Sentences with phrase «doctoral research on»

«I think that Curaçao has been really lucky so far,» we were told by Ayana Elizabeth Johnson, a marine biologist who did her doctoral research on fishing practices around coral reefs on the island and now runs the Waitt Institute, a conservation group helping Caribbean islands develop «Blue Halo» marine zoning plans designed to allow communities to «use the ocean without using it up.»

She is currently carrying out doctoral research on contemporary southern Mediterranean artists on the international circuit of art and cultural globalization.

She works in the liminal region between sculpture and glassmaking to explore the possibility of creating multi-layered messages and metaphors through the use of material, drawing on her doctoral research on the legacy of Joseph Beuys and his ideas on social sculpture.

She then went on to the Department of History of History and Theory of Art at Essex University where her doctoral research on the Russian and French avant - gardes was supervised by Professor Dawn Ades and Professor Michael Podro.

It has been 20 years since I completed my doctoral research on educational equity in public schools.

A former high school history teacher, Papay focused his doctoral research on studying the effects of education policy on students and teachers, working on several projects with Professor Susan Moore Johnson and the Project on the Next Generation of Teachers.

A former high school history teacher, Papay focused his doctoral research on studying the effects of education policy on students and teachers, working on several projects with Professor Susan Moore Johnson and...

Congratulations to Zhao «Ellen» Peng from the University of Nebraska — Lincoln, for being awarded a 2014 Newman Student Award Medal, for her doctoral research on how room acoustics impacts speech comprehension by English - as - Second - Language listeners.

He then carried out his doctoral research on cancer angiogenesis at the University of Nottingham, followed by an appointment in the Laboratory for Experimental Cartilage Research, initially as postdoc and then as a group head.

United Kingdom: The Disabled Postgraduate Students» Web Page was created by Ozcan Konur who carried out doctoral research on access to higher education by disabled students.

Wow, was that a trigger to some nasty flashbacks... I went back to the survey I filled out in 2008 for Barb Orlowski's doctoral research on church and ministry leaders who'd been subjected to authoritarian control / abuse by other leaders.

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In 2010, upon finishing his doctoral thesis, Darash founded Regpack, a registration and data - gathering business whose core software was based on a theoretical framework he had built during his research at Berkeley.

His doctoral research focused on the regulation of the ERK / MAPK pathway by adenylyl cyclases during long - term memory formation and sensitization to drugs of abuse.

His doctoral research focused on cellular mechanisms of adipogenesis.

By the time I had graduated, the field had become «one that maintains its interest in literary texts but explores all forms of aesthetic speech and that views performance as an art and recognizes its communicative potential and function» There were three challenges to those of us graduating with doctoral degrees in this discipline: 1) to locate which performances within art and / or culture we would focus our attention on as scholars and performers; 2) to interpret the core concepts generating from the cultural turn in our discipline to other studies of culture and human communication and 3) to develop «performance - centered» methods of research and instruction in whatever parts of the university we found ourselves.

A summary of the author's doctoral dissertation research on U.S. teens and religious identity, in which she explored two interrelated questions: what do teens mean when they say they are religious (or not religious)?

When she began her doctoral studies in 2006, Farrington plunged into the latest research on the psychology of motivation.

1999 Dept. of Sociology, Abo Akademi University, the Finnish Network for Qualitative Health Research, the Finnish Doctoral Program in Public Health, and the group «Cultural Perspectives on Childbirth and Parenthood» of the Nordic Network of Folklore.

It drew on new research by Caitlin Daniel, a doctoral student at Harvard, who last week wrote her own New York Times op - ed on her study's findings, «A Hidden Cost to Giving Kids Their Vegetables.»

As a doctoral student in Politics (DPhil), Raphael's current research examines the impact of electoral rules on legislative behaviour as well as determinants of MP - level party loyalty in European legislatures.

Rasmus Kleis Nielsen is a post doctoral research fellow currently doing cross-national comparative research on the business of journalism and its role in democracy.

On agriculture, the President welcomed the interest by some Nigerian doctoral students studying in the Netherlands on developing the sector through research and innovation, particularly the livestock sectoOn agriculture, the President welcomed the interest by some Nigerian doctoral students studying in the Netherlands on developing the sector through research and innovation, particularly the livestock sectoon developing the sector through research and innovation, particularly the livestock sector.

My doctoral research is focused on the use of Twitter in the 2015 General Election.

Having completed his Arts & Humanities Research Council (AHRC) funded doctoral studies that explored the discourse and theory of the phenomenon here at the University, he has since gone on to develop research that has had social, political and publicResearch Council (AHRC) funded doctoral studies that explored the discourse and theory of the phenomenon here at the University, he has since gone on to develop research that has had social, political and publicresearch that has had social, political and public appeal.

My doctoral research focused on intra-party democracy in Northern Ireland, providing a comparative longitudinal analysis of how the region's main political parties select their leaders, candidates and policy.

