Sentences with phrase «important public interest work»

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Engagement with stakeholders — including patent holders, research institutions, consumer advocates, public interest groups, and the general public — is also an important part of our work moving forward.

«It's sort of amazing that every time there are important positions in government they just happen to turn up with former staff of the governor,» said Blair Horner, legislative director for the New York Public Interest Research Group (who once worked for Cuomo).

Clearly this House will have an important role, especially if there is considerable secondary legislation that will need us to work together to provide effective scrutiny from all sides of the House, in the public interest.»

More important for his work, he adds, is that Mount Sinai's Office of Technology and Business Development is particularly supportive of patenting research, making his findings usable to the public and advertising them to companies that might be interested in the technology.

ISPRA, Italy — The landscape is familiar to science policy experts on both sides of the Atlantic: To address serious global problems and to take advantage of important future discoveries, they will have to work effectively with elected officials and members of the public who have complex and sometimes conflicting values and interests.

In this paper we report on work estimating the stability of value - added estimates of teacher effects, an important area of investigation given public interest in workforce policies that implicitly

In this paper we report on work estimating the stability of value - added estimates of teacher effects, an important area of investigation given public interest in workforce policies that implicitly assume effectiveness is a stable attribute within teachers.

Urge Congress to retain Public Service Loan Forgiveness in its current form so dedicated public interest attorneys can afford to continue their important work serving low - income clPublic Service Loan Forgiveness in its current form so dedicated public interest attorneys can afford to continue their important work serving low - income clpublic interest attorneys can afford to continue their important work serving low - income clients.

For this special occasion we have selected with Pilar Ordovás a group of works which are all closely related with Chillida's interest in public art and, therefore themes such as scale - in particular the human scale, which is always an important reference in his work, making his sculptures monumental regardless of their size.

Chief curator Alexander, whose job it was to consider and select artists whose work represents important art historical moments captured by the Walker collection as well as some recent purchases that foreshadow areas of possible growth, said: «I was interested in enabling a public vote and taking advantage of the natural impulse people have when encountering art to form an opinion.»

Decreed a Civil Society Organization of Public Interest, Inhotim offers, in addition to these areas of artistic enjoyment and entertainment, environmental research work, educational actions and an important program of social inclusion and citizenship for the local population.

Larger works are made in community, notably in «sewing circles,» public events by which anyone with time and interest can participate, and in which the fellowship and storytelling around the table can be more important than the resulting object.

Public interest work can allow you to achieve greater goals beyond earning a paycheck, such as working to effect societal change, supporting an important public cause, or providing equal access to justice for needy individuals and organizaPublic interest work can allow you to achieve greater goals beyond earning a paycheck, such as working to effect societal change, supporting an important public cause, or providing equal access to justice for needy individuals and organizapublic cause, or providing equal access to justice for needy individuals and organizations.

He called attention to the fact that public attorneys who represent the liberty interests and rights of the Commonwealth's indigent do not make nearly as much as Executive Branch attorneys who do important work, but who do not face the same burdens and complications as public defenders, especially risking a client's freedom.

Today at the Centre for Public Law, we kicked off a new series of seminars, New Faces in Public Law, designed to bring to the Faculty emerging scholars who have produced interesting work on important issues of publiPublic Law, we kicked off a new series of seminars, New Faces in Public Law, designed to bring to the Faculty emerging scholars who have produced interesting work on important issues of publiPublic Law, designed to bring to the Faculty emerging scholars who have produced interesting work on important issues of publicpublic law.

The mass media can play an important role in providing health information and related issues for parents and caregivers.10 However, adolescents are typically portrayed in the media as hostile, violent, delinquent, alienated from parents and families, and resistant to any assistance.3, 51,52 In news and television coverage, content analyses found that adolescents are depicted as perpetrators or victims of crime and violence, problem - ridden and disruptive.51, 52 In addition to the mass media images, public attitudes towards adolescents are predominately negative.51 A population approach to build a climate of public interest and responsiveness will require actively working towards counteracting the predominantly negative media coverage of adolescents.3 Media messages can raise parents» awareness and willingness to attend parenting programmes by normalizing their experiences of receiving professional support.