Sentences with phrase «leading broader efforts»

The Chicago Board Options Exchange (CBOE) is also leading broader efforts to list bitcoin - based exchange - traded funds (ETFs), a move that could link crypto to a multi-trillion-dollar market, and one of the fastest growing to boot.

Environmental Defense Fund, Austin Energy and more than a dozen other stakeholders are leading a broader effort in Texas» capital city.

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Kushner, who had a broad portfolio in the White House, including leading Middle East peace negotiations and an effort to modernize and reduce the size of some government programs, lost his interim top - secret security clearance, two U.S. officials familiar with the matter said on Tuesday.

The franchise operation is part of a broader effort to become the leading player in the commercial drone industry.

He paints in broad strokes and at times offers grotesque caricatures of American - led efforts to promote liberal values.

The White House is preparing to open a broad investigation into China's trade practices, amid growing worries in the United States over a Chinese government - led effort to make the country a global leader in microchips, electric cars and other crucial technologies of the future.

«Leading by example in making state buildings more energy efficient will save taxpayers money, create thousands of local jobs, and bolster New York's broader efforts to cut greenhouse gas emissions.

Trump plans to assign a New York billionaire, Stephan A. Feinberg, to lead a broad review of American intelligence agencies — an effort that members of the intelligence community fear could curtail their independence and reduce the flow of information that contradicts the president's worldview.

Studies have shown that smaller class sizes lead to better academic results for students and efforts to reduce class sizes have enjoyed broad support from city educators.

Efforts to undermine the Clean Water Act and other federal initiatives must be strongly opposed, and I have led the charge against legislative proposals to roll back important clean water protections that may benefit some special interests, but risk public health and will damage the broader U.S. economy.

That is why I have led a broad Senate effort to pass comprehensive legislation to enhance our nation's cyber security and give our government the tools it needs to prevent, deter, and respond to cyber attacks.

The committee also recommends that some future event attribution activities could be incorporated into an integrated weather - to - climate forecasting efforts on a broad range of timescales, with an ultimate goal of providing predictive risk - based forecasts of extreme events at lead times of days to seasons.

Despite these challenges, the authors were still able to emphasize broader trends in heavy metal accumulation in the Providence area, namely decreases in lead concentrations due in part to Environmental Protection Agency regulations but also to targeted remediation efforts in a historically active industrial area.

«This collaborative effort at the Wyss Institute has resulted in an entirely new innovation in the CRISPR / Cas9 field, one that could lead to entirely new ways to prevent and treat a broad range of diseases,» said Wyss Institute Founding Director Donald Ingber, M.D., Ph.D., who is also the Judah Folkman Professor of Vascular Biology at HMS and the Vascular Biology Program at Boston Children's Hospital, as well as Professor of Bioengineering at the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences.

Researchers leading the largest genomic tumor profiling effort of its kind say such studies are technically feasible in a broad population of adult and pediatric patients with many different types of cancer, and that some patients can benefit by receiving precision drugs targeted to their tumors» mutations or being enrolled in clinical trials.

The Biophysical Society and the ASCB are leading an effort with the support of the National Science Foundation to create an Alliance of Scientific Societies for Broad Participation in STEM to promote participation in STEM... Read more

As Director of Scientific Conferences and Engagement for the Wellcome Trust Genome Campus, Julian will be leading campus - wide efforts to communicate the technology and implications of genomics to scientists, clinicians, teachers, students and the broader public.

Under the direction of Matthew Meyerson, Strathdee leads a group responsible for validating and prosecuting drug targets that have emerged from the Broad Institute's comprehensive oncogenomics efforts.

IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY Sarah Nusser is vice president for research at Iowa State University, leading efforts to develop transformative interdisciplinary research and support the broader research mission at Iowa State.

Toward that goal, he led institutional strategic planning activities, stewarded an $ 80M discretionary research portfolio, and promoted Laboratory - wide efforts to elevate PNNL's standing in the broader scientific community.

He led the Broad Institute's effort to analyze somatic DNA copy number alterations for The Cancer Genome Atlas (TCGA) and is now co-principal investigator of the Broad Institute's copy number Genome Data Analysis Center for the National Cancer Institute's Genomic Data Analysis Network (GDAN).

She also led the organization's efforts to become accredited, enabling Broad Residents to receive master's degrees.

Paula's efforts led her to join the inaugural class of what was then known as the Broad Superintendent Academy in 2002.

I started tonight with the great team that I work with, and we end on what will need to be another full team effort, a PACE drive, led by all of you, the broad leadership of UTLA, school by school, roster by roster, member by member.

