Sentences with phrase «foundation supports studies»

The foundation supports studies to improve the understanding of Rett Syndrome, a debilitating genetic - neurological disorder that primarily affects girls after their first two years of life.

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Similarly, Carly Fiorina, who has worked with the Milstein Symposium to study how to re-engage entrepreneurship in the U.S., told Inc. in a recent interview that she supports impact investing from large foundations to troubled areas.

Socially responsible investing (SRI) is being studied, considered, and implemented within the foundation and charitable planning community, and its support from numerous community foundations, federations, and other respectfully recognized parent organizations of philanthropy continues to grow.

Those who merely read about College, without studying the careful manner in which that judgment is supported, may indeed fear that it provides a foundation for the blustery attacks on higher education by the secretary of education.

Additional support for the Fragile Families and Child Well - Being Study was provided by the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development and a consortium of private foundations.

The foundation's latest gift will fund the purchase of the Simoa technology and support Dr. de Leon's research to study its use as a potential biomarker for TBI.

Halpern and Pope won grants for their project not only from the National Institute on Drug Abuse but also from Harvard Medical School and two private foundations that support research on psychedelics: the Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies and the Heffter Research Institute (named after the German chemist who isolated mescaline from peyote and discovered its psychoactive properties in the late 1800s).

And as well as administering postdoctoral fellowships for Japan, the Fogarty International Center at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) offers a comprehensive list of foundations and governmental agencies that support foreign study, although not all are for Americans.

NIH, by the way, has recently recognized that «the career outcomes of NRSA - supported training programs include both research - intensive careers in academia and industry and research - related careers in various sectors, e.g. academic institutions, government agencies, for - profit businesses, and private foundations» and is encouraging universities with T32 programs to provide «structured, career development advising and learning opportunities» to prepare trainees for those opportunities, according to a notice issued in September 2013, near the end of the study period.

«The filter bed substrate is the foundation of the rain garden and gives it the ability to infiltrate runoff, slow drainage, support plant growth, and remove pollutants,» explained Helen Kraus, lead author of a study published in HortScience.

This study was conducted within the interdisciplinary and international framework of the PAGES initiative (Euro - Med 2k and Asia - 2k), which in turn received support from the US and Swiss National Science Foundations, US National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration and by the International Geosphere - Biosphere Programme.

«However,» he commented, «results from rigorously controlled collaborative studies like this one provide the necessary evidence to support the usage of interventions in persons with SCI and provide the foundation for clinical guidelines in this population.»

The social venture company within the foundation is moving fast on getting the first steps done; however, it won't have enough money to finish the project, and has conducted fundraising campaigns which have helped to support the preclinical studies that are paving the way for the first human trial.

Scholars can do as many studies as they please to determine some average age at which this foundation becomes sturdy enough to support more focused academic instruction.

Understanding Barriers and Examining Interventions: A Project to Study Postsecondary Access and Success Using State Administrative Data will be supported by a $ 1.6 million grant, part of the foundation's Postsecondary Success initiative to improve college enrollment and completion rates in America.

All of this can too easily get lost in our heated policy debates — especially when all parties need to issue a steady stream of policy proposals, declarations, and definitive studies in order to generate media attention and justify foundation support.

A chorus of voices from the Institute for the Study of Knowledge Management in Education (ISKME), a foundation that offers workshops, support and training for OER.

Melody (first author) developed the new literacies course to accomplish three main objectives: (a) to provide teachers with a scholarly foundation in literacy studies that recognizes how advances in technology influence literacy practices; (b) to support teachers in building their pedagogical knowledge of digital texts and tools as well as social practices influencing composing practices; and (c) to provide teachers with a setting for direct application of the theories and practices discussed in class as they worked with children in a writing camp.

Using social impact games (SIGS) to support constructivist learning: Creating a foundation for effective use in the secondary social studies education.

The Center for Education Reform, a Washington, D.C. — based organization supported by conservative foundations, coordinated the placement of a full - page ad in the New York Times, in which a number of prominent researchers both criticized the methodology of the AFT study and took the newspaper to task for failing to subject the report to a more rigorous and skeptical review.

