Sentences with phrase «modern research university»

This model of education moved away from the subjective and practical knowledge of a trade school style education, to a hybrid model of a modern research university placing minimal emphasis on clinical / experiential learning opportunities.

One of the problems with English studies today, brought about in part by English professors themselves and in part by the modern research university, is the separation between «specialists» and the public.

A fourth constructive step we could take would be to look back beyond the birth of the modern research university to reclaim some of the aims of earlier Christian colleges in forms appropriate to our time.

The crucial years were those between 1870 and 1914, when the modern research university emerged.

It is important to stress that the two dominant lines of criticism noted above began during the 1870s and 1880s at precisely the same time that the modern research university emerged as a new institution of higher learning in America.

The other model of excellence in schooling is the modern research university, for which we may let the founding of the University of Berlin in 1810 serve as the emblem.

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Research from Dalhousie University suggests that given just 15 years, a modern industrialized fishery can reduce the biomass of large predatory fish communities by 80 %.

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Moderator: William V. Harris, William R. Shepherd Professor of History and Director, Center for the Ancient Mediterranean, Columbia University Speaker 1: L. Randall Wray, Research Director of the Center for Full Employment and Price Stability and Professor of Economics, University of Missouri - Kansas City Speaker 2: Michael Hudson, President, Institute for the Study of Long - Term Economic Trends and Distinguished Research Professor, University of Missouri - Kansas City Tuesday, September 11, 2012 About the Seminar Series: Modern Money and Public Purpose is an eight - part, interdisciplinary seminar series held at Columbia Law School over the 2012 - 2013 academic...

Process thought is usually defined in one of three ways: (1) as any view of reality that is dynamic and relational and based on the findings of modern science, (2) identified with «the Chicago School,» the University of Chicago Divinity School, both in its earlier phase of applying evolutionary theory to historical research, seeing religion as a dynamic movement that reconstitutes itself in response to felt needs, as well as its later philosophical phase, and (3) synonymous with the philosophy of Whitehead and Hartshorne.

For example, in the combined Garrett - Northwestern University program, the student receives excellent training in modern research design and methodology through the psychology department of the University, and also guidance in adapting modern research methods to religious data.

Offering her support for its health and holistic benefits, Dorit Adler, the chief clinical dietician of Hadassah University Medical Center, said: «The evidence - based research proves again and again that the [low - meat] Mediterranean diet lowers the risks of most of the modern diseases from obesity through diabetes, heart disease and even cognitive impairment.

Modern hydroponics began with Julius von Sachs and W. Knop at the University of Wurtzburg between 1850 and 1900; and commercial hydroponics in the twentieth century was extensively researched at the University of California by Dr W. F. Gedricke.

He began researching the concept of «modern family» as an undergraduate at Duke University in North Carolina, where he published his honors thesis «Domestic Partnerships», analyzing both opposite - sex and same - sex domestic partnerships and the issues for employers to evaluate in considering benefits for domestic partners.

Catherine Osborn, MA is a PhD student in medical anthropology at Case Western Reserve University whose research interests focus on historical and modern uses of technology to mediate childbirth and fertility.

«Modern» fathers have been around for far longer than we think, but they have only recently started to change diapers according to research from the University of Warwick.

After university I spent a summer exploring Mayan pyramid sites in Central America - another much under researched civilisation who developed one of the most accurate calendars and astronomical charts until the modern computer age and built palaces and pyramids on a par with the European classical period.

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He challenged Nigerian Universities to undertake researches targeted at developing state - of - the - art crime fighting gadgets suitable to crime peculiar to the modern day society.

«The mechanisms that seem to be driving this correlation [in the past] are the same that are at play in modern data as well,» said lead author Kaustubh Thirumalai, postdoctoral researcher at Brown University who conducted the research while earning his Ph.D. at the UT Austin Jackson School of Geosciences.

A review of recent research on dispersals by early modern humans from Africa to Asia by researchers from the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History and the University of Hawai'i at Manoa confirms that the traditional view of a single dispersal of anatomically modern humans out of Africa around 60,000 years ago can no longer be seen as the full story.

«All previous research that's been done trying to understand this very rapid colonisation of the Pacific tried to grapple with the migration in terms of modern climate,» says Ian Goodwin of Macquarie University in Sydney, Australia.

A University of Alaska Fairbanks - led research project has provided the first modern evidence of a landscape - level permafrost carbon feedback, in which thawing permafrost releases ancient carbon as climate - warming greenhouse gases.

Modern living could be responsible for an «almost epidemic» increase in neurological brain disease, according to new research from Bournemouth University.

The genetic data recovered by the research team, led by scientists from the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History and the University of Tübingen, provides a timeline for a proposed hominin migration out of Africa that occurred after the ancestors of Neanderthals arrived in Europe by a lineage more closely related to modern humans.

Founded in 1976, Toyohashi University of Technology — one of Japan's most dynamic science - and engineering - based universities — is a vibrant, modern national institute with research activities reflecting the modern era of advanced electronics, engineering, and life sciences.

By looking at the chemistry of rocks deposited during that time period, specifically coupled carbon and sulfur isotope data, a research team led by University of California, Riverside biogeochemists reports that oxygen - free and hydrogen sulfide - rich waters extended across roughly five percent of the global ocean during this major climatic perturbation — far more than the modern ocean's 0.1 percent but much less than previous estimates for this event.