These efforts will need to be led by a broad coalition of local leaders in and outside the district in order for improvement to outlast a particular superintendent or board configuration.

«Engaging Families» was part of the «Keeping Kids on Track» initiative, a broader effort by United Way to ensure that young people graduated from high school prepared to lead successful lives.

Bullying PLU / CEU — Collaborative effort of the ALSDE and Alabama Education Association (AEA): Closing Achievement Gaps through Community Conversations that Lead to Collective Action — The Community Conversation focuses on helping a broad cross-section of the community engage in a discussion about how all students can be free of bullying.

Best Western's regional marketing cooperatives led the effort to align the brand's new tagline and broad geographic distribution with the Centennial celebration.

This situation is what leads a growing call for a much broader energy quest, from the laboratory to the light socket, that starts with the «no brainers» delineated by many studies, particularly a McKinsey analysis of ways to cut energy waste, but also includes a direct, increased and sustained American investment in pushing the frontiers of knowledge on energy — and boosting efforts, from the classroom to the boardroom, to build the community of technological, financial and social innovators necessary to drive the needed change.

He is leading efforts to build a national Climate Impacts Collaborative and working with a broad array of stakeholders to focus the attention of policy makers and others on local climate impacts and the need for effective resilience strategies and policy solutions.

The letter, dubbed the «We Can Lead» campaign, is part of a broader effort lending support for passage of the legislation, even in the face of unprecedented lobbying from vested interests opposed to the bill (or any real action at all on climate and sustainable energy).

The finding of this research, which were subsequently published in the International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, led us to extend the partnership into broader efforts to organize the medical community to respond to climate change.

An ad hoc Task Force was convened in late 2009 to lead community activities to establish a long - term vision and provide the scientific framework of a modern effort for understanding the arctic system, with input and review from the broader community.

While Koch Industries has deployed its own lobbyists to compliment the effort, the brothers who lead the company have tapped into their broader national network to aid the fight against clean energy in Kansas.

Advocacy efforts led by SEIA and its allies, which included U.S. - based solar module manufacturers, utilities, a broad group of lawmakers, and conservative free - market groups such as American Legislative Exchange Council, «led to a decision we are not happy with, but does display restraint on behalf of the president,» Ross Hopper said.

In the period leading up to legalization, and thereafter on an ongoing basis, governments invest effort and resources in developing, implementing and evaluating broad, holistic prevention strategies to address the underlying risk factors and determinants of problematic cannabis use, such as mental illness and social marginalization

Broad responsibilities in flagship office included attracting and retaining talent, strengthening and growing existing client relationships, and leading new business efforts across brand and corporate practices.

• Coordinated effort between Development, QA, Production, DR, System, DBA, Production - support, Network Administration, Applications group and vendors for project completion ahead of schedule under budget • Incorporated new technologies with legacy systems to improve performance and reduce cost • Experienced in incorporating leading open source tools: nagios, mysql, tomcat, apache, wikis, etc. • Performed broad range of UNIX Systems, Net - Working and SAN Administration tasks for large financial and networking clients such as HSBC Bank USA, Deutsche Bank, Citi Group, ISO.com, GE Corporate Treasury, Globeop Financial Services, LLC., Sothebys.com, Church Pension Group, and Verizon Partners Solutions • Provided project leadership for managing technical resources, client / server issues, vendors, senior management reviews and hands - on technical expertise • Designed and deployed iPlanet Web / Directory server Architecture for the purpose of authentication and Widows 2000 active Directory compatibility • Prepared estimates and diagrams for the new secured Development Environment comprised of Cisco routers, local directors, hubs, Sun servers, firewalls for deployment, staging and production • Developed one to one disaster recovery using Bourne Shell scripting for Reuters» Kondor 3.0 on Solaris 8 • Minimized website down time through careful monitoring of Sotheby's Web Vision to Amazon by using FTP servers to manage high volume uploads which optimized online trading functionalities • Directed installation, configuration, and security of multiple online global auction sites • Automated operations, disk space monitoring, and backups using Bourne and Korn Shell scripting • Developed standard operating procedure for IP multi-pathing, Emulex LPFC, HBAs, EMC Power path, Navisphere, and installed JASS on new built servers

She currently leads BUILD's evaluation and documentation efforts conceptualizing, implementing and sharing results to inform BUILD's early childhood systems development work and the broader systems development field.

As Chair of Realogy's Women's Employee Resource Group, an enterprise - wide initiative focused on talent attraction, development and community, Yannaccone is leading a collaborative effort to elevate women not only within our organization but within the broader real estate services industry as well.