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BOSTON, March 28 - A member of a Harvard University oversight board made a rare public call for the school to divest itself from fossil fuel stocks, a move that shows continuing divisions on the issue as a new president takes over at the institution and its leading $ 37.1 billion endowment.

I learned to lead as a dean and as school president at the University of Toronto.

Whether you seek to become President of the United States, interview for a job, woo customers, lead a team, or run a university, your success may depend on your level of cultural sensitivity.

As Harvard university president, he made headlines for remarking that women might have an aptitudinal problem with math, one of a few controversies that led to his early resignation.

The company, led by CEO Richard Levin, former president of Yale University, has also recently established partnerships with a number of governments and nonprofit organizations to bring education to those in the greatest need.

Ayah Bdeir, Founder / CEO, Little Bits Piraye Beim, Founder / CEO, Celmatix Marc Bodnick, Co-Founder, Elevation Partners John Borthwick, Founder / CEO, Betaworks Matt Brezina, Co-Founder, Sincerely and Xobni Stacy Brown - Philpot, CEO, TaskRabbit Brad Burnham, Managing Partner, Union Square Ventures Stewart Butterfield, Co - Founder / CEO, Slack Troy Carter, Founder / CEO, Atom Factory Sukhinder Singh Cassidy, Founder / CEO, Joyus Vint Cerf, Internet Pioneer Amy Chang, Founder / CEO, Accompany Aneesh Chopra, President, NavHealth; Former US CTO Patrick Chung, General Partner, Xfund Tod Cohen, General Counsel, StubHub Stephen DeBerry, Founder / Managing Partner, Bronze Investments Peter Diamandis, Entrepreneur; Author, Abundance and BOLD Barry Diller, Chairman, Expedia and IAC Esther Dyson, Executive Founder, Way to Wellville; Investor Amy Errett, Founder / CEO, Madison Reed Caterina Fake, Founder / CEO, Findery; Co-Founder, Flickr Christopher Farmer, Founder / CEO, SignalFire Brad Feld, Managing Director, Foundry Group; Co-Founder, Techstars Josh Felser, Co-Founder, Freestyle Capital & ClimateX Hajj Flemings, Founder / CEO, Brand Camp University Natalie Foster, Co-Founder, Peers David Grain, Founder / Managing Partner, Grain Management, LLC Brad Hargreaves, Founder / CEO, Common Donna Harris, Co - Founder / Co-CEO, 1776 Scott Heiferman, Co - Founder / CEO, Meetup David Hornik, General Partner, August Capital Terry Howerton, CEO, TechNexus Reed Hundt, Former Chair, FCC Minnie Ingersoll, COO, Shift Technologies Sami Inkinen, Founder / CEO, Virta Health; Co-Founder, Trulia Craig Isakow, Head of Revenue, Shift Technologies Rev. Jesse L. Jackson Sr., President and Founder, Rainbow PUSH Coalition Irwin Jacobs, Founding Chairman / CEO Emeritus, Qualcomm Inc Paul Jacobs, Executive Chairman, Qualcomm Inc Leila Janah, Founder / CEO, Sama & Laxmi Sujay Jaswa, Former CFO, Dropbox; Founder, Witt Capital Partners Mark Josephson, CEO, Bitly Sep Kamvar, Professor, MIT David Karp, Founder / CEO, Tumblr Jed Katz, Managing Director, Javelin Venture Partners Kim Keenan, President / CEO, Multicultural Media, Telecom & Internet Council Ben Keighran, Entrepreneur; Former Design Lead, Apple William Kennard, Former Chair, FCC Vinod Khosla, Founder, Khosla Ventures; Co-Founder, SUN Microsystems Ron Klain, Executive Vice President, Revolution LLC Walter Kortschak, Former Managing Partner and Senior Advisor, Summit Partners Jared Kopf, Founder AdRoll, HomeRun, Worldly Joseph Kopser, Co-Founder, Ridescout Karen Kornbluh, Former US Ambassador, OECD Othman Laraki, Co - Founder / President, Color Genomics Miles Lasater, Serial Entrepreneur Jeff Lawson, CEO, Twilio Aileen Lee, Founder / Managing Partner, Cowboy Ventures Bobby Lent, Managing Partner, Hillsven Capital Aaron Levie, Co - Founder / CEO, Box John Lilly, Partner, Greylock Partners Bruce Lincoln, Co-Founder, Silicon Harlem Ruth Livier, President, Livier Productions, Inc..

Moderator: Dr. David Wheeler, President, Cape Breton University Panel: Dr. Mary Kilfoil, Academic Lead for the Starting Lean Initiative, Dalhousie University Calvin Milbury, President and CEO, New Brunswick Innovation Foundation Gerry Pond, Co-Founder, Mariner

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.

