Sentences with phrase «helped leading universities»

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Chinese real estate mogul Zhang Xin speaks about her organization SOHO China's scholarships to help young people study at leading universities across the globe.

She earned a BSBA from Georgetown University, where she has also helped lead the firm's recruiting efforts.

Penn State's Steve Ettinger, 55, who earned his classmates» respect for his insightfulness and helping hand, is ranked among the country's top doctors, And the University of Chicago's Sebastian Cerezo Montañez, 39, has already founded a leading independent M&A house and served as CEO of two companies, before he turned 40.

There are numerous firms that will consult with entrepreneurs to help them find IP at leading universities, but not all are created equal and not everyone is ready to throw down money for that service.

Given that Facebook helps keep us connected but can also expose us to many social stressors, like envy and gossip, the researchers, led by Eric Vanman at the University of Queensland, expected to find a Facebook break would be associated with a drop in life - satisfaction, but also a reduction in stress levels.

Thaddeus R. Miller, an Arizona State University scientist who helps lead a national research network focused on «Urban Resilience to Extreme Events,» said in an email that boosting the capacity of cities to stay safe and prosperous in a turbulent climate requires a culture shift as much as hardening physical systems:

The University of California, San Francisco's epidemiology and biostatistics professor Hugh Sturrock — who leads DiSARM — explained exactly why Google's tech can help fight the disease.

With 80 per cent of Nova Scotia's publicly funded research, and as one of Canada's leading universities for industry collaboration, we're helping generate the talent, discoveries and innovations that will shape Atlantic Canada's future.

Ken Ulman, the former Howard County executive who leads an economic development foundation associated with College Park, said in a statement last week that that the university would help produce graduates who could work for Amazon in Port Covington.

Previous investors were led by Grand Challenges Canada, funded by the Government of Canada, which provided $ 1 million through a Transition to Scale investment and helped catalyze matching investments from a wide range of sources including Maple Leaf Angels, MaRS Innovation, the University of Toronto's Connaught Seed Fund, the Government of Canada through the National Research Council of Canada Industrial Research Assistance Program (NRC - IRAP) and the Scientific Research and Experimental Development Tax Incentive Program (SR&ED), and the Government of Ontario through investment by Ontario Centres of Excellence and support by MaRS Discovery District and ventureLAB / Genesis.

Mr. Jiwan has served on numerous boards of directors and advisors, including: (i) Future Finance Loan Corporation, a European private student lender that has helped students at over 130 universities fund their education, where Mr. Jiwan is a co-founder and non-executive Chairman; (ii) BFRE, a Brazilian private real estate finance company, which was subsequently sold to affiliates of BTG Pactual; (iii) GP Investimentos, one of Latin America's leading private equity firms, where he served on its shareholder advisory board; (iv) NewPoint Re, a Bermuda - based reinsurance business; and (v) Kaletra QD product development program with Abbott Pharmaceuticals, where he served on the Joint Oversight Committee.

The Alberta Government has appointed three wise men to help: Former Governor of The Bank of Canada David Dodge to develop an infrastructure plan, University of Alberta economist Andrew Leach to lead the Climate Change Panel, and ATB CEO Dave Mowat to head up the Royalty Review panel.

It shaped the thinking of many of the psychologically - oriented movements of the fifties and sixties, it provided ideals and ideas to the Hippies and the Beatles, it heightened interest in Buddhism in the universities and helped to encourage the vast growth of courses in world religions, and it led to the organization of Zen centers throughout the country, but especially in California.

CNN: Mormon linebacker helps lead Catholic Notre Dame to national championship game It was a goal - line stand in the fourth quarter that sealed the University of Notre Dame football team's Saturday victory over the University of Southern California — and earned the No. 1 - ranked team a trip to the national championship game.

Professor Charles Benbrook, one of the authors of the study and a leading scientist based at Washington State University, explains, «Our results are highly relevant and significant and will help both scientists and consumers sort through the often conflicting information currently available on the nutrient density of organic and conventional plant - based foods.»

«Organic whole milk yogurt is an incredibly satisfying, traditional food - something I think many Americans are starting to embrace,» says Drew Ramsey, MD, assistant clinical professor of psychiatry at Columbia University and one of psychiatry's leading proponents of using dietary changes to help balance moods, sharpen brain function and improve mental health.

You can also get tips to lead by example, or information to help those around you, whether it's at home, at your university, or in your community.

This would help explain the gold in the -90 kg class at the BUCS individual event, which lead him onto a trip to Portugal for the European University Judo Championships to represent the UK and UK Universities.

Arran has recently graduated from a Comb Hons in Business Enterprise / Human Resource Management at Manchester Metropolitan University and, over the past year, has helped out, and lead, on a number of football - related projects!

The call came on Dec. 11 from a counselor at Oklahoma City University who asked whether Whatley could immediately test Marcus LoVett (pronounced luh - VET), a 6» 2» guard who had helped lead the Chiefs to the NAIA championship last spring.

I thank god and my parents, and coaches for help lead me in making this difficult decision but I am proud to announce that I am flipping my commitment to the university of Michigan 〽️ #GoBlue pic.twitter.com/LTcT06FZw 7

A few weeks after my trip to Queens, I visited the Stress Neurobiology and Prevention lab at the University of Oregon in Eugene, where a team of researchers led by Phil Fisher, a psychologist, has developed a series of interventions with parents that in many ways parallel the ABC program, though with one major difference: They use digital video as a teaching tool to help steer parents away from behaviors that cause fear and stress in children and toward patterns that promote attachment and self - regulation.

