Sentences with phrase «faculty development at»

Author: Editor Colin Miller is a professor and associate dean for faculty development at the University of South Carolina and co-hosts the Undisclosed podcast; and Ben Trachtenberg is a law professor at the University of Missouri.

architecture; currently direct all aspects of faculty development at FIT, an internationally recognized design school.

Charles R. Foster is professor and associate dean of faculty development at Emory University's Candler School of Theology.

Steven Tomlinson, director of faculty development at Acton Business School, advises business owners who shy away from tooting their own horn to recast their thinking: «It's what you are doing to help other people.»

«Sometimes, you just know when something's better,» says Dr. Martin Weiser, an attending surgeon and a vice chair of education and faculty development at the Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, of robotic - assisted surgery.

Not exact matches

The Legatum Center for Development and Entrepreneurship at MIT is a hub for MIT students, faculty, departments and global entrepreneurs who are passionate about entrepreneurship in frontier markets.

A founding member of the Waldorf School in Lexington, MA, he was a faculty member at Sunbridge College in Spring Valley, NY, and founder of the Waldorf School Administration and Community Development program.

Liz is a member of Sunbridge's Elementary Teacher Education faculty; she is also sixth grade teacher at Green Meadow Waldorf School where she has been a class teacher since 2006 and is a member of the school's Collegium and the Teacher Development Committee.

SUNY Polytechnic President Alain Kaloyeros stepped down from the top post at the institution created specifically for him and his economic development efforts, and university officials are considering whether he can remain a faculty member as he faces corruption charges.

The results, though not surprising, offer a reminder that, with so many people vying for so few tenure - track faculty positions, «trainees need to do more self - analysis of where they are and what the realities are for them to potentially become a faculty member,» says study author Nathan Vanderford, an assistant professor of toxicology and cancer biology and assistant dean for academic development at the University of Kentucky in Lexington.

The program is structured so that new developments have the potential to be commercialized quickly, potentially giving students and faculty a look at the development half of industrial R&D.

While on faculty at the University of Florida he directed that institution's Tropical Conservation and Development Program.

«It provides a unique vantage point from which to consider the intricate interface between capacities inherent in the human infant and the shaping force of experience,» said Sandra Waxman, senior author of the study, director of the Project on Child Development, faculty fellow in Northwestern's Institute for Policy Research and the Louis W. Menk Chair in Psychology at Northwestern.

The report further cites a «lack of faculty support» for professional development activities at many institutions.

Not only is BPA using it as an example in its attempts to improve MIT postdoc salaries, but the HMS postdoc office has been telling their faculty about the developments at Whitehead.

Cannon's team, which includes her husband and fellow faculty member Gerard Lachapelle, is at the forefront of GPS algorithm development.

As faculty advisor to the postdoc association at UNC, Milgram interacts daily with postdocs to facilitate communication between postdocs and the administration, assist postdocs with program development, etc..

Each of the schools has selected an equity adviser, who monitors and assesses policies and progress in «the development and maintenance of an equitable environment for all faculty» at UCI.

The team's insights not only illuminate normal vertebrate development but also could lead to improved understanding of human spinal defects such as scoliosis, said Pourquié, who is also the Harvard Medical School Frank Burr Mallory Professor of Pathology at Brigham and Women's Hospital and a principal faculty member of the Harvard Stem Cell Institute.

It was co-authored with Dr. Cin Cin Tan, research faculty at University of Michigan's Center for Human Growth and Development, who completed her doctoral dissertation on the topic with Holub at UT Dallas.

Domoff, a research faculty affiliate at U-M's Center for Human Growth and Development, is now an assistant professor of psychology at Central Michigan University.

«Although it is clear that efforts to enhance diversity and inclusion are increasing, it is not clear whether minority faculty development programs are effective in general at enhancing the recruitment and retention of underrepresented minority faculty.»

The results provide worrying evidence of a failure to further advance research authorship by women, as Kathryn M. Rexrode, MD, MPH, associate professor of medicine and faculty director of Office for Women's Careers at Harvard Medical School, Boston, states in an editorial accompanying The BMJ article: «Authorship is necessary for career progression and is also a symptom of success; it is the culmination of career development, mentorship, funding, and support.

Moreover, junior faculty members at U of T receive little formal faculty mentoring or career development support from the administration or their tenured colleagues.

«Stress, including the stress of racial discrimination, affects cortisol levels and sleep, which are important for cognition and learning,» said study senior author Emma Adam, a professor of human development and social policy at Northwestern's School of Education and Social Policy and faculty fellow at the Institute for Policy Research.

Research development professionals like Reininga - Craven help faculty members at their institutions get research funding.

The University Administration's Department of Research Services and Research Development and the research representatives at the faculties provide support in all research - related matters.

Approximately equal numbers of women and men enter and graduate from medical school in the United States and United Kingdom.1 2 In northern and eastern European countries such as Russia, Finland, Hungary, and Serbia, women account for more than 50 % of the active physicians3; in the United Kingdom and United States, they represent 47 % and 33 % respectively.4 5 Even in Japan, the nation in the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development with the lowest percentage of female physicians, representation doubled between 1986 and 2012.3 6 However, progress in academic medicine continues to lag, with women accounting for less than 30 % of clinical faculty overall and for less than 20 % of those at the highest grade or in leadership positions.7 - 9 Understanding the extent to which this underrepresentation affects high impact research is critical because of the implicit bias it introduces to the research agenda, influencing future clinical practice.10 11 Given the importance of publication for tenure and promotion, 12 women's publication in high impact journals also provides insights into the degree to which the gender gap can be expected to close.

