Sentences with phrase «former head of those programs»

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.

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«The good thing is that it's not toxic to humans and has been shown to not have any adverse effects on human health,» said Gubler, a professor emeritus at Duke University and a former head of the CDC's dengue program.

Aurora was founded by Sterling Anderson, a former director of the semi-autonomous Autopilot program at Tesla; Drew Bagnell, who headed the autonomy and perception team at Uber's Advanced Technologies Center; and Chris Urmson, the former head of Google's self - driving project.

Former Google China head Li Kaifu's Sinovation Ventures has launched a new 5 - year artificial intelligence training program in partnership with China's Ministry of Education and Peking University.

Among the people who've left or announced departures, either under pressure or for other reasons, are seven executives who had reported to Mr. Kalanick: SVP of Business Emil Michael, who is one of Mr. Kalanick's best friends and was the second-most powerful person at the company; ridesharing president Jeff Jones (ostensibly the No. 2 executive for Uber's core business); head of growth Ed Baker; engineering vice president Amit Singhal; communications and public policy chief Rachel Whetstone; head of finance Gautam Gupta; and Anthony Levandowski, head of Uber's autonomous vehicles program, who was fired amid theft allegations made against him by his former employer.

Around the same time Gangadhar joined Cruise, the company also hired long - time Netflix executive Tawni Cranz to be its new chief human resources officer and former program manager at Google Maps Ashwin Prabhu to be its head of mapping operations.

Former UC Davis women's soccer coach and St. Francis alumna Maryclaire Robinson enters her fourth season as the head coach of the St. Francis soccer program.

The presentation on USA Football's Heads Up program - a program designed to teach kids, and, more importantly, the coaches who teach the kids, how to tackle in a way that minimizes helmet - on - helmet and helmet - on - body contact, and one of the four steps in its Four Step Game Plan for improving football safety - was definitely worth hearing about and is a big step in the right direction towards taking the head out of football, although, again, I couldn't help but ask - at least to myself - what took them so long: teaching heads up tackling is something that MomsTEAM and one of our bloggers, former pro football player Bobby Hosea, have been promoting for at least four yHeads Up program - a program designed to teach kids, and, more importantly, the coaches who teach the kids, how to tackle in a way that minimizes helmet - on - helmet and helmet - on - body contact, and one of the four steps in its Four Step Game Plan for improving football safety - was definitely worth hearing about and is a big step in the right direction towards taking the head out of football, although, again, I couldn't help but ask - at least to myself - what took them so long: teaching heads up tackling is something that MomsTEAM and one of our bloggers, former pro football player Bobby Hosea, have been promoting for at least four yheads up tackling is something that MomsTEAM and one of our bloggers, former pro football player Bobby Hosea, have been promoting for at least four years!

All of us involved in youth sports - from parents, to coaches, from athletic trainers to school athletic directors to the athletes themselves - have a responsibility to do what we can to make contact and collision sports safer, whether it by reducing the number of hits to the head a player receives over the course of a season (such as N.F.L. and the Ivy League are doing in limiting full - contact practices, and the Sports Legacy Institute recently proposed be considered at the youth and high school level in its Hit Count program), teaching football players how to tackle without using their head (as former pro football player Bobby Hosea has long advocated), changing the rules (as the governing body for high school hockey in Minnesota did in the aftermath of the Jack Jablonski injury or USA Hockey did in banning body checks at the Pee Wee level), or giving serious consideration to whether athletes below a certain age should be playing tackle football at all (as the American Academy of Pediatrics recommend).

«The recreational program staff could be upgraded immeasurably, «said Joseph Bannon, a professor and former head of the department of leisure studies at the University of Illinois at Urbana - Champaign.

The program was developed by Dr Charles Tator, Professor of Neurosurgery at the University of Toronto and Founder of ThinkFirst Canada, and Dr Michael Clarfield, Director of Sports Medicine Specialists in Toronto and former Head Team Physician of the Toronto Maple Leafs (1989 - 2004).

