Sentences with phrase «leading scholars at»

«This is real collaboration by the global church,» says P. Singh, a leading scholar at a respected Christian institution.

A leading scholar at the nexus of education and economics, he is also a research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research.

Tony Wagner, lead scholar at Harvard University's Innovation Lab and previously the first education fellow at the Technology and Entrepreneurship Center at Harvard, has written two books that discuss in depth the competencies that our students need.

Not exact matches

In addition to interviewing leading legal scholars and activists, like Angela Davis, DuVernay said she reviewed about 1,000 hours of archival footage, including of images of lynchings, cellphone videos of police abuse, and The Birth of a Nation, the 1915 D.W. Griffith film that glorified the Ku Klux Klan (and was screened at the White House for President Woodrow Wilson).

One of the most fortunate events in my life was to study under four brilliant economists at Stanford, who also formed my dissertation committee - Ronald McKinnon, an influential and original scholar in international economics; Thomas Sargent, a leading «rational expectations» theorist; John Taylor, also a «rational expectations» macroeconomist (currently serving in the Bush administration, and a leading candidate to succeed Alan Greenspan at the Fed, according to the Wall Street Journal), and Robert Hall, who heads the official Recession Dating Committee of the National Bureau of Economic Research.

Ahmad Khan was also involved in a controversy with the Christian missionaries which led him to write a commentary on the Bible, in which he showed that many Muslim religious scholars, such as Bukhari, did not believe that the words of the Old Testament and the New Testament had suffered from interpolation at the hands of the Jews and the Christians.

At a recent gathering hosted by The Samuel Bronfman Foundation, which asked precisely that question, just about the only thing the group of leading Jewish scholars, writers, rabbis, and professors could agree on was that there is no longer one story, narrative, or idea that could hold the totality or even a majority of Jews together.

Formerly the Regius Professor of Hebrew at Oxford and now the Distinguished Professor of Hebrew Bible Emeritus at Vanderbilt Divinity School, James Barr is surely one of the leading biblical scholars of the twentieth century.

When British historian Martin Gilbert died earlier this year at the age of seventy - eight, the world lost one of its leading scholars and a man of exceptional integrity.

From my experience of leading literally scores of ministers» conferences, however, I have become convinced that most American ministers — scholars though they may be — are functionalists at heart.

At a time when leading scholars in Germany, Italy, Britain, and North America have done so much to clear the good name of Pius XII, honoring his life - saving efforts, it is distressing to find such outdated and discredited allegations being promoted by the Levi Center.

While Ehrman is a leading New Testament scholar, he has also achieved acclaim at the popular level, authoring four New York Times bestsellers.

Fifty years on seems a good time to reflect on a movement which leading scholar Larry Eskridge estimates saw at least 250,000 people become Christians.

Second tale: Defying all the best previous research on how readily people change their opinions, a young PhD student in political science at a top research university teams up with a senior scholar in his field at another top school to publish a brief report in America's leading scholarly scientific journal that upends everything we thought we knew about the subject.

The seminar's faculty are leading scholars of American religious freedom: Daniel Dreisbach, constitutional scholar at American University and co-editor of the main text; Thomas S. Kidd, historian of American religion at Baylor University; and Gerald R. McDermott, theologian and scholar of religious history at Roanoke College.

This conclusion was soon accepted by a small and selected group of scholars in the sixteenth century and led Kepler to arrive at his exceptionally important three laws of planetary motion.

Reuchlin, the great Hebrew scholar (Luther had studied his Grammar for some years) had recently led a campaign against the burning of valuable Hebrew manuscripts and against a regular anti-semitic programme of the Dominican friars at Cologne, in the name of what they saw to be doctrinal orthodoxy.

The difficulty was that the liberal critical scholar was engaged at one and the same time in constructing a faith - image and reconstructing the historical image, the one as a believer and the other as a scholar, and this led to the confusion between these two tasks to which Schweitzer, in effect, pointed, and which was, indeed, unavoidable.

Occasional remarks are found such as «before there reigned any king over the children of Israel» (Genesis 36:31), which seem to imply that from the standpoint of the writer the monarchy had already been established; and «the Canaanite was then in the land» (Genesis 12:6, 13:7), which implied that it was being written after Hebrew occupation; and finally repeated instances of the use of the phrase «on the other side of the Jordan,» in reference to events occurring in the lifetime of Moses, which led scholars to doubt if Moses could have been the author at least of the whole of the Pentateuch.

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.

During Peter's time at Oxford, we have seen Peter off to the World University Championships to represent Great Britain which lead to becoming the 2012 - 2013 Blackwell scholar.

Yanran Li, PhD, a former postdoctoral scholar who's now an assistant professor of chemical and environmental engineering at the University of California - Irvine, and postdoctoral scholar Sijin Li, PhD, share lead authorship.

Gabriel Velez, an MD - PhD student at the University of Iowa and a visiting research scholar at Stanford, is the lead author.

The research was led by Professor Canbing Li of Hunan University in Changsha, China, who was a visiting scholar at CSIS.

But by the time of the war, many of these leading scholars had died, and during the war many promising Bosnian archaeology students fled, settling into permanent positions at universities abroad.

