Sentences with phrase «national research projects»

Directs several national research projects on sexual harassment, gender violence, and teen dating violence in K - 12 schools; writes and lectures extensively on these issues

We have been involved in national research projects on preschool inclusion, and supporting young children with challenging behavior funded by OSEP and Head Start.

As a passionate advocate for access to justice, Nicole spent two years as the Executive Director of the Canadian Forum on Civil Justice (CFCJ), a national not - for - profit that works on issues of access to justice and civil justice reform and has led several local and national research projects that examine the cost, affordability and effectiveness of the civil justice system in Canada; she remains a Senior Research Fellow at the CFCJ.

As a passionate advocate for access to justice, Nicole has led several local and national research projects that examine the cost, affordability and the effectiveness of the civil justice system in Canada.

SciLifeLab now welcomes applications for the first national research projects, based on next generation DNA sequencing.

He also pointed out that SciLifeLab is still growing, both in number of researchers and the articles they publish, as well as in activities like the Science and SciLifeLab Prize for Young Scientists and the recently opened call for the first national research projects.

At the same time, the work has been developed within the framework of a national research project by the former Ministry of Science and Innovation whose main researcher is David Martínez Torres.

The investigations into the Atlantic and Polar cod are part of BIOACID, the national research project on ocean acidification.

Dr. Saul Rubinstein, Rutgers University, and his colleague Dr. John McCarthy, Cornell University, have been leading a national research project to investigate the impact of labor - management collaboration (LMC) on student learning.

This national research project is critical to understanding cat population issues in Canada and how they have evolved in the five years of dedicated focus since the publication of the 2012 report.

In 1936 Hine was appointed head photographer for the National Research Project of the Works Projects Administration, but his work for them was never completed.

In addition to this, the Stedelijk's academic members of staff carry out thorough research into the museum's holdings (such as the exhaustive, years - long investigation into the collection as part of the national research project «Museum Acquisitions after 1933,» which examined the provenance of artworks in Dutch museums).

Declaration by David Thomas: I lead a national research project, known as Talking about the Smokes, which has been funded by the Australian Department of Health.

In 1983, the Ford Foundation funded the Teen Father Collaboration (TFC), a two - year, eight - site national research project that showed agencies can recruit men for fatherhood programs, but only through aggressive outreach built on knowledge of and connections with the local community.

This national research project was initiated in 2010 to examine pathways to quitting smoking and the impact of tobacco control policies in the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander population.

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According to research by Jeffrey Dew, a faculty fellow with the University of Virginia's National Marriage Project, couples who fight about finances once a week are 30 % more likely to divorce than those who disagree on the topic a few times per month.

-- based Pond Biofuels and the National Research Council to build a $ 19 - million «biorefinery» at its Primrose South project near Bonnyville, Alta.

Recent Projects: researching children's education and learning habits to help launch national children's magazine (four months, $ 5,000); research on African tribes.

Raj Nayak, director of research with the National Employment Law Project, previously served as deputy chief of staff to former Labor Secretary Tom Perez.

That is a tougher national conversation, because it means addressing professor tenure, the wisdom of some research projects (Did we really need to know that horses prefer bananas to oregano?)

Mr. Alexander launched the company in 2014, along with veterans of the Pentagon, the National Counterterrorism Center and the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency.

The project hopes to start a national conversation about alternatives to private financing of public investment, and needs both research partners and financial support.

The UK's Natural Environment Research Council said research teams from the two countries will work together on five projects, to receive funding from the Joint UK - China Renewable Energy program as well as financial support from NERC and the National Natural Science Foundation oResearch Council said research teams from the two countries will work together on five projects, to receive funding from the Joint UK - China Renewable Energy program as well as financial support from NERC and the National Natural Science Foundation oresearch teams from the two countries will work together on five projects, to receive funding from the Joint UK - China Renewable Energy program as well as financial support from NERC and the National Natural Science Foundation of China.

The project, which is part of the Canada - South Korea Science, Technology and Innovation Projects sponsored by the National Research Council of Canada and the Korea Institute for Advancement of Technology, aims at facilitating R&D collaboration between Canadian and South Korean innovators.