At the same time, Gene White, a former head of the California school - lunch program and SNA president, said in an interview that she had signed the former SNA presidents» letter defending the healthier school meals because she couldn't possibly urge developing countries to enact nutrition standards if the United States pulls back on its own.

This week, podcast host Laura Stanley interviews Dora Rivas, former head of the Dallas ISD school food program and a former past president of the School Nutrition Association.

As the former heads of Edward Hospital's prenatal education program, registered nurses Terry Parker and Jean Nass nurtured expectant mothers until delivery.

«Some of the city's worst air quality, if not the worst, is in midtown Manhattan,» said Nilda Mesa, the former director of the Mayor's Office of Sustainability who now heads the Columbia University Earth Institute's Urban Sustainability and Equity Planning program, in a recent interview with amNewYork.

That includes the former head of SUNY Polytechnic, Alain Kaloyeros, who is accused of bid - rigging in connection with Gov. Andrew Cuomo's economic development program known as the Buffalo Billion.

The governor said he's met with federal prosecutors since former top aide Joe Percoco, a former lobbyist who was a close Cuomo associate, the head of SUNY Polytechnic and six others were charged with bribery, bid - rigging and other corruption charges in connection with the governor's upstate economic development programs.

Cuomo similarly empowered Alain Kaloyeros, the former head of the State University of New York Polytechnic Institute, to run his signature economic development programs upstate.

Among those who face trial next year, a former top aide to the governor, and the former head of the State University of New York's nanotech science program.

Fuentes got a $ 55,000 - a-year job as head of the city's community development program, replacing Mike Murphy, a crony of former mayor Jim Sottile.

Among the goals cited by Thompson, a former head of the Board of Education, were expanding the city's prekindergarten programs and the number of Community Learning Schools, an initiative that was launched by the UFT.

The governor says he's met with federal prosecutors since his former top aide Joe Percoco, a former lobbyist who was a close Cuomo associate, the head of SUNY Polytechnic and six others were charged with bribery, bid - rigging and other corruption charges in connection with the governors» upstate economic development programs.

According to Jon Morse, former head of NASA's astrophysics program and current CEO of a research organization called the BoldlyGo Institute, ongoing technological progress makes this plan viable.

And the former head of NASA's science mission says that the targeting of the ExoMars program by White House budget officials was the final straw leading to his resignation last fall.

Sexual harassment and other forms of discrimination should not be tolerated, agrees Mark Frankel, former longtime head of the scientific responsibility program at AAAS (which publishes ScienceInsider) who is based in Gaithersburg, Maryland.

«Implanting electrodes into healthy people is not something we're going to do anytime soon,» says Alan Rudolf, the former head of the DARPA brain - machine research program.

-- In a blog post, Jay Bradner, the former head of Dana - Farber Cancer Institute and the current president of Novartis Institutes for Biomedical Research, wrote that too many investment dollars have gone into redundant cancer programs, such as more checkpoint inhibitors, rather than going after tougher drug targets that might have a greater future impact.

«This is an interesting study confirming conventional wisdom that alcohol is a social lubricant and that moderate use of alcohol makes people happier, more social and less inhibited when it comes to sexual engagement,» said Dr. Wim van den Brink, former head of the ECNP Scientific Program Committee.

Well, according to the former head of the FBI's Behavioral Analysis Program Robin Dreeke via an article by Eric Barker, the key is to «stop thinking about what you're going to say next and focus on what they're saying right now.

Zola Mashariki Executive Vice President, Head of Original Programming at BET Networks, former Senior Vice President, Fox Searchlight

The citizenship program in the Hudson schools reflects this vision of Superintendent Sheldon H. Berman, former head of Educators for Social Responsibility.

«As a former Peace Corps volunteer in the Philippines, New York City teacher, licensed sea captain, and head educator of an ocean classroom prior to coming to HGSE, Timothy O'Brien is a «stealthy leader» who truly embodies the values, energy, and breadth of the Learning and Teaching (L&T) Program through his focus on student work and professional development of teachers,» says Lecturer Sally Schwager, Learning and Teaching program diProgram through his focus on student work and professional development of teachers,» says Lecturer Sally Schwager, Learning and Teaching program diprogram director.

