Sentences with phrase «first interdisciplinary study»

«This is the first interdisciplinary study about an Earth microorganism that could possibly produce methane under Enceladus - like conditions,» Rittmann told Gizmodo.

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According to a short section of the 200 - page book that accompanied the governor's speech Wednesday, the college «will be the first civilian degree - granting college to integrate emergency preparedness, security and counter-terrorism studies through interdisciplinary programs that involve law, public and international affairs, information technology, cyber engineering, critical infrastructure protection and science.»

The tree - ring study is the first in a related series by a larger interdisciplinary team working with Pederson and Hessl.

Among the first to gain access were two from Israel — Tamar Kricheli - Katz, a sociologist and legal scholar from Tel Aviv University, and Tali Regev, an economist from the Interdisciplinary Center Herzliya — who together study inequality.

Her school, Professional Yoga Therapy Studies (est. 2000) was also the first international post-graduate interdisciplinary medical yoga program of its kind.

First, when it comes to articulated beliefs about what constitutes appropriate instruction for early adolescents, both groups are proponents of instruction that: (1) is theme based, (2) is interdisciplinary, (3) fosters student self - direction and independence, (4) promotes self - understanding, (5) incorporates basic skills, (6) is relevant to the learner and thus based on study of significant problems, (7) is student - centered, (8) promotes student discovery, (9) values group interaction, (10) is built upon student interest, (11) encourages critical and creative exploration of ideas, and (12) promotes student self - evaluation (e.g., Currier, 1986; Kaplan, 1979; Maker & Nielson, 1995; Stevenson, 1992).

While at Stanford, Ericka has worked in partnership with a California school district to help answer high priority and actionable research questions; mentored first and second year doctoral students as a part of the Enhancing Diversity in Graduate Education program; served as a doctoral student representative on the Social Sciences, Humanities, and Interdisciplinary Policy Studies Area Committee; and served as a teaching assistant for quantitative and theoretical courses on educational inequality.

The Sanctuary, California Department of Fish and Wildlife, Channel Islands National Park and the Partnership for Interdisciplinary Studies of Coastal Oceans (PISCO) at the University of California, Santa Barbara sponsored a public symposium on the first five years of monitoring, enforcement and education programs for the Channel Islands Marine Protected Area Network.

«Abstract Bodies» is the first book to apply the interdisciplinary field of transgender studies to the discipline of art history.

Some of our colleagues at UNLV have conceptualized the evolution of legal writing scholarship as a series of leaps.2 The first big leap was to take an interdisciplinary approach to writing about teaching writing.3 The second leap was to build community by creating spaces of our own, such as LWI, the Journal, and then later, JAWLD.4 The third leap was to develop a rich, often interdisciplinary approach to studying and writing about legal writing.5 In their article, Linda Berger, Linda Edwards, and Terry Pollman suggested — hoped, perhaps, and I along with them — that scholarship relating to legal analysis, skills and practice is no longer considered inferior to traditional legal scholarship.6 The growing number of schools where legal writing faculty have achieved equal status due at least in part to their legal writing scholarship suggests we have made significant progress as a result of these leaps.7