In addition to emphasizing the recruitment of graduate students, American universities have a number of on - campus service facilities such as modern research labs, well - stocked reagent rooms, and cell culture facilities.

This week, an international research team led by palaeogeneticists of Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz (JGU) published a study in the journal Science showing that the earliest farmers from the Zagros mountains in Iran, i.e., the eastern part of the Fertile Crescent, are neither the main ancestors of Europe's first farmers nor of modern - day Europeans.

However, they show considerable genetic overlap with present - day domesticated lines from the region,» explains Nils Stein, who directed the comparison of the ancient genome with modern genomes at the Leibniz Institute of Plant Genetics and Crop Plant Research (IPK), Gatersleben, with the support of Robbie Waugh and colleagues at the James Hutton Institute, Dundee, Scotland, and Gary Muehlbauer, University of Minnesota, USA.

Together with Keith Dobney, PhD, of the University of Aberdeen in Scotland; Tim Denham, PhD, of the Australian National University; and José Capriles, PhD, of the Universidad de Tarapacá in Chile, Marshall wrote a review article that summarizes recent research on the domestication of large herbivores for «The Modern View of Domestication,» a special feature of The Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences published April 29.

A large international research team, led by Israel Hershkovitz from Tel Aviv University and including Rolf Quam from Binghamton University, State University of New York, has discovered the earliest modern human fossil ever found outside of Africa.

The university was founded by philologist Wilhelm von Humboldt in 1809 and became a model «modern university,» combining stellar research with broad education.

This cultural flexibility may have been the key to success for modern humans, says a team of international researchers, made up of archaeologists, paleo climatologists, and climate modellers from the French CNRS1 and the EPHE PSL Research University, Bergen University as well as Wits University.

But a much cited study, published in 1984 in the journal Science by environmental psychologist Roger Ulrich, now at Texas A&M University, was the first to use the standards of modern medical research — strict experimental controls and quantified health outcomes — to demonstrate that gazing at a garden can sometimes speed healing from surgery, infections and other ailments.

When he returned to Japan in 1928, Nishina brought with him the «spirit of Copenhagen» — a democratic style of research in which anyone could speak his mind, contrasting with the authoritarian norm at Japanese universities — as well as knowledge of modern problems and methods.

Other ancient DNA studies have been discredited after supposedly ancient genetic material turned out to be modern contaminants, but those fears don't apply to this new research, says micropaleontologist Michal Kucera of the University of Bremen in Germany.

Forensic experts at North Carolina State University have now published guidance on how research into modern - day forensic analysis of child - abuse victims can be used to shed light on how children of earlier cultures were treated.

In a new study, a research team led by Yale University found that even the oldest known human ancestors may have had precision grip capabilities comparable to modern humans.

The idea of being bitten by a nearly toothless modern frog or salamander sounds laughable, but their ancient ancestors had a full array of teeth, large fangs and thousands of tiny hook - like structures called denticles on the roofs of their mouths that would snare prey, according to new research by paleontologists at the University of Toronto Mississauga (UTM).

The recent hacking of e-mails at the Climatic Research Unit at the University of East Anglia Center — one of the world's foremost institutions for the study of climate change — offers a disconcerting view of how modern science is done.

Now, the findings by members of the University of Huddersfield's Archaeogenetics Research Group demonstrate that modern humans have dwelt in this territory for far longer than previously thought.

LUMC is a modern university medical center for research, education and patient care with a high quality profile and a strong scientific orientation.

The findings indicate that coral bleaching is a «modern phenomenon» driven by global warming, says study co-author Prof Nick Graham, a Royal Society university research fellow and chair in marine ecology at Lancaster Uuniversity research fellow and chair in marine ecology at Lancaster UniversityUniversity.

Dr. Susan Golden, distinguished professor in the division of biological sciences, molecular biology section at the University of California San Diego, wrote in a support letter, «The fundamental research carried out by Ry's lab over the years underpins so much of modern phage biology that it's difficult to imagine what the state of the field would be in his absence — undoubtedly poorer and perhaps non-existent — as he persevered during years and even decades when phage biology was viewed by many as passe and only a few labs carried on.»

On the surface, all expenses for any grant - supported project are officially scored as fully justified; in practice, many expenditures either are not spent for actually doing research, or are duplicated, excessive, and unnecessary (see: «Wastage of Research Grant Money in Modern University Science&research, or are duplicated, excessive, and unnecessary (see: «Wastage of Research Grant Money in Modern University Science&Research Grant Money in Modern University Science»).

In modern universities, pilot studies now often are: (1) conducted as minor side efforts during the investigations funded by a research grant, (2) assigned to a graduate student or a research technician, or, (3) done during a sabbatical leave.

In the modern era many university scientists worry more about their research grant (s) and their lab space assignment than they do about how to get a difficult experiment to finally work, or whether alternative explanations for their recent results make more sense than a traditional interpretation.

was based upon my impressions of a declining quality of modern science, large wastage of time by researchers struggling to get more and more research grants, conversion of university research into a business entity where money is everything, de-emphasis on basic research and corresponding increased emphasis on applied research, and, increasing corruption by professional scientists.

Liberals, and even many normal people, feel that the serious problems facing science at modern universities in the U.S. can all be resolved by providing much more money for research studies.