Sentences with phrase «broader impacts of the work»

«While certain basic research projects that receive federal funding certainly have silly - sounding titles, further examination may reveal the true scientific merit and potential broader impacts of the work,» Peters said.

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By working with TEGH, a large hospital with a broad community user base, MaRS will extend the reach and impact of its innovation programs, offerings and ventures.

Written by NCEO founder Corey Rosen, this issue brief discusses as of mid-2016 the extent and growth of employee ownership; survey data on ESOPs and corporate governance as well as ESOPs and executive compensation; research on the effect of ESOPs on corporate performance; the 2012 shared capitalism study of Great Place to Work applicants; data on employee ownership and employee financial well - being; the NCEO's analysis of data on ESOPs and default rates; trends in broad - based equity compensation plans; equity compensation and corporate performance; the impact of ESOPs and other broad - based plans on unemployment; legislative and regulatory issues for employee ownership; and international developments in broad - based plans.

The chairman and ranking member, respectively, of the Transportation, Housing and Urban Development subcommittee of the broader Senate appropriations committee want GAO to «examine the impact self - driving trucks will have on the two million Americans who currently work as truck drivers and the communities where they live,» according to a press release issued last week.

i His writing and his work with Impact Investing draws on broad experience as an artist, bio-dynamic farmer, Waldorf teacher and co-founder of three social enterprises: 1) From 28 - 34 a farm based campus for young people who wanted a college experience without intellectual academics; 2) from 43 - 46 a biological healthcare company and 3) from 46 - present a workflow technology firm focused on personalizing healthcare.

As an estimated $ 5 billion project employing as many as 50,000 people, the Amazon HQ2 is likely to have a broad impact on the local community in terms of what people pay for real estate, how long it takes them to get to work and what dollar figures they see on their paychecks.

Working on different norms about male and female language will not increase women's ability to impact on social reality if this change is not related to broader forms of mobilisation.

We know this works - not just for protecting kids from the mental and emotional impact of porn, or sexual predators, or the requests of their peers - but even in their broader academic life.

The government has always maintained that the cuts will be «fair» and that those with the «broadest shoulders will carry the heaviest burden», but it doesn't take a forensic accountant to work out that a comprehensive raid on the welfare pot will mean the poorest will bear the brunt of the impact.

With over 17 divisions, the Department is one of the state's most diverse agencies, and the broad nature of the Department's work has an impact on all New Yorkers.

A shutdown would have broad impacts on federal science programs, including halting granting activity at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and the National Science Foundation (NSF), forcing most government scientists to stay home, and delaying work on NASA space missions.

«Considering the importance and broad existence of similar problems, I believe this work will have a high impact in the field, and many people will revisit this problem from this new and exciting perspective.»

The report, however, identified important differences in the broader impact of the researchers» work.

«Poverty and the many stresses that come with social disadvantage have long been linked to cardiovascular disease, but how we live, work, and play has a great impact on heart health for people from a broad range of economic and cultural backgrounds,» explains David Siscovick, MD, MPH, Senior Vice President for Research at The New York Academy of Medicine and Chair of the American Heart Association's (AHA) Council on Epidemiology and Prevention.

A clear explanation of the broader impacts of the proposed work is an important aspect of an application and a key to its success.

«But given the significant side - effects previously associated with treating the disease, notably fatigue and neuropsychiatric side effects, we were interested in looking at the impact of new treatments on patients» ability to work, and in a broader sense, how this effects employers and overall economies.»

The finding could have broad impacts on our understanding of how the stratosphere works, says James Anderson, an atmospheric chemist at Harvard University.

The policies governing NIH grants, contained in a document called Office of Management and Budget Circular A-21, do not include a broader impacts criterion, although PIs and postdocs each have a «dual role» as persons who are simultaneously both working on a specific research project and giving or receiving training, says Walter Schaffer, NIH senior scientific adviser for extramural research, in an interview with Science Careers.

Gary's work spanned such a broad range of topics that it is hard for anyone to appreciate his impact on all of the fields he touched.

An additional consequence of the invisibility of the scientific impact of citizen science is that projects may miss the broader social impacts of their work.

«By creating a personalized Patient - on - a-Chip, we can really begin to understand how diseases, medicines, chemicals, and foods affect an individual's health,» said Geraldine A. Hamilton, PhD, president and chief scientific officer of Emulate, Inc. «The goal of Emulate working with Cedars - Sinai is to advance and qualify the system for new clinical applications and ultimately democratize the technology so that it can have a broad impact on patient healthcare.»

Check out editorial director David Markus's introduction to this Schools That Work for a broad look at the potential impact of virtual education.

New empirical work, using better data (e.g., that enable researchers to estimate the relative impact of factors affecting student achievement growth from year to year) and more - sophisticated statistical techniques has, in broad terms, reinforced the Coleman Report conclusion that teacher quality is the most important schooling variable.

Our comprehensive leadership development offerings are designed to address the complex and critical work of school and district leaders throughout their careers, within specific school settings, and related to a broad range of topics that impact teaching, learning, and leadership.

In these personal journal entries, Broad Residents offer a lens into the high - impact work they do on behalf of the families and schools they serve.