The updated guidelines address the complex nature of effective and appropriate technology integration in the social studies classroom and lay the foundation for future actions to support the preparation of social studies teachers to use technology as a tool to support the more inquiry - driven activities beginning to emerge more frequently in the social studies classroom.

The MAF — the world's largest nonprofit foundation dedicated to funding research to protect, treat, and cure animals — supports studies in more than 50 of the world's leading research institutions, colleges of veterinary medicine, and zoos.

As the UK's largest artist foundation, it's our mission to preserve Moore's legacy at our Hertfordshire site and facilitate the study of sculpture of all kinds at our Leeds venue, as well as supporting sculpture exhibitions, publications, acquisitions and conservation through our grants scheme.

Edited by Phyllis Lambert Design and Construction of «Comparative Skin Models», 2001 «BOULEVARD» Literary Journal Saint Louis University «The Finisher,» 2000 «HARD AND SOFT» Encountering Architecture, 1997 «Inward speech / Shared stories» «THE MEMORY OF LOSS» Essay in exhibition catalogue, 1990 «PRESENCE AND PERCEPTION» Architectural Investigations; Essay in Catalogue, 1989 GRANTS AND HONORS RHODE ISLAND SCHOOL OF DESIGN Finalist: Dean of Graduate Studies, 2009 THE GRAHAM FOUNDATION FOR ADVANCED STUDIES IN THE FINE ARTS Grant to support the publication of «Hunting Life; A Forever House», 2000 THE MUSEUM OF MODERN ART and Studies, 2009 THE GRAHAM FOUNDATION FOR ADVANCED STUDIES IN THE FINE ARTS Grant to support the publication of «Hunting Life; A Forever House», 2000 THE MUSEUM OF MODERN ART and STUDIES IN THE FINE ARTS Grant to support the publication of «Hunting Life; A Forever House», 2000 THE MUSEUM OF MODERN ART and P.S. 1.

Also I see that the Danish Space Research Institute involved with the study is primarily supported by two private foundations.

He argues, that since eugenics was studied in prestigious universities and supported by charitable foundations, and now, so is global warming, they must somehow be related.

If you're planning on studying for an undergraduate degree, foundation degree, Certificate of Higher Education, Diploma of Higher Education (DipHE), Higher National Certificate (HNC), Higher National Diploma (HND) or Initial Teacher Training (ITT) course, there's support available to help you with these costs.

Information regarding the theoretical foundations of MF - PEP has been published previously.21 Pilot studies indicate that MF - PEP is associated with the following: increased knowledge of mood disorders; increased positive family interactions; increased efficacy in seeking treatment; improved coping skills; improved parental attitude toward the child and the treatment; increased social support from parents; and a trend toward increased social support from peers in children.22, 23 To assess the impact of MF - PEP on children's mood symptoms, this full - scale randomized trial was conducted.

Although the results from the present study may not be conclusive on whether children who participate in ECE have better learning outcomes due to lack of robust longitudinal support, it is undeniable that stimulation of child characteristics that are targeted to reduce educational inequalities at school entry between advantaged and disadvantaged children represents a critical foundation in reducing the economic, health, and social burdens associated with poverty.

This research was generously supported by grants awarded to Dr. Julianne Holt - Lunstad from the Family Studies Center, the Mary Lou Fulton Mentored Learning grants foundation, and the College of Family, Home, and Social Sciences at Brigham Young University.

Originally developed by Children's Resources International and modified by Ready At Five, the Learning Party curricula support the seven domains of learning: Language & Literacy, Math, Science, Social Foundations, Physical Well - Being and Motor Development, Social Studies and Fine Arts, in addition to the Parent Leadership Learning Party.

In July 2015, the Centre for Parent and Child Support (CPCS) introduced changes to the format of the FPM foundation course to reflect findings from its research study of FPM in practice.

To create a foundation for family support, Kentucky integrated the Center for the Study of Social Policy's Strengthening Families strength - based framework of protective factors into their services and systems.

Literature about social support, reflected self, mattering, and socioemotional selectivity theory provides an overarching theoretical foundation for this study.