Sentences with phrase «in academic spaces»

In the end, de Novais ended up focusing more broadly and exploring the dynamics and possibilities of learning about race in academic spaces.

Another is that black girls are less likely to have their questions honored in academic spaces, and a classroom that doesn't recognize the innocence of a child can not truly understand the child's questions.

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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.

«It's a challenge to get from the academic lab into a full - scale manufacturing process, so we'd like to be that facilitator of technology in the control - release space,» Flynn says.

The new design school will increase the academic space at Kwantlen's Richmond campus by 124 per cent and offer a bachelor's degree in technical apparel «to provide training for future leaders and entrepreneurs in the performance and technical apparel and product sectors,» said Kwantlen president and vice-chancellor Alan Davis.

As organizations continue to raise tens, sometimes hundreds, of millions of dollars in each token sale, it grows increasingly important for industry leaders, lawyers, policymakers, and academics to understand both the ICO regulatory landscape and the economic and technological attributes of the cryptocurrency and ICO space.

The ATX Aging & Innovation Summit will include entrepreneurs, academics, practitioners and investors who will talk about trends and showcase some of the most significant innovations in the aging / tech space.

It was shortly after the housing crisis, when in October of 2008, Satoshi Nakamoto released an academic «White paper», titled, «Bitcoin: A Peer - to - Peer Electronic Cash System», to a small cryptographic community's web space.

For example, referring to the «institutional field of cultural production» that «rapidly and radically transformed... the rigid dichotomy between «high» and «low» «(for academics like Professor Rainey, dichotomies are always «rigid» and high art always needs scare quotes), he tells us that «Modernism's ambiguous achievement... was to probe the interstices dividing that variegated field and to forge within it a strange and unprecedented space for cultural production, one that did indeed entail a certain retreat from the domain of public culture, but one that also continued to overlap and intersect with the public realm in a variety of contradictory ways.»

While formal analysis opened up a space for the academic study of religion and art, the project soon sought and found more congenial theoretical underpinnings in hermeneutics.

In the same way that responsive parenting in early childhood creates a kind of mental space where a child's first tentative steps toward intellectual learning can take place, so do the right kind of messages from teachers in school create a mental space that allows a student to engage in more advanced and demanding academic learninIn the same way that responsive parenting in early childhood creates a kind of mental space where a child's first tentative steps toward intellectual learning can take place, so do the right kind of messages from teachers in school create a mental space that allows a student to engage in more advanced and demanding academic learninin early childhood creates a kind of mental space where a child's first tentative steps toward intellectual learning can take place, so do the right kind of messages from teachers in school create a mental space that allows a student to engage in more advanced and demanding academic learninin school create a mental space that allows a student to engage in more advanced and demanding academic learninin more advanced and demanding academic learning.

Other factors that have led to a decrease in free play time include an emphasis on academic preparation, electronic media replacing playtime, less time spent playing outdoors, perceived risk of play environments, and limited access to outdoor play spaces.

There aren't many academics blogging in political spaces... it doesn't seem to me a space that, say, the next Andrew Gamble or the next Stuart White is yet using all that much.

There is often excellent blogging in more specialist spaces - academic, scientific, liberties / legal, environmental - which sometimes the political blogs pick up on, but there isn't that much linkage, and there might sometimes be some value in thinking specifically about the linking spaces.

It has been widely shown in academic studies that newly - created urban road space fills up remarkably quickly, leaving motorists no better off.

This commitment to improving SUNY Cortland's academic spaces resulted in state funding for the College's three - story education building and Child Care Center, the development of the Professional Studies Building and the renovation and expansion of the Bowers Hall science complex.

Pillinger was also instrumental in persuading both UK academic organisations and private companies to invest in the project and, in so doing, creating a huge public awareness and enthusiasm for space research.

On topic questions included: what defines a «community school», whether community schools are only located in low - income neighborhoods, whether there is a plan to extend universal pre-K to three year olds, how much more expensive community schools are to operate than «regular» schools, why was the UFT not at this announcement, whether academic gains are expected from community schools and how will such gains be measured, what programs are added to «regular» schools as they are converted into «community» schools, potential changes to the admissions process for specialized high schools and whether the seats announced today are new programs or new spaces.

