Sentences with phrase «for interdisciplinary study»

Colchester, UK About Blog Established in 1982, the University of Essex Human Rights Centre is one of the world's leading centres for the interdisciplinary study of the theory and practice of human rights.

Because artists raise important questions about history, society, and identity, exhibitions offer important opportunities for interdisciplinary study.

The Texas Fund for Curatorial Research, administered by Richard Brettell, The Margaret McDermott Distinguished Chair, Art and Aesthetics, at the UT Dallas — based Center for the Interdisciplinary Study of Museums [CISM], was established to promote, support, and sustain advanced curatorial scholarship in North Texas.

2005 — LSU SVM establishes a student exchange program with two Brazilian universities to create a summer institute to provide an opportunity for interdisciplinary study of the interactions of human and animal health and the environment by students enrolled in dual degree MD - MPH and DVM - MPH programs.

Few students enter Common Ground with a strong environmental ethic or a thirst for interdisciplinary study — or a deep desire to do farm chores in the dead of winter.

The HUMAN Project was initiated by The Kavli Foundation in 2014, in partnership with New York University's Institute for the Interdisciplinary Study of Decision Making.

Harlan Beckley is Fletcher Otey Thomas Professor of Religion and director of the Shepherd Program for the Interdisciplinary Study of Poverty and Human Capability at Washington and Lee University.

«This pioneering work opens up new perspectives for interdisciplinary studies about the coupling between the solid Earth and the fluid Earth, and — for example — involving volcanologists, geomorphologists and climatologists,» concludes Sternai.

The work was funded by the Rockefeller Foundation, the US National Science Foundation, the NERC / DFID Future Climate for Africa Programme, and the France - Stanford Center for Interdisciplinary Studies.

The France - Stanford Center for Interdisciplinary Studies, founded in partnership with the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs, aims to bridge the disciplines of the Humanities, Social Sciences, Sciences, Engineering, Business and Law, addressing historical and contemporary issues of significance for France and the United States from a broad range of perspectives.

Prof. Darren Griffin: «Treasurer of the Preimplantation Genetic Diagnosis International Society (PGDIS); Faculty of COGEN (Controversies in Genetics); President of the International Chromosome and Genome Society http://www.icgs.info; Director of the Centre for Interdisciplinary Studies of Reproduction (CISoR) http://www.kent.ac.uk/cisor.»

The Association for Interdisciplinary Studies (formerly Association for Integrative Studies) is an interdisciplinary professional organization founded in 1979 to promote the interchange of ideas among scholars and administrators in all of the arts and sciences on intellectual and organizational issues related to furthering integrative studies.

The France - Stanford Center for Interdisciplinary Studies (FSCIS) was created in 2002 at the initiative of the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Stanford University.

Since 1998, he is professor of philosophy at Bielefeld University and director of the Institute for Interdisciplinary Studies of Science (I2SoS).

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.

She has attended residencies at the Saltonstall Foundation, the Byrdcliffe Art Colony, Vermont Studio Center, and the Anderson Center for Interdisciplinary Studies.

Olafur Eliasson sends one back to school for interdisciplinary studies.

About the curators: DisplayCult is a collaborative framework for interdisciplinary studies in the visual arts founded by OCAD Professor Jim Drobnick and Jennifer Fisher.

The Faculty of Liberal Arts & Sciences / School for Interdisciplinary Studies presents a Public Lecture by Dr. Ming Tiampo.

Professor Gaines currently serves as a science advisor for the Joint Ocean Commission and is a principal investigator for PISCO (Partnership for Interdisciplinary Studies of Coastal Oceans), a long - term consortium was instrumental in establishing to further collaborative study of marine ecosystems throughout the Pacific.

For her Group Project, Klein and fellow classmates Allison Chan, Amanda Cundiff, Nadia Gardner, Yvana Hrovat, and Lindsay Kircher worked with faculty advisor Bruce Kendall and their clients, Satie Airamé, who was then with the Partnership for Interdisciplinary Studies of Coastal Oceans (PISCO) and is now the Bren School assistant dean for academic affairs, and the Scientific Advisory Team to California's Marine Life Protection Act (MLPA), of which Bren School dean Steve Gaines was a member.

His numerous activities at the national and international levels include currently serving as a science adviser for the Joint Ocean Commission and as a principal investigator for PISCO (Partnership for Interdisciplinary Studies of Coastal Oceans), a long - term consortium studying marine ecosystems throughout the Pacific.

He is now professor for interdisciplinary studies and a senior fellow at the Woods Institute for the Environment at Stanford University.

While at Simon Fraser University, Tracy was employed as the Student Academic Advisor for Interdisciplinary Studies.

Not exact matches

Systems science is an interdisciplinary field that studies how the interaction of factors produces outcomes — how the causes and consequences of events can, taken together, form the basis for everything from a disease epidemic, to a pattern of human behavior.

Edward Balleisen Senior Fellow, Kenan Institute for Ethics Vice Provost, Interdisciplinary Studies

Moderator: William V. Harris, William R. Shepherd Professor of History and Director, Center for the Ancient Mediterranean, Columbia University Speaker 1: L. Randall Wray, Research Director of the Center for Full Employment and Price Stability and Professor of Economics, University of Missouri - Kansas City Speaker 2: Michael Hudson, President, Institute for the Study of Long - Term Economic Trends and Distinguished Research Professor, University of Missouri - Kansas City Tuesday, September 11, 2012 About the Seminar Series: Modern Money and Public Purpose is an eight - part, interdisciplinary seminar series held at Columbia Law School over the 2012 - 2013 academic...

For these and other reasons, interdisciplinary study can be beneficial to many students.

Look for my research findings in a forthcoming issue of The Quarterly Beast: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Interspecies Studies.

