Sentences with phrase «leading university sector»

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Led by Vivek Wadhwa, who holds titles at Stanford and Duke universities, and Lesa Mitchell, a vice president at the Kauffman Foundation, the report «Women in Technology: Evolving, Ready to Save the World» draws on responses to an online survey from 500 women in the tech sector (inside and outside the U.S.) and is scheduled to be published this spring.

«Our study suggests that the less - educated are dropping out of the American religious sector, similarly to the way in which they have dropped out of the American labor market,» said W. Bradford Wilcox, a professor of sociology at the University of Virginia, who was lead researcher on the project.

One of the UK's leading retailers is teaming up with a veterinary university to target developments in both animal welfare and product innovation that it says may benefit the country's dairy sector.

«The greatest city on earth, a great jiving funkapolitan melting - pot... And that's why we lead in all those creative and cultural sectors and that's why we have the best universities, because the best minds from across the world are meeting in some of the best pubs and bars and nightclubs like subatomic particles colliding in a cyclotron.»

The University of Birmingham established a Policy Commission on the Distribution of Wealth in September of last year to bring leading figures from the public, private and third sectors together with Birmingham academics to generate new thinking on this issue.

Leading figures in the health sector were honoured by the University of West London's (UWL) College of Nursing, Midwifery and Healthcare on Thursday 23 July.

The University of Birmingham will lead a new Third Sector Research Centre dedicated to analysing the impact of the sector's activities.

The study, published in the September issue of Annals of Surgery online, shows that providing pricing information upfront can influence patient choice of surgical procedures and potentially lead to cost savings in health care, a sector of the economy that accounts for more than 17 percent of the U.S. Gross Domestic Product, says Eric R. Scaife, M.D., senior author, associate professor of surgery and chief of pediatric surgery at the University of Utah (U of U) School of Medicine.

Lead author Professor Marian Rizov from Lincoln International Business School at the University of Lincoln, said: «Our findings offer compelling evidence that increasing wages for the lowest paid workers improves productivity, and that this effect applies in companies of all sizes and across most low - paying sectors.

The study was made possible by a pioneering collaboration with the agricultural and food manufacturing sector developed by Richard Bruce, a co-author of the paper and Business Engagement Lead for the Grantham Centre for Sustainable Futures at the University of Sheffield.

Joanna Lewis, an associate professor of science, technology and international affairs at Georgetown University's Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service, said China's wind power sector has also been aided by a steep decline in manufacturing and installation costs, as well as the establishment of a robust domestic supply chain, led by the nation's industry leader, Goldwind.

Lead author Dr Robert Holland, also from the University's Centre for Biological Sciences, said: «Based on mapping patterns of freshwater consumption associated with energy sectors at subnational scales, our analysis also reveals that pressure on freshwater resources associated with energy production happens in a number of freshwater scarce river basins globally.

Laws and regulations introduced in recent years to curb deficits and corruption in the public sector, in part under EU pressure, have led to Kafkaesque administrative and financial constraints for universities and research centers.

Lead author Dr Malcolm McMillan from the University of Leeds said: «We find that ice losses continue to be most pronounced along the fast - flowing ice streams of the Amundsen Sea sector, with thinning rates of between 4 and 8 metres per year near to the grounding lines of the Pine Island, Thwaites and Smith Glaciers.»

If doubling continues at this pace fossil fuels will exit the energy sector well before 2050,» says lead author Johan Rockström director of the Stockholm Resilience Centre, Stockholm University.

«These glaciers will keep retreating for decades and even centuries to come and we can't stop it,» said lead study author Eric Rignot, a glaciologist at the University of California, Irvine, and NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif. «A large sector of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet has passed the point of no return.»

