Sentences with phrase «changes to the way universities»

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According to Sonia Zakrzewski, an associate professor of archaeology at the University of Southampton, Hublin's discovery could encourage other archaeologists to change the way they think about human origins.

«We want to fundamentally change the way people receive their drinking water,» says Friesen, who also teaches at Arizona State University.

The easiest way to stop this is to have all the christians join the university gay club and elect a new leadership and change the club to push their views.

I speak throughout Canada and internationally to churches, conferences, women's groups, universities, and workshops on topics ranging from spiritual formation, a sacramental view of living, being a Christian feminist, the ways that we can navigate change throughout our faith journey, the embrace of ancient church practices as a charismatic Christian, writing, social justice, and many other topics.

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Researchers at McGill University have shown that specific parenting behaviors by mother rats change the way certain chemicals are affixed to certain sequences on a baby rat's DNA, a process known as methylation.

From Challenge Success, her team learned how to use strategies, grounded in university - based research, that would change the pace at school and allow kids to work in ways that felt meaningful.

In an editorial accompanying the study, Russell Pate and Dr. Jennifer O'Neil of the Department of Exercise Science at the University of South Carolina said the study showed the «need to learn ways in which the doses of physical activity provided during youth sports and activity programs can be most effectively increased by modifying the manner in which the practices and contests are conducted... [such as] by changes in instructional practices that produce greater emphasis on keeping youth active while they learn individual skills and team strategies.»

U.S. Education Secretary Betsy DeVos declared that «the era of «rule by letter» is over» as she announced plans to change the way colleges and university handle allegations of sexual violence on campus.

He wants to shift the way the City University of New York is funded, to end the state's assumption of the local share of New York City's Medicaid costs, and to change the way the state handles the city's STAR Personal Income Tax rebate.

In the past few years, students at hundreds of colleges and universities have started pushing their schools to divest from fossil fuel companies as a way to slow climate change.

Cuomo is proposing to shift the way the City University of New York is funded, to end the state's assumption of the local share of New York City's Medicaid costs, and to change the way the state handles the city's STAR Personal Income Tax rebate.

These neuromorphic sensors mimic how mammals» eyes process information, quickly and efficiently detecting light changes in their field of vision, explained Professor Maria Martini, who is leading the Kingston University London team looking at innovative ways to process and transmit information secured through the sensors during the project.

One very important thing we can do is to change the way universities, professors, graduate students, and postdocs themselves think about what it means to be a postdoc.

Roi Cohen Kadosh at the University of Oxford and colleagues applied transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS)-- a way of changing the voltage across neurons that makes them more or less likely to fire — to the right parietal cortex while simultaneously using the opposite current to subdue activity in the left.

A team of astronomers at the University of Chicago and Grinnell College seeks to change the way scientists approach the search for Earth - like planets orbiting stars other than the sun.

My cancer systems biology team at the University of California, Merced, is tackling diagnosis and treatment of therapy - resistant cancers by elucidating the network of changes within cells as a way to identify new drug targets and circumvent cancer resistance.

Together with an interdisciplinary research team from universities in Malawi, Zambia and Ireland he interviewed community members in rural Malawi and Zambia to assess how well they are able to adapt to the way they produce food within the context of shifting belief systems and climate change.

Next up: «We're trying to pull together a meeting of high - level university administrators to talk about the financial implications for academic medical centers and universities if there are changes in the way in which the NIH funds research at those institutions,» Tilghman says.

Physicist Brandon Brown of the University of San Francisco and his colleagues devised a way to test the gel's response to a temperature change.

A University of Florida - led research team's development of a tracking system could change the way companies ship fresh fruits and vegetables, letting them know which produce is closest to expiration and providing consumers the freshest products available.

As climate change and biological invasions continue to impact global biodiversity, scientists at Colorado State University and the University of Colorado - Boulder have recently published work that suggests that the way organisms move to new areas, or range expansion, can be impacted directly by evolutionary changes.

Another facet of the University of Arkansas program is «early evaluation» of graduate student teaching, about a third of the way through a selected semester, combined with a discussion of possible improvements and an end - of - semester evaluation to determine if suggested changes were achieved.

Conference chair Katherine Richardson, a biological oceanographer at the University of Copenhagen, told the opening plenary session that the conference would ensure that policymakers would pay attention by providing compelling messages in three broad areas: how bad the climate science is [that is, how bad the impact of climate change will be], the «good news» that's out there in terms of new ways of mitigating carbon emissions, and the prospects for adapting to the proliferating impacts that scientists are seeing around the world.

Currently, public money is divided between universities, faculties, and research groups in the way it was divided in 1983, with no major changes in the last 18 years to adapt distribution to the current situation.

«Legislative measures may not be the best way to promote the necessary changes in the university sector,» says Lidia Borrell - Damian, EUA's head of unit for research partnerships.

