Sentences with phrase «leading a program like»

That's why kid - led programs like H5H (as well as Catalyst, a teen - to - teen advocacy program in Minnesota I once featured here) are a promising means of spreading the word about healthful eating.

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The University of Toronto Master's of Public Policy (MPP) program allows second - year students to spend a semester at leading partner schools, like the Paris School of International Affairs, the Hertie School of Governance in Berlin, and the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy in Singapore.

What to do: Lean into the ADD by creating formal rotation programs, innovative leading - edge training programs like the one at Zappos, and work environments that leverage social media interactions instead of discouraging them, and you'll see these Millennials become just as loyal as we were «back in the day.»

He realized that the closed - off nature of computing systems and gaming consoles had led to a generation of kids who like computers but had no idea how to program them.

While companies like Google and Microsoft have been vocal in supporting the visa program, other organizations have been accused of abusing the system, leading to calls to reform it.

This obsession with metrics has led to initiatives like affirmative action hiring programs set up by some of the biggest names in tech, which, unfortunately, have failed to perform as hoped.

The program, which allowed employees to spend one day a week on creative side projects, led to the creation of signature Google products like Gmail and AdSense.

A tough recruiting environment after a controversial war led the military to lower entrance standards again in the late 2000s — and while it's too early to tell, programs like the one I worked for may be seeing more Charlie # 1s in the coming years.

It's also what's led the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) to reimburse prevention programs like Omada's Prevent.

That's leading to consolidation, says Hochberg, and programs like TechStars where a variety of backers get together under one model.

Second, in a place like Boston that's frequently subject to terrible weather, the program led to healthy gains in productivity, as employees no longer had to battle snow and ice to get to work.

He recently led the growth and launches of the Techstars vertical accelerator programs like Sprint (Mobile Health), R / GA (Connected Devices / IoT), Barclays (FinTech), Nike (Digital Health and Sport), Disney (Entertainment and Content) and others.

«It is encouraging to see corporations like Fidelity support diversity in education,» said Bernard J. Milano, President of the KPMG Foundation, the founder and lead sponsor of the program.

The project included identifying companies, like American Express, that demonstrate a strong and genuine commitment to diversity, interviewing leading diversity experts, including Bernard Anderson, Wharton practice professor of management, on the characteristics of an effective diversity program, and looking at which companies are doing the best at meeting certain standards and why.

Finally, Middle East / Africa presents a unique mix of new and old methods of interacting with loyalty programs, with countries like Pakistan leading the charge in mobile integration.

Spelled out in a lengthy lead editorial entitled «Evangelicals in the Social Struggle,» as well as in books such as Aspects of Christian Social Ethics, Henry's understanding of Christian social responsibility stressed (a) society's need for the spiritual regeneration of all men and women, (b) an interim social program of humanitarian care, ethical proclamation, and personal, structural application, and (c) a theory of limited government centering on certain «freedom rights,» e. g., the rights to public property, free speech, and so on.18 Though the shape of this social ethic thus closely parallels that of the present editorial position of Moody Monthly, it must be distinguished from its counterpart by the time period involved (it pushed others like Moody Monthly into a more active involvement in the social arena), by the intensity of its commitment to social responsibility, by the sophistication of its insight into political theory and practice, and by its willingness to offer structural critique on the American political system.

At Phulay Bay, Gares will manage six diverse restaurants, oversee the property's organic garden, spearhead the resort's signature «Dining Beyond» personal culinary guest experience, and lead unique hands - on activities like cooking lessons, tasting tables, the Petit Chef program for kids, and guided morning tours of the local market and fish farm.

It's also fair to note that Chronister has really only been tagged a few times in her career, but that a couple of them have led to losses — and for a program that loses like 10 games a year, those losses stand out more.

This myopic, «nutritionism» approach led to some truly bizarre results, like the regular inclusion of animal crackers (aka, cookies) in our school breakfast program, added to meet the USDA iron requirement via their fortified white flour.

The PATH Program provides extraordinary support and resources for leading - edge parents, like you, in the art of parenting based on Partnership, Authenticity, Trust, and Heart.

Our programs ensure that more children will grow up with nurturing fathers, leading to multiple positive outcomes for the whole family — and this depends almost entirely on the generosity of supporters like you.

Through studies like the Milk Bioactives Program at University of California at Davis, more is learned about the interaction between breast milk sugars and specific bacteria that can lead to better probiotic and prebiotic formulas and improve infant health.

Companies like his can help, he said, but the state needs to take the lead in persuading more doctors to enroll in the program, which advocates say can offer patients more effective, cheaper and less addictive alternatives than opioids.

According to the report, the de Blasio administration is already taking steps to implement many of its recommendations, like having a program manager lead all large - scale technology projects, and having a so - called independent integrity monitor, which the city is now in the process of hiring.

If New York had continued to implement a very flawed Secure Communities program throughout the state, and especially in New York City, it would have led to the routine separation of immigrant families as well as the widespread distrust of law enforcement in immigrant communities throughout the state, creating a public safety crisis for communities like the ones we represent.

