Sentences with phrase «major public universities»

Melbourne has seven major public universities, namely:

The debate, which was held in four major public universities, commenced in March 2016, and has already taken place at the University for Development Studies Tamale campus, University of Cape Coast, and the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology in Kumasi.

2007 UI REACH (Realizing Educational And Career Hopes) is the first program of its type at a major public university that educates young adults with cognitive and learning disabilities to reach their full potential through a two - year, campus - based, non-degree program.

May 26, 2016 — University of Massachusetts, America's first major public university to divest entirely from fossil fuels.

Served as a key team member in a high - profile investigation regarding whether a major public university had acted in accordance with Title IX and university policy in connection with allegations that a student - athlete had been sexually assaulted.

Not exact matches

For example, Stanford University and MIT are just two examples of major colleges that feature free online coursework for the general public.

What's curious about this response is that Zuckerberg elides to mention how Facebook's own staff have worked with the program he's suggesting his company «found now» — as if it had only discovered the existence of the Cambridge University Psychometrics Centre, whose researchers have in fact been working with Facebook data since at least 2007, since the Cambridge Analytica story snowballed into a major public scandal last month.

As Ron Hira, an Economic Policy Institute research associate and an associate professor of public policy at Howard University outlines in this blog for the Economic Policy Institute: «These two India - based IT firms specialize in outsourcing and offshoring, are major publicly traded companies with a combined market value of about $ 115 billion, and are the top two H - 1B employers in the United States.

He graduated from St.Petersburg Polytechnic University and North - West Academy of Public Administration, majoring in Finance and Credits.

If in public places like our major universities we are going to operate on the premise that moral judgments are relative to communities, then we should follow the implications of that premise as consistently as we can and not absolutize one, or perhaps a few, sets of opinions and exclude all others.

In the organization's description of three major functions of the university, one is «To develop experts for various branches of the public service.»

Marion Nestle, a professor of nutrition, food studies and public health at New York University, wrote an editorial accompanying the new paper in which she said the documents provided «compelling evidence» that the sugar industry had initiated research «expressly to exonerate sugar as a major risk factor for coronary heart disease.»

She is also the senior speech — language pathologist on staff at an intensive partial — hospitalization program for autism located at a major public research university located in Los Angeles, California, where Sarah has provided therapy to hundreds of children with autism spectrum disorders and conducted research into various treatment modalities.

«Walter Willett, a physician and chairman of the department of nutrition at Harvard University's School of Public Health, calls the committee report «egregious,» saying it excludes at least six major studies linking dairy consumption to prostate cancer.

She attended Columbus State University, where she majored in Health Science, and then graduated to move forward to pursue a master's degree in Public Health.

Takashi Inoguchi is the president of University of Niigata Prefecture since April 2009 (majoring in public executive affairs in Japan and local autonomy).

Cuomo, who has talked of the need for major efficiencies at the City University of New York, has nominated his budget director, Robert Mujica, and powerful public relations consultant and longtime family friend Ken Sunshine for spots on the CUNY Board of Trustees.

The summary of desired qualifications goes on to say the executive director should have graduated «from a college or university of recognized standing with major work in hydraulic engineering or business or public administration...»

Nancy Zimpher, chancellor for the State University of New York, saw her major initiative, the Public Education Empowerment Act, defeated by the state legislature over the summer.

One major hurdle to an on - time budget, DeFrancisco said, is Cuomo's proposal for free public - university tuition.He said the free tuition proposal is just another example of the way Cuomo has pushed for expensive policies that drive out «productive» state residents like business owners and taxpayers.

Now back in academe at the University of California, San Francisco, Kessler is battling another major public health problem: the rising tide of obesity.

The work highlights «a major public health issue,» says Jonathan Patz, a public health researcher at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, who not involved with the research.

Although undergraduate STEM research has been de rigueur at major research universities, public Minority - and Hispanic - serving institutions like John Jay have historically struggled to provide their students with equivalent experiences and to keep them competitive with their majority peers.

«If you talk to 17 - year - olds about their plans, or ask adults how they got into their profession, you'll find that their interests change and they change majors,» says Hal Salzman, a professor of public policy at Rutgers University in New Brunswick, New Jersey, quoted in the article.

«We have a major medical center and law school, and we have our own rich traditions rooted in the Carolina soil, such as being the nation's oldest public university with a strong history of diversity.»

«If public communication is not done properly, it would have a major negative impact on China's future nuclear power development,» said Lin Boqiang, professor and director of the China Center for Energy Economics Research at Xiamen University.

Despite the squeeze on public spending, Major said he expected funding for the universities and the research councils to rise in real terms next year.

Currently, public money is divided between universities, faculties, and research groups in the way it was divided in 1983, with no major changes in the last 18 years to adapt distribution to the current situation.