In search of better ways to teach the subject, researchers at Michigan State University developed complete evolutionary case studies spanning the gamut from the molecular changes underlying an evolving characteristic to their genetic consequences and effects in populations.

Rising ocean water temperatures and increasing levels of acidity — two symptoms of climate change — are imperiling sea creatures in unexpected ways: mussels are having trouble clinging to rocks, and the red rock shrimp's camouflage is being thwarted, according to presenters at the AAAS Pacific Division annual meeting at the University of San Diego in June.

Their results will help to shape the way the University contributes to the global effort of understanding climate change and gives geography students at Sheffield access to the latest innovations in climate change research.

Among supporters of fewer regulations, Alison Van Eenennaam, an animal breeder at the University of California, Davis, says that some editing is «just a way to enable base pair changes» that doesn't actually add new DNA to an organism.

Harvard University risk analyst James Hewitt compares the food quandary to the climate change debate: When do we know enough to alter the way we act?

Study co-author Nigel Bamford, a pediatric neurologist at the University of Washington School of Medicine, says that if similar changes occur in humans, it will indicate that an effective way to fight addiction may be to design therapies that target the affected area — the striatum, a forebrain region that controls movement but also has been linked to habit - forming behavior.

«This study is the best estimate we have to date of how effectively behavioural change could cut US greenhouse gas emissions,» says Ruth Rettie, who leads Project Charm, a group based at Kingston University in London that investigates ways in which people's behaviour could be influenced.

Personalised 3D printed fashion — manufactured within 24 hours — is the end goal of a new project led by Loughborough University that's set to change the way we shop for clothes.

«There is very little evidence to suggest that we can change people's beliefs or knowledge in a way that will lead to increased immunizations,» said study co-author Allison Kempe, MD, MPH, professor of pediatrics at the University of Colorado School of Medicine.

Brown University ecologist Marc Tatar says the current study, published in this week's Science, provides «really profound evidence» that longevity is controlled not by actual resources but rather by hormones that are cued to resources (such as the way plants sense winter by sunlight changes).

An international team of scientists, including Dr Alex Dunhill from the University of Leeds, has found that although the mass extinction in the Late Triassic period wiped out the vast proportion of species, there appears to be no drastic changes to the way marine ecosystems functioned.

«My concern is that the changes in behaviour Höglund describes may indicate populations on their way to local extinction,» says Bill Sutherland of the University of East Anglia.

International researchers led by the University of Bath have demonstrated a cheap, effective and environmentally - friendly way to sterilise medical implants without changing their properties, in contrast to some techniques.

In a series of studies Dr. Véronique Bohbot (Douglas Mental Health University Institute; CIUSSS de l'Ouest - de - l'Île - de-Montréal) and Dr. Greg West (Université de Montréal) demonstrate that the way that action (first - person shooter) video game players use their brains to navigate changes the impact the games have on their nervous system.

A new study led by the University of Exeter and Swansea University has pinpointed the changes in the brain that lead gamblers to react in the same way to near - misses as they do to winning.

«This is the first study to look at the way dads» brains change with child care experience,» says Kevin Pelphrey, a neuroscientist at Yale University who was not involved with the study.

Greening already under way Isla Myers - Smith, a lecturer at the University of Edinburgh who did not participate in the research, said the study is a «major advance» because it is the first to link such a broad range of vegetation changes with several climate feedbacks in the Arctic.

By coming up with a way to home in on just one gene, Yousif Shamoo, a structural biologist at Rice University in Houston, Texas, hoped to nail down the genetic and protein changes that underlie evolutionary advances.

«This will change the way we think about the ocean,» largely because the effects of such eddies weren't suspected to extend so deeply, adds Cindy Van Dover, a biological oceanographer at the Duke University Marine Laboratory in Beaufort, North Carolina.

This radical programme, which began in 1987, seeks to bring about fundamental changes in the way in which science is taught in American schools, not by «top down» reform — restructuring the curriculum and then expecting teachers to adopt the new improved version wholesale — but by establishing partnerships between science teachers and professional scientists working in universities and industry.

Wei Xiang Jiang and Tie Jun Cui at Southeast University in Nanjing, China, have created a structure that changes the way radio waves interact with a copper cylinder so that it appears to be composed of another material altogether.

According to Craig Hawker of University of California, Santa Barbara, US, the research might change the way chemists make and break covalent bonds, giving them a new paradigm for preparing organic molecules.»

My colleagues and I at the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute and the Laboratory of Regenerative Medicine, University of Cambridge analysed the way this membrane affects stem cells and are now looking at how they effect heart muscle cells, and found that it might be able to change the way cells behave, without all the trouble of altering their genetic code.

Smith doesn't mention that the distinctive characteristic of flowering plants is the way they can tolerate radical and extensive changes to their chromosomes (Dooner and Weil 2007, Kidwell and Lisch 2002, Leitch and Leitch 2008, Rutgers University Press Release 4th Oct 2006).