Sentences with phrase «from academic centers»

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Under the direction of Lynn Minnaert, academic chair and clinical associate professor in the Jonathan M. Tisch Center for Hospitality and Tourism, part of the New York University School of Professional Studies, eight students called restaurants in 200 cities from January 2018 to February 2018 to gather meal prices.

By centering on Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts, and Math [STEAM], the program underscores the importance of bringing diverse women from various academic interests together at the developmental stages of their career to build a support network for future women business owners and leaders.

It is sponsored by the National Center for Pastoral Leadership with assistance from some of the major Catholic academic centers in the country» Fordham, Georgetown, Villanova, Notre Dame, & c.

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.

As the founding document of Union shows, such a school would quite deliberately be set in the midst of a major metropolitan center on the grounds that this environment was necessary to, rather than a distraction from, its proper academic purposes.

Yet the three Americans named — Schubert Ogden, Gordon Kaufman and David Tracy — if they constitute «the center of mainline academic theology,» form an exceedingly broad center, since each approaches theological issues from very different perspectives and comes out with very different systematic positions.

However, just what those soft skills are has not yet been determined in the wider world, and you can find other, well - researched lists of skills from the World Economic Forum, the Collaborative for Academic, Social, and Emotional Learning, or the Yale Center for Emotional Intelligence.

In the Youth Indicators, 2005 report from the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES), we can see that athletic teams is the favored school - related extracurricular activity for boys in 1990 and 2001 at 43.2 % and 45.3 % respectively, out of a choice of music / performing arts, athletic teams, academic clubs, student council / government, and other school clubs / activities.

You enjoy the convenience of seeing Tufts MC and Floating Hospital specialists closer to home while still benefiting from the latest medical advancements and technologies offered by an Academic Medical Center.

Indeed, a rich body of research suggests homework might benefit older students, and, even then, that there is no strong evidence that homework improves academic achievement (as discussed in this article from the Center for Public Education).

Some academic work has suggested that states with capitals that are distant from major media and population centers are more likely to have problems, due to lack of oversight and public interest.

Project BOOST, run by the Center for Educational Innovation - Public Education Association (CEI - PEA), provides academic enrichment opportunities to elementary and middle school students who have demonstrated academic talent, but come from disadvantaged neighborhoods.

From its inception, the Career Development Center for Postdocs and Junior Faculty (CDC) has aimed to fill this deficit by educating young researchers in the large body of nonscience knowledge that young academic scientists need to advance their careers and the research infrastructure of the United States.

They are based on a retrospective cohort study of 7,431,858 patients in the University HealthSystem Consortium database, which contains information from contributing academic medical centers in the United States and affiliated hospitals.

The research centers on MESA, a 48 - year - old enrichment program operating throughout the United States that uses classes, hands - on competitions, academic support and industry involvement to help first - generation, low - income and socioeconomically disadvantaged students from middle school through college become more involved in STEM fields.

And for decades, books and academic articles portrayed him as a benevolent figure who saved children with autism from the killing centers.

In an analysis published on December 7 in Clinical Infectious Diseases, scientists from Rutgers University, Harvard University, Yale University, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases of the NIH and other academic centers, industry and public health agencies say new diagnostic methods offer a better chance for more accurate detection of the infection from the Lyme bacteria.

If left unchecked, wrote Susan Gerbi of Brown University; Howard Garrison of the Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology (FASEB); and John P. Perkins, now deceased, of the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, the «perception that the postdoctoral period is a holding pattern» and not the route to a faculty career could drive young scientists away from academe and threaten a crucial source of skilled personnel for the academic research enterprise.

The project «got a lot of criticism from academics who showed that the approach wasn't going to work unless the face of the detector in space was as long as a football field,» says Philip Coyle, the Pentagon's former top technology tester and a senior adviser to the Center for Defense Information.

Wu Boda, director of China Academic Degrees and Graduate Education Development Center, says the new organization could learn from the experience of the European Union's Erasmus Programme, which was established in 1987 to foster student mobility and other educational cooperation within Europe.

Specifically, the authors — who include members of the International Spine Study Group (ISSG) from multiple academic centers — found that fusing the lower portion of the lumbar spine results in a decreased risk of PJK.

A team of scientists, led by academics from King's College London and Erasmus MC University Medical Center Rotterdam, have discovered 124 genes that play a major role in determining human hair colour variation.

A study from the Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) Institute for Technology assessment finds that, after viewing CT scan results, physicians in the emergency departments of four major academic medical centers made key changes in clinical decision - making for patients with symptoms frequently seen in emergency rooms.

For some examples, and an actual walk - through of the transition from academic to industry CV, see the excellent Web site maintained by the Graduate Career Center at the University of California San Francisco Resume and CV Samples at UCSF.

Authors analyzed clinical data for patients from two large academic medical centers from 2005 through 2013, resulting in 845,417 hospital discharges in the study group for 458,053 unique individuals.

The researchers, from academic medical centers and private practice, looked at insurance claims data from a large nationwide employment - based database of medical claims.

With $ 300,000 in new grant money from Carbon Management Canada, a network of academic centers, he plans to run gas emitted from a Holcim cement plant through pulverized concrete and rock.

Professor Sheila Krishnadath from the Academic Medical Center in Amsterdam said: «We have been working for over 10 years on collecting and typing single cells of this large group of Barrett's patients.

Aside from teaching and doing research, Samaniego has accepted prominent administrative positions at UCD: as Director of UCD's Statistical Laboratory, Assistant Vice Chancellor of Academic Affairs, and Director of the Teaching Resources Center.

