Sentences with phrase «center of academic work»

• Student thinking is the center of academic work where teachers and students validate each other's thinking.

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PICI (pronounced «pie - sea»), as it's called by its member scientists, is doing something unprecedented in academic medicine: combining and coordinating the efforts of six of the top cancer immunology centers in the country — MD Anderson Cancer Center, Memorial Sloan Kettering, Penn Medicine, Stanford, UCLA, and UCSF — in order to greatly expand and, more important, to accelerate our understanding of why some immune - based treatments work miraculously in some patients and not at all in others.

During that time he continued academic visits of Iran, worked for Red Crescent, and served as a coordinator of the Iranian National Center for e-Learning and Simulations in Medical Response to HAZMAT.

During the past year, GRACE has worked with a handful of Christian academic institutions in developing a proposal for the creation of the National GRACE Center.

The clergymen serving full - time on the staff on community mental health centers are generally well trained for their work, with a few exceptions, having had a minimum of a full year of special clinical and advanced academic preparation beyond graduate theological school.

If that isn't enough, Adu's accelerated high school program set up by IMG, the Edison Academic Center — through which he will earn his diploma next month — has included community service at a child - care center, which requires another form of superhero work: taking three - year - olds to the batCenter — through which he will earn his diploma next month — has included community service at a child - care center, which requires another form of superhero work: taking three - year - olds to the batcenter, which requires another form of superhero work: taking three - year - olds to the bathroom.

Since entering the field in 1996, Dr. Sellwood has garnered a diverse professional background that includes working as an elementary and middle school counselor, college and regional center disabilities specialist, executive director of a non-profit organization in psychology, consulting psychologist at hospitals and in - patient medical facilities, and an academic Professor of Psychology at several graduate schools.

The academic integrity of the Empire Center is second to none and the rigid honesty they exhibit in dealing with data is something that I will carry with me for the rest of my working career.»

Wilmers lauded the effort of «major people working together in partnership to transform a community through strategies centered on academic achievement and neighborhood revitalization.»

Some academic work has suggested that states with capitals that are distant from major media and population centers are more likely to have problems, due to lack of oversight and public interest.

► In this week's issue of STM, Arthur Levine, senior vice chancellor for the health sciences and dean of the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine in Pennsylvania, and 18 other U.S. academic medical center leaders wrote that «[u] nstable funding for biomedical research has created a hostile working environment that erodes the time available for investigators to conduct their research, discourages innovative high - risk science, threatens to drive established investigators out of U.S. academic biomedical research, and creates uncertainty for trainees and early - career investigators.

Nearly all worked in large academic medical centers, which on average employed 8,520 workers and had annual revenues of $ 1.5 billion.

The project «got a lot of criticism from academics who showed that the approach wasn't going to work unless the face of the detector in space was as long as a football field,» says Philip Coyle, the Pentagon's former top technology tester and a senior adviser to the Center for Defense Information.

Starting at the beginning of this academic term, the Career Center at Humboldt University has built up a network of small companies and enterprises where students and graduates get the chance to gain work experience.

Professor Sheila Krishnadath from the Academic Medical Center in Amsterdam said: «We have been working for over 10 years on collecting and typing single cells of this large group of Barrett's patients.

At Missouri S&T, McMillin and other researchers are working to improve cyber security with an emphasis on safeguarding the nation's infrastructure while educating students in this field through its National Center of Academic Excellence in Information Assurance Education.

They're working with academic cancer centers and private providers to expand use of the algorithm.

To work out why stimulation has this effect, Damiaan Denys and Martijn Figee at the Academic Medical Center in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, and colleagues recorded neural activity in people with electrodes implanted into a part of the brain called the nucleus accumbens.

This work was supported in part by the Center for Research in FOP and Related Disorders, the International FOP Association, the Ian Cali Endowment, the Weldon Family Endowment, the Penn Center for Musculoskeletal Disorders, the Isaac and Rose Nassau Professorship of Orthopaedic Molecular Medicine, and the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (SFB760 to P. Seemann and S. Mundlos); by Health and Labour Science Research Grants for Research on Measures for Intractable Disease Research and the Academic Frontier Project of Saitma Medical University Research Center for Genomic Medicine, both from the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Sciences, and Technology of Japan (to T. Katagiri); and by grants from the Rita Allen Foundation and the NIH (R01 - GM056326 to M.C. Mullins; R01 - AR40196 to F.S. Kaplan and E.M. Shore).