«Inspectors should not grade an aspect such as teaching, unless circumstances are exceptional, without considering the broad range of evidence that they can gather during a visit to a lesson — for example, the behaviour of the students and how well they are managed, subject knowledge, the standard of work completed in books, the quality of marking and so on — and use this to come to a view about what teaching is like for those students and its impact on their learning over time.

But foundation honchos aren't exactly satisfied with the results of their work and now they are using a new investment strategy to make a broader impact.

A distinguished record is a substantial body of work that has had a broad and significant impact on prevention science.

He has produced a remarkable body of work that has had a broad and significant impact on prevention science.

«All of us working to affect broad change across the country must maintain sight of our ultimate goal: directly impacting student achievement.

The Eli and Edythe Broad Foundation publishes a bi-annual report that showcases the work of our grantees and highlights their impact in dramatically improving America's public schools, advancing scientific and medical research and making the arts accessible for as many people as possible.

One of our intentions is to be a laboratory school for San Francisco and the Exploratorium and beyond, so that the work we're doing and what we're learning isn't done in a silo or on an island of privilege, serving just a small number of kids, but rather the curriculum we're developing, what we're learning about inquiry, the individualized learning plans, everything we're doing is open - source, so our impact can be broader than just the four walls of our building.»

Previous work on the impact of philanthropy in education terms these types of status quo investments as «lower leverage» grants, which can include funding for efforts in professional development, unrestricted or general purpose grants to schools, or special - purpose grants to fund a particular program or activity (e.g. arts enrichment).4 The contrasting approach — the «higher leverage» investment — is investment with the potential to exert systemic influence on public education, which can be divided into two broad categories: 5

«This time the purge is broad and is impacting issuers with far more predictable cash flows — regular run - of - the - mill companies in need of working capital,» he wrote.

Each year, the Wexner Center invites artists making work of cultural, political, social, and economic impact who offer students a broad cultural context for critical and creative thinking and help them gain global literacy.

A former obituary writer for the Daily Telegraph, McEwen creates morbidly humorous works that often address the celebrity - driven nature of the media and its broad impact on contemporary culture, as in his series of enlarged, wall - mounted...

A former obituary writer for the Daily Telegraph, McEwen creates morbidly humorous works that often address the celebrity - driven nature of the media and its broad impact on contemporary culture, as in his series of enlarged, wall - mounted mock - obituaries of living celebrities such as Jeff Koons, Bill Clinton, and Kate Moss.

Both personal and broader social implications appear in Johnson's work; here she examines the impact of our world leaders» decisions and how one navigates this ambiguous and complex terrain.

As a survey exhibition that is also an extended work itself, Relocating the Remains offers a broad look at the long - term impact new media technologies are already having, both in terms of how we build and maintain our world views and the transformation of exhibition spaces into open - ended and interactive environments.

These contacts seem to have instilled in her a growing commitment to abstract principles, combined with a conviction that functionality did not reduce a work's esthetic impact and an interest in experimenting with a broad variety of new techniques and materials.

The broad, gestural style of Lost Mine reflects the impact of American Abstract Expressionist painters such as Jackson Pollock, Willem de Kooning and Franz Kline, whose work Lanyon first encountered in the early 1950s.

He created morbidly humorous works that often address the celebrity - driven nature of the media and its broad impact on contemporary culture, as in his series of enlarged, wall - mounted mock - obituaries of living celebrities, like Kate Moss or Jeff Koons.

Join Rachel Harrison, acclaimed conceptual artist, and Elisabeth Sussman, co-curator of Paul Thek: Diver A Retrospective, as they take a closer look at this «artist's artist,» his work, and his broad - reaching impact on the contemporary art scene.

It elucidates both artists» powerful work and encourages viewers to contemplate art's emotive effect and broader impact as reflections of the zeitgeist.

Her groundbreaking art works continue to have a powerful impact on the development of a broad spectrum of art across the world.

Roger A. Pielke, Jr., of the University of Colorado, has a must - read article in The Wall Street Journal, «Hurricanes and Human Choice,» that sets Hurricane Sandy and its impacts in the broader context of hurricane and climate history — and drawing on his invaluable work assessing such impacts when the losses are «normalized» — a process akin to adjusting economic analysis for inflation.

He is leading efforts to build a national Climate Impacts Collaborative and working with a broad array of stakeholders to focus the attention of policy makers and others on local climate impacts and the need for effective resilience strategies and policy solImpacts Collaborative and working with a broad array of stakeholders to focus the attention of policy makers and others on local climate impacts and the need for effective resilience strategies and policy solimpacts and the need for effective resilience strategies and policy solutions.

She now works on KFTC's broader issue of new energy and a just economic transition for coal - impacted communities and beyond.

Adam Markham directs UCS's special initiative on climate impacts and works with a broad array of stakeholders to focus the attention of policy makers and others on local climate impacts and the need for effective resilience strategies and policy solutions.

Shashank joined RHG in 2008 as research analyst, and has since worked across RHG's practice areas to analyze the impact of policy proposals and structural developments on specific markets and broader economic trends.