Sentences with phrase «important at research universities»

The first objective should be to demonstrate a real commitment to teaching, and this is at least as important at research universities as it is at teaching - oriented colleges like the one I work at.

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Here are five research projects taking place at Canadian universities that teach important lessons for today's business leaders.

Anna Nyberg, the lead author of the study and a researcher at the Stress Research Institute at Stockholm University, says there's an important takeaway from the research: «The longer you have worked at a workplace, the better or worse the situation Research Institute at Stockholm University, says there's an important takeaway from the research: «The longer you have worked at a workplace, the better or worse the situation research: «The longer you have worked at a workplace, the better or worse the situation becomes.

It is striking that neither this new centre at St. Mary's, nor the university's other research «centres», seem to have any element concerned with this important aspect of human thought.

It is important to stress that the two dominant lines of criticism noted above began during the 1870s and 1880s at precisely the same time that the modern research university emerged as a new institution of higher learning in America.

Additionally, at Oregon State University, the Research and Service Grant funds connect the craft brewing community with world - class research capabilities and enable Thomas H. Shellhammer, Ph.D., Nor» Wester professor of fermentation science, to work on industry - relevant scientific and technical issues that not only advance science but answer important and practical questions faced by craft Research and Service Grant funds connect the craft brewing community with world - class research capabilities and enable Thomas H. Shellhammer, Ph.D., Nor» Wester professor of fermentation science, to work on industry - relevant scientific and technical issues that not only advance science but answer important and practical questions faced by craft research capabilities and enable Thomas H. Shellhammer, Ph.D., Nor» Wester professor of fermentation science, to work on industry - relevant scientific and technical issues that not only advance science but answer important and practical questions faced by craft brewers.

Food scientist Steven Schwartz, an Associate Director of the Food Innovation Center and Director, Center for Advanced Functional Foods Research and Entrepreneurship at the Ohio State University believes that functional foods may one day be an important weapon for helping to prevent illnesses.

One of the most important findings is that the percentage of young adults with IQs below 90 appears to decrease by two - thirds if they were breastfed, said study author June Machover Reinisch, director emerita of the Kinsey Institute for Research in Sex, Gender and Reproduction at Indiana University.

A recent research study conducted by the Early Start Research Institute at the University of Wollongong in South Wales, UK, found that reading to children is imresearch study conducted by the Early Start Research Institute at the University of Wollongong in South Wales, UK, found that reading to children is imResearch Institute at the University of Wollongong in South Wales, UK, found that reading to children is important.

Alan Smoufe, Professor of Child Psychology in the Institute of Child Development at the University of Minnesota writes in March / April 2011 Psychotherapy Networker, «Another important implication of attachment research is that it's possible to develop a secure state of mind as an adult, even in the face of a difficult childhood.

«We have decades of research that tells us how important it is that a bond is established between parents and young children beginning at birth,» says Dr. Jack P. Shonkoff, Director of the Center on the Developing Child at Harvard University.

We look forward to this important research forum at Cornell University.»

Professor Kath Woodward is a researcher at the Open University and the ESRC's Centre for Research into Socio - Cultural Change and is organising the event, she said: «This event will provide important answers on what is social about sport and how it fits into the wider society.»

I also represent the Peninsular Research Institute for Marine Renewable Energy (PRIMaRE) based at the Tremough campus near Falmouth at which academics from Exeter University are doing a lot of important research and testing crucial to the wave power iResearch Institute for Marine Renewable Energy (PRIMaRE) based at the Tremough campus near Falmouth at which academics from Exeter University are doing a lot of important research and testing crucial to the wave power iresearch and testing crucial to the wave power industry.

«This study provides insight into the stepwise evolution of an ecologically important trait (resistance to prey toxins), and revealed that the adaptive benefit of changes to individual components of the trait were contingent on antecedent changes in other components,» said Jay Storz, the Susan J. Rosowski Professor of Biology at the University of Nebraska who was not involved in the research.

But,» [w] hile in developing countries those friendships helped in securing the most attractive jobs, such as professorships, within their national higher education system, researchers in developed countries benefited from the global network of their senior friends giving them access to the most respected research groups, labs and universities, allowing them to present their work at the most prestigious conferences and publish in the most important books and journals.»

