Sentences with phrase «endowed chairs»

They extend endowed chairs to top legal scholars, fund conferences and symposium on emerging legal issues, and encourage students to take new courses that examine the future of the field.

Mr. Gould currently serves as a Trustee of the Della Martin Foundation which has endowed chairs for psychiatric research at USC, UCLA and UC - Irvine and a fund at Caltech for discoveries in mental illness, and as Treasurer of the John and Beverly Stauffer Foundation.

While struggling to cope with government belt - tightening, Mr. Buck helped increase the endowment to $ 40 million from $ 12 million and established two endowed chairs: one for a curator of American painting and sculpture, the other for a curator of arts of the Americas.

Very few purely literary novels sell — and most of those are by authors who have published scores of exquisitely crafted short fiction pieces in prestigious journals and / or have endowed chairs at major universities.

Prior to joining the faculty at UCLA he served as a tenured professor and holder of endowed chairs at New York University (2003 — 2015) Harvard University (2000 — 2003) and the University of California, Berkeley (1990 — 2000).

The gift to support the Saul Zaentz Initiative also includes funding for two new endowed chairs at HGSE — one for a tenured or tenure - track faculty member, and one for a practice - based faculty member — who will play key roles in advancing the goals of the Initiative.

Dean Kathleen McCartney announced today the appointment of two Harvard Graduate School of Education faculty members to endowed chairs.

Provide resources to create new endowed chairs, which will help us attract the next generation of world - class scholars, practitioners, and policymakers who are dedicated to working with others to solve education's most important problems.

Aubrey Dan, philanthropist and businessperson, has donated $ 5 million to create three endowed chairs at Western University's DAN Department of Management and Organizational Studies.

In June 2015, Clif Bar & Company announced a plan to raise $ 10 million by 2020 to fund the nation's first endowed chairs in organic plant breeding at public universities in the United States.

The MacLean Center is currently the largest clinical medical ethics program in the world, having trained more than 300 physicians and other health professionals — many of whom hold professorships, endowed chairs and directorships of ethics programs in the U.S., Canada and Europe.

Twenty - five fellows have held endowed chairs, and graduates from the program are on faculties at more than 40 U.S. universities.

LA JOLLA, CA — Salk scientists Beverly M. Emerson, Christopher R. Kintner, and Paul E. Sawchenko were selected as inaugural holders of new endowed chairs created through the Joan Klein Jacobs and Irwin Mark Jacobs Senior Scientist Endowed Chair Challenge.

The Salk Institute is pleased to announce that faculty members Geoffrey M. Wahl and Martyn Goulding were celebrated as the recipients of endowed chairs in recognition of their significant scientific accomplishments at a special reception on March 29.

In 2008, Dr. and Mrs. Jacobs created a challenge grant to establish endowed chairs for senior scientists.

They found that women are less likely to be awarded named professorships and that they derive lower returns from their scholarly achievements when it comes to appointments to endowed chairs.

The Ludwig Fund has expended $ 50 million for endowed chairs at the six beneficiary institutions.

Indeed, the liberating fantasies of transgression now have the protections of tenure and the emoluments of endowed chairs.

In his review of the book, Elliott Abrams observes: «Novick rightly notes that the Holocaust has been institutionalized — in the museum on the Mall, similar museums in New York and Los Angeles, memorials in many cities, legislative mandates to teach it, and endowed chairs and programs.

But Abrams does cause one to wonder what people a hundred years from now will make of all those museums, memorials, and endowed chairs.

The undergirding of the cause of theological learning with endowed chairs and programs, whose chief behest will be an honest respect for the normative character of «the Wesleyan quadrilateral»: Scripture, tradition, reason and «Christian experience.»

Although the University has indeed placed several distinguished Christian scholars in endowed chairs, each academic department has a high degree of autonomy in making most hiring decisions.

Examples include Masters programs at the University of British Columbia and the University of Toronto; a China Institute at the University of Alberta; a Canada - India Policy centre at the University of Waterloo; and numerous endowed chairs dedicated to Asia - focused topics.

That's part of the reason why today nearly a third of all Schulich professors are endowed chairs.

In the last couple years, his foundation offered up $ 2 million to establish a chair at the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, $ 2 million for a chief curator at the Audain Art Museum in Whistler, and yet another $ 2 million to help endow a chair in central banking at Western University.

Gilbert, who holds the Presidential Endowed Chair in Computing, is conducting his own study on whether society could change how youths view computer science.

Shleifer eventually was stripped of his endowed chair but retained his professorship, and faculty dean Knowles sealed the Committee on Professional Conduct thorough and painstaking report.

Naming an endowed Chair or Professorship at the Rotman School will help recruit and retain the world's leading teachers and researchers, enhance our curriculum, foster research and advance the academic performance of tomorrow's business leaders.

