Sentences with phrase «new academic initiative»

A Green Blog post by Jon Hurdle describes what looks like a helpful new academic initiative to assess potential health impacts of the country's gas - drilling boom:

There's been a flurry of discussion lately about that lately, first with the release of a video «The Economics of Sex» by the Austin Institute, a new academic initiative that conducts research on family, marriage and relationships (you can watch it below).

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The Hangzhou Blockchain Industrial Park, in conjunction with the new Xiongan Global Blockchain Innovation Fund and ZXBSDRI, will function in concert, providing the academic, financial, and industrial foundation for the entire initiative moving forward.

This annual conference allows students, academic researchers, industry professionals and government agents to network, share ideas and brainstorm new initiatives for improving global food security policies.

He said, «with my global outreach initiative which is creating a new epic movement, I have been travelling out of my kingdom to visit other nations around the world to share our own stories, delivering academic lectures, re-charting the leading role of Yoruba nation in the world and to reignite the immortal Yoruba spirit of enlightenment as the glowing fountain of knowledge that gave birth to the world civilisation».

«Phase One of the initiative created more student internships than ever before and new academic programs were created in high - demand areas such as emerging technologies, cyber security and healthcare.

Bozon, an applied mathematician at the Agricultural and Environmental Engineering Research Institute (Cemagref) in Montpellier, France, is part of a new initiative launched by the French government in the summer of 2007 to broaden career avenues for academic researchers.

The initiative is an extension of Biden's 2016 appointment as head of the Cancer Moonshot Initiative, an assignment President Barack Obama extended, aimed at pulling together federal agencies and private, academic and philanthropic organizations to identify new cancer research topics, break down barriers slowing advances and pinpoint necessary investment areas to advance the fight against cancer.

The Molecular Libraries initiative of the roadmap is specifically intended to put HTS and other drug discovery tools into the hands of academic researchers to help them develop new research tools and drugs.

I was there at the beginning of the Roadmap [former NIH Director Elias Zerhouni's set of cross-NIH initiatives] when we were setting all this up and we always understood that the CTSAs were a fantastic opportunity to reengineer clinical research in academic health centers and provide a new home for this.

A better collaboration between industry and academic centres is desperately needed, along with new initiatives such as the Innovative Medicines Initiative (IMI), a public — private partnership with the European Commission and the European Federation of Pharmaceutical Industries and Associations (EFPIA) under the Seventh Framework Programme for Research and Technological Development (FP7)[10].

In addition, Hill's research ideally positions her to collaborate with Radcliffe faculty leaders on the Institute's new policy studies initiatives as well as other academic activities.

The new team can choose to support this collective public action by providing facilities, cutting red tape, and making the academic outcomes transparent, but doing so will require the courage to honor the initiative of the people above the interests of the establishment.

They include implementation of a new management structure, pedagogical framework, introduction of a Year 7 selective class, academic challenges for students and an initiative that has seen teachers plan and design 192 units linked to the new National Curriculum.

Inspiring students As schools up and down the country prepare to usher in the new academic year, 12 more sporting stars have been named as Athlete Mentors for free secondary schools initiative Sky Sports Living for Sport.

The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation's Education Program initiated a new strategic initiative in 2010 that focuses on students» mastery of core academic content and their development of deeper learning skills (i.e., critical - thinking, problem - solving, collaboration, communication, and learn - how - to - learn skills).

New York's initiative is modeled on a similar program in Cincinnati, but as a 2013 analysis by the New York Times noted, «what has gone largely unsaid is that many of Cincinnati's community schools are still in dire academic straits despite millions of dollars in investment and years of reform efforts.»

The VDOE would like to recognize outstanding schools and / or educators who have developed programs that have been designed to ensure students with disabilities, especially those with more significant academic and behavior needs, have access to inclusive education with their peers in general education settings through a new initiative called the «Inclusive Practice Partnership Project.»

On vouchers, the legislation creates a new Local Academic Flexible Grant to help states and school districts develop in - school or after - school initiatives for boosting student achievement based on local needs.

This spring, as Indiana lawmakers debated whether to leave the Common Core initiative, students in neighboring Kentucky were taking new state tests aligned to the nationally - crafted academic standards.

The five - year initiative will help public school corporations and charter schools create new approaches to school counseling that address the academic, college and career as well as social and emotional counseling needs of their students.

