan's largest research organization, and the Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology Graduate University (OIST), an interdisciplinary graduate university located at the southernmost tip of Japan, have been collaborating with the HBP since 2013 and applying their expertise in supercomputer - based models and siUniversity (OIST), an interdisciplinary graduate university located at the southernmost tip of Japan, have been collaborating with the HBP since 2013 and applying their expertise in supercomputer - based models and siuniversity located at the southernmost tip of Japan, have been collaborating with the HBP since 2013 and applying their expertise in supercomputer - based models and simulations.

He's a professor at the University of California, Berkeley School of Law and he studies the use of empirical research to inform legal policy; and he's the author of an article in the August issue of Scientific American titled, «How New York Beat Crime», about the reasons for the huge drops in crime over the last couple of decades in America's largest city.

But a survey commissioned in 2002 by the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research found that the country's four largest ethnic minority groups are hardly represented at all among Dutch university staff members.

She is a professor of social psychology and neuroscience at Northeastern University in Boston, and like many scientists with large, active research labs, she watches with dismay as some Ph.D. s and postdocs struggle to find a secure job, as she did 2 decades ago.

Rabalais team - teaches biological oceanography at Louisiana State University, and continues her own research on Mississippi River - Gulf of Mexico interactions, forming the world's second largest dead zone.

A research group led by Aya Higuchi, a researcher at Ibaraki University, conducted observations of the massive - star forming region IRAS 16547 - 4247 with the Atacama Large Millimeter / submillimeter Array (ALMA).

And how can these experiences meet the needs of interested students while at the same time be cost - effective in large research universities?»

Doug Dluzen, currently a graduate student in the Department of Pharmacology at Penn State University, says that he works in a fairly large lab where there are outlets to discuss research problems, and strategies, and «generally there is someone who has stumbled upon a problem before — being able to discuss my issues can be very helpful when troubleshooting an assay or transfection in the early stages of the experiments.»

The authors — Ralph W. Muller, CEO of the University of Pennsylvania Health System, Ezekiel J. Emanuel, MD, PhD, vice provost for global initiatives and chair of the Department of Medical Ethics and Health Policy at the University of Pennsylvania, Andrew Steinmetz, research assistant to Dr. Emanuel, and Steven M. Altschuler, MD, president and CEO of The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia — surveyed 74 senior executives from large hospitals and health systems across the United States.

(I did mine at a large, research - oriented state university campus.)

In the latest edition of the journal Health Economics, researchers Vicki Bogan of Cornell University and Angela Fertig, research investigator at Medica Research Institute, find that mental health problems have a large and significant negative effect on retirement research investigator at Medica Research Institute, find that mental health problems have a large and significant negative effect on retirement Research Institute, find that mental health problems have a large and significant negative effect on retirement savings.

My Ph.D. research was part of a larger study — Living Changes in the Life Sciences: Tracing the «Ethical» and the «Social» within Scientific Practice and Work Culture — at the University of Vienna's Department of Social Studies of Science, with Ulrike Felt as project leader.

The research group lead by Prof. Dieter Ebert from the Department of Environmental Science at the University of Basel has now discovered the missing link that explains how this large group of extreme parasites, the microsporidia, has evolved.

«There is potential for it to become more industrial as people realize they can make money from pangolin scales, and we are starting to see this already with seizures of large volumes of scales,» said Dan Challender, who is doing his PhD research at the University of Kent in England on the pangolin trade and co-chairs a pangolin specialist group.

Previous research at The University of Manchester found that if immersed in water, graphene - oxide membranes become slightly swollen and smaller salts flow through the membrane along with water, but larger ions or molecules are blocked.

Cyrus Cooper, Professor of Rheumatology and Director of the MRC LEU at the University of Southampton where the research was carried out, adds: «This study forms part of a larger programme of research at the MRC Lifecourse Epidemiology Unit at the University of Southampton.

«His signature projects are quite risky, but with obvious large payback,» says Dimitar Sasselov, director of the Harvard Origins of Life Initiative, who worked with Kipping in his postdoc research at Harvard University.

A large number of chemicals that dissolve relatively easily in water do not break down as readily in air, building up «specifically in nonaquatic food webs: mammals, birds, human beings,» explains Frank Gobas, an environmental toxicologist at Simon Fraser University in British Columbia, who led the research.

Research at Case Western Reserve University's telescope concentrates on the large - scale distribution of galaxies, including the vast, near - empty cosmic regions known as voids.

The researchers from a consortium of U.S. universities, with collaborators from industry and the public sector, are performing the tests on the UC San Diego shake table, the largest outdoor shake table in the world.The facility is part of NHERI@UCSD, an experimental facility at UC San Diego funded by the National Science Foundation as part of its Natural Hazard Engineering Research Infrastructure (NHERI) program.

Brianna Blaser, outreach project director at Science Careers, said no matter the economy — but especially in the current tough environment — successful job - seekers know how to do two things well: stand out among the other applicants and explore career options beyond the large research universities.

«While urbanization has caused cities to lose large numbers of plants and animals, the good news is that cities still retain endemic native species, which opens the door for new policies on regional and global biodiversity conservation,» said lead author and NCEAS working group member Myla F. J. Aronson, a research scientist in the Department of Ecology, Evolution and Natural Resources at Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey.