Sentences with phrase «field programs studying»

While working on his Masters degree, he participated in field programs studying acid rain in the Northeast U.S. and air pollution in the Detroit area.

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Several Canadian universities offer specialized degrees in actuarial studies to enter the financial and insurance business; there are a smaller number of master's degrees cropping up aimed at applying data sciences to a wider range of fields, along with some certificate programs aimed at professionals already working in business.

«If we add machine learning, the field of study that allows computers to self - learn without specific programming to do so, to existing artificial intelligence (A.I.), the resulting machines will be better able to diagnose and heal patients than their human counterparts can now,» he notes.

More than 16,000 associates have joined since its inception with roughly three - fourths of the employees residing in the U.S. Commercial truck driving, health care, and information technology are the program's most popular fields of study, Bezos noted in the letter.

The length and cost of your Laurentian MBA depends on your undergraduate field of study — business degree holders take an accelerated 11 - month, 33 - credit program while those without one take 57 credits over 20 months.

Nearly 26,500 undergraduates attend Davis, 21 % of which study in the College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences, a top - ranking, nationally recognized program in the fields of agriculture and forestry.

With specialized streams of study in Biotechnology Management & Entrepreneurship, as well as Innovative Management, the EMBA program at the Faculty of Business provides students with the theory, skills, experiential learning and research opportunities to advance their knowledge and enhance their employability in these flourishing fields.

Many have their own newspapers, magazines, pamphlets, tracts, study programs, graded materials, Cassettes, films and books, as well as field workers and speakers» bureaus.

But the worry that the pool of future faculty will be dominated by graduates of religious studies programs whose whole training is outside the fields and institutions of theological study and who would not want to be associated with such schools is misplaced.

Religious studies, they fear, is coming to dominate doctoral programs in the field.

More significantly, these studies tended to focus on «how - to» concerns, or the application of what was taught in the «theoretical» fields of biblical, historical and theological - ethical studies (each also separate from the others and supported by its own professional associations, journals, degree programs and faculties).

For example, the field education program, the study of current liberation theologies, and the struggle to keep the school's budget in balance all pose questions of Christian faith and ethics in their relation to urban - institutional structures.

It may be an arrangement that factors out different aspects of the school's common life to the reign of each model of excellent schooling: the research university model may reign for faculty, for example, or for faculty in certain fields (say, church history, or biblical studies) but not in others (say, practical theology), while paideia reigns as the model for students, or only for students with a declared vocation to ordained ministry (so that other students aspiring to graduate school are free to attempt to meet standards set by the research university model); or research university values may be celebrated in relation to the school's official «academic» program, including both classroom expectations and the selection and rewarding of faculty, while the school's extracurricular life is shaped by commitments coming from the model provided by paideia so that, for example, common worship is made central to their common life and a high premium is placed on the school being a residential community.

The greatest deficiency in the program of study was generally held to be the failure to provide instruction in the field of pastoral counseling, and it was not until late in the seventeenth century that professorships of moral theology or casuistry began to be established to meet this need.

In Shanahan's first - floor office, with the practice fields outside his window (at one point, in an early phase of the off - season strength and conditioning program, a group of players including quarterbacks Brian Hoyer and Matt Barkley stretched out on the field), he and Lynch studied candidates; Marathe and vice president of player personnel Adam Peters filtered in and out, in between projects and calls.

In the years following, Sunbridge College's offerings grew, eventually encompassing numerous full - and part - time certificate and degree programs and courses in Waldorf Teacher Education, Biography and Social Art, Liberal Studies, Remedial Education (now the Association for a Healing Education), Waldorf Administration and Community Development, Applied Arts (now the Fiber Craft Studio) and other affiliated fields.

While the theoretical principles guiding the use of the NBO and the accompanying training program, include many of the conceptual themes that informed our work with the NBAS, they are influenced by theoretical and clinical principles from the fields of infant mental health, child development, brain development, behavioral pediatrics, systems theory, communication studies, nursing, early intervention and cultural studies, among its influences.

A special goal of this study is the linking of implementation strategies to program impacts, thus informing the field about the types of program features or strategies that might lead to even greater impacts on families.

Under the program, employers and the county each pay half the cost of an intern — making the program an ideal public - private partnership that helps local college students gain a fuller understanding of local opportunities in their chosen field of study.

Stacey Baker, public engagement program associate at AAAS and a trained biologist, spoke with a teenager who wants to study biology about the many paths open to scientists and the other elements beyond your field of study — such as they type of work environment a candidate might be seeking — to keep in mind when selecting a career.

Some of the recommendations from the RAND study include waiving civil service rules that impede the hiring of talented cybersecurity professionals, maintaining government hiring of these professionals through sequestrations, funding software licenses and related equipment for educational programs, refining tests to identify candidates likely to succeed in these careers, and developing methods to attract women into the field.

Modelling provides a useful and cost - effective alternative and can be used to select promising programs for further field study.»

Ornithologist Eduardo Inigo - Elias, senior research associate with the conservation science program at the Cornell Laboratory of Ornithology, talks about the challenges of studying migratory birds and how improved relations between the U.S. and Cuba will help his field

The problem is that smallholder farmers in developing countries often have low productivity and little likelihood of generating the profits needed to rise above poverty level, says Prof. Johns, who directs the McGill Canadian Field Studies in Africa program.

Miller's «departure from the field will have serious ramifications for many on - going archaeological projects throughout» the Near East, where she studies plant remains to better understand agricultural economies, wrote Melinda Zeder, director of the archaeobiology program at the Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History in Washington, D.C., in a letter sent last weekend to Richard Hodges, the museum's director.