Committee launches ReadyKentucky initiative providing information to parents, teachers and community leaders about new academic standards and other education initiatives

National Coalition for Core Arts Standards Media Arts Committee Leadership Richard W. Burrows, National Coalition for Core Arts Standards Media Arts Committee Co-Chair, Newark (New Jersey) Public Schools, Special Assistant / Arts Dr. Pam Paulson, National Coalition for Core Arts Standards Media Arts Committee Co-chair, Perpich Center for Arts Education Minnesota Dr. Amy Jensen, Department Chair, Theatre and Media Arts Department, Brigham Young University Marcia McCaffrey, President, State Education Agency Directors of Arts Education, New Hampshire Department of Education Dr. Nancy Rubino, Senior Director, Office of Academic Initiatives, The College Board Ms. Cory Wilkerson, State Education Agency Directors of Arts Education, Project Manager

With middle school principals» sharing their best practices and dire needs, an LA Unified board committee yesterday set off on a new initiative to improve the academic and social skills of students one principal described as «hormones with arms and legs.»

Although many studies report that coaching initiatives support students» academic improvement or teachers» development of new instructional practices (Sailors & Shanklin, 2010), others report mixed results (e.g., Bean et al., 2010).

The academic initiatives during the 2016 - 17 school year included the selection and planned roll - out of a new math curriculum in Lower School to support «real tasks» pedagogy and the improvement of creative and critical thinking in mathematics.

Rose previously worked as the Chief Executive Officer of School of One, «an initiative within the New York City Department of Education (NYCDOE) that uses a mix of live, collaborative, and online instruction in order to provide students with instruction customized to their unique academic needs and learning styles.»

In an essay published in the New York Nonprofit Press, Lucy N. Friedman describes how the ELT / NYC initiative is showing the way toward a seamless learning day that increases academic time, but also brings rigor and structure to enrichments such as arts and science.

Targeted academic initiatives are relatively easy to assess: if you are putting in a new reading program, you can assess its success by looking at test scores (from state tests, district benchmarks, or other internal assessments) and comparing results before and after the program was put in place.

But the new research bolsters the academic case for the programs, a rare education initiative that carries bipartisan imprimatur.

She also conducted a three - year study of the Parent Institute for Quality Education program, which was designed to help new immigrant parents better support their children's academic, social, and emotional growth at home and through school involvement, as well as a three - year evaluation of the California's Healthy Start School - Linked Services initiative.

«It's long past time to offer our public schools the same kind of flexibility we offer newer education initiatives that are hailed as the tickets to academic success.»

Since the mid-1990s, New Haven has embarked on a voluntary desegregation initiative that is intended to increase rates of racial diversity within its public schools and improve academic outcomes for students of color, particularly those who are black or Hispanic.

Members of the Assembly of the Association of American Veterinary Medical Colleges (AAVMC) elected new officers and considered several topics and initiatives in academic veterinary medicine during the 2016 AAVMC Assembly on Monday, August 8 in San Antonio, Texas.

The technology is being developed as part of the i2M Standards initiative of the Global Center of Innovation at the University at Albany, where a large crew of scientists, academics, curators, conservators, artists, lawyers and insurance specialists are collaborating to establish new standards of authentication.

We're trying a similar approach at my academic home, Pace University's Pace Academy for Applied Environmental Studies, in our new undergraduate Environmental Policy and Practice Clinic — a course in which students work with nearby communities or nonprofit groups to advance environmental initiatives.

Part of the marketing initiative was to conduct «roadshows,» where the Thomson Reuters folks could get a bunch of lawyers and / or academic users in a room and demonstrate why their new product was the proverbial greatest thing since sliced bread.

As our community of academic law libraries becomes smaller and more anemic, our university libraries may be able to provide us with a transfusion of new skills and influence within a wider information environment with greater collaborative potential, which we could use to further and promote legal information initiatives in our institutions and nationally.

• Active participant in academic advancement initiatives that evaluate, define and launch new teaching tools and methodologies that meet the needs of the student in a challenging and ever - evolving learning environment.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE Global Partnership Schools, New York • NY 2011 — Present Regional Developmental Consultant Provide key business development initiatives, company vision, initiative recommendations on values, beliefs, approaches and business programs and financial models for effective revenue generating efforts and business transformation and restart for schools and global Village Academics.

She also conducted a three - year study of the Parent Institute for Quality Education program, which was designed to help new immigrant parents better support their children's academic, social, and emotional growth at home and through school involvement, as well as a three - year evaluation of the California's Healthy Start School - Linked Services initiative.