Sentences with phrase «focused programs centered»

They're no longer limited to Silicon Valley, and they're no longer just for tech companies; there are industry - focused programs centered on fashion, food and socially conscious endeavors as well.

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As a kid - focused ecosystem with great TV content at the center, Universal Kids is programmed for the 2 - 12 year old audience, with a fresh mix of animated content, unscripted entertainment, and proven international hits.

In addition to The Jinx, several other true crime series and television programs centered on the issue of criminal justice have gripped viewers over the past year, including current series focused on O.J. Simpson and infamous Ponzi schemer Bernie Madoff that are airing on FX and ABC, respectively.

According to the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, a nonpartisan research group that focuses on reducing poverty, 20 million children in the United States (nearly 1 in 4) will have received Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) benefits — better known as food stamps — in 2016.

We're also making progress on our liquid biopsy program since our last update, including the recently announced collaboration with Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, which is focused on furthering the basic understanding of the biology of circulating tumor DNA, or ctDNA, in different cancer types.

Expand the role of the Small Business Administration's Office of Women's Business Ownership (OWBO) beyond oversight of the Women's Business Center (WBC) program to other growth - focused initiatives, including access to capital and access to markets

Dr. Schroeder is currently a lecturer at Aish Jerusalem for the Discovery Seminar, Essentials program, Jerusalem Fellowships, and Executive Learning Center — focusing on the topics of evolution, cosmology, and age of the universe.

The Rev. Joseph W. Knowles describes the goals of the Renewal Center Mission as (1) developing the Life Renewal Center through small «groups,» (2) giving attention to the use of present structures to focus the whole life of the church as a healing community, (3) developing a program of supervised clinical pastoral education for theological students, and (4) maintaining a Residential Center halfway house for twenty men and women who have been previously hospitalized for mental illness.

The 2014 program schedule included: culinary demonstrations centered around adventurous flavors and new menu trends; presentations and panel discussions focused on sustainable agricultural practices, the role of wheat in our diet vs. seekers of gluten - free options, and water issues affecting food production; discussions on how American menus are often shaped by millennials, health and nutrition concerns, and global cuisines; a Friday field trip to the CIA Farm in St. Helena and through Marin and Sonoma Counties to visit Pozzi Ranch, Dutton Ranch (where Valley Ford Cheese Company joined), and Gourmet Mushrooms with tastings and presentations by the farmers as well as farm bureau and land trust experts; and the exciting and interactive Saturday Market Basket Exercise, where attendees were divided into six teams to develop menu concepts using sponsor products for the following categories:

Angela Hanscom is a pediatric occupational therapist and the founder of TimberNook, which focuses on nature - centered developmental programming in New England.

The center can take in up to 82 children and offers a wide variety of child care programs focusing on children's physical, social, emotional, cognitive, and academic development.

Much like a 2012 study published by the National Center for Biotechnology Information, where educational biologist Wendy Middlemiss and her team tracked the behavior and cortisol levels of 25 infants, ages 4 to 10 months, as they attempted a five - day sleep training program that focused on the cry it out method.

Early childhood programs will be the focus of the Jewish Community Center's expansion in Buffalo Grove.

While the Standards focus specifically on recreational youth sports programs, they are applicable in a variety of sports settings to help ensure safe, positive and child - centered experiences.

Tufts Medical Center and its Floating Hospital for Children established the Office of Community Health Programs in 1992 to respond to the challenges of an increasingly complex health care delivery environment, to meet the changing needs of Tufts Medical Center's diverse patient population and to focus on public health and disease prevention.

A focus on children prenatal / birth to 5 years and child maltreatment prevention, intervention and treatment has been part of the Center's programming since its inception.

The curriculum is holistic, child - centered program that nurtures each child by offering focused, meaningful instruction that is developmentally appropriate.

2001 — Five Acres builds Arts & Education building 2004 — Five Acres is affiliated with Grace Center 2005 — Adoption promotion and support services open in San Dimas 2006 — El Monte location opens and community - based programs expand to nearly 80 % of Five Acres services provided 2007 — Five Acres revises its mission statement to focus on prevention and permanency 2009 — Zeilstra Research & Training Center is established

Her courses are taught primarily in medical centers, rehabilitation hospitals for special needs children, and other programs that focus on the zero to 5 populations.

Family - Centered Grief Support programs through the Chesapeake Life Center focus on supporting families.

In May, the governor's multi-billion-dollar economic development programs will be the focus of a corruption trial centering on the former head of those programs, former SUNY Polytechnic President Alain Kaloyeros.

Hill noted that while the discussion in light of Mayor Bloomberg's proposed cuts on recent budget cuts has focused on after - school programs, three daycare service providers — the Washington Heights Day Care Center, Quo Vadis Daycare, and La Familia Day Care — may be forced to close.

Speaking to an audience of approximately 300 people at the Johnson Community Center in East Harlem, Mark - Viverito called for new programs which would expand access to civil legal services, create new technology - focused programs in City high schools, as well as for expanding existing agencies and programs such as the Human Rights Commission.

«The McMahon / Ryan Child Advocacy Center does a tremendous amount of community education and education in schools focusing on child abuse prevention programming.

With a great deal of focus on improving graduation rates in the city of Buffalo, a program is underway at the Erie County Holding Center in Buffalo that is allowing teenage inmates to reach high school graduation.

