Sentences with phrase «by academic director»

FAA at Mana is an exact replica of the original academy in Florence, and is led by Academic Director Jordan Sokol, a graduate of the program, with painters Richard Greathouse and Amaya Gurpide as its principal instructors.

In 2011, led by Academic Director Yves Solis, who was awarded the Margot Stern Strom Teacher Award, students built a mobile Holocaust museum.

You will be notified by the Office of Graduate Admissions or by the Academic Director of the program if an interview is required.

Candidates for this advanced standing should indicate this in their application essay, and must submit an academic paper on a topic approved by the Academic Director.

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Susan Moffatt - Bruce is the academic director of the Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center, consistently ranked among the best academic medical centers by the University HealthSystem Consortium.

Following are some of the ideas discussed at the event, attended by more than 250 chief executives, academics, directors, entrepreneurs, and investors.

The closest the Wainstein report got to providing America with the ammo it needed to keep UNC in the national spotlight of infamy was an email sent by a member of the North Carolina academic support staff to a director of football operations.

Indeed, a recent US academic study led by Dr Kurt Hübner, director of the Institute for European Studies at the University of British Columbia, makes the case that Irish unity could be worth 36 billion euros for the island of Ireland overall, with long - term improvements in productivity and growth.

Student athletes were nominated by their athletic director, and their academic credentials and athletic achievements were further reviewed:

At the Y, we know that access to playgrounds throughout our communities provide kids with the opportunity to be physically active, which is essential for their health and academic achievement,» stated Kyle Stewart, Executive Director of the Alliance of New York State YMCAs, «We commend Senate Co-Leader Klein for his continued and progressive leadership to create strong communities by creating safe environments for kids to play outdoors, thereby leading toward a healthier New York.»

As part of the CLS program — which is funded by the state, the city, the UFT and private donors — a full - time community school director is hired by each school to secure and manages services in six areas: health and wellness, educator supports, academic supports, expanded learning time, parent supports and community outreach.

David Albert, director communications at the New York State School Boards Association, says the board is encouraged by the academic gains Elia sparked in Florida's Hillsborough County school system during her tenure as a teacher and administrator.

Over the past 2 academic years, Ph.D. students funded by the French government have been given the opportunity to become doctorants - conseil — «a kind of junior consultant,» says Djimila Canet, who has been involved in implementing the program at the University of La Rochelle as the director of its Career Services Department.

Academic research into the cause of the disease went into a 20 - year stall, punctuated in 2006 by a press conference in which Reeves and the CDC's director at the time, Julie Gerberding, announced what they portrayed as a breakthrough discovery: CFS was caused by a genetic predisposition to difficulty responding to stress.

In a 14 May Next Wave article, NIH's Ruth Kirschstein and colleagues noted that «portable or transitional grant awards to promising fellows should be considered as a means of facilitating their advancement into independent positions at academic institutions»; this, indeed, is one of several proposals «under consideration by the senior staff of NIH and the Advisory Committee to the director of NIH.»

Most collaborations between companies and academic researchers are initiated by industry scientists looking for specific technologies or expertise, notes Anthony Boccanfuso, executive director of the Washington, D.C. - based University - Industry Demonstration Partnership (UIDP), a consortium aimed at improving collaboration between universities and industry.

Co-author Professor Angus Kirkland, from the Department of Materials at Oxford University and Science Director at the new electron Physical Science Imaging Centre (ePSIC) at Harwell Science and Innovation Campus, described the breakthrough as an exemplar of how Oxford is able to respond to key academic and industrial problems by using interdisciplinary resources and expertise.

Rob Crozier, the executive director of AUSNZ, told me that academic salary negotiations have reached a total impasse, since the vice-chancellors effectively have been told by the government not to negotiate at a national level with AUSNZ.

This idea, which goes by the name of functional - trait ecology, had been part of his lab work for years but had always felt academic and abstract, says Duffy, now director of the Smithsonian Institution's Tennenbaum Marine Observatories Network in Washington DC.

«By providing AstraZeneca's annotated library to our network of academic collaborators, we will facilitate opportunities to unveil new discoveries and investigate uncharted biology,» said Anna - Lena Gustavsson, platform director of CBCS.

April 18, 2008 Charis Eng, MD, PhD Delivers Lecture at the 18th Annual Symposium of the Society of Black Academic Surgeons Charis Eng, MD, PhD, Sondra J and Stephen R Hardis Chair and Director, Genomic Medicine Institute, delivered the opening scientific lecture entitled, «Genetics - and genomics - based surgical decision - making» to the 18th Annual Symposium of the Society of Black Academic Surgeons, hosted by the Cleveland Clinic, April 17 - 20, 2008.

David Dean, director of the Physics Division and ORNL Isotope Program, was nominated by the AAAS section on physics for «distinguished contributions to the field of nuclear theory, particularly for development and application of innovative computational techniques and for academic leadership and public service.»

For David Habin Song, MD, MBA, academic chair of the department of plastic surgery at Georgetown University School of Medicine and MedStar Health physician executive director for plastic surgery, the field of plastic surgery means saving limbs damaged by diabetes and using the most advanced techniques to help women who have had their breasts removed during cancer treatment.

In 1996, in response to these concerns, Varmus, then director of NIH, impaneled a group of experienced clinical investigators and academic health center administrators to make recommendations that might guide the NIH toward policy changes to alleviate the concerns in the clinical research community.14 Several of the panel's recommendations have been implemented, including increased support of the General Clinical Research Center budget, expanded support of training in clinical research, and the establishment of NIH - sponsored educational debt relief programs for clinical investigators.15 - 18 The panel also recommended restructuring of NIH peer review groups so that patient - oriented grant applications would be evaluated by study sections in which at least half the grant applications involve patient - oriented research.

