Sentences with phrase «for urban research»

Houston, TX About Blog The Urban Edge blog is a product of the Kinder Institute for Urban Research at Rice University in Houston, Texas.

Dr. Eugenie Birch is Lawrence C. Nussdorf Professor of Urban Research and Education, Department of City and Regional Planning, and co-director, Penn Institute for Urban Research, at the University of Pennsylvania.

With the Penn Institute for Urban Research, Lum was co-curator of the 2014 Center - funded project Monument Lab: Creative Speculations for Philadelphia.

Architect and urbanist Manuel de Rivero is co-founder of 51 - 1 Arquitectos, an architecture studio based in Lima, Peru, and Supersudaca, an international collective for urban research.

Ruth López Turley is the associate director of research with the Kinder Institute for Urban Research and the director of the Houston Education Research Consortium.

The first phase of the Kinder Institute for Urban Research's needs assessment work on behalf of the Greater Houston Community Foundation and the Hurricane Harvey Relief Fund.

Rice University's Kinder Institute for Urban Research will explore the answers to those types of questions, and more, thanks to a $ 10.7 million, seven - year grant from the Kinder Foundation announced today.

The findings are the result of a study by the Houston Education Research Consortium, a research partnership between HISD and the Kinder Institute for Urban Research at Rice University.

The findings suggest HISD should continue with its efforts to expand its dual language programs, said Ruth N. López Turley, director of HERC and associate director of the Kinder Institute for Urban Research.

Posted on May 2, 2016 · A study from the Houston Education Research Consortium, part of Rice University's Kinder Institute for Urban Research, says age and disciplinary incidents are key factors that impact a student's decision to drop out of high school.

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Tracy Rone (Ph.D, University of California, Los Angeles) is a linguistic and cultural anthropologist at the Institute for Urban Research at the Morgan State University.

He is the faculty methodologist for the Penn IES Pre-Doctoral Training Program, a faculty fellow with the Penn Institute for Urban Research, a faculty affiliate with the Penn Wharton Public Policy Initiative, a senior researcher at the Consortium for Policy Research in Education, and an affiliated researcher with the University of Chicago Consortium on School Research.

Cosmopolis Centre for Urban Research, Department of Geography, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium

John Mollenkopf, director of the Center for Urban Research at the City University of New York, said REBNY is banking on the «investment theory» of political campaigning.

Arianna Giovannini is Senior Lecturer in Local Politics in the Department of Politics and Public Policy, De Montfort University, where she is a member of the Local Governance Research Unit (LRGU) and the Centre for Urban Research on Austerity (CURA).

The Center for Urban Research at CUNY has also published new online maps showcasing New York City voting patterns and demographics, in partnership with the CUNY Graduate School of Journalism and the Center for Community and Ethnic Media.

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Richard J. Reddick is an associate professor of educational leadership and policy at the University of Texas at Austin, where he also holds courtesy appointments in the Department of African and African Diaspora Studies, the Institute for Urban Policy Research and Analysis, and the Warfield Center for African and African American Studies.

Modelling by the Curtin University's Australian Housing and Urban Research Institute has proposed a capped rental deduction for investors using negative gearing, arguing it will be a a budget saver that will have minimal impact on the less well off.

Residents in Seattle, on average, are spending 40.2 percent of pay for a three - bedroom rental, according to ATTOM Data Solutions research based on U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics and Department of Housing and Urban Development data.

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What we get are the economic factors,» Jon Spader, senior research associate with Harvard's Joint Center for Housing, said at a recent panel discussion at the Department of Housing and Urban Development.

Arthur E. Farnsley II directs research for the Project on Religion and Urban Culture at the Polis Center at Indiana University - Purdue University in Indianapolis.

The Communion of Churches in Indonesia (CCI) is ready to cooperate for the enhancement of the work at the national level (communication: written and electronic media, formation of present and future leaders, dialog and «Tagung», research and development, evangelisation, human rights issues and advocacy, urban - industrial mission, etc.).

«According to Mintel research, 80 per cent of urban Chinese shoppers believe it's worth paying more for organic food and drink.

My decision to apply for a Churchill Fellowship followed on from case study research I was involved in with Griffith University (see the Burton pdf attached) in 2012, exploring the scale and nature of urban agriculture in Melbourne.

Kingsolver's passionate and insanely well - researched argument for eating local and sustainably farmed foods inspired this urban gal to plant my very first garden.

Based upon research conducted by the National Center for Fathering (NCF) and our experiences with local court initiatives, this curriculum provides «culturally» relevant material that addresses many issues for fathers involving fragile families in urban areas.

The Atma Jaya Medical Faculty research group looked at the treatment and advice given by physicians for children with acute diarrhoea in a poor and densely populated urban area of Jakarta (the capital city of Indonesia).

After chatting with many parents, and lots of research, we rounded up our top picks for urban environment jogging and running strollers.

