Sentences with phrase «in academic departments»

Vartouhi teaches widely in the UK and abroad in academic departments, the NHS and private psychiatric hospital settings as well as national and international congresses where she as actively taken part in lectures and workshops.
It is my sincere hope that other associations, serious about dealing with the lack of diversity in academic departments, will follow its lead.
Having experienced the loneliness of being one of only a very few minorities in an academic department, Inniss urges others seeking higher degrees to select their graduate programs very carefully.
I then moved into freelance editing and writing for similar publishers such as Pearson Education, Cengage Learning, Harper Collins ELT, and Macmillan Education, before taking a full - time work - from - home position as Project Manager in the Academic Department of Education First — a multinational company of language teaching schools who produce their own teaching materials.
In my academic department, our mantra is «you haven't really learned something until you've proven you can teach it to someone else.»
The successful candidate will conduct research relevant to one of the core themes of ERI - Natural Hazards, Human Impacts, Earth System Science, and Earth Evolution - and will hold a faculty appointment in an academic department that participates in ERI.
• Volunteer or work part - time in an academic department.
• Who are the professors in this academic department?

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The company, founded in 2009, has developed a large clientele of academic research institutions, space agencies, mining firms and defence departments for its signature yellow - and - black products, thanks in part to the fact that Clearpath robots don't need someone holding a remote control to operate them.
University and college deans, trade school directors, and faculty heads help establish the academic direction in their respective departments and allocate budgets.
The Fiduciary Rule and PTEs followed an extensive public rulemaking process in which the Department evaluated a large body of academic and empirical work on conflicts of interest, and determined that conflicted advice was causing harm to retirement investors.
To address the current and potentially explosive future of technology in the classroom, the U.S. Department of Education has released their plan, Future Ready Learning: Reimagining the Role of Technology in Education, which calls for improving teacher training in digital tools and how to leverage them to enhance their academic experience.
Viner argued that academic departments needed to encourage their students in broader intellectual fields since solving real world problems was likely to involve skills learned in several different disciplines.
Conservative academics Tom Flanagan, Barry Cooper, Ranier Knopff, David Bercuson, and former Alberta Finance Minister Ted Morton at the «Calgary School» in the University of Calgary Political Science department long ago made it their mission to drive the Conservative agenda in Canada.
Although the University has indeed placed several distinguished Christian scholars in endowed chairs, each academic department has a high degree of autonomy in making most hiring decisions.
Because there is only a small amount of academic literature on religious freedom (including virtually no mention of it in the four major academic human rights journals) the State Department should make a short - term commitment to provide seed funds to better understand the linkages between religious freedom, national economics, political development, and other fundamental liberties.
Behaviorism is the dominant orientation in most academic departments of psychology.
In order to get as much advanced standing as possible, I shamelessly bypassed the Yale admissions office, accepting the offer of Henri Peyre, the chairman of Yale's French department, that he accompany me on a visit to Dean De Vane, who presided over the academic affairs of the college.
Fortunately, there are a few Whiteheadian philosophers working in mainstream departments, and they do undertake to relate his thought to current developments in academic philosophy.
Nevertheless, because it was located within an academic department, it did little more than argue with others in that department against dualism and in favor of the relevance of scientific knowledge.
In a statement about the case, a spokesman for the Department for Education, said: «Schools are not allowed to remove pupils from sixth form because of academic attainment once they are enrolled.»
Thus there were two quite distinct styles of religious instruction on the campuses: disinterested, non-normative studies, conducted in a regular academic department, and ministerial studies based on an assumption of shared commitment, in marginal divinity schools.
When that failed, the department was both an academic liability (as the least scholarly unit in the university) and a financial one (as unlikely to attract endowment from any other source, and a possible obstacle to the university's ability to receive funds from the state and certain foundations).
«In Biblical Studies I can think of many key academics in university departments who are evangelical in their approach to scripture in ways that would have been difficult to think of 40 years ago,» he sayIn Biblical Studies I can think of many key academics in university departments who are evangelical in their approach to scripture in ways that would have been difficult to think of 40 years ago,» he sayin university departments who are evangelical in their approach to scripture in ways that would have been difficult to think of 40 years ago,» he sayin their approach to scripture in ways that would have been difficult to think of 40 years ago,» he sayin ways that would have been difficult to think of 40 years ago,» he says.