One gets the impression from this part of the document of the need for a more integrationist model of the humanities in which interdisciplinary studies become the means of constructing a holistic vision.

This school is one part of the Rutgers Center of Alcohol Studies, an interdisciplinary project which engages in wide - ranging research, publishes the Quarterly Journal of Studies on Alcohol as well as a variety of books and articles, and maintains the «Classified Abstract Archives of the Alcohol Literature» with over 10,000 entries on punch cards for automatic retrieval by topic.

Whether these efforts provided the centripetal force for a new «school» per se is open to various modes of interpretation, but the attention to the Whiteheadian system and its many implications, to interdisciplinary routes of inquiry, to the latest insights from the emerging sciences, and to process - relational modes of thinking identified Chicago with a progressivism and excitement in theological study which many found appealing.

While guaranteeing an impeccable academic foundation and excellence for the doctoral degree programme of the Senate of Serampore, KC provided a genuine leadership to introduce an interdisciplinary approach to theological studies.

The conference was the third in a series of conferences that have been held under the auspices of the Pontifical Council's «STOQ» project - the «Science, Theology and the Ontological Quest» interdisciplinary study programme that has been running now in the Roman Pontifical universities for some five years, and which allows students and scholars to investigate the links and mutual enrichment of the physical and the metaphysical sciences.

Pressure to play needs to be taken off kids in order for them to feel comfortable reporting their signs and symptoms of a possible concussion,» says Tamara Valovich McLeod,, PhD, ATC, FNATA, Professor in the Athletic Training Program and Directors of the Interdisciplinary Research Laboratory and Athletic Training Practice - Based Research Network in the Department of Interdisciplinary Health Sciences at A.T. Still University in Mesa, Arizona, co-author of the attitude study, and lead author of an earlier study [3] on attitudes on concussions among high school students.

On Friday, May 4 and Saturday, May 5, the University of Oxford Centre for International Studies (CIS) hosted an international interdisciplinary conference, jointly convened by the Academic Council on the United Nations System (ACUNS), and the Centre for Sustainable Development & International Peace at the University of Denver.

As part of a collaborative effort, clinical researchers Rebecca Ashare, PhD, an assistant professor of Psychology in Psychiatry, and Robert Schnoll, PhD, an associate professor of Psychology in Psychiatry and director of the Center for Interdisciplinary Research on Nicotine Addiction, are studying the effects of metformin on smokers to see if it attenuates negative mood and cognitive deficits during withdrawal — symptoms known to be associated with the ability to quit.

In a study published in Neuron, an interdisciplinary team of University of Pennsylvania researchers has identified a new explanation for this phenomenon.

The study, «Spectrophotometric analysis at the single - cell level: elucidating dispersity within melanic immortalized cell populations,» was supported in part by the Mizzou Advantage program, an initiative that fosters interdisciplinary collaboration among faculty, staff, students and external partners to solve real - world problems in four areas of strength identified at the University of Missouri, including Food for the Future, One Health / One Medicine, Sustainable Energy and Media of the Future.

Interdisciplinary studies can produce multi-authored papers, which means that the old standard of primary authorship is often inappropriate for interdisciInterdisciplinary studies can produce multi-authored papers, which means that the old standard of primary authorship is often inappropriate for interdisciplinaryinterdisciplinary scholars.

said George Makhatadze, a Constellation Professor of Biocomputation and Bioinformatics and member of the Center for Biotechnology and Interdisciplinary Studies at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.

«Biofilms were rampant on the Mir space station and continue to be a challenge on the International Space Station, but we still don't really know what role gravity plays in their growth and development,» said Cynthia Collins, Ph.D., principal investigator for the study and assistant professor in the Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering at the Center for Biotechnology and Interdisciplinary Studies at the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, N.Y. «Before we start sending astronauts to Mars or embarking on other long - term spaceflight missions, we need to be as certain as possible that we have eliminated or significantly reduced the risk that biofilms pose to the human crew and their equipment.»

We also examined more health outcomes than previous studies and were able to thoroughly check women's medical records,» says the lead author Dr. Abbey B. Berenson of the Department of Obstetrics & Gynecology and Center for Interdisciplinary Research in Women's Health at University of Texas Medical Branch.

The researchers studied the diamond samples using a combination of advanced transmission electron microscopy techniques at EPFL's Interdisciplinary Centre for Electron Microscopy.

The study reflects a significant advance in the integration of research among scientists and historians, and points to the need for more interdisciplinary scholarship to better document and analyze how humans have related and responded to past environmental changes, says Marlon.

Since 2013 the Institute for Theoretical Studies (ITS) of the ETH has endeavoured to foster interdisciplinary research at the intersection between mathematics, theoretical physics and computer science.

A study conducted at the Department of Psychology at the University of Jyväskylä, Finland and Jyväskylä Centre for Interdisciplinary Brain Research (CIBR) has found that the brain responses of infants with an inherited risk for dyslexia, a specific reading disability, predict their future reading speed in secondary school.

An interdisciplinary team of UvA physicists and astronomers proposed to search for primordial black holes in our galaxy by studying the X-ray and radio emission that these objects would produce as they wander through the galaxy and accrete gas from the interstellar medium.

«We now have a really good picture of this abnormality in mice, and we suspect it is very similar in humans,» said Fuming Zhang, a research professor in the laboratory of Robert J. Linhardt, the Ann and John H. Broadbent Jr»59 Senior Constellation Professor of Biocatalysis and Metabolic Engineering, and a member of the Center for Biotechnology and Interdisciplinary Studies at Rensselaer.

«As part of ITbM's interdisciplinary research initiative, we decided to search for new compounds that can inhibit the cell division in plants without causing damage to them,» says Minako Ueda, a plant biologist and a leader of this study.