Sentences with phrase «goal in research universities»

In this way, they underscore the integral relation between research and teaching, an increasingly important goal in research universities.

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Networking in pursuit of professional goals can make some people feel literally dirty, according to new research from the University of Toronto, Harvard Business School and Northwestern University's Kellogg School of Management.
According to recent research from the University of Groningen in the Netherlands, cited on Pacific Standard, disordered environments prompt people to be more goal - oriented.
The goals of the BBCIE are twofold: to help transform the university's $ 1.3 B in externally - funded research into products and services, and to allow its 85,000 students the opportunity to explore entrepreneurship as part of their university experience.
Professor and Director of the Institute for Behavioral and Household Finance (IBHF) at Cornell University The mission of the IBHF is research and education in the areas of behavioral finance and household finance with the goal of better understanding and modeling financial behavior.
At the founding of the University of Berlin, Humboldt was explicit in saying that, in making the faculty of arts and sciences central, the research university had the same overarching goal as that of ancient Athens» paideia: it «transforms the charactUniversity of Berlin, Humboldt was explicit in saying that, in making the faculty of arts and sciences central, the research university had the same overarching goal as that of ancient Athens» paideia: it «transforms the charactuniversity had the same overarching goal as that of ancient Athens» paideia: it «transforms the character.»
SFC was established in 1976 as a joint venture between the University of the West Indies in Trinidad and McGill University in Canada; the goal of the center was to research various uses of sugarcane and other agricultural byproducts.
In either case, the goal is becoming competent to interpret, evaluate, and discuss different types of research, rather than conducting it all yourself, says Doris Rubio, professor of medicine, biostatistics, nursing, and clinical and translational science at the University of Pittsburgh.
«Medical research is the sole hope we can provide to millions of Americans,» wrote Senator Tom Harkins (D — IA) in 2002, explaining why he and Senator Arlen Specter (R — PA) «set the ambitious goal of doubling America's investment in... the life - saving research supported by NIH and conducted at leading research institutions like the University of Iowa and Iowa State.»
We are in touch with the Austrian Academy of Sciences, the Federal Ministry of Education and Research, various public and private institutions and agencies, various Viennese universities, numerous biotech and pharma companies, biotech consultancies, and international student clubs that share Club Biotech's visions and goals.
Koji Omi, a politician who conceived the institute a decade ago, says the goal is «to make OIST the best research university in the world.»
Research by Harvard University economist George Borjas shows that, in fact, you can: If your goal is to incentivize talented people to do important research and innovation, overcrowding their fields stalls productivity and forces many able peoResearch by Harvard University economist George Borjas shows that, in fact, you can: If your goal is to incentivize talented people to do important research and innovation, overcrowding their fields stalls productivity and forces many able peoresearch and innovation, overcrowding their fields stalls productivity and forces many able people out.
She's now a 2nd - year Ph.D. student at the University of Chicago School of Social Services Administration, and she says her time working in the clinic with children, adolescents, and families has focused her research goals.
At the ceremony in Warsaw, Turner — who is a chemistry professor at the University of Rochester known for the «Turner Rules» for predicting RNA structure — said the main goal of his and Kierzek's research has been to move as quickly as possible from «genome sequence to drugs that can help cure somebody.»
Years later, while finishing a biochemistry Ph.D. at the University of Arizona and applying for a Fullbright fellowship at the Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research in Uppsala, Sweden, Beckmann realized how much her childhood loss was motivating her professional goals.
With the goal of providing basic information to help improve preparedness and mitigation efforts, new University of Iowa - led research published online in September in the Journal of Hydrology examined how accurate current forecasting systems are in predicting rainfall from North Atlantic tropical cyclones that reach land in the United States.
One goal of the study is to demonstrate the prevalence of H. influenzae in the region, explains Joel Ward, director of the Center for Vaccine Research at the University of California, Los Angeles, and scientific adviser to IVI.
