Sentences with phrase «helped pioneer efforts»

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By helping laypersons better distinguish brain myths from brain realities, Barry Beyerstein was a pioneer in the ongoing effort to increase the public's scientific literacy.

There is hope: delegates in Port Elizabeth heard about pioneering efforts to break this cycle of despair, and how conservation is helping bring healthcare to remote communities.

A team of University of Michigan scientists who have helped pioneer this approach will now work with researchers around the country, in a $ 15 million national effort to take the research to a new level.

«We are very optimistic that, by building on the pioneering efforts of PTC Therapeutics, Roche can help us realise what we have been working so hard to achieve.»

That's the driving idea behind a global policy effort we helped pioneer, known as REDD +, which stands for reducing emissions from deforestation and forest degradation.

As the Associate Director of National Outreach and Community Building, Dr. Joshi Hansen will be helping build the ecosystem of partners needed to ensure educators pioneering learner - centered learning are supported in their efforts.

This flood of legislation, along with new rules in many states allowing for more charter schools, pioneering union contracts in several cities and a state - led effort to rewrite the nation's academic standards, have made this spring a watershed period, said Jon Schnur, an education adviser to the Obama campaign who helped design Race to the Top.

In Issues, a pioneer in geoengineering has laid out the framework for a comprehensive US research plan, saying it should be part of a coherent climate policy agenda that includes vigorous support for climate science, increases efforts to cut emissions, helps the most vulnerable populations to adapt, develops negative emission technologies, and renews a commitment to growing international governance on climate matters.

The space agency is confident that the GeoCARB mission will continue the nation's pioneering efforts in quantifying critical greenhouse gases and vegetation health from space, which in turn will help us better understand the Earth's natural exchanges of carbon between the land, atmosphere and ocean.

An associate at the time, she wrote a proposal that firm management couldn't resist, and she joined a handful of other in - house marketing pioneers in helping to organize and improve client relations and business development efforts.

Throughout her career, Ms. Koopersmith has helped pioneer many of Akin Gump's efforts to enhance diversity and attract and retain the best talent.

Aside from underwriting car insurance, Pioneer State Mutual focuses on helping the community and contributes efforts to many organizations such as the American Red Cross, Food Bank of Eastern Michigan and the Salvation Army.

Pioneer pulled in the help of high - end speaker designer Andrew Jones in an effort to pull its standard speaker line's reputation out of the garage and into the great room.

I should note that many local associations of REALTORS ® are the pioneers in this effort, offering leadership training programs to help promising young people grow as business professionals and association leaders.