Home to top ranking academic institutions, over a million square feet of move - in ready space and more than 50 state, county and city parks, Syracuse and Onondaga County are rich in resources for business and for life.

«From the beginning, our focus has been to achieve an outcome that will meet the university's academic space needs in a way that will keep NYU strong... while addressing the concerns of our neighbors,» Beckman said in a statement.

Newly offered instrumentation, apparatus, and laboratory materials of interest to researchers in all disciplines in academic, industrial, and governmental organizations are featured in this space.

In the brief space available I've only been able to touch on a very few of the career areas most closely related to academic research.

The failure to diversify the faculties and student populations in most earth and space science departments suggests that there may be prohibitive barriers, inappropriate pedagogical practices, or insensitive policies that make the academic environment unattractive to underrepresented groups.

Angie Bukley is dean and vice president for academic affairs at the International Space University (ISU) in Strasbourg, France.

One prerequisite to independence is an academic position that provides the space, freedom, and employment stability necessary to engage in independent research and to build a research team.

«It's the academic space we'll find ourselves in more often in future.»

Academic: includes lectures by international leaders in the different fields of science diplomacy (energy, environment, climate, water, global health, nuclear nonproliferation, space, etc.), exclusive online learning tools, interactive case studies, and experiential learning through role - playing exercises and simulations.

The project «got a lot of criticism from academics who showed that the approach wasn't going to work unless the face of the detector in space was as long as a football field,» says Philip Coyle, the Pentagon's former top technology tester and a senior adviser to the Center for Defense Information.

Fellows can take up their fellowship at any academic institution in Scotland, provided that institution is willing to offer them space.

NASA has issued Exploration Habitat (X-Hab) Academic Innovation Challenges for the past six years, with tasks ranging from studying how to best grow food in space to designing a better air lock.

Unlike schools, which grow increasingly segregated and involve more individual instruction as children grow older, afterschool programs are spaces where instructors, often similar to the students in age and background, can facilitate diverse, productive interactions that help youth reach social and academic goals.

Throughout the academic year, the graduate and undergraduate student teams worked to meet a series of milestones to develop systems and concepts that could be used in future deep - space habitats.

The Netherlands Genomics Initiative (NGI) had put real effort into making some space for young researchers in this year's Genomics Momentum, which each year welcomes a wealth of international academic, industrial, and governmental people working in genomics.

In contrast, academic research at first glance appears to be «undirected» given the space it leaves, or at least left until recently, for scientists to exercise their imaginations.

«It validates our approach, which strives to move technologies into the clinical space much faster than would be possible in a traditional academic environment.

In academic research we are a «significant player in the European Space Agency science programme,» with a key role in a large number of areas, including earth observation, planetary exploration, and studies of the suIn academic research we are a «significant player in the European Space Agency science programme,» with a key role in a large number of areas, including earth observation, planetary exploration, and studies of the suin the European Space Agency science programme,» with a key role in a large number of areas, including earth observation, planetary exploration, and studies of the suin a large number of areas, including earth observation, planetary exploration, and studies of the sun.

The Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC, www.stfc.ac.uk) is keeping the UK at the forefront of international science and has a broad science portfolio and works with the academic and industrial communities to share its expertise in materials science, space and ground - based astronomy technologies, laser science, microelectronics, wafer scale manufacturing, particle and nuclear physics, alternative energy production, radio communications and radar.

«I hope that... the standards in the forensics space will be informed by innovations in the academic labs,» says Cris Hughes, a University of Illinois forensic anthropologist who also works as deputy forensic anthropologist at the Champaign County Coroner's Office.

The reopening of the Johnson Space Center Sept. 5 is an invitation to reconsider — and improve — the academic quality of education in Houston in general.

The Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC, http://www.stfc.ac.uk) is keeping the UK at the forefront of international science and has a broad science portfolio and works with the academic and industrial communities to share its expertise in materials science, space and ground - based astronomy technologies, laser science, microelectronics, wafer scale manufacturing, particle and nuclear physics, alternative energy production, radio communications and radar.