«A key unknown has always been whether we could find a way to convert their quantum states to light,» said David Christle, a postdoctoral scholar at the University of Chicago and lead author of the work.

«By the 30th day of culture, there were obvious clumps of fluorescent cells visible under the microscope,» says lead author Valentin Sluch, Ph.D., a former Johns Hopkins biochemistry, cellular and molecular biology student and now a postdoctoral scholar working at Novartis, a pharmaceutical company.

«What makes this study unique is the observation of thousands of galaxies in different filaments spanning a significant fraction of the age of the Universe» said Behnam Darvish a postdoctoral scholar at Caltech who is the lead author on the paper.

De Grummond, who has performed work at the site since 1983, is one of the nation's leading scholars of Etruscan studies.

«There has been a lot of debate about how expensive the Medicaid expansion would be and until now, it hadn't been clear which Americans had the potential to benefit from the added healthcare coverage in states that participate,» says lead author Tammy Chang, M.D., MPH, MS, an assistant professor in the department of family medicine at the U-M Medical School and an alumnus of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Clinical Scholars Program.

«Over the last decade, geneticists have identified hundreds of genetic risk factors for several human diseases, but the functional consequences of those factors on relevant cells are largely unknown,» said Towfique Raj, PhD, BWH Department of Neurology and a postdoctoral scholar at the Broad Institute, lead study author.

«Understanding the development of disparities in working memory has implications for education,» according to Daniel A. Hackman, a postdoctoral scholar at the University of Pittsburgh who led the study when he was a graduate student at the University of Pennsylvania.

«These damselfish pick up urchins and move them off the coral with their mouths,» said Cramer, a postdoctoral scholar at Scripps and lead author of the study.

Science chatted with Jan Zalasiewicz, a paleontologist at the University of Leicester in the United Kingdom and a leading scholar on the Anthropocene, about the kinds of things humans are leaving behind — and what they'll look like millions of years hence.

«I think this would have been useful evidence in the original NAGPRA decision and might have led to a different result,» says Hank Greely, a legal scholar at Stanford University in California.

«We don't really know the future of forests in a changing climate,» said lead author William Anderegg, an associate research scholar in the Princeton Environmental Institute and an incoming assistant professor of biology at the University of Utah.

As such, warming could increase or decrease the strength of «enemy release» depending on the organisms that exist in a given location,» says the study's lead author Samuel Fey, a visiting scholar at Dartmouth and a postdoctoral fellow at Yale University who recently received a Ph.D. from Dartmouth's Ecology and Evolutionary Biology program.

«The fact that we measured blood and CSF at the same time shows for the first time that there's a tight relationship between oxytocin levels in those two compartments [blood and CSF] and anxiety,» said the study's lead author, Dean Carson, PhD, postdoctoral scholar in psychiatry and behavioral sciences.

That's why it is important to report the victimizations to police,» says Shabbar I. Ranapurwala, lead author of the study and postdoctoral research scholar at the UI Injury Prevention Research Center.

«Making antibodies to get rid of pathogens is vital to frogs» ability to fend off disease,» said Tawnya Cary, a postdoctoral scholar at the Institute for Biology Education at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, and lead author of the study.

«This study is important,» said Libero who is now a post-doctoral scholar at the University of California - Davis MIND Institute (Medical Investigation of Neurodevelopmental Disorders), «because we found that different combinations of alterations in the brain could lead to the same or different levels of symptom severity.

Dr. Qiang (Quentin) Liu, a former student of Kelley's and a U. of I. medical scholar who now is at Dalian Medical University in China, led the study with his colleagues Weiwei Tao and Xi Luo.

In some instances, at age 18, the effect of long - term exposure to higher air pollution was larger than the effect of gaining 5 percent body weight, meaning air pollution is definitely a risk factor for diabetes, said Tanya Alderete, lead author of the study and a postdoctoral research scholar at the Keck School of Medicine.

The lead authors are former postdoctoral scholar Chethan Pandarinath, PhD, and postdoctoral scholar Paul Nuyujukian, MD, PhD, both of whom spent well over two years working full time on the project at Stanford.

«Increasing background ozone from rising Asian emissions leaves less room for local production of ozone before the federal standard is violated,» said lead author Meiyun Lin, a research scholar in the Program in Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences at Princeton University and a scientist at GFDL.

More research is needed because «looking at both psychological and biological responses to stress will lead to a more complete understanding of why we have the racial / ethnic achievement gap,» said study lead author, Dorainne Levy, who began the research while at Northwestern and is now a post-doctoral scholar at Indiana University.

«Noise has always been a big problem in almost all engineering applications including computing devices and communications,» says Vivek Kohar, postdoctoral research scholar at NC State and lead author of a paper describing the work.

«Although the initial research focused on biology classes, the DART method can be applied in almost any teaching situation,» said Melinda Owens, postdoctoral scholar and lecturer at SF State, one of three lead authors on the paper.

«Most importantly, our findings also showed a steep rise in the simultaneous occurrence of multiple drought types,» said lead author Deepthi Rajsekhar, a former postdoctoral scholar in Gorelick's lab now working at the California Department of Water Resources.

A study led by a Michigan State University scholar questions whether higher education ranking systems are creating competition simply for the sake of competition at a time when universities are struggling financially.