Sentences with phrase «growing number of universities»

In fact, students these days are so familiar with using the Internet that a growing number of universities and schools are constantly implementing computers as their teaching tools.

January 30, 2017 — «New York University is among the growing number of universities looking to their law schools to help protect and guide fellow students, faculty and staff in the wake of Trump's executive order banning citizens from seven Muslim - majority countries from entering the United States.

However, a growing number of universities, professional societies, and governmental science offices have put together forums, workshops, and online resources for students and postdocs to make themselves more competitive for nonacademic jobs.

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And that's exactly what a growing number of leaders and leading organizations from Airbnb and Pixar, to the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill have been doing: reducing their strategies to one sheet of paper.

Classes currently reach more than 100,000 customers worldwide, and a new rollout of commercial - grade bikes to gyms, universities, hotels and even U.S. firehouses could rapidly grow that number.

PEP's interest in ACG underscores the growing demand for Australia and New Zealand - based adult education firms as growing numbers of migrants into the two nations seek to brush up on their English before embarking on university degrees.

The number of workers in University City will grow regardless of Amazon's decision, and based on current trends, SEPTA anticipates that many of those workers will be transit users.

The credit rating agency said the downgrade, which affects about $ 975 million of debt, was prompted by a growing number of lawsuits, federal and state probes, and Michigan legislation that could all hurt the university's finances.

The growing tech economy is creating a huge number of well - paying, upwardly mobile jobs — far more than colleges, universities, and for - profit bootcamps can fill — which offer immense financial and professional rewards for those equipped to participate.

The important essay entitled «Jewish Intellectuals and the De-Christianization of American Culture in the Twentieth Century» holds that the old Protestant cultural hegemony was defeated in no small part by the growing number of Jews championing «a secular vision of American culture» in the «American academic and literary intelligentsia» and in the best and most influential universities.

An international team of experts led by Newcastle University has shown that organic crops are up to 60 % higher in a number of key antioxidants than conventionally - grown ones.

With Nova University, the Miami Dolphins training facility and a large number of new residential developments within just a few miles of our restaurant, there is a growing need for this type of concept that is designed around today's fast - paced world.

«I'm sure that first number is at least 85 % now; gambling is growing at a phenomenal rate in the United States,» says Henry Lesieur, chair of the criminal justice department at Illinois State University and the acknowledged dean of American gambling researchers.

John Hoberman, the University of Texas professor and the author of «Testosterone Dreams,» is among a growing number of thinkers who envision, at some point, another way of dividing up sport: the doped and the undoped.

Besides the 2013 University of Washington study, a number of other recent studies have found education ineffective in improving self - reporting by athletes, adding to a growing body of evidence challenging the conventional wisdom that inadequate athlete concussion knowledge is the principal barrier to increased reporting, and suggesting that one of the best ways to combat underreporting by athletes of concussion symptoms may be to shift the focus of educational efforts towards helping coaches facilitate concussion reporting, the theory being that athletes will be more likely to report concussion symptoms if they no longer think that they will be punished by the coach for reporting, such as by losing playing time or their starting position, perceived by their teammates as letting them down, or viewed by their coach as «weak,» all of which have been documented in numerous studies over the past decade as reasons athletes are reluctant to report concussion symptoms.

As chairman of the Tory Reform Group, the largest membership group within the Conservative party, that is why we are dedicating time and resources to build up our student wing and why I'm proud to count among our members a record and growing number of students, and increasing presence across University campuses crisscrossing the country from Cardiff to Hull, London to Edinburgh.

Ghana has a growing number of accredited private universities including Ghana Technology University College, Ashesi University College, Methodist University College Ghana, Central University College, Accra Institute of Technology, Regent University College of Science and Technology, Valley View University and Zenith University College.

In more recent years, those same 17th Ward neighborhoods on the outskirts of Syracuse University have become the home of a growing number deer, powerful in their own right for eating gardens and carrying ticks that can transmit Lyme disease.

The total number of international students at colleges and universities in the U.S. grew to a record 1.08 million in 2016 - 17.

The health experts, including a doctor, a veterinarian, and a Cornell University medical professor, have requested a meeting with Governor Cuomo's acting health commissioner, Dr. Howard Zucker, to go over the growing number of studies that indicate numerous health risks associated with fracking.

Prather, a 49 - year - old professor at the University of California, San Diego, is one of a growing number of scientists who suspect this largely unexplored microbial ecosystem might hold the answer to one of the great mysteries of the weather: Why do clouds produce precipitation when they do?

A 2007 study from Cranfield University in England found that raising 12,000 Kenyan roses resulted in 13,200 pounds of CO 2; the equivalent number grown in a Dutch hothouse accounted for 77,160 pounds.

Each deer can grow up to twice the weight of North America's white - tailed deer, and the animals now number between 360,000 and 400,000 in Scotland alone, says David Stanton, an evolutionary biologist at Cardiff University in the United Kingdom.