Jewell - Sherman, among the faculty of the Ed School's Doctor of Education Leadership Program, earned a reputation as one of the most successful urban superintendents in the country in her former position as head of the Richmond, Va., public schools.

And in a letter to be read at the Symposium, former President Carter noted that Richmond, the first director of the federal Head Start program, and the first Surgeon General to establish national health goals, «improved the lives of literally millions of children and adults in our country and around the world, and future generations will be healthier because of his work.»

Grover Whitehurst, Director of the Brown Center on Education Policy and former director of the Head Start Quality Research Center, calls Abecedarian and Perry «boutique programs from 40 - 50 years ago that served a couple of hundred children.»

billionaire entrepreneur, a former education secretary and the head of a high - performing charter school network came to Capitol Hill together Wednesday to impress upon Congress the urgency of saving the Dreamers program.

Lorna McGrath, MEd, former Associate Head of NewGate School, Montessori Teacher Educator, Retired Classroom Teacher, Program Director of the Montessori Family Alliance.

As a former administrator in charge of state - funded preschool programs in New Jersey, Dr. Frede spoke to the value of Head Start and state pre-K collaboration.

Laura Arnold, a former school principal who is now head of Kentucky's career and technical education program, says that differentiating career readiness — and emphasizing that it's just as important as college readiness — will help the state reach students who might otherwise fall through the cracks.

The Korean brand has every intention of making cars that get your blood pumping, signing on the former head of BMW's famous M division to create a similar program at Hyundai, somewhat hilariously dubbed N. Apparently it refers to Namyang, the brand's R&D facility in Korea, but still... it's a bit on the nose.

Former head of engineering for the Nissan GT - R program, Tanuma - san says the VC - T engine produces a blend of power and economy not possible with fixed - compression - ratio engines.

Justin Scully, former National Director of American Humane's Emergency Rescue Program, held Scooter's head while the team prepared to slowly lift Scooter to his feet so they could load him onto a transport trailer and then immediately rush him to an undisclosed emergency shelter for further intensive care.

Former Head of the PNG Surfing Development Programs, in association with the Surfing Association of PNG Inc working in surf coaching, coach training and development, training of surf rescue and surf life saving techniques and developing, educating and training internationally recognised Surf Lifeguards

Co-curated by Dr. Mitchell Merling, Paul Mellon Curator and Head of European Art, VMFA, and Dr. Heather MacDonald, Program Officer, Getty Foundation (former Lillian and James H. Clark Associate Curator of European Art, Dallas Museum of Art).

Post Creative Time, Julian enrolled in the Master's Art Business Program at Sotheby's Institute of Art where he continued his studies in curatorial practice with Contemporary Art Program Director Kathy Battista alongside courses in art law with former NY Bar Association Chair Judith Prowda, and collection management with the present Global Head of the UBS Art Collection, Mary Rozell.

Dr. Moniz has worked on engagement programs at the Museum of Latin American Art in Long Beach, California and is the former Head Curator at the California African American Museum in Exposition Park in Los Angeles.

Campbell duly hired Sheena Wagstaff, the chief curator of Tate Modern and a graduate of the Whitney Independent Study Program, to head the newly renamed department of Modern and Contemporary Art, and two years ago the Met formally rolled out this new initiative with the mega-exhibition, «Unfinished: Thoughts Left Visible» in the Whitney Museum's former Marcel Breuer — designed headquarters on Madison Avenue, which the Met had leased for eight years.

The plaintiffs counter with a 45 - page brief from climate researcher Michael MacCracken, former head of the Office of the U.S. Global Change Research Program.

Rajendra Shende, former head of the UN Ozone Program, has actually lived without AC.

«Earnings from the ivory trade is sustaining the Janjaweed,» Michael Wamithi, former head of the Kenya Wildlife Service and now director of the elephant program for the International Fund for Animal Welfare, told Newsweek in March.