On the other hand, Jill Mann was appointed to an endowed chair in the English department although she is an outspoken atheist.

Mr. Jordan came out of the closet at the University of Notre Dame, where he was engaged in sundry and sordid scandals, and now holds an endowed chair in philosophy at Emory University.

On January 20, 1891, Rev. Dr. Charles A. Briggs was placed in the newly endowed chair of Biblical theology at Union Theological Seminary, New York.

The position, as prestigious as an endowed chair of government at Harvard today, represented the pinnacle of intellectual achievement in its time.

It is fitting that her last major discourse, the inaugural lecture for an endowed chair she held at the International Institute for Philosophy in Liechtenstein, was titled «Die Wahrheit Thun» («Doing the Truth»).

In October about 200 Christian ethicists issued a statement «about the erroneous use of Christian rhetoric to support the policies of empire,» as it was put by one signer, Glen Stassen, who holds an endowed chair at Fuller Theological Seminary.

They raised Lutheran money for an endowed chair in religion and for a center for church and society.

Singh holds an industry ‐ endowed chair in Dairy Science and Technology at Massey University in New Zealand.

Looking at long - term solutions, NMSU has raised and allocated about $ 200,000 for the creation of an endowed chair for chile research, reported Mark Gladden, director of development for the university's College of Agricultural, Consumer, and Environmental Sciences.

Dr. Patricia K. Kuhl is the Bezos Family Foundation Endowed Chair for Early Childhood Learning, Co-Director of the UW Institute for Learning & Brain Sciences, Director of the NSF - funded Science of Learning Center, and Professor of Speech and Hearing Sciences.

Networking & Dinner 6:30 PM — 7:00 PM Welcome Reception Kevin de Leon, President pro Tem, California State Senate Debra McMannis, Director of Early Education & Support Division, California Department of Education 7:00 PM — 8:00 PM Keynote Address Dr. Patricia K. Kuhl, Co-Director, Institute for Learning & Brain Sciences & Bezos Family Foundation Endowed Chair of Early Childhood Education * Day 2 Tuesday February 23, 2016 8:00 AM — 9:00 AM Registration, Continental Breakfast, & Networking 9:00 AM — 9:15 AM Opening Remarks John Kim, Executive Director, Advancement Project Camille Maben, Executive Director, First 5 California 9:15 AM — 10:00 AM Morning Keynote David B. Grusky, Executive Director, Stanford's Center on Poverty & Inequality 10:00 AM — 11:00 AM

Laurie A Nommsen - Rivers, PhD, RD, IBCLC Associate Professor of Nutritional Sciences Ruth E. Rosevear Endowed Chair of Maternal and Child Nutrition College of Allied Health Sciences University of Cincinnati

Laurie Nommsen - Rivers, PhD, RD, IBCLC, is an Associate Professor of Nutrition, and the Ruth Rosevear Endowed Chair of Maternal and Child Nutrition, at the University of Cincinnati.

Edmund P. Joyce, C.S.C. Endowed Chair in Anthropology Director, Mother - Baby Behavioral Sleep Laboratory Fellow, American Association for the Advancement of Science

After teaching anthropology at the University of California, Berkeley as a Visiting Assistant Professor for two years, he accepted a tenure track position (in anthropology) at Pomona College in Claremont, California, where he was awarded an Endowed Chair, and remained for twenty years.

Regardless, I see Paterson in an endowed Chair at CUNY and Cuomo in the NY State Governor's Mansion.

A major challenge in addiction science is to understand how transient experiences lead to long - lasting risk for relapse in users who try to quit, according to MUSC professor Christopher W. Cowan, Ph.D., William E. Murray SmartState ® Endowed Chair in Neuroscience, and senior researcher on the project.

«The Braden QD Scale provides acute care pediatric clinicians with one instrument to predict both immobility - and device - related pressure injuries across diverse age and clinical populations,» says lead - author Martha A. Q. Curley, PhD, RN, FAAN, the Ruth M. Colket Endowed Chair in Pediatric Nursing at Penn Nursing and Children's Hospital of Philadelphia.

«Despite new therapies, it's virtually inevitable that a patient with multiple myeloma will experience relapse of the disease at some point,» said senior author Catriona Jamieson, MD, PhD, professor of medicine, Koman Family Presidential Endowed Chair in Cancer Research and chief of the Division of Regenerative Medicine at UC San Diego School of Medicine.

«A true risk gene should be the same in all populations,» explained Betty Pei - tie Tsao, Ph.D., Richard M. Silver Endowed Chair for Inflammation Research at MUSC and senior author on the article.

Those offering support for Dr. Samadani's research include Richard G. Ellenbogen, MD, The Theodore S. Roberts Endowed Chair and professor and chairman of the Department of Neurological Surgery at University of Washington Medicine and co-chair of the Head, Neck and Spine Committee of the National Football League.

Endowed Chair in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at McGovern Medical School.