«The overarching message here is we don't just have a jobs deficit; we have a «good jobs» deficit,» said Annette Bernhardt, the report's author and a policy co-director at the National Employment Law Project, a liberal research and advocacy group.

Nadège Rolland named Senior Project Director for Political and Security Affairs at The National Bureau of Asian Research (September 17 2014)

In July l980 the National Council of Churches «Communication Commission and the National Religious Broadcasters jointly issued an invitation to key groups on both sides of the controversy to join in a major research project to get at the facts.

These questions are the same as those to which we have addressed ourselves in a five - year National Institute of Mental Health Research and Training Project for the training of clergymen in the field of alcoholism conducted at the Georgian Clinic (1964 - 69)(«Pilot Project for Clinical Training of Clergymen in The Field of Alcoholism» NIMH Grant # 8589, staffed by: George P. Dominick, Co-Director; John M. Crow, Coordinator of Training; Melvin B. Drurker, Clinical Psychologist for Evaluation.)

Plans for the national conference where results of the research project will be shared will be released later this year.

This project was funded in 2017 and 2018 by the Organic Research and Extension Initiative grant, part of the USDA National Institute of Food and Agriculture.

The National Pork Board has responsibility for Checkoff - funded research, promotion and consumer information projects and for communicating with pork producers and the public.

The International Rice Research Institute (Lao - IRRI Project) and the Lao National Rice Research Program have been collaborating on rice research sinResearch Institute (Lao - IRRI Project) and the Lao National Rice Research Program have been collaborating on rice research sinResearch Program have been collaborating on rice research sinresearch since 1991.

From a very low base in 1990, the project has helped develop a functional national rice research system involving more than 120 government officials and technicians.

One of the key findings uncovered in our Innovate UK, a government - funded research project between OAL and the University of Lincoln at the National Centre for Food Manufacturing, showed that Steam Infusion cooking enables fat reductions of up to 20 % in dairy based sauces.

Joining me on the trip was Chief Science Research Specialist and Project Leader Dr. Antonio Alfonso of the Philippine Rice Research Institute, National Programs Relations Manager of IRRI Julian Lapitan, and Healthier Rice Project Manager Raul Boncodin.

One of the prime workers on the project is Robert P. Allen, research ornithologist of the National Audubon Society.

She participates in national and international research projects and is the official Dutch representative in the European COST Action: Childbirth — Cultures, Concerns and Consequences.

Dr. Parnell has been involved in several applied research projects resulting in presentations at national and regional conferences as well as publications in professional journals.

* Day 1 Monday, February 22, 2016 4:00 PM -5:00 PM Registration & Networking 5:00 PM — 6:00 PM Welcome Reception & Opening Remarks Kevin de Leon, President pro Tem, California State Senate Debra McMannis, Director of Early Education & Support Division, California Department of Education (invited) Karen Stapf Walters, Executive Director, California State Board of Education (invited) 6:00 PM — 7:00 PM Keynote Address & Dinner Dr. Patricia K. Kuhl, Co-Director, Institute for Learning & Brain Sciences * Day 2 Tuesday February 23, 2016 8:00 AM — 9:00 AM Registration, Continental Breakfast, & Networking 9:00 AM — 9:15 AM Opening Remarks John Kim, Executive Director, Advancement Project Camille Maben, Executive Director, First 5 California Tom Torlakson, State Superintendent of Public Instruction, California Department of Education 9:15 AM — 10:00 AM Morning Keynote David B. Grusky, Executive Director, Stanford's Center on Poverty & Inequality 10:00 AM — 11:00 AM Educating California's Young Children: The Recent Developments in Transitional Kindergarten & Expanded Transitional Kindergarten (Panel Discussion) Deborah Kong, Executive Director, Early Edge California Heather Quick, Principal Research Scientist, American Institutes for Research Dean Tagawa, Administrator for Early Education, Los Angeles Unified School District Moderator: Erin Gabel, Deputy Director, First 5 California (Invited) 11:00 AM — 12:00 PM «Political Will & Prioritizing ECE» (Panel Discussion) Eric Heins, President, California Teachers Association Senator Hannah - Beth Jackson, Chair of the Women's Legislative Committee, California State Senate David Kirp, James D. Marver Professor of Public Policy, University of California, Berkeley Assemblyman Kevin McCarty, Chairman of Subcommittee No. 2 of Education Finance, California State Assembly Moderator: Kim Pattillo Brownson, Managing Director, Policy & Advocacy, Advancement Project 12:00 PM — 12:45 PM Lunch 12:45 PM — 1:45 PM Lunch Keynote - «How Children Succeed: Grit, Curiosity, and the Hidden Power of Character» Paul Tough, New York Times Magazine Writer, Author 1:45 PM — 1:55 PM Break 2:00 PM — 3:05 PM Elevating ECE Through Meaningful Community Partnerships (Panel Discussion) Sandra Guiterrez, National Director, Abriendo Purtas / Opening Doors Mary Ignatius, Statewide Organize of Parent Voices, California Child Care Resource & Referral Network Jacquelyn McCroskey, John Mile Professor of Child Welfare, University of Southern California School of Social Work Jolene Smith, Chief Executive Officer, First 5 Santa Clara County Moderator: Rafael González, Director of Best Start, First 5 LA 3:05 PM — 3:20 PM Closing Remarks Camille Maben, Executive Director, First 5 California * Agenda Subject to Change