«In this role I talk to leading politicians and cabinet ministers, I talk to university presidents, and they are all keenly aware that we have a productivity issue in this country,» Porter said following the meeting.

Effective April 23, Mr. McKay will be joining Elizabeth Cannon, President of the University of Calgary, and Anne Sado, President of George Brown College, in leading BHER.

Carlos Campo is president of Ashland University and leads the educational arm of the National Hispanic Leadership Conference.

On Monday, I posted about a speech Egypt's president, Abdel Fattah el - Sisi, recently gave at Al Azhar University, the leading center of Islamic learning in the Sunni world.

Carlos Campo, Ashland University president Vincent Bacote, Wheaton University theology professor Kyle Duncan, former general counsel of the Becket Fund for Religious Liberty and lead counsel in the Hobby Lobby case Tom Farr, Religious Freedom Project at Georgetown University Kellie Fiedorek, Alliance Defending Freedom Wayne Grudem, Phoenix Seminary Chad Hatfield, St. Vladimir's Orthodox Seminary chancellor Thomas Kidd, Baylor University professor Daniel Mark, United States Commission on International Religious Freedom Michael McConnell, Stanford University Law School Doug Napier, Alliance Defending Freedom Samuel Rodriguez, National Hispanic Christian Leadership Conference president Meir Soloveichik, Yeshiva University Rick Warren, Saddleback Church Thomas White, Cedarville University president

Everett Piper — the president of Oklahoma Wesleyan University, which sued the federal government over the ACA birth control mandate — and Montse Alvarado — executive director of Becket, a leading religious liberty law firm which represented the Little Sisters of the Poor in their contraceptive fight — spoke at the HHS announcement and applauded the new office, as did Jewish and Muslim representatives.

Philadelphia Convention & Visitors Bureau Executive Vice President Hometown: Wilmington, Delaware College: Johnson & Wales University, Providence, Rhode Island There's a responsibility you have to take the lead down the path others want to follow.

«These stand - out companies are all led by entrepreneurs, and have demonstrated their capacity and intent to grow,» said Dr. Tom O'Neal, executive director of the Florida Economic Gardening Institute and associate vice president for the University of Central Florida's Office of Research and Commercialization.

A longtime State University at New York leader, who is familiar with leading colleges in trouble, has been appointed Interim President of Niagara County Community College.

General News of Sunday, 13 May 2018 Source: kasapafmonline.com President Akufo - Addo A Senior Lecturer at the University of Education, Winneba (UEW), Dr. Ahmed Jinapor, says he will find it extremely difficult to believe if the President Akufo - Addo - led administration will achieve its sets targets for the One - District - One - Factory flagship project by the year 2020.

Sammakia, a former IBMer who was vice president for research at Binghamton University, has said he only plans to lead SUNY Poly for about a year as a search for a new president takes place.

A survey conducted by the Political Science Department of the University of Ghana, has revealed that 58 % of voters believe that former President John Dramani Mahama, will lead the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) in the 2020 elections.

As the year was wrapping up in 1980, a panel led by Justice Belonwu under the directive of the Sokoto State born President Shehu Usman Aliyu Shagari GCFR embarked on an investigative visit to the University of Lagos.

President of the Christian Service University College (CSUC) in Kumasi, Professor Sam Afrane, has debunked assertions that granting autonomy to private universities will lead to the proliferation of universities in the country.

The Western New York Regional Council will be led by Satish K. Tripathi, President of University at Buffalo, and Howard A. Zemsky, the Managing Partner at Larkin Development Group, who will both serve as Regional Co-Chairs.

Midland University President Ben Sasse and former state Treasurer Shane Osborn are the two leading contenders fighting for the nomination.

And it looks like Team Spitzer does need to keep spending: While the latest numbers still have Spitzer beating Stringer by either four or twelve points (according to Quinnipiac University and Wall Street Journal / NBC Marist polls, respectively), the very recognizable former governor's lead sounds less impressive when you consider that, in the last three weeks, he has spent three times as much as the increasingly feisty but still somewhat unknown Manhattan borough president has spent on his entire campaign.

Bahgat Sammakia, the interim president of SUNY Polytechnic Institute, is going back to Binghamton University next month after leading the school through the most difficult period in its relatively short existence.

Currently president of Cornell University, Skorton next summer will be leading the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C.

The council now has 23 members, led by chairwoman Lt. Gov. Kathleen Hochul and co-vice chairmen Kevin Law, president of the Long Island Association, and Stuart Rabinowitz, Hofstra University president.

Kasich frequently recounts how, as a freshman at Ohio State, a meeting he engineered with the university president led to an invitation to meet with Presidepresident led to an invitation to meet with PresidentPresident Nixon.