Speaking at the opening of the 2017 executive doctoral research conference on the theme applying evidence - based research to effective management in Accra, Mr. Ibrahim said government believes academia is a strong back bone to businesses.

Research scientist Matthew Graham of the Center for Advanced Computing Research at Caltech recalls trying to identify a few hundred quasars in 1996 for his doctoral thesis on large - scale structures in the distant universe.

They received $ 50,000 in phase I Small Business Innovation Research funding from the federal government, along with matching state funds that allowed Edwards — Hemmert moved on — to conduct early product research during his doctoral Research funding from the federal government, along with matching state funds that allowed Edwards — Hemmert moved on — to conduct early product research during his doctoral research during his doctoral studies.

She marched off into her doctoral studies, earning her degree in 1981 from the Worcester Polytechnic Institute in Massachusetts based on research she conducted in Smith's lab.

In addition, most doctoral students - particularly those working in highly experimental areas - are expected to embark on the practical work of their thesis right from the first year of their PhD studies, even though in theory the preparation of the thesis starts after having obtained the Advanced Studies Degree (one year of courses plus one year of guided research — see sidebar).

The focus of government and the universities on postgraduate studies in the last 10 years has in fact been almost exclusively on master's degrees, with the organisation of doctoral research being largely overlooked.

The idea for this came from findings obtained as a result of research on invasive gobies in the Danube, on which two doctoral theses had already been written at the Chair of Aquatic Systems Biology.

• The U.S. dominates global science, ranking first worldwide according to papers published in top science journals, patents issued, expenditures made on research and development, and the number of science and engineering doctoral degrees awarded.

Carr adds that social media applications like Twitter, Facebook, and Delicious can help doctoral students gain a new perspective on their work by discovering what research papers and conference proceedings established researchers choose to highlight.

The bill specifically requires NIH director Francis Collins to spend 90 % of the agency's budget on extramural activities, 10 % on intramural activities and at least 55 % on basic science, and instructs the agency to maintain at least 16,670 training research awards (a category intended for doctoral students and postdoctoral fellows).

Computer Science doctoral student Mini Zeng has been working on the software and the behavioral research.

«Wolves rely on large prey to survive,» said Benson, assistant professor of vertebrate ecology who conducted the research as a doctoral student at Trent University.

«The laser scanning data collected from selected points does give significantly more precise results than the satellite radar,» notes Christian Berger, co-author of the study and head of the research project on which Victor Odipo's doctoral thesis is based.

Computer Science doctoral student Mini Zeng has been working on the software and the behavioral research for about 2 1/2 years.

«We hope that this research on dental calculus from the Norris Farms site acts as the first step toward future paleogenomic investigations of prehistoric North American remains in a respectful and non-destructive way that interests and benefits both descendent communities and anthropologists,» said Andrew Ozga, OU doctoral graduate, and currently postdoctoral candidate at Arizona State University.

Chung and his co-author and doctoral mentor Nejat Egilmez, PhD, formerly of UB and now at the University of Louisville, have applied for patent protection on the research.

«There are certain temperature cues that prompt [the mountain pine beetle] to start developing at certain stages,» said Barbara Bentz, a research entomologist with the U.S. Forest Service who, in the late 1980s, was a doctoral student working with Logan on modeling the beetle's life cycle.

I began to consider patent law as a career after working closely with a patent attorney to help prepare a patent application based on the research reported in my doctoral dissertation.

By looking at 25 years of data on the Konza Prairie Biological Station, Allison Veach, doctoral student in biology, Muncie, Indiana, and Walter Dodds, university distinguished professor of biology, are researching grassland streams and the expansion of nearby woody vegetation, such as trees and shrubs.

«These are the first studies to show that exercise can have an effect on your gut independent of diet or other factors,» said Jeffrey Woods, a University of Illinois professor of kinesiology and community health who led the research with former doctoral student Jacob Allen, now a postdoctoral researcher at Nationwide Children's Hospital in Columbus, Ohio.

Co-authors on the paper include research associate Randy Polson and doctoral students Bing Shen and Peng Wang.

«Tear Film Dynamic with Evaporation, Wetting and Time Dependent Flux boundary Condition on an Eye - shaped Domain,» published in the journal Physics of Fluids on May 6, is an extension of Maki's doctoral research under her thesis advisor and co-author Richard Braun, professor in the University of Delaware's Department of Mathematical Sciences.

Therefore, Danny Miller, an MD - PhD student at the University of Kansas Medical Center who is conducting his doctoral research in the Hawley lab, had to rely on whole genome sequencing and new computer algorithms to pinpoint the locations of both kinds of events.

«Most people have trouble admitting they were wrong when their initial decisions lead to undesirable outcomes,» says researcher Andrew Hafenbrack, lead author on the new research and doctoral candidate at INSEAD.

All the research in the doctoral thesis is based on small children born with an increased genetic risk of developing celiac disease.