Sentences with phrase «endowed professor»

An "endowed professor" refers to a prestigious position in academia that is financially supported by funds donated or allocated to a university. It means that the professor holds a specific title because of the financial resources provided to the university to support their teaching and research activities. Full definition
«It's not there yet, but the way this hardware was built you can probably imagine putting it in a mobile phone,» said Shwetak Patel, Washington Research Foundation Endowed Professor of Computer Science & Engineering and Electrical Engineering at the UW.
A team of researchers led by Eric Schlegel, Vaughn Family Endowed Professor in Physics at The University of Texas at San Antonio (UTSA), has discovered a powerful galactic blast produced by a giant black hole about 26 million light years from Earth.
Max Torres is Centesimus Annus Della Ratta Family Endowed Professor at Catholic University of America's Busch School of Business and Economics.
«To address this research gap and bring awareness of lifestyle differences to the diversity conversation, we examine an important and relevant type of lifestyle diversity, marriage diversity, which is timely given the increasing number of single people in the global workforce,» said Don Conlon, Gambrel Family Endowed professor of management and chairperson for the Eli Broad College of Business» department of management.
Susan Spieker, PhD — President Susan is professor of family and child nursing at the University of Washington and the Kathryn Barnard Endowed Professor for Infant Mental Health.
«Our previous studies were some of the first to examine shifts in eating disorder risk across the menstrual cycle,» said Klump, MSU Foundation Endowed Professor of Psychology.
«By late adolescence, most U.S. youth have consumed alcohol, and unfortunately approximately 15 percent meet the criteria for alcohol abuse,» said Laura J. Bierut, Alumni Endowed Professor of Psychiatry at Washington University School of Medicine as well as corresponding author for this study.
Robert W. McChesney is the Gutgsell Endowed Professor in the Department of Communication at the University of Illinois at Urbana - Champaign.
Susan Spieker, PhD — President Susan is professor of family and child nursing at the University of Washington and the Kathryn Barnard Endowed Professor for Infant Mental Health.
A national research center established at UCLA and focused on interactions between the police and the communities they serve will open this summer at John Jay College of Criminal Justice, with the college's first endowed professor as its director.
«In the face of precious metals scarcity and exorbitant fuel - processing costs, these systems are promising in the search for sustainable global energy solutions,» says senior author Maria Flytzani - Stephanopoulos, the Robert and Marcy Haber Endowed Professor in Energy Sustainability and professor in the Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering at Tufts.
«Beer is the basis of modern static civilization,» began Bamforth, Anheuser - Busch Endowed Professor of Brewing Science at the University of California, Davis.
David Kisailus, Winston Chung Endowed Professor in Energy Innovation in UCR's Marlan and Rosemary Bourns College of Engineering.
Hilary Koprowski, M.D., Endowed Professor Professor and Program Leader, Gene Expression & Regulation Program Director, Center for Chemical Biology & Translational Medicine
The professorship was named the Teresa M. Fischer Endowed Professor of Citizenship Education.
Dr. Modiano joined the College of Veterinary Mediine, School of Medicine, and masonic Cancer Center at the University of Minnesota in 2007, where he continues his research program as Alvin and June Perlman Endowed Professor of Oncology and Comparative medicine and Director of the Animal Cancer Care and Research Program.
Aryana is the Doyle Chambers Endowed Professor in Animal Sciences and a professor in dairy foods technology at Louisiana State University's School of Animal Sciences.
«These exciting results indicate that there is a new standard of care option for a population of head and neck cancer patients with no other treatment options,» said the trial's international co-chair Robert Ferris, M.D., Ph.D., UPMC Endowed Professor, and chief of the Division of Head and Neck Surgery and co-leader of the Cancer Immunology Program at UPCI.
In this era of «big data,» strong computational skills and informatics expertise also are increasingly valuable for neuroscience success, says David Van Essen, alumni endowed professor of neurobiology at the Washington University School of Medicine and co-principal investigator (PI) of the Human Connectome Project (HCP).
It takes a long time,» says Kelly Swanson, Kraft Heinz Company Endowed Professor in Human Nutrition in the Department of Animal Sciences and the Division of Nutritional Sciences at U of I.
«If we can define the boundaries of molecular targets in saliva, then we can ask what the constituents in saliva are that can mark someone who has pre-diabetes or the early stages of oral cancer or pancreatic cancer — and we can utilize this knowledge for personalized medicine,» said Dr. David Wong, a senior author of the research and UCLA's Felix and Mildred Yip Endowed Professor in Dentistry.
A new study by Kim - Kwang Raymond Choo, associate professor of information systems and cybersecurity and Cloud Technology Endowed Professor at The University of Texas at San Antonio (UTSA), describes a method for detecting people dishonestly posting online comments, reviews or tweets across multiple accounts, a practice known as «astroturfing.»
Because of this lack of receptors, common cancer drugs can't «find» the cells, and doctors must treat the cancer with extremely aggressive and highly toxic treatment strategies,» said Salman Hyder, the Zalk Endowed Professor in Tumor Angiogenesis and professor of biomedical sciences in the College of Veterinary Medicine and the Dalton Cardiovascular Research Center.