«This is one of the best examples we have of linking long - term research data with management to show how important that is in restoring this critical habitat,» says Karen McGlathery, an environmental scientist at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville who wasn't involved in the research.»

Prashant Bharadwaj, an assistant professor of economics at the University of California - San Diego who studies development and labor economics, said the research helps fill an important gap by looking at persistent, moderate pollution like that from agricultural fires.

«Some people think that if we just wait, it will get better, and that's one way in which the She figures are extremely important,» says Curt Rice, vice president for research and development at the University of Tromsø in Norway, an E.U. associated country.

Dave Goulson, Professor of Biology at the University of Sussex said: «Our research has important implications for global regulatory assessments which generally use honeybees as a model for all bees.

The research, by the University of Sydney's Marine Studies Institute and the Centre for Coastal Biogeochemistry at Southern Cross University, is the first long term study of such a large and important Southern Hemisphere system referred to as a drowned river valley, which in Sydney spans estuaries from Middle Harbour to Lane Cove and Parramatta.

«It's important to incorporate all lines of evidence when considering enigmatic fossils: anatomical, preservational and comparative,» said Sam Giles, a junior research fellow at the University of Oxford and coauthor of the study.

«Acquired resistance is important because it is the basis of vaccination campaigns based on «herd immunity», where immunization of a subset of individuals protects all from a pathogen,» said Jason Rohr, an associate professor of integrative biology who led the research team with Taegan McMahon, a USF alumnus who is now an assistant professor of biology at the University of Tampa.

Thanks to funding from the German Research Foundation and the Max Planck Society, the working groups headed by Robert Ernst at Goethe University Frankfurt and Gerhard Hummer at the Max Planck Institute of Biophysics have been able to investigate this fundamentally important question.

To close the gap, the researchers are using technology that facilitates intervention early in the child's life and empowers parents to play a very important role: «baby's first and best teacher,» said Ashley Darcy - Mahoney, assistant professor and neonatal nurse practitioner at The George Washington University School of Nursing and director of infant research at its Autism and Neurodevelopmental Disorders Institute.

Previous studies have shown that a part of the brain called the hippocampus is important to relational memory — the «ability to bind together various items of an event,» said Jim Monti, a University of Illinois postdoctoral research associate who led the work with psychology professor Neal Cohen, who is affiliated with the Beckman Institute at Illinois.

«Adolescence is an important period of growth,» said Subhash C. Pandey, Ph.D., professor and director of the Alcohol Research Center at the University of Illinois at Chicago.

Peng Yin, a systems biologist at Harvard University, who was not involved in the new research, says he is impressed by the work and calls it «an important advance for molecular programming, dynamic DNA nanotechnology and in vitro synthetic biology.»

Dr Allan Debelle, who conducted the study as part of his PhD under the supervision of Dr Rhonda Snook at the University of Sheffield, said these results suggest that mate choice can be an important driver of the evolution of motor performance, «Our research shows that when, at each generation, females are given a choice among several mates performing energetically costly courtship, the motor performance of males in that population can respond to this selection process and progressively improve.»

Research led by Sophieke Russell at the University of Kent in Canterbury, UK, holds important lessons about how juries arrive at decisions of guilt and sentencing — and possible pointers for achieving genuine justice in courts.

«If we can preserve these important cells, we may be able to decrease the negative impacts of traumatic brain injury,» said first author David Cantu, Ph.D., a postdoctoral scholar at Tufts University School of Medicine, and member of the NIH - funded Institutional Research Career and Academic Development Awards (IRACDA) Program, Training in Education and Critical Research Skills (TEACRS), at the Sackler School of Graduate Biomedical Sciences at Tufts.

«Monitoring the primary routes of potential dispersal, such as the Columbia River, will be important for limiting expansion eastward,» said Trevor Sheffels, a research ecologist at Portland State University.

«The findings provide important information that may help prevent future domestic homicides, because they help identify individuals at risk of committing domestic murders,» said lead author Robert Hanlon, director of the forensic psychology research lab at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine.