One factor is that the goals of obtaining a grant and making a breakthrough discovery are increasingly at odds, warn Bruce Alberts, former president of the National Academy of Sciences and former editor - in - chief of Science; Marc W. Kirschner, founding chair of the Department of Systems Biology at Harvard Medical School; Shirley Tilghman, former president of Princeton University; and Harold Varmus, Nobel laureate and former director of the National Cancer Institute, in a highly publicized critique of U.S. biomedical research that was published in April 2014.
Beginning in graduate school at the University of Vermont, Castonguay crafted his teaching and research experiences toward his goal of joining the faculty at an undergraduate institution.
From a speech at Michigan State University (M.S.U.) in early August: «To meet these goals, we will invest more in the clean - technology research and development that's occurring in labs and research facilities all across the country and right here at M.S.U., where you're working with farm owners to develop this state's wind potential and developing nanotechnology that will make solar cells cheaper.»
With national research expertise in biotechnology, transportation, the chemical industry, and information technology, to name a few fields, that already transcends borders between universities, agencies, and commerce, there is no question that the democracy can achieve its ambitious goals, argues Mas - Colell.
According to senior co-author Professor Stephen Hyde from the Gene Medicine Research Group at the University of Oxford, «Stabilisation of lung disease in itself is a worthwhile goal.
A different pathway is used to train students in the combined degree program at the University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston (UT Houston) and the University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center, where the goal is to produce physician - scientists who will pursue careers in clinical research.
New research co-authored by Dr. Sonya A. Grier, professor of marketing in the American University Kogod School of Business, confirms these announcements and progress updates are useful for the achievement of weight and fitness goals.
Our goal was to fingerprint the source of methane in the Arctic Ocean to determine if ancient methane was being liberated from the seafloor and if it survives to be emitted to the atmosphere,» says Sparrow, who conducted the study, published in Science Advances, as part of her doctoral research at the University of Rochester.
The key goal of this program has been to give Canadian universities and their affiliated research institutes and hospitals the chance to attract and retain top researchers in a diverse range of disciplines.
«Certainly, in industry it is critical to work within teams to accomplish goals that are defined more by the company than by individuals,» he says, «but I see industry and academia as equally exciting and valuable career options for students,» says Gregory E. Amidon, a research professor at the University of Michigan, College of Pharmacy, in Ann Arbor and American Association of Pharmaceutical Scientists (AAPS) Fellow.
«The overarching goal of our research is to create an innovative, yet sustainable and accessible, low cost solution to combat the global threat of West Nile virus,» said Chen, a researcher at Arizona State University's Biodesign Institute and professor in the Department of TEIM.
His laboratory at the German Cancer Research Center in Heidelberg and at the Medical Faculty Mannheim of Heidelberg University is studying the mechanisms of metastasis with the goal to develop more gentle supportive adjuvant therapies for tumor patients without detectable metastases following surgery of the primary tumor.
Scientists at Kumamoto University have been researching the issue since 2006 with the goal of building a functioning kidney in test tubes.
«The goal of our research was to explore the opportunities for marine fisheries reform in China that arise from their 13th Five - Year Plan and show how the best available science can be used in the design and implementation of fisheries management in China's coastal and ocean ecosystems,» said Cao, a Research Scholar with Stanford's Center on Food Security and the Environment (FSE) and Shanghai Jiao Tong Uniresearch was to explore the opportunities for marine fisheries reform in China that arise from their 13th Five - Year Plan and show how the best available science can be used in the design and implementation of fisheries management in China's coastal and ocean ecosystems,» said Cao, a Research Scholar with Stanford's Center on Food Security and the Environment (FSE) and Shanghai Jiao Tong UniResearch Scholar with Stanford's Center on Food Security and the Environment (FSE) and Shanghai Jiao Tong University.
The conflict between the public's belief in teaching and the academic belief in research makes the central problem of the university unique; there's no other great social institution afflicted by such a radical division between public expectations and professional goals.
The goal of the University West research group is to be able to control the structure of the surface layer in order to increase its service life and insulating capability.
That was my goal, as well, until I fell in love with research at the university and came out with a Ph.D..
Achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) set by the UN in 2015 for the period up to 2030 would lead to a global population of between 8.2 to 8.7 billion by 2100, according to a new study from the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA) and the Asian Demographic Research Institute (ADRI) at Shanghai University.
