Sentences with phrase «new academic institutions»

What motivates scientists to move to new academic institutions, and what factors make them stay put?
The Centre will be a facility of up to 40,000 square meters, located close to the Masdar Institute, a new academic institution that will also focus on the development of renewable energy technologies.

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Working with academic institutions, incubators, accelerators, and startups, the institute hopes that its efforts will result in new breakthroughs, jobs and economic growth.
Companies are constantly looking for new sources of knowledge and are increasingly seeing the value in IP coming out of academic institutions around the world.»
Prior to forming Habitat Seven, Jamie worked in both venture - backed new media startups and academic institutions.
New York City, as a whole, «has a really strong case to be home to Amazon's second headquarters,» said NYCEDC spokesperson Anthony Hogrebe, citing the city's workforce, academic - and - research institutions, and quality of life.
If one means, for instance, an epistemological privilege of the oppressed, in the sense that the poor, the suffering and the dispossessed have some intuitive knowledge of God, righteousness and social reality not available to others; if one means that victims know best how to overcome their condition and build new institutions; and if one means that knowledge based on «experience» makes academic excellence unnecessary, then liberation thought and the Social Gospel diverge.
The essays in Smith's persuasive book mostly concern how one collection of influential males (the new academic secularists) successfully wrested control of the institutions of national culture from another collection of influential males (the old Protestant leaders).
At the same time, Catholic professors criticized their institutions for intellectual mediocrity, redefined «academic excellence» in line with the standards of leading graduate schools, and turned (with equivocal success) to theology to provide what Holy Cross historian David O'Brien has termed «the bridge between the older Catholic identity and the newer, more excellent version of Catholic higher education.»
For two decades, activists like Carmichael, street prophets like Farrakhan, and academic mountebanks like Baraka and the egregious Angela Davis have been stars of the campus circuit, indoctrinating new generations in the divisive and racially polarizing ideologies of the radical paradigm, and in the denigration of American values and institutions.
To be eligible for consideration for ESFA grant funding in academic year 2018 to 2019, new institutions must have been included within the high needs place change notification workbook returned by the LA in which the institution's main premises are situated (the «home LA») to ESFA.
To be eligible to receive EFA high needs funding in the academic year 2016 to 2017, new institutions must have successfully completed the due diligence process.
The Academic Minute features professors from top institutions around the country, delving into topics from the serious to the light - hearted, keeping listeners abreast of what's new and exciting in the academy.
Nearly $ 1 million will fund new training and educational programs at Mohawk Valley's academic institutions to boost the capacity and skills of the regional workforce.
In August 2015, Governor Andrew Cuomo announced $ 17.2 million in state awards to 26 academic medical institutions, including CUMC, for the training of new clinical researchers working on cutting - edge biomedical research.
It added that the new governing councils would be sworn by Governing Abiola Ajimobi in due course, assuring that all the institutions would resume academic activities soon.
Says Bergmann: «As an academic institution, comprehensive scientific validation of the new method is important to us.
Mr Koh Chwee, Director, Technical Services Division of JTC and Co-Director of the I3 Centre, said that through collaboration with academic institutions like NTU, JTC aims to develop new and innovative solutions to enhance safety and construction productivity for its industrial infrastructure projects.
«I had always assumed that I could come back to Germany, work here at the DKFZ for 5 years, but afterwards still be able find a new 5 - year position at another academic institution within the country.»
But new University of Washington research finds numerous benefits — to students, researchers and academic institutions looking to diversify their faculty — in making that return trip easier.
Pfizer created its CTI program a little more than a year ago, forming partnerships with 19 academic institutions in San Francisco, San Diego, New York, and Boston.
Next, the new law creates a «micro-entity» status that will result in lower patenting fees on qualifying individuals and academic institutions.
The Cooley firm represents Montana State University, New York University, Yale University, the University of Miami, Regents of the University of California, the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, and other academic and non-profit universities and institutions in IP matters.
One is at Bradford University, which has adopted an institution - wide approach and insists that all new members of academic staff take its course.
Then, one day on Facebook, I discovered a U.S. funding program for hosting threatened scholars in safe academic institutions around the world called the Scholar Rescue Fund (SRF), from the Institute of International Education (IIE) in New York City.
About the New York Genome Center The New York Genome Center is an independent, nonprofit academic research institution at the forefront of transforming biomedical research with the mission of advancing clinical care.
NewYork - Presbyterian is the # 1 hospital in the New York metropolitan area.and is consistently ranked among the best academic medical institutions in the nation, according to U.S.News & World Report.
The budget cuts will be accompanied by the dissolution, on 1 January, of the 120 - year - old institution's classical academic departments — zoology, botany, geology and anthropology — and by the shuffling of member scientists into a new, leaner organization, broadly titled Science and Education.