Darryl De Vivo, M.D., Professor of Neurology at Columbia University Medical Center and a Past - President of the Child Neurology Society, noted, «The SMA Foundation's work on behalf of children with SMA on all fronts including academic, governmental and biotechnical initiatives has served to heighten awareness of SMA in particular and Motor Neuron diseases in general.

Alice Hogan is currently an independent consultant, working with Harvard University, the University of Michigan, Simmons College Center for Gender in Organizations, and other academic institutions on programs and policies to advance the participation of women in academic science and engineering.

With the establishment of a scientifically directed writing center, The Julius Maximilian University of Würzburg joins a growing number of renowned German - speaking and international universities working to develop well - rounded scientific thinkers across the disciplines through the deployment of specialized support in academic writing.

«I've used a lot of other kinds of medicines in my practice and this works,» says Leslie J. Crofford, MD, chief of the Division of Rheumatology and Women's Health at the University of Kentucky Academic Medical Center, in Lexington, Ky. «For many, many patients it works better than anything that they've ever tried.»

The Center will be housed at the Harvard Graduate School of Education and will draw on intellectual resources from across the university, working with faculty who focus on gender from a broad range of academic perspectives.

Theories connecting being physically present in school to better academic outcomes have never been more substantiated, yet NAEP scores show stagnation nationwide and a widening gap between subgroups while about 6.8 million students in the United States missed more than three weeks of school during the 2013 - 2014 school year (Attendance Works and Everyone Graduates Center 2017).

These specialty areas are increasingly being recognized as the center of student performance, college and career preparation, a positive working environment, and successful implementation of the Common Core and related academic mandates.

Roger Weissberg, chief knowledge officer for the Collaborative for Academic, Social, and Emotional Learning (CASEL), one of the nation's leading organizations in the field of SEL research, evaluation, and best practices, credits decades of «strategic, steady work» across research, policy, and practice, in helping to highlight the benefits of SEL in delivering a whole child — centered education that supports academic achiAcademic, Social, and Emotional Learning (CASEL), one of the nation's leading organizations in the field of SEL research, evaluation, and best practices, credits decades of «strategic, steady work» across research, policy, and practice, in helping to highlight the benefits of SEL in delivering a whole child — centered education that supports academic achiacademic achievement.

Responding to research from Stanford University's John W. Gardner Center linking student opinions and perceptions to their own academic outcomes, the Center for Effective Philanthropy — funded by a host of donors, including the Gates, Hewlett and Wallace foundations — created YouthTruth «to better understand from students what was and was not working in their high schools in order to give school and district leaders, as well as education funders, better information to inform improvement efforts.»

Ken Futernick, Director of the WestEd School Turnaround Center, a research organization, and a former professor of education at California State University, Sacramento, told the court that such factors as ill - prepared teachers, poor working conditions in the school and high turnover among teachers and administrators make it difficult to attract and retain effective teachers, thus adversely affecting academic achievement.

David Cofer, Human Resources Director of Jubilee Academic Center, has worked closely with Texas Teachers to recruit -LSB-...]

But this summer, the Orleans Parish School Board signed over operations of the school to the national nonprofit Center for Educational Excellence in Alternative Settings (CEEAS), which is known for its work tackling the academic deficits faced by juvenile delinquent students.

Working with progressive academics and researchers in the union's Quest Center, the union issued The Schools Chicago's Students Deserve, which offers a credible vision of what an excellent education for all requires.

Last summer during a NCTAF planning session, a team of five teachers selected this question to be the center of their work with their students for the academic year.

Bridges Academy is dedicated to understanding and educating gifted and highly gifted students with learning differences (twice - exceptional or 2e students) and fostering a successful academic and social experience for students and for the broader community through work of two divisions: Bridges Academy and The Center for Twice - Exceptional Research and Professional Development (The 2e Center).

