Sentences with phrase «built pioneering programs»

Drawing increasingly on support from foundations and federal agencies, the Association has built pioneering programs for bringing underrepresented groups into science; applying science to human rights; supporting the growth of science in the developing world; exploring issues of science, ethics, and law; tracking federal spending for R&D; and in bringing scientists and engineers to work in Congress and executive agencies of government.

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At Wharton, Ulrich says, he has seen increasing numbers of students spend their summers in San Francisco developing their startups and then participating in Wharton's Semester in San Francisco during the fall — a program he pioneered a couple years ago to continue the foundation built during the summer.

After being lured to this brick building in Pioneer Square by its outstanding cocktail program, we ended up ditching our dinner plans and hunkering down at the bar for a meal.

The CCI / CEE proposal builds on the state's pioneering pre-K program initiated by State Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver in 1997 that is currently available to 100,000 4 - year - olds on a half - day basis.

Building upon the experience of pioneering programs as well as emerging research, Attendance Works recommends schools and afterschool programs work together in the following ways:

We pursue interlocking strategies for impact: conducting research to drive policy and practice, designing and spreading high - quality professional learning, and pioneering a fellows program to build a pipeline of new leaders.

Under Walker, lawmakers built on the pioneer Milwaukee Parental Choice Program by expanding to Racine and then statewide, though with certain enrollment caps and income limits.

In July, 2016, the Harvard Graduate School of Education launched the Saul Zaentz Early Education Initiative to pursue interlocking strategies for impact: conducting research to drive policy and practice, designing and spreading high - quality professional learning, and pioneering a fellows» program to build a pipeline of new early education leaders.

Participants included James Comer, an internationally known child development expert and professor of child psychiatry at Yale University who pioneered the «Comer School Development Program,» which applies child and adolescent development principles to build relationships that allow students to take responsibility for their own learning.

One of the pioneers in digital comic books, over the past year iVerse has undergone a number of changes, the most dramatic working alongside Diamond Distributors on a brick - and - mortar retailer partnership program and helping publishers build specialized subscription apps, the most high - profile of which is arguably Archie Comics» «New Crusaders» program.

Cleveland, Ohio, Nov. 16th, 2014 - RentTrack, a pioneer in the rental payment process that seeks to empower its consumers with an easy, secure way to build credit history while paying their bills, is the latest addition to MRI Software's unique Partner Connect program.

And given UCLA's rank as the No. 2 graduate fine art program in the country, it's a compelling list, which includes Woman's Building pioneer Judy Chicago, conceptual artist Barbara Kruger, painters Lari Pittman and Toba Khedoori (the latter of whom recently had a one - woman show at LACMA), installationist Rodney McMillian, photographer James Welling and groundbreaking photo collagist Robert Heinecken (who established the photography program at UCLA in the 1960s and was the subject of a retrospective at the Hammer Museum in 2014).

«As we look forward to moving into our new building on Saint Marks Place [this summer], Laura is playing a central role in establishing a thoughtful and pioneering curatorial program.

NEW YORK, NEW YORK and SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA (March 22, 2016)-- As the next step in their global alliance to accelerate the integration of human health and wellness in the built environment, Delos ™, the pioneer of Wellness Real Estate ™, and Lendlease, one of the world's leading integrated infrastructure and real estate groups, today announced their collaboration to advance the WELL Core & Shell Certification and pre-Certification programs as a pathway to WELL ready workplaces for building tenants.

As the offset market continues to grow and change, well designed offset programs offering socially progressive offsets — such as Help Build ™ carbon offsets — represent best practice, enabling pioneer organizations to support the transition to a low - carbon world.

Building appropriately on the pioneering work of the National Assessment could have had a salutary influence on developing the priorities of the CCSP Strategic Plan and surely would have led the program toward a different overall configuration of follow - up scientific and assessment priorities.

While high performance building owes a great debt of gratitude to European pioneers like Dr. Wolfgang Feist of the Passivhaus Institut in Germany, standards like Passive House need to be aligned with the US market, US rating schemes, and US incentive programs to really take off here.

They are pioneers in building the best legal education program possible.

«By offering their customers this homebuyer empowerment program, Pacific Union Financial joins other pioneering mortgage lenders in providing the first program that allows homebuyers to protect themselves from unpredictable market fluctuations, and significantly increase their chance of building wealth and security when they buy a home.»