He predicts that the small but potent research community of universities and biotech companies centered in St. Louis and Kansas City will benefit from passage of the amendment — which prevents lawmakers from barring work on embryonic stem cells while criminalizing cloning with the goal of reproduction — as will patients.
(a) The Regents of the University of California are requested to establish the Cal - BRAIN program to leverage California's vast research assets and the federal BRAIN Initiative's funding opportunities to accelerate the development of brain mapping techniques, including the development of new technologies, which will create new, high - paying jobs in California while advancing patient care and improving lives, in order to achieve the following goals: (1) Maintain California's leadership role in neuroscience innovation.
With the ambitious goal of streamlining and coordinating research to enable a better understanding of the brain, and with a budget of over 1 Billion Euro, the project involves researchers from over 117 partner institutions in 19 countries across Europe, including several Israeli universities.
Castro's team at U-M, and their colleagues on teams at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, the University of Rochester, and the Institute of Cancer Research in London have been working toward this goal for several years.
This bill would enact the California Blueprint for Research to Advance Innovations in Neuroscience (Cal - BRAIN) Act of 2014, and would request the Regents of the University of California to establish the Cal - BRAIN program to leverage California's research assets and the federal BRAIN Initiative's funding opportunities to accelerate the development of brain mapping techniques, including the development of new technologies, in order to achieve certaiResearch to Advance Innovations in Neuroscience (Cal - BRAIN) Act of 2014, and would request the Regents of the University of California to establish the Cal - BRAIN program to leverage California's research assets and the federal BRAIN Initiative's funding opportunities to accelerate the development of brain mapping techniques, including the development of new technologies, in order to achieve certairesearch assets and the federal BRAIN Initiative's funding opportunities to accelerate the development of brain mapping techniques, including the development of new technologies, in order to achieve certain goals.
At the CBN's inception in 1999, its leaders set out to create a consortium of diverse colleges and universities united in the common goal of supporting research in behavioral neuroscience and creating a «team - based» research environment.
Considered by some a bold move, because the university had no medical school, Dr. Kang saw it as an «ideal opportunity,» believing he could «make a difference and contribute to the lofty goal of conquering cancer through innovative research and teaching in cancer biology.»
«Our goal is to put hard numbers on soft matter,» says Ernst - Ludwig Florin, a researcher at the University of Texas at Austin in the US, who led this latest research.
In the more than 100 years since Tohoku University was founded in 1907, the constant goal has been to become one of the world's great research universitieIn the more than 100 years since Tohoku University was founded in 1907, the constant goal has been to become one of the world's great research universitiein 1907, the constant goal has been to become one of the world's great research universities.
Some of it is personal preference and goals, while recent research may offer more insight: A study by researchers from Loughborough University in Britain (Rollo I and Williams C, 2010) showed that carbohydrate and / or protein during exercise shorter than one hour in duration is only required under certain conditions.
The International Society for the Study of Subtle Energies and Energy Medicine — As the International Research Division of Holos University Graduate Seminary, ISSSEEM retains its original Goals as established in 1989: the exploration of subtle energies and their application to the experience of consciousness, healing, and human potential.
A study by researchers at California State University in Chico examined three decades of research and found that beef from pasture - raised cows fits more closely into goals for a diet lower in saturated fat and higher in «good fats» and other beneficial nutrients.
However, a research facility at a major university is always under such constant scrutiny, lofty personal goals are even less likely to be achieved at all because it isn't a setting conducive to such reckless, singular behavior — especially in an environment where major acts of terrorism against that very kind of research is running rampant in the world.
Through his doctoral research at Columbia University and experience as a tech specialist at the Fieldston School in New York City, Kenny Graves has found that the partnerships among school leaders are also helping them think more strategically about how to use technology as a tool to address specific needs and goals in their districts.
Indeed, a recent research review by Marvin Berkowitz and Melinda Bier of the University of Missouri (at St. Louis) found that the most common topic in today's character education programs is «social - emotional content» — in particular, what they call «personal improvement / self - management and awareness (self - control, goal setting, relaxation techniques, self - awareness, emotional awareness).»
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