LOS ALAMOS, N.M., April 11, 2016 — Space scientist Roger Wiens was awarded the honorary title of chevalier (knight) in France's Academic Order of Palms for his work in forging strong ties between the French and American scientific communities.

McComas, who earned a bachelor's degree in physics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a Ph.D. in geophysics and space physics from the University of California - Los Angeles, continues to be engaged in the academic setting.

Over the course of several years, the CRI Cancer Immunotherapy Consortium (CIC), a group of 100 academic and industry partners in the cancer immunotherapy space, has worked with a broad and diverse network of immunologists, drug developers, and regulatory agency representatives to establish a new paradigm for clinical development and evaluation of cancer immunotherapies.

The Graphene Flagship aims at bringing together academic and industrial researchers to take graphene from the realm of academic laboratories into European society in the space of 10 years, thus generating economic growth, new jobs and new opportunities.

During his tenure, he oversaw a significant enrollment increase, the implementation of six new academic programs, the acquisition of over $ 3.5 million in grants and donations, the building and refurbishing of key academic spaces, created an office of Institutional Research and Effectiveness, Teaching and Learning Center, and revitalized the Honors Program and Debate Team.

In the postsecondary space, the Gates Foundation made a number of grants — both directly and through NGLC — to intriguing ventures with the potential to improve education dramatically, including some of my disruptive favorites: start - up MyCollege Foundation, which will establish a non-profit college that blends adaptive online learning solutions with other services at a low cost; University of the People, the world's first tuition - free, non-profit, online academic institution dedicated to opening access to higher education globally; New Charter University, a competency - based university that charges only $ 199 per month for students seeking a degree and for which NGLC will fund a research study of its online students and a comparative one of students enrolled in a blended - learning environment delivered through a partnership with the Community College of the District of Columbia; Southern New Hampshire University, which under its President Paul LeBlanc has already created an autonomous online division and will now pioneer the «Pathways Project,» which will offer a self - paced and student - centric associates degree; and MIT, which will use the funds to create a free prototype computer science online course for edIn the postsecondary space, the Gates Foundation made a number of grants — both directly and through NGLC — to intriguing ventures with the potential to improve education dramatically, including some of my disruptive favorites: start - up MyCollege Foundation, which will establish a non-profit college that blends adaptive online learning solutions with other services at a low cost; University of the People, the world's first tuition - free, non-profit, online academic institution dedicated to opening access to higher education globally; New Charter University, a competency - based university that charges only $ 199 per month for students seeking a degree and for which NGLC will fund a research study of its online students and a comparative one of students enrolled in a blended - learning environment delivered through a partnership with the Community College of the District of Columbia; Southern New Hampshire University, which under its President Paul LeBlanc has already created an autonomous online division and will now pioneer the «Pathways Project,» which will offer a self - paced and student - centric associates degree; and MIT, which will use the funds to create a free prototype computer science online course for edin a blended - learning environment delivered through a partnership with the Community College of the District of Columbia; Southern New Hampshire University, which under its President Paul LeBlanc has already created an autonomous online division and will now pioneer the «Pathways Project,» which will offer a self - paced and student - centric associates degree; and MIT, which will use the funds to create a free prototype computer science online course for edX.

With a mission of «high - performing public schools, inside and out,» EdBuild sought to provide both facilities renovations and academic support to a group of low - performing schools in the District of Columbia, with a vision of eventually taking on a large swath of D.C. schools and creating space that could be used flexibly by both traditional district and charter schools.

«It's evident that parents value a school's academic performance, but many are also interested in life at the school, the space in which their children will be studying, and more importantly what is being done to motivate them internally.

Valor believes that the resulting culture provides a safe space for academic risk taking — students have to «feel comfortable being OK that they don't know everything» in order to learn, explains Todd Dickson.

Standardising practice in core academic areas also creates more space to systematically innovate where the evidence isn't strong, including how to help young Australians develop broader skills for a changing world.