Sentences with phrase «made chairman of the department»

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He's chairman of the religion department at Columbia University, who a while back announced in the New York Times that his ambition is to make sure that students are more confused and troubled at the end of his course than they were at the beginning.

The first and primary job confronting me as chairman of the department was to shepherd the troops into making two appointments in Judaism to replace Jewish colleagues who had left us for other institutions.

But the GOP powers had other designs for Uccello, who the late state party chairman Howard Hausman said would make a fine commissioner of the then - community affairs department.

Education Chairman Robert Jackson, who represents parts of Morningside Heights, Hamilton Heights, West Harlem, Washington Heights and Inwood, made his opinions known in a letter, dated Nov. 12, to New York State Education Department Commissioner David Steiner.

Taking in the view for hours, Loeb, chairman of Harvard's astronomy department and director of its Institute for Theory and Computation, was overwhelmed upon seeing the things he studied as a theorist suddenly made palpable.

He is chairman of the department of anesthesiology at Hackensack University Medical Center in New Jersey, and he points out that an anesthesiologist creates brain - dead patients every day: «We give drugs to make them die.

«This is a collective achievement that could not have been made without such a close collaboration of leading experts, within and outside BC,» said Michael J. Naughton, chairman of BC Department of Physics and a coauthor on the paper.

Army STARRS researchers, led by study co-principal investigators, Robert J. Ursano, MD, chairman of the Department of Psychiatry at the F. Edward Hébert School of Medicine, Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, and Murray B. Stein, MD, MPH, Professor of Psychiatry and Family and Preventive Medicine at the University of California, San Diego, found that a majority (58.2 %) of soldiers who ever thought of suicide had these thoughts before enlistment, 76.6 % of soldiers with current mental disorders had onsets before enlistment, and nearly half (47 %) of soldiers who ever made a suicide attempt did so for the first time before enlistment.

That is how Robert Scherrer, chairman of the physics department, explained the significance of the announcement that an international team of scientists working at the world's largest atom smasher, the Large Hadron Collider, made in the wee hours of the morning of July 4.

According to the food historian, Clifford Wright, Professor Santi Correnti, chairman of the history department of the University of Catania and a preeminent historian of Sicily, wrote that during the reign of the Sicilian King Frederick II, in the early thirteenth century, the king and his hunting party came across the hut of a dairy farmer making ricotta and, being ravenous, asked for some.

Decisions about what students should be taught and when it should be taught are best when made without pressure from the U.S. Department of Education, write 10 Republican senators in a recent letter to the chairman and ranking member of the education appropriations subcommittee.

Joseph Lescota, chairman of the automotive marketing department at Northwood University in Midland, Mich., said rising gasoline prices make midsized sport - utilities with extra seating attractive to buyers who want the fun of a sport - utility and the passenger capacity of a minivan.

First, Scott Irwin, chairman of the Agriculture Marketing Department, and Professor Darrel Good make some general observations about the RFS (sometimes also referred to as RFS2, for its 2007 revision), uncertainty surrounding potential higher compliance costs and where prices for Renewable Identification Numbers (RINs) may be headed under the RFS» current framework:

James DeBoy, chairman of Lincoln's Department of Health and Physical Education, defended the policy, comparing it to programs at other schools that identify those lacking math or communication skills and make them take additional coursework to catch up.

ACC or the Appointments Committee of Cabinet has accepted the proposal made by the Department of Financial Services to appoint V K Sharma as the chairman of LIC, for a period of 5 years, in fixed payment of Rs. 80,000 / -.

No one really knows what to make of them,» said David L. Yermack, chairman of the finance department at New York University's Stern School of Business.