In industry, an interview with hiring managers and other scientists will be significantly different from an academic interview — more focused on «what can you do for us» than you are used to — but much of the interview will still be science - centered.

A team of researchers from several academic institutions — including the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History, Yale University, University of Chicago, the American Center for Mongolian Studies, and the National Museum of Mongolia — used a scientific dating technique known as radiocarbon dating to estimate the spread of domestic horse ritual at deer stones and khirigsuurs.

The center, which is a collaborative of sexual health scholars from across the campuses of Indiana University and strategic partner academic institutions, also continually researches community based participatory research and sexual health, reproductive health (including condoms and other forms of contraception), men's sexual health, capacity building among sexual and gender minority youth, and global sexual health.

The Clinical and Translational Science Awards (CTSAs) are large grants (from about $ 4 million to $ 23 million a year) for training programs, regulatory staff, and other support for bench - to - bedside research at academic medical centers.

The percentage of industry - sponsored clinical trials in academic medical centers fell from 80 % in 1991 to only 49 % in 1998.

While the report offers no surprises for commercial algae fuel producers, it is welcoming to see attention from an academic institution, said Stephen Mayfield, director of the Center for Algae Biotechnology at the University of California, San Diego.

Dr Bart Knottnerus, from the Academic Medical Center of the University of Amsterdam, who led this study commented that «Women may be more receptive to the idea of delaying treatment than is commonly assumed by many clinicians.

Through funding from the State of Florida and the newly established Florida Academic Cancer Center Alliance, Moffitt researchers plan to further their research on IPMNs by partnering with researchers from the University of Florida Health Cancer Center and the University of Miami / Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center.

This work was supported in part by the Center for Research in FOP and Related Disorders, the International FOP Association, the Ian Cali Endowment, the Weldon Family Endowment, the Penn Center for Musculoskeletal Disorders, the Isaac and Rose Nassau Professorship of Orthopaedic Molecular Medicine, and the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (SFB760 to P. Seemann and S. Mundlos); by Health and Labour Science Research Grants for Research on Measures for Intractable Disease Research and the Academic Frontier Project of Saitma Medical University Research Center for Genomic Medicine, both from the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Sciences, and Technology of Japan (to T. Katagiri); and by grants from the Rita Allen Foundation and the NIH (R01 - GM056326 to M.C. Mullins; R01 - AR40196 to F.S. Kaplan and E.M. Shore).

From the Medical Research Council Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit (M.M.M., A.M.O.), the Impaired Consciousness Study Group, Wolfson Brain Imaging Centre, University of Cambridge (M.R.C.), and the Division of Academic Neurosurgery, Addenbrooke's Hospital (J.D.P.)-- all in Cambridge, United Kingdom; and the Coma Science Group, Cyclotron Research Center, University of Liege (A.V., M.B., S.L.), and the Departments of Neurology (S.L., M.B.) and Neuroradiology (L.T.), University Hospital of Liege, Liege; and Fonds de la Recherche Scientifique, Brussels (A.V., S.L., M.B.)-- all in Belgium.

We provide initial insights into two critical issues: what clinical value can be extracted from different commercial and academic cancer genomic platforms, and how to think about scaling access to that value,» noted the study's Principal Investigator, Robert Darnell, MD, PhD, Robert and Harriet Heilbrunn Professor and Senior Attending Physician at The Rockefeller University and Founding Director of the New York Genome Center.

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«This is the first instance I am aware of where an academic drug discovery group moved a molecule designed to hopefully treat a chronic brain disorder all the way from early discovery to human trials without there being, at some point along the way, a pharmaceutical partner,» said P. Jeffrey Conn, Ph.D., Lee E. Limbird Professor of Pharmacology in the Vanderbilt University School of Medicine and director of the Vanderbilt Center for Neuroscience Drug Discovery (VCNDD).

SAN DIEGO (Sunday, July 17, 5 pm PDT): Improving the processes of ordering, transporting, and storing blood can save millions of dollars and drastically reduce blood wastage, reported a research team from one academic medical center after implementing institutional initiatives to address blood management.

Participating academic institutions and research centers from developing countries will provide the RGC de-identified DNA samples with (Tier - 2) or without (Tier - 1) phenotypic information.

Interactions with the Center's corporate sponsors provide Monell scientists with insights into real - world problems, and contribute a different perspective from that typically seen in purely academic institutions.

Bio: In 2004, I received my Diploma in Biology from the Julius Maximilians University in Germany and then started my Ph.D. in Immunology at the Academic Medical Center of the University of Amsterdam.

Completing the consortium are academic institutions from across Europe: University Hospital of Bonn, German Center for Neurodegenerative Diseases, Charité — Universitätsmedizin Berlin and Fraunhofer Institute SCAI (Germany); King's College London, University College London and University of Cambridge (UK); and University of Gothenburg (Sweden).

Washington, D.C. — April 18, 2018 — The Clinical Research (CR) Forum, a non-profit membership association of top clinical research experts and thought leaders from the nation's leading academic health centers, today awarded its most prestigious honor to a Massachusetts General Hospital research team for its discovery of the first successful gene therapy treatment for a fatal brain disease, cerebral adrenoleukodystrophy (ALD).

The NEJM report was co-authored by 16 additional investigators — from academic medical centers and from Janssen Research & Development — in nine countries.

A team from the University of Chicago Medicine Comprehensive Cancer Center has received a five - year, $ 3.9 - million award from the National Cancer Institute to serve as a Lead Academic Participating Site for the newly created National Clinical Trials Network (NCTN).