If you are interested in a career in research, getting involved in a research program over the summer is one of the best ways to truly get a taste of life at the bench, but depending on your field of study, your «bench» may be the dense foliage of the Amazon jungle (see» For the Love of Nature» by Dr. Emilio Bruna).

«There should be a study,» says graduate school dean Lawrence Martin of the State University of New York, Stony Brook, who is also head of a panel of land - grant colleges that has drafted a position paper urging coverage of more fields, greater use of objective research criteria, exploration of some measures of program outcome, and ranking institutions by cluster rather than individually.

I recently left my plum position at the Field Museum after 17 years to start an environmental studies program at Wesleyan.

«We challenged a current dogma in the field that emphasized PLK1's role in mitosis (cell division) as a primary mechanism for cancer growth,» says Zheng Fu, Ph.D., lead investigator on the study, member of the Cancer Molecular Genetics research program at VCU Massey Cancer Center and assistant professor in the Department of Human and Molecular Genetics at the VCU School of Medicine.

At various times, he has been involved in fields as diverse as programming guidance systems for experimental medical robots and medical image processing and theoretical mathematical studies for physics.

Since 1996, the program has recruited students with disabilities who are studying in science, engineering, mathematics, computer science, and some fields of business for internship opportunities.

In addition to his regular research, Ridgway conducts field studies on the Kaibab Reservation in northern Arizona, where he helps study restoration programs on overgrazed land and builds awareness about careers in the sciences among local Native students.

«Our future field studies will focus on voluntary commitment devices in other health behaviors, such as gym exercise and smoking cessation, which can work in large - scale incentive programs and help people maintain self - control on an ongoing basis.»

While such longitudinal studies are important, it's important to remember that the field is still young, with no consensus on the best tools to look for early signs of damage, said Michael Hutchison, a neuroscientist who directs a concussion program at the University of Toronto and consults for the National Hockey League Players» Association.

The list below includes programs specifically for American scientists going to France, two - way exchange programs, and programs available to scholars in any field of study.

An MSU study finds that students who take part in pre-college programs that focus on science are more likely to pursue a career path in that field.

Together with the Galactic Archeology study based on the HSC wide - field survey of the Subaru Strategic Program, we hope to establish the presence and nature of satellite galaxies, and determine the large - scale structure and stellar content of halos of spiral galaxies in general.»

PHILADELPHIA --(July 11, 2017)-- Researchers at The Wistar Institute, an international leader in biomedical research in the fields of cancer, immunology and infectious diseases, with collaborators at Indiana University Melvin and Bren Simon Cancer Center and Syndax Pharmaceuticals, Inc., (Nasdaq: SNDX) announce the results of a preclinical study demonstrating that entinostat, Syndax's oral, Class - I histone deacetylase inhibitor, enhances the antitumor effect of PD - 1 (programmed death receptor - 1) blockade through the inhibition of myeloid derived suppressor cells (MDSCs).

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With these new optimized procedures, we would like to pilot a program, contingent on the success of this study, to expose high school students to the field of molecular and synthetic genomics.

The Eiffel program allows to train the next foreign decision makers, in the private and public sectors, in critical study fields, and encourage applications by students from emerging countries at Masters» level and emerging and industrialised countries at PhD level.

A list of all NSF - supported fields is available in the appendix of the Program Solicitation, and a list of the 2018 panels with component fields is available on this page, as well as the Proposed Field of Study section of the GRFP application module.

Extensive ongoing observing programs, led by Harry Teplitz and Richard Ellis at the California Institute of Technology, will allow astronomers to study the deep - field galaxies with Hubble to even greater depths in ultraviolet and infrared light prior to the launch of JWST.

Field data used in the study were obtained with the support from the U.S. Department of Energy Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) Climate Research Facility, a DOE national user facility; the DOE Atmospheric Sciences Program; the National Research Council of Canada; and Environment Canada.

The goals of EPSCoR are to engage across different fields of study to address environmental and energy challenges and to educate on the benefits of the research; develop new ways of thinking and action through targeting education programs, focusing on long - term sustainability; build competitive research teams, and integrate new initiatives into our institutions.

In an unrelated study of more than 1,000 first - year medical students, Shalini Reddy, MD, associate professor of medicine and director of student professional development programs at the Pritzker School of Medicine, and colleagues found that only a quarter of students said they would choose a primary care specialty if they had to select a field now.

Thus, applicants are advised to select the Field of Study in the FastLane GRFP Application module (see Fields of Study in Appendix) that is most closely aligned with the proposed graduate program of study and research Study in the FastLane GRFP Application module (see Fields of Study in Appendix) that is most closely aligned with the proposed graduate program of study and research Study in Appendix) that is most closely aligned with the proposed graduate program of study and research study and research plan.

Jill was the co-founder of Agrosalud, a non-profit health care program in rural Guatemala and collaborated with the University of Miami Field Epidemiology Survey Team on projects in the San Blas archipelago in Panamá, including cholera intervention, scabies and head lice studies.

Furthermore, by conducting the Mars 160 mission in the form of twin studies, dubbed Mars Desert 80 (MD80) and Mars Arctic 80 (MA80) with the same crew operating in the Arctic and the desert, the program will provide important information as to how well Mars analog missions held in the desert can serve in place of far more expensive Mars surface simulations carried out in the Arctic, and to what extent conclusions drawn from desert - based research need to be adjusted to reflect that which would likely be obtained under more stressful Arctic field conditions.

The NYSCF Innovator Programs feature top scientists from around the world in their respective fields of study.