According to a Quinnipiac University poll released Monday, former New York state Gov. Eliot Spitzer leads Manhattan Borough President Scott Stringer 48 % -33 % in the Democratic primary race for New York City comptroller, the city's chief budget officer.

The protest was led by the institution's SUG President Ojo Aderemi, a 200 level History department student, alleged insensitivity on the part of the university management.

He led a multi-state case against the dubious Trump University real estate seminar, and helped secure a $ 25 million settlement from the president - elect — $ 1 million of it going straight to the State of New York.

«Simply put, the compound turns - off the sperm's ability to swim, significantly limiting fertilization capabilities,» said lead investigator Michael O'Rand, PhD, retired professor of cell biology and physiology in the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Medicine, and president / CEO of Eppin Pharma, Inc. «This makes EP055 an ideal candidate for non-hormonal male contraception.»

No one can stop this anymore,» says Gerard Meijer, who is the president of Radboud University in Nijmegen, the Netherlands, and the lead on the Dutch side of the negotiations.

For more than a quarter of a century, Baltimore has balanced his long hours as a leading scientific administrator — founder of the seminal Whitehead Institute, president of Rockefeller University and later, for nine years, of Caltech — with groundbreaking work in cancer, immunology, and AIDS research.

An appeal to a federally appointed panel led to an exoneration, but Baltimore's vehement insistence that his colleague was innocent in the face of damning evidence led to his resignation as president of Rockefeller University.

In the 5 years since former president of Harvard University Lawrence Summers made a household name for himself by suggesting that women may lack an «intrinsic aptitude» for science, there's been a heightened sensitivity toward the factors in academic science and medicine that lead so many women to veer from the academic career path.

A research group led by Chengsi Pan, Postdoctoral Researcher, and Tsuyoshi Takata, NIMS Special Researcher, at the Global Research Center for Environment and Energy Based on Nanomaterials Science (GREEN; Director - General: Kohei Uosaki) of the National Institute for Materials Science (NIMS; President: Sukekatsu Ushioda), and Kazunari Domen, a professor of the Department of Chemical System Engineering, School of Engineering, The University of Tokyo (President: Junichi Hamada) newly developed a water - splitting photocatalyst that is operable over a wider range of the visible light spectrum than before.

«It's not the 100 % that I hoped for,» says Gerard Meijer, the president of Radboud University in Nijmegen, the Netherlands, and the lead negotiator on the Dutch side.

One group of archaeologists, led by Anthony Harding, president of the European Association of Archaeologists and a professor at the University of Exeter, wrote an open letter to the Bosnian government denouncing the pyramids as a «cruel hoax on an unsuspecting public.»

«The magnitude of the event really surprised me,» said lead author Stephen Conley, president of Boulder - based Scientific Aviation and an atmospheric scientist at University of California, Davis.

Co-author Professor Jonathan Bamber, based at the University of Bristol, and President of the European Geoscience Union (EGU), added: «We are seeing changes in the large - scale circulation patterns, which leads to more frequent sunshine and higher amounts of solar energy reaching the surface of the ice sheet.

Paul Chu, president emeritus of Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, and William Green, chairman and CEO of Accenture, took the lead in articulating the point of view that parity is not far off.

Yancy, chief of cardiology at Northwestern University's medical school and a former president of the American Heart Association, is leading a new NIH - sponsored study into how the agency might improve the pool of talent going into biomedical research.

The improved economy has led to an uptick in industry hiring in the state, which is good news for life sciences grads, says J. Lynn Griesemer, associate vice president for economic development at the University of Massachusetts and executive director of the UMass Donahue Institute.

«This investment will enable us to attract leading scientists and innovative research to come to Sweden,» predicts Eva Åkesson, president of Uppsala University.

But recent research by University of Cincinnati Biologist Denis Conover, working alongside Tim Sisson, president of the Western Wildlife Corridor, reveal their approach for safely killing and removing invasive plants, thus leading to a natural resurgence of native species at Bender Mountain Preserve and other natural wooded areas in southwestern Ohio.

«We were drawn to this collaboration because in spite of the different environments, cultures, histories, climates and identities of the two regions, we were asking the same kinds of questions about human capacities to address challenging climate conditions,» says lead author Margaret C. Nelson, President's Professor in Arizona State University's School of Human Evolution and Social Change.

In 1992, when Boris Yeltsin was president, a team led by Harvard University molecular biologist Matthew Meselson was allowed to visit the area to investigate the incident.

He also requests that the panel, led by University of Pennsylvania President Amy Gutmann, recommend «any actions the Federal government should take to ensure that America reaps the benefits of this developing field of science while identifying appropriate ethical boundaries and minimizing identified risks.»