Working in partnership with researchers from Harvard Graduate School of Education that lead Research Schools International, The Center for Transformative Teaching and Learning launched a study to discover how student happiness impacts motivation and academic achievement.

Because of the Joyce M. Huggins Early Education Center, an early education, research, and training center, housed in the Education Building, our students have unique opportunities to work with children and families as well as other academic disciplines across the univeCenter, an early education, research, and training center, housed in the Education Building, our students have unique opportunities to work with children and families as well as other academic disciplines across the univecenter, housed in the Education Building, our students have unique opportunities to work with children and families as well as other academic disciplines across the university.

For the 2017 - 18 academic year, the Ethics Center will explore the theme of freedom of speech and civil discourse through public events, the work of a team of undergraduate fellows, and the provision of educational materials about key, contested ethical issues.

This groundbreaking work sets forth a strategy to help principals develop and expand their instructional leadership with a child - centered focus and acquire the practical skills necessary to address the academic, social, emotional and physical development needs of all young children.

Recently, a major funder of SEL took a strong interest in the idea — as a result, the NoVo Foundation provided a grant to CASEL (the Center for Academic, Social, and Emotional Learning) to establish a «Social - Emotional Learning Program Providers Working Group.»

The Centre will establish Wales as a center of excellence for the integration of academic and practitioner work in creating a science based approach to understanding society.

With the renewed curatorial and academic interest in the African American contribution to the history of abstraction, «Mildred Thompson: Resonance, Selected Works from the 1990s,» presented in the Walter O. Evans Center for African American Studies, is a remarkable opportunity to expand this dialogue by celebrating the work of an under - recognized historical figure.

Her work has been exhibited and won awards in numerous national and regional juried shows including: Academic Artists Association (Best in Show 1999), Allied Artists of America, American Artists Processional League, Audubon Artists, Catharine Lorillard Wolfe Art Club, Connecticut Pastel Society, Connecticut Women Artists, Mattatuck Museum, New Britain Museum of American Art, Oil Painters of America, Pastel Society of America, Rye Arts Center and Salmagundi Non-Members Open.

The Massachusetts Institute of Technology has an amazing program where students can borrow a framed work by major artists from their List Visual Arts Center «s collection for an entire academic...

Curated by Sessa Englund, Introductions brings a contemporary mix of video, photo, sculpture, painting and screenprint, offering the audience a view into the works of artists who's practice centers on the individual and academic exploration of self - identity.

University of Maryland Center for Art and Knowledge at The Phillips Collection The University of Maryland Center for Art and Knowledge at The Phillips Collection is the expansion of the Center for the Study of Modern Art — the museum's nexus for academic work, scholarly exchange, and innovative interdisciplinary collaborations.

As a former academic (I founded the Center while working on my doctoral dissertation in philosophy at SUNY Stony Brook), this is pet peeve of mine.

The overlap of professional interest and academic expertise is unavoidable in highly specialized areas, and it has been my experience both as a journalist and working as a press officer for a group of academics accused of being intellectual whores because the center at which they worked had accepted corporate funding, that; A, most experts are reasonably honest people expressing what is their honest view of the data

Prior to becoming an academic, he served as Assistant Secretary of State for Public Affairs for the State of Wisconsin and worked in the non-governmental sector for twenty years, including as Executive Director of the Pacific Center for International Studies, a think - tank that focused on implementation of international wildlife treaty regimes, including the Convention on Biological Diversity and International Convention for the Regulation of Whaling.

Their work draws upon active research on the practices that can simultaneously sequester carbon, raise yields, and enhance agricultural resilience — some of which is occurring at the 15 research centers of the CGIAR network, through the Global Alliance on Climate - Smart Agriculture, and at dozens of academic institutions around the world.

University of Ottawa's Aboriginal Rights guide includes works on indigenous research methodologies generally, databases, government agencies, academic research centers, law school indigenous law units / programs, organizations, «Aboriginal Rights in Other Jurisdictions,» and resources on the «International Law of Indigenous Peoples» Rights.»