In a linked editorial, Kenneth Johnson, Adjunct Professor at the University of Ottawa outlines the major public health implications of these results, and says «only complete cessation is protective and should be emphasised by all prevention measures and policies.»

To examine the relationship between dietary intake of major sources of protein and kidney function, a team led by Woon - Puay Koh, MBBS (Hons), PhD (Duke - NUS Medical School and Saw Swee Hock School of Public Health in National University of Singapore) analyzed data from the Singapore Chinese Health Study, a prospective study of 63,257 Chinese adults in Singapore.

Rice University sociologist Elaine Howard Ecklund described her recent major study of scientists, and NPR religion correspondent Barbara Bradley Hagerty discussed the results in light of the media's coverage of science and religion and her own experiences in engaging with the public.

To confirm his suspicions, Witt assigned a project to his son, a University of California, Berkeley, public health major who was home for the Christmas holiday: Check the vaccination records of all of the kids the medical center had treated so far that year.

A MAJOR dog - fight in New Zealand universities has culminated in public warnings from the Association of University Staff (AUSNZ) to Australians considering academic appointments in NZ.

On 16 September, the Confederation of Spanish Scientific Societies, the Conference of Spanish University Chancellors, Investigación Digna, the Federation of Young Investigators, and two major trade unions demanded in a public statement that the government bring civil research spending back to the 2009 level of 0.6 % of gross domestic product — the average in Europe — by 2016.

«It was evident there was a major difference in susceptibility between the developing brain and the mature brain,» says Philippe Grandjean, an epidemiologist at the Harvard University School of Public Health.

Sexual transmission of the Ebola virus could have a major impact on the dynamics of the disease, potentially reigniting an outbreak that has been contained by public health interventions, according to research by University of Georgia ecologists just published in the Royal Society journal Biology Letters.

In a related commentary, Dr. Michael Hill, University of Calgary, writes «stroke is under - recognized as a major public health problem and incorrectly considered to be a disease that affects only older people.

Founded 2 years ago, UVS went public last week and promptly announced three major research agreements — with the Icelandic Cancer Society, the National University Hospital, and the Reykjavik City Hospital.

Analyzing millions of internet searches tied to major societal events offers a new way to understand public reaction to those events, according to new research from the Richard M. Fairbanks School of Public Health at Indiana University - Purdue University Indianapublic reaction to those events, according to new research from the Richard M. Fairbanks School of Public Health at Indiana University - Purdue University IndianaPublic Health at Indiana University - Purdue University Indianapolis.

Graduates find careers in a range of private, public and academic positions, which include consulting firms; state and federal health and environmental regulatory agencies; product safety evaluation organizations; chemical, consumer products, pharmaceutical industries; and major universities.

The study is the culmination of a rapid collaboration between academic researchers at several universities — including Monash in Australia as well as many institutions in the U.S. and Canada — and a major public health agency, the CDC, in the face of a truly international public health emergency.

«We have been working for three years to develop a better research model of brain development, and it's fortunate we can now use this one to shed light on the major public health crisis posed by Zika infections,» says Hongjun Song, Ph.D., professor of neurology and neuroscience at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine's Institute for Cell Engineering.

Researchers at University of California, San Diego School of Medicine have documented the accuracy of three new tests for more rapidly diagnosing drug - resistant forms of tuberculosis (TB), which are much harder and more expensive to treat and which, experts say, represent a major threat to global public health.

Despite our national waistline being touted as a major public health concern — new research, led by Western Sydney University, has found that public hospitals are not adequately resourced to treat the one million adults who currently live with Read more about Study: Australian public hospitals can not meet the rising demand for obesity care - Scimex

From the Human Genome Project, we have learned that teamwork really pays off when it comes to scientific discovery,» said Dr. Collins, who noted that over the past five years, the MIT, Washington University and Baylor centers were major participants in the highly successful public effort to sequence, assemble and analyze the genomes of the human and several other organisms commonly used in biomedical research.

Athens, Ga. — Sexual transmission of the Ebola virus could have a major impact on the dynamics of the disease, potentially reigniting an outbreak that has been contained by public health interventions, according to research by University of Georgia ecologists just published in the Royal Society journal Biology Letters.

The mutation «is causing major illness in the region, and it's different from what's causing disease on Vancouver Island,» says Christina Hull, PhD, an assistant professor of medical microbiology and immunology at the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health, in Madison.

Wendy Craig, PhD, a professor of psychology at Queens University in Kingston, Ontario, says that bullying and obesity are both major public health concerns that teachers and schools — and not just parents — need to address.

Sarah also holds a Master of Government Administration with a major in Public Financial Management from the University of Pennsylvania.

Juliet was raised in the Bay Area and has a double major in Animal Physiology and Neuroscience and Public Policy from the University of California, San Diego.