Shaul Mukamel, a chemistry professor at the University of California - Irvine, said that the Princeton research is a step forward in an important and active research field called coherent control, in which light can be manipulated to control behavior at the molecular level.

Dr Nathan Mayne, Senior Lecturer in Astrophysics at the University of Exeter and one of the authors of the study said: «This research is not only important in developing our understanding of this exotic class of planets, but also represents the first steps to building a deeper understanding of how planetary atmospheres and climates work across a range of conditions, including those more conducive to life.

Promoting the power and consequence of science «is more important than ever right now,» particularly as critics question the role of evidence - based science in policymaking and as Congress considers significant proposed cuts to federal funding for scientific research that drives innovation, said Tobin Smith, vice president of policy at the Association of American Universities, during the March 27 S&T Policy Forum session «Advocating for Science: More Than a One - Day Activity.»

Another important job for Kupchik was working with Jeffrey Fagan at the Center for Violence Research and Prevention at Columbia University's Mailman School of Public Health.

William Cunningham, a psychologist at Ohio State University who conducts research using fMRI, says that the paper makes important points but «takes its argument a little too far.»

It's an important study, says Caroline Tutin, a gorilla expert at the University of Stirling, U.K. «Although the bushmeat crisis is very serious, [this research] shows that not all animals are the same.»

«Every human carries trillions of bacteria in their gut (gut microbiome) and recent advances in research indicate that these tiny passengers play an important role in our overall health maintenance,» says Ashutosh Mangalam, PhD, assistant professor of pathology at the University of Iowa Carver College of Medicine.

«As quantum dot solar technology advances rapidly in performance, it's important to determine how to scale them and make this new class of solar technologies manufacturable,» said Professor Ted Sargent (ECE), vice dean, research in the Faculty of Applied Science & Engineering at University of Toronto and Kramer's supervisor.

Professor Chris Perry from Geography at the University of Exeter, lead author of the study said: «Previous research has highlighted how important parrotfish are for the general health of coral reefs, specifically because they help to control algal growth and promote coral recruitment.

Moving «is a key career decision that can potentially play an important role in the generation of scientific knowledge by allowing scientists [to] find environments where they are more effective in doing their research,» writes Ina Ganguli, an assistant professor of economics at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, and a co-author on the paper, in an email to Science Careers.

The Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, the most important national research funder in Germany, and the Degussa - Hüls AG, a global chemistry corporation based at Marl, have recently jointly set up the Nanomaterials Priority Program involving seven German universities (see Next Wave report).

The research «really is novel and addresses an important societal question, especially given the growing interest in developing nuclear energy worldwide,» says Timothy Mousseau, a biologist at the University of South Carolina in Columbia who studies Chernobyl - area wildlife.

«It is important for us to orientate scientific research at Russian universities towards the development of technologies which are in demand in the real economy and to boost cooperation between business and higher education,» Putin said in an 8 April speech at Novosibirsk State Technical University.

It is important to remember that correlation does not imply causation,» says Garen Wintemute, the director of the Violence Prevention Research Program at the University of California, Davis (see «Firearms research: The gun fResearch Program at the University of California, Davis (see «Firearms research: The gun fresearch: The gun fighter).

Now researchers at Linnaeus University in Sweden and from the Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research (UFZ) have found an important finding to answer this question: Individual differences have a positive and stabilizing effect on the number of moths.

Our data shows that video gaming is quite an important factor that frequently leads to missed sleep for 67 percent of gamers,» said lead author and principal investigator Brandy M. Roane, PhD, assistant professor at the University of North Texas Health Science Center and director of the UNTHSC Sleep Research Lab.

Dr Bowman, Research Associate at Newcastle University's Institute of Cellular Medicine, said: «Newcastle University is pioneering research into ageing as it has long been thought that mitochondria play an important role in the ageing process, however the exact role has remained Research Associate at Newcastle University's Institute of Cellular Medicine, said: «Newcastle University is pioneering research into ageing as it has long been thought that mitochondria play an important role in the ageing process, however the exact role has remained research into ageing as it has long been thought that mitochondria play an important role in the ageing process, however the exact role has remained unclear.