And in terms of damage to fisheries and other recreational activities, the dollar toll for the ecological unraveling of the lakes due to ballast invasions was pegged in a 2008 University of Notre Dame study at $ 200 million annually — a number the study authors predicted would grow as new invasive species are discovered.

Researchers often assume that predator numbers grow and shrink based on their food supply, says evolutionary biologist Blaire Van Valkenburgh of the University of California, Los Angeles, who was not involved in the new study.

This side of the pond, the University of Edinburgh and University of London have started offering courses with Coursera, and the number of options is set to grow.

«Starting with pluripotent stem cells that are not muscle cells, but can become all existing cells in our body, allows us to grow an unlimited number of myogenic progenitor cells,» said Nenad Bursac, professor of biomedical engineering at Duke University.

The impact of grizzlies was growing, but their numbers weren't rising enough to explain the number of calf kills, so Middleton turned to Jennifer Fortin, then a zoology Ph.D. student researching bear nutrition at Washington State University.

In our day and age, when growing numbers of women of reproductive age are diagnosed with thyroid cancer and when fertility problems are rampant, these findings should serve as an additional consideration for physicians contemplating radioactive iodine for their patients,» said senior author Karen Tordjman, MD, associate professor of medicine at the Sackler Faculty of Medicine of Tel Aviv University.

The Great White Shark is not endangered in the Eastern North Pacific, and, in fact, is doing well enough that its numbers likely are growing, according to an international research team led by a University of Florida researcher.

Led by ornithologist Richard Prum at the University of Kansas, Lawrence, a group of mathematicians and ecologists set out to explain a growing number of anomalies raised by Rayleigh's theory.

«The wild ancestors of C4 crops are thought to have grown as individuals in open habitats where the number of leaves that they produced would have been limited by water and nitrogen and most leaves would be exposed to full sunlight» said principal investigator Steve Long, Gutgsell Endowed Professor of Plant Biology and Crop Sciences at the University of Illinois.

The numbers of MTBI alumni affiliated with various universities continues to grow, including Princeton (2), Stanford (4), University of Iowa (15), Rice University (4), University of Texas, Austin (3), University of Maryland (2), University of Arizona (4), Oxford (1), Harvard University (2), University of Michigan (2), and Arizona State (4).

The increasing number of regional business plan competitions, Start - Up Days, Founder Centers at universities, and entrepreneurship professorships are visible signs of a growing understanding of the issue's importance.

In Ireland, Donnelly helped to set up the Trinity Research Staff Association, which aims to support the growing number of postdocs who have faint prospects of tenure - track jobs by encouraging the university to provide courses in such issues as research management and policy development.

A growing number of companies and universities are claiming to have devised such marvels, ready to perform vital analyses from detecting biological warfare agents in a soldier's bloodstream to identifying toxins in a tainted package of hamburger meat.

They have been arriving in growing numbers to feed on belugas, seals and narwhals, according to a recent study by scientists from the University of Manitoba.

A study by Simon Fraser University health sciences professor Dr. Julian Somers reveals that a growing number of those experiencing longstanding homelessness and mental disorders in Vancouver's Downtown Eastside (DTES) have migrated from elsewhere.

«It is important to remember that the number of people over age 85 is the fastest growing age demographic, with about 40 % currently estimated to be affected by dementia,» says co-author Yu - Tzu Wu from CIPH, University of Cambridge in the UK.

As a population grows, larger numbers of combatants die in wars, but those slain represent a smaller average percentage of the total population, say Dean Falk of Florida State University in Tallahassee and Charles Hildebolt of Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis.

An Indiana University study found that white flight from one suburban neighborhood to another occurs when white residents move away from «ethnoburbs,» suburban neighborhoods that attract a growing number of middle - class minority residents.

Who: Augusta Isley, Proposal Manager Where: Ball State University (Muncie, Indiana) Number of years in research development: 8 Length of NORDP membership: 3 Number of NORDP conferences attended: 1 When you were a kid, what did you want to be when you grew up?

This collaboration and cooperation among a growing number of ORIEN centers means patients may not need to travel far from home to participate,» said Michael Caligiuri, M.D., director of The Ohio State University Comprehensive Cancer Center and CEO of the James Cancer Hospital and Solove Research Institute.

With the establishment of a scientifically directed writing center, The Julius Maximilian University of Würzburg joins a growing number of renowned German - speaking and international universities working to develop well - rounded scientific thinkers across the disciplines through the deployment of specialized support in academic writing.

However, according to a growing number of experts, including Dr. Loren Cordain, a professor at Colorado State University and an expert on Paleolithic lifestyles, humans are NOT designed to eat grains, and doing so may actually be damaging to your gut.

CTV NEWS - Jan 24 - A growing number of Canadian university students confronted by rising tuition costs are turning to «Sugar Daddies».

The company uses those addresses to back its claims of growing membership at a number of Division I universities.

The number one fastest growing school on the site is the University of Central Florida.

BOSTON GLOBE - Aug 5 - With so - called gray divorce on the rise, according to sociologists at Bowling Green State University in Ohio, a growing number of baby boomers are finding themselves back on the market.

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