Justine Dodds is a housing specialist who runs the city's housing rehabilitation program, which helps homeowners make code - related repairs like installing roofs and abating lead paint.

Here in our region, the Adirondack Park Invasive Plant Program has taken the lead, and works with groups like the Nature Conservancy, the Adirondack Watershed Institute at Paul Smith's College and Lake George Land Conservancy.

Representative Paul D. Ryan, chairman of the House Budget Committee and a leading proponent of cutting spending on benefit programs like Medicare, said the proposal would weigh heavily on a stagnating economy.

I am eagerly looking forward to continuing to lead the fight for toll relief, and to work on important issues like prescription drug abuse and the heroin epidemic and the education tax credit, which expands scholarship and programming opportunities.

Starting in April, Brown and KickStart Assistant Director Andrew Kant have organized a volunteer - led program called ideaCRUNCH that schedules informal monthly meetings during which graduate and professional students interested in entrepreneurship can learn about research commercialization and network with like - minded people.

According to a 2013 study of California farmers, factors like exposure to extreme weather events and perceived changes in water availability made farmers more likely to believe in climate change, while negative experiences with environmental policies can make farmers less likely to believe that climate change is occurring, said Meredith Niles, a postdoctoral research fellow at Harvard's Sustainability Science Program and lead author of the study.

Rosenfeld also led advocacy in California to establish building codes, appliance standards and utility programs like «decoupling.»

«When most people think about cancer genetics, they think about single key mutations that foster tumor formation — very specific things like the BRCA genes,» said Joe R. Delaney, PhD, a fellow in the Clinical Translation program at UC San Diego Moores Cancer Center and lead author of the paper published February 15 in Nature Communications.

Low - profile platoons like Stewart's, deployed by the military's Agribusiness Development Team (ADT) program, are part of the U.S. - led military coalition's counterinsurgency strategy, which aims to coax Afghans to rely on their government rather than the Taliban.»

That desire of balance lead the program's creators to avoid terms like «climate change» or «global warming» in lesson plans, Rowe said, «which would have sent a biased point of view.»

As former lead of the World Bank's global program for fisheries and aquaculture, he said these indicators could be very useful for institutions like the World Bank, the U.S. Agency for International Development, and nongovernmental organizations that fund projects on fisheries reform in developing countries to monitor and evaluate progress.

Zon and Kaufman believe that their findings could lead to a new genetic test for suspicious moles to see whether the cells are behaving like neural crest cells, indicating that the stem - cell program has been turned on.

«Historically, we are programmed to pay attention to what can harm us,» Lowe explains, adding that this innate fear, along with exaggerations about what sharks are like — primarily coming from mainstream media and Hollywood — have led us to harbor aversions and even phobias toward the animals.

«The collaborations that the Wyss Institute enables and nurtures between disparate fields, like mechanical engineering and molecular biology, foster new approaches to old problems that can lead to truly paradigm - shifting results,» says Donald Ingber, M.D. Ph.D., the Founding Director of the Wyss Institute and the Judah Folkman Professor of Vascular Biology at Harvard Medical School and the Vascular Biology Program at Boston Children's Hospital, who is also a Professor of Bioengineering at the Harvard Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS).

But Itzhak Fried, the neurosurgeon who implanted the electrodes in Danny's brain and who leads this UCLA research program, believes he has found «thinking cells» in the brains of subjects like Danny.

With the party backing the program, provincial governments dove in, setting targets for the number of recipients they would attract and starting competitive local programs like the Leading Talent award.

The programs that included blood pressure monitoring kits, blood pressure checks during activities like walking clubs and cooking classes and volunteers who led activities had the best results.

Toward that end, he led the development of the Rosetta computer program that predicts molecular design, and extended its reach with citizen science offshoots like Rosetta@Home and Foldit.

«While the results of this study are preliminary, they hold promise for enhancing and maintaining brain reserve in later life, particularly among sedentary individuals who may benefit most urgently from behavioral interventions like Experience Corps,» said Carlson, who is now leading a larger fMRI trial as part of a large - scale randomized trial of the Baltimore Experience Corps Program.

He leads a broad program of teaching and research that investigates how climate variability and climate change influence society and ecosystems like coral reefs.

We would now like to continue from there to foster the creation of internationally leading research programs.

Nye's engineering and management experience enabled him to take the lead and play a hands - on role in making programs like LightSail ® a success.

A prominent theme in today's report is a reminder that the fundamental tenet of the NWNH Decadal Survey is to maintain balance in NASA's astrophysics portfolio among large programs like WFIRST, smaller programs in the Explorer series, and the associated Research and Analysis (R&A) program «If implementing WFIRST / AFTA compromises the program balance then it is inconsistent with the rationale that led to the high priority ranking,» the Harrison committee warned.

While Phase I was conducted by a small «commando» - like team without formal internal structure, phase II, marked by a doubling of the number of I - Stem members in 2007 and another doubling in 2008, led to the organization of research teams, each responsible for developing a program and under the responsibility of a team leader.

Additionally, incorporating high and low intensity interval training into the program will provide a game - like situation, reduce risk of injury, and lead to better results.