She also had the privilege of serving on two advisory panels for the development of postpartum training modules, with Danya International PPD research project and the National Institute of Mental Health Small Business Innovation Researchresearch project and the National Institute of Mental Health Small Business Innovation ResearchResearch (SBIR).

The related study formed part of a project funded by the National Institute for Health Research Research for Patient Benefit Programme through grant PB - PG -0107-12209.

«This might be called the best - kept secret in American child care,» said James Levine, director of The Fatherhood Project, which conducts national research on ways to support men's involvement in child rearing.

Meta - analyses of this expanded research base confirm the model's impacts on a range of risk and protective factors associated with child maltreatment.7, 8,9 In addition, all of the major home visitation models in the U.S. are currently engaged in a variety of research activities, many of which are resulting in better defined models and more rigorous attention to the key issue of participant enrolment and retention, staff training and quality assurance standards.10 For example, recent findings emerging from the initial two - year follow - up of the Early Head Start National Demonstration Project confirm the efficacy of home visitation programs with new parents.

Shedd Aquarium's conservation research team launched a citizen science project this spring in collaboration with the University of Wisconsin - Madison Center for Limnology and the Lake Superior National Estuarine Research Reserve aimed at documenting long - term shifts in the timing of fish migrations into Great Lakes research team launched a citizen science project this spring in collaboration with the University of Wisconsin - Madison Center for Limnology and the Lake Superior National Estuarine Research Reserve aimed at documenting long - term shifts in the timing of fish migrations into Great Lakes Research Reserve aimed at documenting long - term shifts in the timing of fish migrations into Great Lakes streams.

Findings from the National Early Head Start Research and Evaluation project, a rigorous Congressionally - mandated study, indicate that the program had modest but positive impacts on EHS children at age three in cognitive, language, and social - emotional development, compared to a control group.xxiii In addition, their parents scored higher than control group parents on such aspects of the home environment as parenting behavior and knowledge of infant - toddler development.

This project was supported by the National Institute for Health research, via Cochrane Infrastructure and Cochrane Programme Grant funding to the Cochrane Pregnancy and Childbirth Group.

The majority of the 362 projects were funded by the National Center for Research Resources (41.2 %) and the National Institute for Child Health and Human Development (40.6 %).

The National Science Foundation and the Nordic Research Opportunity program funded the project.

The Western Australian Pregnancy Cohort Study is funded by project and program grants from the National Health & Medical Research Council of Australia, Western Australian Health Promotion Foundation, Asthma Foundation of Western Australia and Glaxo Wellcome.

There are already, new National Assembly Business Environment Roundtable (NASSBER) research findings projecting that our priority bills will have an output impact equivalent to an average of 6.87 per cent of GDP over a five - year period on the economy.