Sentences with phrase «first academic partner»

Huang Xiaojuan, director of Educational Cooperation and Exchanges at the BGI Education and Training Department, explains that the program started in 2009 with the Southern China University of Technology as the first academic partner.

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... Last week, the New York City Human Rights Commission partnered with the Office of the First Lady Chirlane McCray and the Mayor's Office of Special Projects and Community Events to host a panel discussion at New York's historic Gracie Mansion with over 130 advocates, community leaders, academics, and City officials.

«This is the first instance I am aware of where an academic drug discovery group moved a molecule designed to hopefully treat a chronic brain disorder all the way from early discovery to human trials without there being, at some point along the way, a pharmaceutical partner,» said P. Jeffrey Conn, Ph.D., Lee E. Limbird Professor of Pharmacology in the Vanderbilt University School of Medicine and director of the Vanderbilt Center for Neuroscience Drug Discovery (VCNDD).

But Summit has reported first - year results for SLP partner schools: Growth on the Northwest Evaluation Association's Measures of Academic Progress (NWEA MAP) exceeded national averages in reading and, very slightly, in math.

This marks the first time the Education Department has stripped a state of its waiver on the grounds of academic standards, said Anne Hyslop, a senior policy analyst for Bellwether Education Partners.

Every year 10 Year 9 students on Free School Meals who will be first - generation university students are chosen from each of our partner schools to experience a range of sessions designed to raise their academic and vocational aspirations.

The commemoration of the First World War is a focus for activities in the 2014 - 2015 academic year, and the heritage schools have worked with local partners on a variety of projects.

GCISD first partnered with REAL School gardens with a garden build at Cannon Elementary towards the end of the 2014 - 2105 academic year.

As one of NRCCUA's first research partners, NABSE is the nation's premiere non-profit organization devoted to furthering the academic success for the nation's children, particularly those of African descent.

The first academic publishing label for games in the world, USC Games Publishing offers opportunities for students, academic partners, and innovative independant designers to have their non-traditional games released to the marketplace.

We continue to drive thinking about the development of new funding models for water projects and are expert partners in a group of more than 30 corporate, government, academic and NGO partners including Carlsberg, Munich Re, World Vision and the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies who have come together to contribute to the development of a new Water Benefit Standard initiated by First Climate, the Swiss Agency for Development & Co-operation and The Gold Standard Foundation.

Over the 2015 - 16 academic year, Facilities partnered with the Cal Poly City and Regional Planning Department to create Cal Poly's first Climate Action Plan.