The program, which was the first of its kind and continues to present day, was started by William H. Wunner, Ph.D., Wistar's director of Academic Affairs and director of Outreach Education and Technology Training.

Some parts of the film are drily academic, but much of it is quite beautiful and artfully put together by the director.

Bonus features come by way of a feature - length audio commentary track with director Amiel, a special making - of documentary, and around 10 other separate featurettes which include a wide array of cast, crew and academic - leaning interviews, as well as a tour of Darwin's home, which has been turned into a museum.

Pakula's name belongs on my earlier list of redoubtable directors who stumbled in» 78: a sense of urgency is missing from this enterprise, and the movement into solemn mythologizing is too academic, too uncomplicated by the sorts of existential miscellany the Hellman and Herzog films are chockfull of.

The films of Nicholas Ray, more than any other contemporary American director's, were singled out by the up - and - coming Cahiers du Cinéma crowd (on the cusp of their own splashy Nouvelle Vague) as justification for their politique des auteurs — more a personal stance on critical practice than dogmatic superstructure, and long since codified and ossified by academic film criticism into hierarchy - happy «auteur theory.»

HBO Review by Kam Williams Headline: HBO Special Again Profiles Prominent African - Americans Film critic Elvis Mitchell and director Timothy Greenfield - Sanders have collaborated on another series of fascinating interviews with a mix of African - American artists, activists, academics and athletes.

The research, which was carried out by academics including Becky Francis, director of the UCL Institute of Education and Louise Archer, professor of sociology of education at King's College London, found 120 secondary schools which taught lessons in ability sets.

Editor's note: This post is co-authored by Olga Acosta Price, director of the Center for Health and Health Care in Schools, and Wendy Baron, Chief Academic Officer of the New Teacher Center.

Dr Jacqueline Cornish OBE, National Clinical Director for Children, Young People and Transition to Adulthood at NHS England, said: «It is exciting to see this small - scale study, part funded by NHS England, show students» academic success and personal well - being significantly improved by sport and exercise.

She serves as the Portfolio Director for the Foundation's Postsecondary Success grantmaking and oversees Linked Learning, the Foundation's culminating effort to transform high schools by integrating academic and career - technical education, and is now expanding across the state under the leadership of our Linked Learning partners.

Carl Cohn — executive director of the California Collaborative for Educational Excellence, which assists school districts struggling to improve student academic outcomes — also said he thought that the state would be immunized against any effort by the federal government to discourage implementation of the Common Core.

That's a question explored by the College's Shelby Cosner, PhD, associate professor of educational policy studies and academic program director of the Ed.D..

But the agency, led by a five - person board of directors, has been running in neutral while the State Board of Education chooses the metrics for deciding when county offices of education and the agency will provide support for — and eventually intervene in — districts that fail to reach their academic goals.

After obtaining her degree, she transitioned into the nonprofit sector, first as a Site Director, then as the Academic Program Director of South Asian Youth Action (SAYA), where she designed and implemented a successful college advisory program tailored to the cultural needs of the population served by SAYA.

KIPP Delta is held to high standards for academic results and financial discipline by its Board of Directors, KIPP Foundation, and the state of Arkansas.

«Our mission at Charlotte - Mecklenburg Schools is to maximize academic achievement by every student in every school,» said Christina Efird, teacher PD director of CMS's Center for Effective Teaching and Learning.

But Anthony Carnevale, the director of Georgetown's Center on Education and the Workforce, calls the Common Core a «one - size - fits - all pathway governed by abstract academic content.»

Rubrics similar to those developed by the Academic - Year Governor's School directors are used to evaluate the Summer Residential programs.

There is wisdom in the piece by Roger P. Weissberg, the vice chair of the board of directors and chief knowledge officer at the Collaborative for Academic, Social, and Emotional Learning (CASEL).

«Teachers in LAUSD have uncovered the unanswered question about Common Core implementation — how do we raise the academic standards for all students when our most vulnerable children, those in special education and our English Learners, have historically struggled to meet the lower bar set by previous standards,» said Ama Nyamekye, executive director of Educators 4 Excellence - Los Angeles.

That group's executive director, Lenny Schafer, said in July that he «could infer that we probably don't shake out too well in the academic portion» that Hansen scrubbed out of the council's rating, and predicted that the revised rating would be «greatly impacted» by including the poor test results of thousands of Internet - charter students.

>> Job posted by Connecticut Council for Education Reform — March 20, 2012, New Haven, CT, US Director of Operations: THE ORGANIZATION The Connecticut Council for Education Reform (CCER) is a statewide non-profit organization that represents the business and civic in advocating for comprehensive reform efforts to close the achievement gap while raising academic outcomes for all student...

The agreement, the first of its kind in the nation, will be signed by Tulane President Scott Cowen, KIPP Foundation CEO Richard Barth and KIPP New Orleans Schools Executive Director Rhonda Kalifey - Aluise in the library on the second floor of KIPP Believe College Prep middle school, 1607 South Carrollton Ave. With this partnership, Tulane promises to enroll and provide scholarships for 10 KIPP students annually beginning in the 2012 - 13 academic year.

After the loss, Salon Magazine wrote, «Joshua Thompson, Finch's director of education and youth, defended the unsuccessful effort, saying the mayor was following the recommendations of «a report handed back to him» by a charter commission that was based on testimony by academics and «major reformers» like former New York City schools chief Joel Klein.

Ken Taylor, Executive Director of Kids Forward, believes the actions promoted by this bill would do little to protect teachers, and would instead make it harder for students to achieve their full academic potential, particularly youth of color.

Nickel held the position of Director of Curriculum; she briefly acted as Chief Academic Officer when Kishimoto's first pick for that slot was rejected by the board on May 27, 2014.