But why is «bringing the athletics department to heel» so much more important than establishing quality - control measures for the academic departments in order to prevent Notre Dame from becoming a post-Christian university?
It is only in terms of this broader context that a political theory's substance can hope to attain insights of greater breadth and validity than those of the myopia of academic «departments» or of the arbitrariness of de facto power.
Fox tells the story from beginning to end: childhood in the German - American parsonage; nine grades of school followed by three years in a denominational «college» that was not yet a college and three year's in Eden Seminary, with graduation at 21; a five - month pastorate due to his father's death; Yale Divinity School, where despite academic probation because he had no accredited degree, he earned the B.D. and M.A.; the Detroit pastorate (1915 - 1918) in which he encountered industrial America and the race problem; his growing reputation as lecturer and writer (especially for The Christian Century); the teaching career at Union Theological Seminary (1928 - 1960); marriage and family; the landmark books Moral Man and Immoral Society and The Nature and Destiny of Man; the founding of the Fellowship of Socialist Christians and its journal Radical Religion; the gradual move from Socialist to liberal Democratic politics, and from leader of the Fellowship of Reconciliation to critic of pacifism; the break with Charles Clayton Morrison's Christian Century and the inauguration of Christianity and Crisis; the founding of the Union for Democratic Action, then later of Americans for Democratic Action; participation in the ecumenical movement, especially the Oxford Conference and the Amsterdam Assembly; increasing friendship with government officials and service with George Kennan's policy - planning group in the State Department; the first stroke in 1952 and the subsequent struggles with ill health; retirement from Union in 1960, followed by short appointments at Harvard, at the Center for the Study of Democratic Institutions, and at Columbia's Institute of War and Peace Studies; intense suffering from ill health; and death in Stockbridge, Massachusetts, in 1971.
To name just four academics sympathetic to sociobiology at work in the biology departments of American universities: Timothy Goldsmith of Yale teaches a course called «Biological Roots of Human Nature»; William Zimmerman of Amherst teaches the «Evolutionary Biology of Human Social Behavior»; David Sloan Wilson (Department of Biology, SUNY «Binghamton) researches the evolutionary basis of human behavior; and Randy Thornhill at the University of New Mexico coauthored the infamous book on the evolution of rape.
The committee included an international group of academics with expertise in various aspects of food culture and gastronomy such as Joxe Mari Aizega, General Manager of Basque Culinary Center; Jorge Ruiz Carrascal, Professor of the Department of Food Science at the University of Copenhagen; Marta Miguel Castro, a Research Associate at the CIAL Institute of Research in Food Science, who studies how food components could prevent disorders such as diabetes and obesity; Melina Shannon Dipietro, executive director of Rene Redzepi's MAD project; and Dr F. Xavier Medina, author, social anthropologist and leading scholar of Food and Culture at the Universitat Oberta de Catalunya (UOC) in Barcelona.
Animal welfare advocates, farmers, academics and consumers are disappointed that the government department responsible for draft industry standards for poultry welfare released in late 2017 colluded with the industrial livestock industry before the release, and failed to meet expectations to phase out battery cages.
As for the academics thing, that's the kind of information that should be ingrained in the athletic department rather than just one football coach, because I doubt football is the only sport that may need to figure out how to get premiere athletes admitted to the school.
North Carolina Tar Heels athletes were directed by their academic advisers into questionable classes in the school's African and Afro - American Studies department, according to a special subcommittee report.
With the NCAA enforcement staff, our internal working group of University Counsel Leslie Strohm, Senior Associate Dean Jonathan Hartlyn, and former faculty athletics representative Jack Evans interviewed faculty and staff in the Department of African and Afro - American Studies, academic support counselors, and student - athletes who had taken multiple courses in the dDepartment of African and Afro - American Studies, academic support counselors, and student - athletes who had taken multiple courses in the departmentdepartment.
So, too, is the contention that no senior university employees had a clue that assistant academic coordinator Tony Russell parceled out more than $ 128,000 in fraudulent Pell Grants to 57 players from his athletic department office.
Investigators found that academic advisors steered athletes toward no - show classes in the African studies department, then prepared intricate research paper outlines for athletes to use.