Chandra Mohan, Hugh Roy and Lillie Cranz Cullen Endowed Professor of biomedical engineering in the UH Cullen College of Engineering, and his group's latest work could lead to new, more natural therapeutics for lupus that use a plant - derived chemical.
«There is a tremendous need for effective, new treatments in obstructive sleep apnea,» said co-lead study author David W. Carley, the Katherine M. Minnich Endowed Professor Emeritus of Biobehavioral Health Sciences, Medicine and Bioengineering at UIC.
The 99 Lives project was established at Mizzou by Leslie Lyons, the Gilbreath - McLorn Endowed Professor of Comparative Medicine in the College of Veterinary Medicine, to improve health care for cats through research.
«In 2011, 8.35 percent of Americans over age 60 faced the threat of hunger — that translates to 4.8 million people,» said Craig Gundersen, University of Illinois soybean industry endowed professor in agricultural strategy in the Department of Agricultural and Consumer Economics and executive director of the National Soybean Research Laboratory who led the data analysis on the study.
Biochemist Anastassis (Tassos) Perrakis has been appointed Endowed Professor of Macromolecular Structures at Utrecht University.
Before joining the UNT Dallas College of Law in January 2013, Pryor was the Homer R. Mitchell Endowed Professor of Law at SMU Dedman School of Law.
He is also Professor and Chair of the Department of Gynecologic Oncology, the M. Steven Piver Endowed Professor of Gynecologic Oncology at RPCI, and the Executive Director of the Center for Immunotherapy at RPCI.
Thomas Jahns, Grainger Professor of Power Electronics and Electrical Machines at UW — Madison, and Deyang Qu, Johnson Controls endowed professor at UW - Milwaukee, will supervise the projects.
Millar, who is the Albert M. Kligman Endowed Professor and vice chair for basic science research in Dermatology at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, realized there was still a need to take action and began actively working more to address barriers to women's equality in academic medicine just a few years ago.
The senior author is Caroline Harwood, the Gerald and Lyn Grinstein Endowed Professor of Microbiology at the University of Washington School of Medicine.
Rajesh P.N. Rao, University of Washington Co-Director, Center for Sensorimotor Neural Engineering CJ and Elizabeth Hwang Endowed Professor of Computer Science & Engineering and Electrical Engineering
Deborah Gross (DNSc, RN, Rush University) is the Leonard and Helen Stulman Endowed Professor in Psychiatric and Mental Health Nursing in the Johns Hopkins School of Nursing and holds joint appointments in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences in the School of Medicine, and the Department of Mental Health in the Bloomberg School of Public Health.
It was the expectation of the Fischers that the new endowed professor would direct CECH and promote citizenship education in the St. Louis region and beyond.
Fusco is the Andrew Banks Endowed Professor of Art at the University of Florida and author of English is Broken Here: Notes on Cultural Fusion in the Americas (1995), The Bodies that Were Not Ours and Other Writings (2001), and A Field Guide for Female Interrogators (2008).
Megan McClelland is the Katherine E. Smith Endowed Professor in Child Development at Oregon State University.
Wagenseil collaborated with Robert Mecham, Alumni Endowed Professor of Cell Biology and Physiology, and Professor of Medicine, Pediatrics and Bioengineering at the School of Medicine for the research.
«PETROSS sugarcane is also being engineered to be more cold tolerant, potentially enabling it to be grown on an estimated 23 million acres of marginal land in the Southeastern U.S.,» said PETROSS Director Stephen Long, Gutgsell Endowed Professor of Plant Biology and Crop Sciences at the Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology at the University of Illinois.
«Nearly half of all patients treated between six and 16 hours after the onset of their symptoms were largely spared from the consequences of their stroke,» said the trial's principal investigator, Gregory Albers, MD, who is the Coyote Foundation Endowed Professor of Neurology and Neurological Science and the director of the Stanford Stroke Center.
With that knowledge, Sykes and his fellow chemists turned to long - time Tufts collaborator Maria Flytzani - Stephanopoulos, Ph.D., the Robert and Marcy Haber Endowed Professor in Energy Sustainability at the School of Engineering, to determine which hydrogenation reaction would be most significant for industrial applications.
Speakers: Charlie Bamforth, Anheuser - Busch Endowed Professor of Malting and Brewing Sciences; Daniela Barile, Associate Professor, Department of Food Science & Technology; Maria Marco, Associate Professor, Department of Food Science & Technology; Andrew Waterhouse, Professor, Viticulture and Enology; all from UC Davis
Kisailus, who is the Winston Chung Endowed Professor in Energy Innovation in UCR's Marlan and Rosemary Bourns College of Engineering, has been studying smashers» clubs as inspiration for the development of next - generation composite materials.
Dr. Althof is the Teresa M. Fischer Endowed Professor of Citizenship Education and is Executive Director of CECH.
In July of 2007, Jaime joined the College of Veterinary Medicine, School of Medicine, and Masonic Cancer Center at the University of Minnesota, where he continues his research program as Alvin and June Perlman Endowed Professor of Oncology and Comparative Medicine and Director of the Animal Cancer Care and Research Program.
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