Dr. Katherine Tamminen, assistant professor at the University of Toronto and associate editor of the International Review of Sport and Exercise Psychology, was the lead author of a study on helping adolescent athletes cope with stress.

The research, led by Dr Kate Grimshaw, dietitian and senior research fellow at the University, say that giving the baby solid food beside breast feeding helps it develop a better, stronger immune system to fight food allergies.

A research team led by Jane Heinig at University of California Davis has developed a program called Secrets of Baby Behavior that was designed to give new parents the information they need about infant and breastfeeding norms to reduce unnecessary formula supplementation and to help prevent childhood obesity caused by overfeeding.

In June, Mickey Carroll, assistant director of the Quinnipiac University Poll said, «Four out of five voters think the leadership domination helps lead to corruption.»

Another choice we've said we'd make differently is on taxation and tuition fees — while under the Conservative - led government banks are benefiting from a 5 per cent cut in corporation tax, — Labour thinks that money would be better used bringing down the cap on tuition fees, to help young people worried about the costs of going to university.

The Beagle 2 project was led by Prof Colin Pillinger from the Open University and Prof Dave Barnes from Aberystwyth University who helped develop the lander's robotic arm.

Science is being championed in some of Buffalo's most - struggling or «high needs» schools, with the help of a University at Buffalo chemistry professor, Joseph Gardella Jr., leading the charge.

Sara joined the StudentsFirstNY staff after graduating from New York University, where she helped lead the NYU chapter of Students for Education Reform (SFER) and the NYU College Democrats.

It's the spirit that, just today, has seen some of our leading social organisations come together to set up a new Citizen University, to help give people the skills they need to play a bigger part in society.

The agency also approved $ 75,000 to help pay for a study of the local labor market by the University at Buffalo Regional Institute and $ 100,000 for Invest Buffalo Niagara to hire a consultant to develop business leads in Canada.

Stringer's endorsement adds credibility to Ramos» and Jackson's candidacies and will help with fundraising, said Christina M. Greer, a political science professor at New York University, but it will also yield benefits for Stringer, a leading 2021 mayoral candidate.

He led a multi-state case against the dubious Trump University real estate seminar, and helped secure a $ 25 million settlement from the president - elect — $ 1 million of it going straight to the State of New York.

Dr Angela Wood, from the University of Cambridge, lead author of the study said: «If you already drink alcohol, drinking less may help you live longer and lower your risk of several cardiovascular conditions.

«You're taking the power of what evolution has done... to bind bacteria, and then we're just helping that out a little bit,» said Sam Nugen, a food and biosystems engineer who leads the team designing these phages at Cornell University.

The work helps explain a biological mystery and could open scientific doors to studies of novel treatments for neurological disease, said lead researcher Jason Slot, an assistant professor of fungal evolutionary genomics at The Ohio State University.

To help fix this, a team led by Elizabeth Belding at the University of California, Santa Barbara, designed a cheap, local cellular network called Kwiizya — which means «to chat» in Tonga, the native language in Zambia's Southern Province.

Kohn and Blair Levin, who helped to develop the FCC's National Broadband Plan — a congressionally mandated scheme to ensure broadband access to all Americans — are leading a collection of 29 universities spread across the country in piloting a network of one - gigabit - per - second Internet connections.

Gathering the data was the first step in a multiphase project to identify strategies that will help all cities effectively sip, rather than chug, available resources, says the study's lead author Chris Kennedy, an industrial ecologist at the University of Victoria in British Columbia.

The research group, led by Professor Michael Lang of the Physics Institute at Goethe University Frankfurt, succeeded in making the discovery with the help of a homemade apparatus which is unique worldwide.

Dr. David Brandman, lead author of the study and an engineering postdoctoral researcher at Brown University, said that while additional innovations will help to move implantable BCIs like BrainGate toward clinical availability for patients, this advance of rapid, intuitive calibration is a key one.

Analyzing trends on Twitter and Google can help predict vaccine scares that can lead to disease outbreaks, according to a study from the University of Waterloo.

«We hope these findings help government, industry and scientists to work together to address this issue,» says Sonter, who led the study as a UVM postdoctoral researcher, before joining the University of Queensland (Australia).

Many had stories about friends, often in the humanities, who were overworked as teaching assistants, or paid months late; the collective bargaining a union offers could potentially lead to a contract with the university that addresses such issues and helps student teachers in such situations.

Nagoya University - led research team shows in mice the potential of a special immune cell that targets a key protein in tumor growth that helps stop brain cancer.

The work «helps us to understand how chromosomes have changed over time, which chromosome rearrangements may have led to the formation of new species, and what might be driving chromosomal rearrangements,» says Janine Deakin, a geneticist at the University of Canberra who was not involved with the work.

«We have the ability to hammer on a target every night if we need to,» says Rob Wittenmyer, an astronomer at the University of Southern Queensland in Toowoomba who helps lead MINERVA - Australis.

Lead author, Professor Callum Roberts from the University of York's Environment Department, said: «Many studies show that well - managed marine reserves can protect wildlife and support productive fisheries, but we wanted to explore this body of research through the lens of climate change to see whether these benefits could help ameliorate or slow its impacts.

A team led by Margaret Pericak - Vance of Duke University, Jonathan Haines of Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee, and Allen Roses — a former Duke researcher now in charge of genetics research at the Glaxo Wellcome Company in Research Triangle Park, North Carolina — scanned the DNA of members of 16 large families with a high rate of Alzheimer's, looking at 280 genetic markers that might help identify candidate genes.