Former U.S. Justice Department official Kenneth Wainstein led the investigation after the NCAA reopened the academic misconduct probe into the university in June, when new information became available.
She holds an academic / research appointment as Assistant Professor at UCLA in the Departments of Pediatrics, Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences.
In addition to almost two decades in the classroom, she has served as department chair, both academic and also grade level Dean, a parent and faculty educator, and a leader of curriculum reforIn addition to almost two decades in the classroom, she has served as department chair, both academic and also grade level Dean, a parent and faculty educator, and a leader of curriculum reforin the classroom, she has served as department chair, both academic and also grade level Dean, a parent and faculty educator, and a leader of curriculum reform.
Throughout my freshman and sophomore years, my academic advisors and upperclassmen friends recommended taking classes in different departments to enjoy the freedom before settling into a major.
In fact the authors point out that there are no studies of meditationamong children in a general school population that are designed well enough to meet the standards of the gatekeeping organizations — like CASEL (Collaborative for Academic, Social, and Emotional Learning), the Department of Education, or the Society for Prevention Research — that would endorse program changes in schoolIn fact the authors point out that there are no studies of meditationamong children in a general school population that are designed well enough to meet the standards of the gatekeeping organizations — like CASEL (Collaborative for Academic, Social, and Emotional Learning), the Department of Education, or the Society for Prevention Research — that would endorse program changes in schoolin a general school population that are designed well enough to meet the standards of the gatekeeping organizations — like CASEL (Collaborative for Academic, Social, and Emotional Learning), the Department of Education, or the Society for Prevention Research — that would endorse program changes in schoolin schools.
Individuals who may be eligible for this award include, but are not limited to: physicians, other allied health professionals, athletic directors, coaches, academic administrators such as principals, secretaries, department chairs, school deans, chief academic officers, and presidents of organizations that support Athletic Trainers, the Athletic Training profession in Wisconsin and / or the WATA.
Dr Paul Ramchandani — a researcher and clinical psychiatrist now based at the Academic Unit of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Department of Medicine, Imperial College London — led the study, which assessed father - infant interactions in the family home when the child was aged three months and compared them against the child's behaviour at the age of twelve months.
We thank Debbie Lawlor (Department of Social Medicine, University of Bristol, UK), Maarike Harro (Dept Public Health, University of Talin, Estonia), Karsten Froberg (Institute of Sports Science and Clinical Biomechanics, University of Southern Denmark), Caroline Fall and Clive Osmond (MRC Environmental Epidemiology Unit, University of Southampton, UK), and Anita Ravelli (Department of Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Academic Medical Centre Amsterdam, The Netherlands) for kindly providing unpublished data for inclusion in the review.
On Tuesday 25 February, the Department of Politics and International Relations hosted an event on the subject of «Academic Blogging: Political Analysis in the Digital Age».
During her many years of academic journey, Professor Opoku - Agyemang served in a number of important roles including Head of the English Department, Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Dean of the Schools of Graduate Studies and Research, all of the University of Cape Coast.
The Regents and the Department have taken an active role in East Ramapo to help improve the district's fiscal, academic and community affairs.
Meanwhile, polytechnics seeking to be converted into Technical Universities should have the following requirements: a) satisfy the existing norms, guidelines and requirements of the National Council for Tertiary Education and the National Accreditation Board for accreditation as a Technical University, b) offer a minimum of four Bachelor of Technology degree programmes in Science and Technology based disciplines c) have academic departments headed by at least a Senior Lecturer with a PhD and professional experience; and d) have at least three full - time lecturers with relevant research master's degree, at least one of whom shall have industry experience.
Briefings produced in 2010 by civil servants in the Department for Education (DfE) on the principle of whether or not Steiner schools should gain state funding through the Free Schools programme express serious concern about issues such as racism, systemic bullying, academic rigour, secrecy and whether or not the schools would be able to pass Ofsted inspections, the British Humanist Association (BHA) can today reveal.
NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio will close 14 New York City schools at the end of this academic year, nine of which are in the Renewal program for struggling schools, the Department of Education announced.
[178] In addition, the Career and Technical Education Department offers more than 20 academic programs, and is attended by about 6,000 students each year.
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