Sentences with phrase «endowed university»

In addition to their generous donation of art, the Lists endowed the university with a commitment to art, both as a means of intellectual and aesthetic experimentation and as an agent in addressing the salient social and political issues of our time.

The Carneys» gift changes the name of the Brown Institute for Brain Science to the Robert J. and Nancy D. Carney Institute for Brain Science, and establishes the institute as one of the best - endowed university brain institutes in the country.

A fellowship program in clinical medical ethics that started in 1981 and has graduated 320 fellows, many of whom now hold endowed university professorships and direct clinical ethics programs in the U.S., Canada, Europe and China.

We're endowing universities that don't need endowing.

Sure, they're traditionally a way of protecting your loved ones, making sure they're cared for, but examples are legion of wills being used to endow universities, fund research to help cure disease, house orphans and / or refugees and establish foundations.

Not exact matches

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.

There are nine other scholar - lecturers — including one journalism educator: Andrew Leckey, an endowed professor at Arizona State University, where he serves as president of the Reynolds National Center for Business Journalism.

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.

This series of symposia is part of the Ontario Research Chairs in Public Policy Program endowed by the Ministry of Training, Colleges and Universities (MTCU).

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.

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.

Max Torres is Centesimus Annus Della Ratta Family Endowed Professor at Catholic University of America's Busch School of Business and Economics.

Ironically, while black theology theoretically relies heavily upon expressions of the people, such as freedom and sorrow songs and sermons, the more academic elites of black theology — those who have the luxury of tenure and endowed professorships in prestigious white seminaries and universities — seem to have little respect for the modern black church.

Perhaps a university so well endowed that it never needed any further support could fford to provide ideal freedom!

She was the first woman to hold an endowed professorship at Vanderbilt University, and she recently received the Goodnow Award from the American Political Science Association for lifetime accomplishment.

«As educators who believe that every human is made in the image of God and thus is endowed with dignity from their Creator, we want to support ambitious, driven, intelligent students who have dreams of contributing to their communities and want to pursue an education,» stated Shirley V. Hoogstra, president of the Council for Christian Colleges and Universities.

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

He has served as an Associate Professor, Assistant Professor and Extension Specialist at the University of Florida, held the Rodger B. Jensen Endowed Professorship in Pistachio Physiology and Pomology at California State University and is the current Research Program Director for CAC.

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.

Matt Caston, 365's COO, will participate in the panel entitled «Understanding Tech's Impact On Your Business,» Wednesday, April 25, from 8:30 am to 10:30 am, moderated by Dr. Michael Kasavana, NCE5, NAMA - Endowed Professor, Michigan State University.

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.

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.

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.

The United University Professions union, which includes SUNY faculty and staff, said Zimpher «brought a level of visibility and stability to the university,» although the union clashed with Zimpher on several issues, including a lack of transparency at the well - endowed SUNY Research University Professions union, which includes SUNY faculty and staff, said Zimpher «brought a level of visibility and stability to the university,» although the union clashed with Zimpher on several issues, including a lack of transparency at the well - endowed SUNY Research university,» although the union clashed with Zimpher on several issues, including a lack of transparency at the well - endowed SUNY Research Institute.

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.

Building the Bionic Woman Ayanna Howard, 09 October Ayanna Howard is a rarity: an African - American woman with an endowed engineering faculty chair at a major research university.

Ayanna Howard is a rarity: an African - American woman with an endowed engineering faculty chair at a major research university.

«We explored several plausible reasons why Mexican - American immigrants, despite facing the considerable challenges of relocation, have fewer health limitations than Mexican - Americans born in the United States,» says lead author Esme Fuller - Thomson, Sandra Rotman Endowed Chair at University of Toronto's Factor - Inwentash Faculty of Social Work at the University of Toronto.

When Gillian Bates at Guy's Hospital, London and Stephen Davies at University College in London and their colleagues examined the brains of transgenic mice endowed with a DNA encoding 150 of these glutamine repeats, they found that the protein started out, at birth, in the cytoplasm of the animals» brain cells and then gradually migrated to cell nuclei and clumped there.

«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.

University of Alabama at Birmingham researchers have found that amounts of this microRNA are significantly elevated in the brains of experimental rats with induced depression from corticosterone treatment, in the post-death brains of humans diagnosed with MDD and in peripheral blood serum from living patients with MDD, according to a study by led by Yogesh Dwivedi, Ph.D., the Elesabeth Ridgely Shook Endowed Professor and director of Translational Research, UAB Mood Disorders Program, Department of Psychiatry.