Federal agencies obligated $ 29 billion to 995 science and engineering academic institutions in fiscal year 2013, according to a new report from the National...
The Center for Carbon Removal, in partnership with Lawrence Livermore and several academic and research institutions, launched a new industrial innovation...
To create new and foster ongoing relationships with industry and other academic institutions
The University of Technology Sydney is the first academic institution to work with SAS and CISCO in a global Internet of Things (IoT) partnership, creating a new research and teaching facility, the UTS - SAS - Cisco IoT Innovation Lab.
Augusta University and East Georgia State College signed a new Memorandum of Understanding today to continue the cooperative academic program between the institutions.
«The scope of new thinking and new products represented by the NAI Charter Fellows is a profound example of the power of academic innovation and invention,» said Todd Sherer, president of AUTM and associate vice president for research administration at Emory University, an NAI member institution.
NeuWrite quickly became a noted forum for interdisciplinary work, attracting academics from institutions across New York City (including Rockefeller, Mt. Sinai, CUNY, SUNY and NYU), as well as professionals from media platforms such as The New Yorker, The New York Times, NPR, Scientific American Mind, and The Story Collider.
Thirteen U.S. academic institutions led by Cornell University, along with many national and international collaborators, are exploring new research directions in computational sustainability.
Key players in the United States» medical research enterprise, particularly the NIH, have responded impressively to these calls.17, 18 In 1998, the NIH established new career development awards for young physicians being trained to carry out clinical research (K23), awards for established clinical investigators (K24), and awards for academic institutions with programs supporting clinical research training and infrastructure (K30).
By bringing together for the first time three of Europe's leading vaccine development and manufacture companies as well as top experts from academic institutions and small and medium - sized enterprises (SMEs), the project will ultimately accelerate the development and introduction of a new generation of safer, more effective vaccines.
The Delaney Collaboratory to Cure HIV - 1 Infection by Combination Immunotherapy (BEAT - HIV Collaboratory) is a consortium of more than 30 top HIV researchers from leading academic research institutions working with government, nonprofit organizations, and industry partners to test combinations of several novel immunotherapies under new preclinical research and clinical trials.
About Site - Thorn partners with nonprofits and academic institutions to gather new insights into the role technology plays in child sex trafficking, the creation and proliferation of child pornography, and the normalization of child sexual exploitation.
In the postsecondary space, the Gates Foundation made a number of grants — both directly and through NGLC — to intriguing ventures with the potential to improve education dramatically, including some of my disruptive favorites: start - up MyCollege Foundation, which will establish a non-profit college that blends adaptive online learning solutions with other services at a low cost; University of the People, the world's first tuition - free, non-profit, online academic institution dedicated to opening access to higher education globally; New Charter University, a competency - based university that charges only $ 199 per month for students seeking a degree and for which NGLC will fund a research study of its online students and a comparative one of students enrolled in a blended - learning environment delivered through a partnership with the Community College of the District of Columbia; Southern New Hampshire University, which under its President Paul LeBlanc has already created an autonomous online division and will now pioneer the «Pathways Project,» which will offer a self - paced and student - centric associates degree; and MIT, which will use the funds to create a free prototype computer science online course for edX.
The Study of New Scholars (an outgrowth of the Project on Faculty Appointments) studies the pressures that confront academic institutions and their faculty members as they try to reinvent academic careers, reformulate academic appointments and broaden the spectrum of employment arrangements.
Massive Open Online Courses offer to academic institutions and the corporate sector new business opportunities to reach what we call today «the extensive classroom».
The implementation of a teacher action plan after this type of activity allows the students to explore the links that have been built with local academic institutions or businesses and could provide a springboard into a new world for students.
The Seminar on Leadership of the Faculty will gather Chief Academic Officers and others with institution - wide oversight of the faculty domain to examine and reconsider, under a new lens and informed by the latest research, the persistent challenges of developing and leading college faculty.
Many academic institutions supplement classroom degree programs with online lectures and other coursework, while many continuing education programs offer the convenience of online exclusivity to students who work full time while they pursue completion of a degree, or need to return to school to obtain new skills.
Among the thousands of participants who engaged in professional education at HGSE this past summer, new college presidents worked together to prepare for their roles as leaders of higher education institutions; scores of academic librarians met to discuss the challenges facing their ever - changing field; and over 100 early career principals developed leadership skills to better support teacher development and student achievement.
After years of innovation and academic growth, my school added a new program to bring in struggling students from another institution — and the state rewarded us by putting us on a list of «failing» schools and forcing us into a voucher program.
Yet, when it comes to selecting new hires, many institutions still rely on an approach that lacks academic rigor... but there is a better way.
Pressbooks.com founder Hugh McGuire today announced a new platform, Pressbooks EDU, to enable publishing, including open textbooks, in academic institutions, at the Open Textbook Summit.
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