Sentences with phrase «for academic groups»

I look around for academic groups where I can continue working on the same field.

As I interview for academic group leader positions now, it's obvious that the company's downfall has not tainted my own reputation.

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An academic who served for a decade as President of McGill University, she is currently a Director of Royal Bank of Canada and CGI Group and previously served on the boards of Four Seasons Hotels, Alcan, Yellow Media Inc., and Ontario's Hydro One among others.

According to The News & Observer, Wednesday's report «found a new culprit: the Academic Support Program for Student - Athletes... The report describes a fairly broad group of academic and athletic officials who knew about athletes getting better grades in classes that only required papers, yet taking little or no actionAcademic Support Program for Student - Athletes... The report describes a fairly broad group of academic and athletic officials who knew about athletes getting better grades in classes that only required papers, yet taking little or no actionacademic and athletic officials who knew about athletes getting better grades in classes that only required papers, yet taking little or no action.»

I remember U.S. pay czar Ken Feinberg telling a group of academics he was looking for independent compensation consultants and how, in his words, «there are no independent compensation consultants.»

Turkish authorities have detained or dismissed more than 125,000 people - including soldiers, academics, judges, journalists and Kurdish leaders - over their alleged backing for the coup, in what opponents, rights groups and some Western allies say is an attempt to crush all dissent.

I gathered data for both groups regarding their careers / employment, the percentage born to wealth, poverty or the middle - class, spending habits, academic performance, education, perceptions of wealth / poverty, various health data, inherited money data, gambling habits, home ownership, car ownership, reading habits, relationship management, savings habits, self - improvement habits, time management habits, beliefs, vacation habits, volunteering habits, networking habits, voting habits and work - related data.

A proposed program would guarantee jobs for the unemployed, helping bring the economy to true full - employment status, according to a left - leaning group of academics.

Computing Facilities for academic and administrative users at the Haskayne School of Business are provided and maintained by the school's Information Technology Support (ITS) group.

Then groups are formed that will last for the academic year, each made up of ten students, a faculty member, and a teaching supervisor closely associated with the social ministry that the students will later serve.

Separate schools established along ostensibly functional lines (for example, «technical» and «academic») may turn out really to be social class schools which by totally segregating one group from the other accentuate social class cleavages.

During my thirty years of academic labor in the humanities, I have observed my colleagues across the country promote racial and sexual criteria in admissions and hiring, review curricula, textbooks, and tests for proper representation of groups, and elevate race and sexuality to essential research fields.

The real danger comes from a much larger group of persons who believe that Notre Dame can strive for ever - higher standards of academic excellence — and use the same criteria of excellence by which the best secular universities in the land are judged to be excellent — without forfeiting the Catholic character of the University.

In a small group setting, we may both read the same passage (say, Phil 3), and I'll read encouragement for my academic studies and you may read comfort in Christ.

Again on January 10, the larger group of the Catholic faculty (including some student representatives and the equivalent of American instructors and assistant and associate professors) issued a declaration expressing hope for an amicable resolution of the conflict, and insisting on faculty, autonomy in all academic matters.

Are these enquiries destined to be merely band - aid measures, established so that governments of the day can be seen to be doing something and as an opportunity for concerned community groups, professionals and academics to let off some steam?

Fox tells the story from beginning to end: childhood in the German - American parsonage; nine grades of school followed by three years in a denominational «college» that was not yet a college and three year's in Eden Seminary, with graduation at 21; a five - month pastorate due to his father's death; Yale Divinity School, where despite academic probation because he had no accredited degree, he earned the B.D. and M.A.; the Detroit pastorate (1915 - 1918) in which he encountered industrial America and the race problem; his growing reputation as lecturer and writer (especially for The Christian Century); the teaching career at Union Theological Seminary (1928 - 1960); marriage and family; the landmark books Moral Man and Immoral Society and The Nature and Destiny of Man; the founding of the Fellowship of Socialist Christians and its journal Radical Religion; the gradual move from Socialist to liberal Democratic politics, and from leader of the Fellowship of Reconciliation to critic of pacifism; the break with Charles Clayton Morrison's Christian Century and the inauguration of Christianity and Crisis; the founding of the Union for Democratic Action, then later of Americans for Democratic Action; participation in the ecumenical movement, especially the Oxford Conference and the Amsterdam Assembly; increasing friendship with government officials and service with George Kennan's policy - planning group in the State Department; the first stroke in 1952 and the subsequent struggles with ill health; retirement from Union in 1960, followed by short appointments at Harvard, at the Center for the Study of Democratic Institutions, and at Columbia's Institute of War and Peace Studies; intense suffering from ill health; and death in Stockbridge, Massachusetts, in 1971.

Although not fully sympathetic with everything that some of the «deep ecologists» or «Gaia theorists» advocate, these works stand, more than any other works I know, as theological manifestos for an American Green Movement — one book is in a more academic form for the university and seminary, the other in a more confessional mode for the church and community study group.

She has served as chair, food and nutrition council for University HealthSystems Consortium, a group supporting academic medical centers and their affiliates in the United States.

For the award men as a group, tuition, board and room that year averaged $ 700 over-all; nine of the men pieced this out with athletic - scholarship help, seven with academic scholarships.

This MADM scale and MOR index are free for use in academic settings, however for any study carried out by a commercial group or if the study is wholly or partially supported by a commercial organization a fee may be payable.