At 7 p.m., — Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie and Sens. Brian Benjamin and Kevin Parker join AARP NYS Director Beth Finkel, state NAACP President Hazel Dukes and NY Urban League Executive Director Arva Rice to address disparities hurting New York's communities of color on WBLS's «Open Line» with Judge Bob Pickett and Bob Slade, Schomberg Center for Research for Black Culture, 515 Malcolm X Blvd., Harlem.

«The data that we have collected over the past three years shows that participatory budgeting is a gateway to civic engagement for New Yorkers that are often left out of politics and government such as youth, immigrants, and low - income people,» said Alexa Kasdan, Director of Research and Policy at the Community Development Project at the Urban Justice Center.

Research for the Centre for Policy Studies by Conservative MP Philip Dunne has revealed how Gordon Brown has used his control of the nation's purse strings to tilt the growth of funding towards urban Britain - much of it Labour's heartlands.

These efforts continue as New York State Energy Research and Development Authority and U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development offer communities the opportunity to compete for tens of millions of redevelopment dollars for the presentation of a thorough, innovative, and collaborative sustainability plan for their region.

She currently is a principal investigator and co-lead of the Engineering Thrust of the National Science Foundation Engineering Research Center for Re-Inventing the Nation's Urban Water Infrastructure (ReNUWIt).

For instance, recent research strongly suggests that in modern urban populations, the human microbiome has undergone major changes since the Industrial Revolution.

If similar results are found in other urban areas, then unknown urban sources could account for 7 to 15 per cent of humans» global emissions of the gas, the researchers calculate — far more than was thought (Geophysical Research Letters, DOI: 10.1029 / 2009gl039825).

«Our other research study into London's air quality, published this week in Atmospheric Environment, investigated the underlining factors responsible for the air pollution exposure in urban environments.

The research team — led by professor Jeannette Ickovics, director of CARE (Community Alliance for Research and Engagement) at the School of Public Health — surveyed 1,649 middle - school students randomly selected from a single urban school district in Connresearch team — led by professor Jeannette Ickovics, director of CARE (Community Alliance for Research and Engagement) at the School of Public Health — surveyed 1,649 middle - school students randomly selected from a single urban school district in ConnResearch and Engagement) at the School of Public Health — surveyed 1,649 middle - school students randomly selected from a single urban school district in Connecticut.

Richard Luthy Director, Engineering Research Center for Reinventing the Nation's Urban Water Infrastructure at Stanford University

Current plans include several small schemes for facilitating research and travel, while four major projects are also under way involving different UK academic institutions, to promote research into urban sustainability.

The study's senior author, Charles C. Branas, PhD, professor of Epidemiology and director of the Urban Health Lab at Penn, observes, «This research on greening urban lots provides an important scientific impetus for urban planners and city officials to take relatively low - cost steps toward improving health for their residUrban Health Lab at Penn, observes, «This research on greening urban lots provides an important scientific impetus for urban planners and city officials to take relatively low - cost steps toward improving health for their residurban lots provides an important scientific impetus for urban planners and city officials to take relatively low - cost steps toward improving health for their residurban planners and city officials to take relatively low - cost steps toward improving health for their residents.

Slow uptake Projects to promote the application of urine in agriculture have spread worldwide over the last decade: from pee collection and transport systems designed for 6,500 users in urban Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso; to research on the application of human urine for carp fish farming in West Bengal, India; and more than 135,000 toilets diverting urine in Sweden.

(DeStefano and Stein shared a stage January 23 for a discussion of urban wildlife at the Harvard Museum of Natural History in Cambridge, Mass.) Where the wily things are At the forefront of this research into coyote behavior is Stanley Gehrt, a wildlife biologist at The Ohio State University, who has studied coyote populations in the Chicago area for more than a decade.

In addition to straight - forward archaeological research, the excavation is being used as a field school for the instruction of UNC Charlotte students in archaeology, especially since the site is remarkable in the way it exhibits the complexity of the urban history of Jerusalem.

And award - winning author Carl Zimmer recently penned a piece on evolution research in the urban environment for The New York Times.

«Our study reveals an explanation how nicotine contributes to induction of inflammation and in doing so shows new possibilities for future therapies to treat tobacco - related diseases which each year lead to premature deaths of several million people worldwide,» said Constantin Urban, a researcher involved in the work from the Umeå Centre for Microbial Research in Sweden.

NSF also awarded $ 200,000 to the Urban Institute's Center for Analysis of Longitudinal Data in Education Research.

According to Steve Sherrod, executive director of the Sutton Avian Research Center in Oklahoma, who has been involved for decades with reintroductions of peregrine falcons and bald eagles, skyscraper window ledges closely resemble the mountain cliffs where peregrines would normally nest, and pigeons — abundant in urban areas — are their favorite food.

Past research has shown that alcohol outlets such as liquor or corner stores may promote nuisance activities like robberies, drug use, or other crimes in urban communities, rendering them unsafe for residents to walk by or visit.