First author Professor Esme Fuller - Thomson, Sandra Rotman Endowed Chair at University of Toronto's Factor - Inwentash Faculty of Social Work and Director of the Institute for Life Course & Aging explains, «this link between migraine and generalized anxiety disorders in the past year was partially explained by the disturbingly high prevalence of debilitating chronic pain (30 %) and problems in managing household responsibilities (28 %) among those with migraine.»

«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.

Lori Marino, a neuroscientist and cetacean expert at Emory University, kicked things off, her soft features belying her outsize thesis: Pound for pound, dolphins are better endowed with gray matter than most primates, falling just short of humans, and the neocortex of their brain is just as complex as our own.

According to Dan M. Frangopol, the Fazlur R. Khan Endowed Chair of Structural Engineering and Architecture at Lehigh University and You Dong, Assistant Professor of Structural Engineering at The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, the majority of previous studies have focused on structural performance and loss assessment under hurricanes.

«The wild ancestors of C4 crops are thought to have grown as individuals in open habitats where the number of leaves that they produced would have been limited by water and nitrogen and most leaves would be exposed to full sunlight» said principal investigator Steve Long, Gutgsell Endowed Professor of Plant Biology and Crop Sciences at the University of Illinois.

«This is an interesting development, not just because Weyl points have been experimentally observed, but also because they endow the photonics crystals which realize them with unique optical properties,» says Ashvin Vishwanath, a professor of physics at the University of California at Berkeley who was not involved in this research.

«Even after accounting for age, race, sex and other early adversities such as parental addictions, childhood physical abuse was still associated with a six-fold increase in the odds of dyslexia» says co-author Esme Fuller - Thomson, professor and Sandra Rotman Endowed Chair at University of Toronto's Factor - Inwentash Faculty of Social Work.

Tony Trewavas, Steve Smith and colleagues at the University of Edinburgh have endowed three types of plants with a foreign «glow» gene which is activated when the host plant is stressed in some way, perhaps by a gust of wind.

The average time to recovery from depression was 9 months longer for adults who had been physically abused during their childhood and about 5 months longer for those whose parents had addiction problems» says lead author Esme Fuller - Thomson, Sandra Rotman Endowed Chair in the University of Toronto's Factor - Inwentash Faculty of Social Work.

«MCC is rare, but our research shows that it's becoming less rare,» says board - certified dermatologist Paul Nghiem, MD, PhD, FAAD, head of the division of dermatology and George F. Odland Endowed Chair in Dermatology at the University of Washington in Seattle.

The magnitude of these associations with suicide attempts was comparable to that associated with depression, the most well - known risk factor for suicide attempts,» said lead author Esme Fuller - Thomson, Sandra Rotman Endowed Chair at University of Toronto's Factor - Inwentash Faculty of Social Work & Institute for Life Course & Aging.

But because extra fat in the liver is likely to be detrimental to health, we conclude that e-cigarettes are not as safe as they have been promoted to consumers,» said lead author Theodore C. Friedman, M.D., Ph.D., Chairman of the Department of Internal Medicine and Endowed Professor of Cardio - Metabolic Medicine at Charles R. Drew University of Medicine & Science in Los Angeles, Calif. «This has important public health and regulatory implications.»

«This research highlights the importance of basic research and its relevance to human disease and therapies,» said Maquat, the J. Lowell Orbison Endowed Chair and Professor in the Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics at the University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry.

Frederick P. Rivara, MD, MPH, is the Seattle Children's Guild Endowed Chair in Pediatrics, Professor of Pediatrics, and adjunct Professor of Epidemiology at the University of Washington.

During the preparation of this manuscript, YK was supported by the Honjo International Scholarship Foundation, and FD was supported by a Helen Corley Petit Endowed Scholarship in Liberal Arts and Sciences and an Emanuel Donchin Professorial Scholarship in Psychology from the University of Illinois.

-- one of the world's top researchers in the field of human genetics, behavior and neuropsychiatric diseases — has been named Endowed Chair in Behavioral Genomics by the Department of Psychiatry and the University of California, San Diego (UCSD) School of Medicine.

The prize includes a $ 6,000 cash award endowed by former PPPL Director Ronald Davidson, who donated to Princeton University a portion of the gift he received as the 1993 recipient of the Award for Excellence in Science, Education and Physics from the Kaul Foundation in Tampa, Florida.

Prof. Angela Brand, MD PhD MPH (USA) is Founding Director and Full Professor of the Institute for Public Health Genomics (IPHG) at the Faculty of Health, Medicine and Life Sciences at Maastricht University, the Netherlands, as well as Dr. T.M.Pai Endowed Chair on Public Health Genomics and Adjunct Professor at the Manipal Life Sciences Centre of Manipal University, India.