The team led by Baudry and Igor Zhulin, distinguished research and development staff member in the ORNL Computer Science and Mathematics Division, joint professor in the UT Department of Microbiology, and JICS joint faculty member determined that a single pair of phenylalanine amino acids called Phe396 located at the chemoreceptor tip was acting as a receptor switch.

To continue to ensure a pipeline of research talent, future initiatives include professional development to support pilot projects, sabbaticals so senior faculty can remain at the cutting edge of gerontological research and postdoctoral training and junior faculty positions.

Prior work by Mary Firestone, Berkeley Lab faculty scientist and a professor of microbiology at UC Berkeley, had shown that plants were consistently selecting or suppressing the same types of microbes over time in the root zone, suggesting some form of synchronization between plant and microbiome development.

For instance, the 2015 session on evaluating research development services helped me to take a leap forward in developing metrics and methods for evaluating our own services, and the session sharing findings from comparative study of proposal review criteria at federal agencies has translated to remarkable efficiencies for myself and my faculty.

In the summer of 2014, I was recruited by the Vice President for Research to join her office and start the Grant Development Office at UMaine to enhance faculty grant seeking and research developmeDevelopment Office at UMaine to enhance faculty grant seeking and research developmentdevelopment efforts.

«The CTR - IN is providing unique opportunities for junior faculty at our partner institutions to develop their clinical and translational research programs to the level of national competitiveness,» said Carl Reiber, UNLV senior vice provost, who was instrumental in the development of the program.

The Greenwall Faculty Scholars Program in Bioethics is a career development award to enable outstanding junior faculty members to carry out original research that will help resolve important policy and clinical dilemmas at the intersection of ethics and the life sciences.

A new faculty member at the University of Wisconsin — Madison, Marianne Fairbanks is bringing decades of experience with dyes, fibers and design to the development of a technology she's been dreaming of for years: the solar textile.

The HFC and WCCCD faculty taking part in the IRACDA effort will also have an opportunity to participate in professional development activities at U-M, such as those offered through CRLT.

This includes a pilot program called the Postdoc Job Search Boot Camp Program which was aimed at 1) helping postdocs becoming independent, self - directed job - seekers and not need to rely solely on their faculty / PI for their professional development needs; 2) build an individual's capacity for seeking out resources for expanding and supporting their own career development; and 3) building a community of support for job seekers.

Dr. Kronenberg's vision for the future has included the development of a new research facility to accommodate the Institute's growth, an accompanying expansion of LJI faculty and laboratories, the creation of an Infectious Disease Center at LJI, and the development of a joint Center for Immunology with UCSD.

She also is a faculty investigator and director of informatics and software development at the HudsonAlpha Institute for Biotechnology in Huntsville, Ala..

Bass will begin this part - time position immediately while continuing to work with the Evidence - based Practice Center and with the Scholarly Concentration in Public Health and Community Service, in addition to continuing his clinical practice at Johns Hopkins Outpatient Center and serving the Department of Medicine as the vice chair for faculty development and promotions.

AMHERST, Mass. — Cognitive neuroscience researcher Joonkoo Park at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, who recently received a five - year, $ 751,000 faculty early career development (CAREER) grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to address basic research questions about how our brains process number and magnitude and how such processes give rise to more complex mathematical thinking, has co-authored a paper that reports this week where in the brain numerical quantity evaluation is processed.

He subsequently held faculty positions at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine in New York, NY, the State University of New York at Stony Brook, and the University of Connecticut Health Center in Farmington, and completed a fellowship in behavioral medicine at the University of Connecticut, before serving as director of clinical research at the Gesell Institute of Human Development in New Haven, CT..

He is clinical professor of psychiatry at the UCLA School of Medicine, where he is also on the faculty of the Center for Culture, Brain, and Development.

The transition has also been made easier because I'm surrounded by talented people in leadership roles at the school, including the administrative dean, Bob Fogel, and the associate deans — Jack Jennings for finance; Daphne Layton for curriculum and faculty appointments; Bill McKersie for development; and Jim Stiles, for degree programs.

She collaborated on the development of new curriculum for The School at Columbia University, where she served as a founding faculty member.

Tracking nearly 1,000 native and ESL students from kindergarten to grade two in an English - only school system in Canada, Lesaux, who joined the HGSE faculty this year, and co-author Linda Siegel, a special education professor at the University of British Columbia, assessed the development of students» reading skills at each stage of their learning.

And the unfortunate truth is that feelings of professional discontent arise just at the stage in an academic career when university resources for faculty development are ebbing, directed more prominently toward pre-tenure faculty.

Now in her sixth year at the University of Tulsa, where she oversees six faculty members and teaches courses on language and literacy development in early education, Beals is currently focusing on the large Mexican community in Oklahoma.

Students are dismissed at 11:45 a.m. on Fridays, after which faculty, along with representatives from key partnering organizations, meet from 11:45 a.m. to 2:15 p.m. to work on professional development that primarily focuses on analyzing student data.