To achieve this, we are now working with groups from across the teaching, training and academic spheres, to identify what additional provisions may be required for teachers at all stages of career development; from initial teacher training, to continuous professional development and emerging senior leaders.

Developed by a multidisciplinary group of academics, researchers, women and child health advocates, clinicians and policy - makers, the collaborative approach to this series has resulted in the creation of a framework for quality maternal and newborn care.

Scores for externalization (the ability to express feelings, especially negative feelings), a trait associated with risk of juvenile delinquency, academic failure, and inadequate social adjustment, were 20 percent lower in the KMC group on average.

«Our petition centres on the fact that as at the time the 2015 Senatorial election was conducted by INEC, Mr. Shehu Sani was not qualified to vie for the position given that he lied on oath to the commission about his academic qualification and falsified documents in bid to sustain the lies and false claims in the nomination form and affidavit he submitted to INEC,» the group noted.

That reflects the balance of probabilities as assessed by the Political Studies Association, a group of unspeakably clever academics who suggest the most likely scenario is bad news for Cameron.

New York State's recent attempts to revise academic standards for elementary and secondary education appear to weaken or muddy major requirements in reading and writing, according to pro-standards groups at the national and state levels.

She is currently a Rhodes Trustee, a Non-Executive Director of Arup, a member of the Advisory Group of the Center for Global Development (Washington DC), a member of the Board of the Center for International Governance Innovation (Waterloo), a member of the Academic and Policy Board of Oxonia, a member of the Board of the Mo Ibrahim Foundation, and a Trustee of the Europeaum.

The Lib Dems would also seek to establish a constitutional convention, but theirs would take input from political parties, academic and civil society groups, as well as the British public, and aim to draw up a full constitution for a federal UK.

Radical plans to democratise the internet were today set out by Jeremy Corbyn — and an academic who runs a group preparing for «the cybernetic communist revolution».

Plans for afterschool programs, remedial academic programs and evening groups are being developed,» said Board Member Maghran.

Meg Russell, the leading academic on the House of Lords, points out that David Cameron would need to appoint just over 160 new Conservative members with no peerages at all for other groups to give the government a Lords majority.

There is growing support for a constitutional convention among academics, experts and pressure groups such as the Electoral Reform Society (ERS).

In a letter to The Daily Telegraph, the group of academics, teachers, authors and charity leaders call for a fundamental reassessment of national policies on early education.»

Because the lack of role models in the professoriate can be a barrier to participation, the BPC program also aims to develop effective strategies for identifying and supporting members of the targeted groups who want to pursue academic careers in computing.

The next step was to search the scientific literature to find out which academic groups were studying similar approaches to treatment for the same indications.

Tiffany Brannon's (University of California, Los Angeles) research provides evidence that school settings can affirm identity among members of negatively stereotyped groups — by, for instance, incorporating diverse cultural ideas and practices within academic courses or extracurricular activities — and, in turn, afford an increased sense of inclusion.

And second, the program establishes and promotes an academic support network for women students by increasing communication opportunities for women from under - represented groups.

«The weak activity previously published for the ACT family as a whole probably explains why this group was not further evaluated, and it is intriguing to think that other potentially useful antibiotic groups are languishing in obscurity in academic journals just needing expert review using modern processes and equipment.»

The group emphasized that academic culture must change to recognize the need for effective career development opportunities for graduate students and postdocs and that participating in these activities is a valid, even necessary, way for trainees to spend their time.

He is heading a working group on academic career structures for the Initiative for Science in Europe, an organization that lobbies for the European scientific community.

In a large country with many voices, the government, the academic community, and grassroots groups all have ideas and advice for young scientists.

While this year's inventors were already talking about possible collaborations among the group, 2015 - 16 ambassadors Juan Gilbert, whose inventions include a universally designed voting technology; Lisa DeLuca, who is IBM's most prolific female inventor; and Michael Smith, who is director of the Intel Academic Program for Data Science and the Internet of Things, said the friendships and networks begun during the program will endure.

If you're sure you want to stay in academia, an up - and - running group is a good choice, because your adviser will be better able to help you find an excellent postdoc position — a necessity for a good academic job — than will a brand - new assistant professor.

The Meyerhoff Scholars Program at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC), has become the gold standard for providing a path into academic research for groups — African - Americans, Hispanics, and disadvantaged white students — now underrepresented in the STEM (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics) fields.

Other targets of the initiative have focused on instituting ways to build collaboration among academic, nonprofit and private sector efforts, including international groups and to increase federal funding, an effort that spurred Congress to pass in December 2016 the 21st Century Cures Act that authorized $ 1.8 billion for the National Cancer Institute.

But in a paper published today in the journal Depression and Anxiety, academics, from Manchester and Newcastle Universities, show that women who attended a yoga class a week for eight weeks had decreased anxiety scores compared to the control group who received normal antenatal treatment.

All had signed an online petition by a group calling itself Academics for Peace that is critical of the government's treatment of the Kurdish minority group.

Schlumberger is what Teresa Rees, rapporteur for this and two previous European Commission reports (the ETAN report on the situation of European women in academic science and the Helsinki Group report comparing women in science across 30 European countries), calls a «beacon.»

She found that some groups such as the young rugby girls favoured «cute» underwear while for others such as academics something that supports their professional dress was the main priority.