«Despite evidence that substance use disorder treatment programs work, there is high unmet need for women - centered or pregnancy - focused substance use disorder treatment.

The SusWEF Center, funded through the NSF EPSCoR program, focuses on research towards the sustainable use of chemical catalysis for water treatment and for the conversion of biomass to simple chemicals — including for crop production.

The study recommends government agencies focus efforts on enacting policies and programs to better protect rural households during a drought, such as supporting sustainable agriculture projects in the region, increasing transportation options to access city centers and providing access to insurance and credit schemes.

Some DNA program efforts can raise complex legal and ethical questions, however, and Jennifer Wagner, a 2014 - 2015 AAAS Congressional Fellow and former research associate at the University of Pennsylvania's Center for the Integration of Genetic Healthcare Technologies, and Sara Katsanis, an Instructor of Science & Society at Duke University, are conducting interviews, surveys, and focus groups around two such programs to learn more about the perspectives of the people involved and to develop «best practices» guidelines.

Boyden, who codirects that center, says traditional neuroscience graduate programs typically focus on hypothesis - driven research — asking and answering «profound, deep mysteries of the brain.»

But whereas most of the earlier funding programs acted countrywide, the Career Center is a more focused approach to bringing together partners with a scientific and industrial background.

They have led efforts to develop «soft» polymer - based, energy - harvesting materials as part of the Center for Energy Harvesting Materials and Systems, a National Science Foundation (NSF) program focused on the development of energy - capture and motion - control technologies.

Originally focused on natural areas in the mid-Atlantic, the program is expanding its range across North America, including urban centers.

The research council asserts that it is now focusing more on the quality than the number of Ph.D. s. That's embodied by a shift to centers for doctoral training (CDTs) that provide 4 - year Ph.D. s, including skills - development programs, rather than 3 - year project student Ph.D. s.

In order to strengthen the relevance of their results in mice, Berger's work group has started a joint project with Professor Benedikt Berninger of the Focus Program Translational Neurosciences (FTN) at the Mainz University Medical Center.

The report from members of the MGH Disparities Solutions Center, which conducts the program, appears in the June issue of Health Affairs, which focuses on issues of health equity.

NHGRI's «flagship» sequencing program will expand beyond three huge centers and «sharpen its focus on medical applications,» said NHGRI Director Eric Green in a press call today.

This event focused on the effect on brain and behavior of video games, which are played by 155 million Americans at least three times a week, according to Deborah Runkle, senior program associate with the AAAS Center of Science, Policy and Society.

This may be because, at the referral center studied, there is a dedicated program that provides support and counselling, focusing mostly on breast cancer patients within the first year of cancer diagnosis.

UT Southwestern Medical Center's Transplant Program has an exceptional track record that speaks to a consistent focus on excellence in patient care.

Notably, the budget promises «a major reorganization of NIH's Institutes and Centers to help focus resources on the highest priority research and training activities,» including elimination of the Fogarty International Center, which specializes in international research programs, and consolidation of the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) within NIH, among other unspecified changes.

Jeanine Ash, a new Rice postdoctoral researcher and recipient of a Center for Dark Energy Biosphere Investigations (C - DEBI) fellowship, is the focus of a video about her duties as a member of the science party on the JOIDES Resolution, a research ship and part of the National Science Foundation - supported International Ocean Discovery Program.

The Pavilion will provide a new home for the University of Chicago Medical Center's most distinguished clinical programs, those that provide complex specialty care with a focus on cancer, gastrointestinal disease, neuroscience, advanced surgery and high - technology medical imaging.

He served as Directors of the DOE Energy Frontier Research Center on Light - Material Interactions in Solar Energy Conversion (http://lmi.caltech.edu/) and of the Resnick Sustainability Institute (http://resnick.caltech.edu/), Caltech's largest endowed research program focused on energy.

March 17, 2016 Roderick Tung, MD, named director of cardiac electrophysiology program at the University of Chicago Medicine Roderick Tung, MD, an authority on the management of heart rhythm disorders, with a particular focus on advanced therapies for atrial fibrillation and ventricular arrhythmias, has been appointed associate professor of medicine and medical director of the cardiac electrophysiology program at the Center for Arrhythmia Care at the University of Chicago Medicine.

Because their focusing skills make them uniquely suited for certain tasks in the security industry, May Institute and its National Autism Center (NAC) will collaborate with Work, Inc., one of New England's leading agencies in providing employment for people with disabilities, to develop a program to identify and train adults with ASD to work in this field.

The development of the database is supported by the NIH's Center of Biomedical Research Excellence (COBRE) program, which focuses on regeneration, tissue repair and aging.

Dr. Mayer is a key component of the Vanderbilt - Ingram Cancer Center (VICC) Breast Cancer Program, where her role is to implement and conduct investigator - initiated, mechanism - based clinical and translational trials in breast cancer, focusing in novel diagnostic and therapeutic approaches.

The South Dakota UCEDD, the Center for Disabilities, will develop and implement a pilot program focused on the use of virtual technology platforms with vocational staff serving rural, urban, and Native communities.

The Cancer Center is awarded a grant from the National Cancer Institute (NCI) to launch a Comprehensive Breast Cancer program focused on clinical and basic research, prevention strategies, and the development of new therapies.