Other Institutions also belong to the Campus: the University of Milan; Cogentech, an IFOM - IEO consortium committed to developing leading genomic technologies (nanotechnologies, proteomics, bioinformatics, disease models), the European School of Molecular Medicine (SEMM), that organizes training in emerging sectors of Biomedicine, offering the first European PhDs in Molecular Medicine, Medical Nanotechnologies, Foundations of the Life Sciences and their Ethical Consequences; Genextra, a biotech company whose mission is to develop new therapies against cancer and aging - related disease; Biopolo, a not for profit company involved in the technological transfer of basic research to the productive system.

Whether students plan to do research at universities or work in the private sector or public institutions, Mobilities & Urban Studies at Aalborg University offers a leading and international oriented academic education focused on mobilities - one of few in fact.

Six North Carolina municipalities (Chapel Hill, Durham, Raleigh, Winston - Salem, Cary, and Carrboro) and four leading research universities (Duke, NC State, UNC Chapel Hill, and Wake Forest / Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center) are working with businesses and the local Chambers of Commerce in the Research Triangle and Piedmont regions to encourage private sector providers to deliver ultra-fast bandwidth at highly affordable prices.

Additionally, through Roundtable meetings and informal networking opportunities, the roundtable has opened new communication channels between sectors, for example the Australian Research Council funded Project Young People, Technology, and Wellbeing Research Facility led by the University of Western Sydney and the recently established Cooperative Research Centre for Young People, Technology and Wellbeing.

Senator Birmingham said the independent review would be led by Emeritus Professor John Halsey of Flinders University and regional education needed to be looked at as a «complete puzzle» and not as separate school, higher education and training sectors.

The 25 universities involved, led by the University of Bath, range from sector leaders in business and computer science (UCL and Newcastle University) to experts in arts and design (University of the Arts) to specialists in widening participation and outreach (Open University and Birkbeck, University of London).

A Gatsby Scholar with a degree in Natural Sciences from the University of Cambridge, Matthew is a leading consultant in the education sector as well as in organisation design, performance management and leadership.

Particularly for school choice activists of a conservative or libertarian bent (including University of Arkansas» Jay P. Greene and Greg Forster at the Milton & Rose D. Friedman Foundation), thinking through these issues means challenging their own ideology — especially their misguided belief that choice alone will lead to improvements in school quality and serve as the best form of accountability — as well as their own financial concerns as members of a sector of American public education.

The new Leeds led research calls into question a recent study from the University of Bristol that reported 45 cubic kilometres per year increase in ice loss from the sector.

The Uni's Vice-Chancellor, Professor Stephen Parker, said he was «proud the University of Canberra is taking the lead in the higher education sector by discontinuing the sale of bottled water.

In the health and safety field he is the editor of a leading sector text book and a guest lecturer at the University of Derby.

Richard also leads on public sector procurement litigation and, he has acted on matters including, light and heavy rail, construction and development, university contracts, government contracts and contracts for the emergency services.

Other work includes advising Westminster City Council on the development and letting agreements for University Technical College, which included assisting in negotiations with Network Rail; advising the Borough of Haringey on the creation of a borough - wide housing investment vehicle with a private sector partner; and assisting the Homes and Communities Agency with various matters including the procurement of a development matter for the regeneration of a hospital, and assisting with the provision of Builders Finance Fund grant funding for recipients of various housing - led schemes.

The German automotive sector has famously benefited from the close links manufacturers have established with engineering faculties at the country's leading universities.

Study for a PhD with the UK's leading universities at the Wind and Marine Energy Research Centre and become qualified to contribute to this dynamic and fast growing sector.

Building on an ecological model that explains multiple levels of influence on psychological development, 16 and a recently proposed biodevelopmental framework that offers an integrated, science - based approach to coordinated, early childhood policy making and practice across sectors, 17 this technical report presents an EBD framework that draws on a recent report from the Center on the Developing Child at Harvard University to help physicians and policy makers think about how early childhood adversity can lead to lifelong impairments in learning, behavior, and both physical and mental health.1, 6

The sector's leading owners, developers, managers, lenders, brokers and university partners will be there — in short, the people with decision making authority.