Sentences with phrase «number of program directors»

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Since proposing the program two years ago, IPF executive director Andra Sheffer says the number of web series has grown from five or six total to 50 Canadian series.

Through this program, we have received and continue to periodically receive helpful input regarding a number of stockholder - related matters, and have adopted a number of significant changes to our corporate governance practices in addition to welcoming two new independent directors to our Board in 2017, bringing the total number of independent directors to seven of nine members.

When a board of directors authorizes a share repurchase program, it typically states either the number of shares the company is interested in buying back or a dollar amount it will spend on its stock buyback.

His full - time role is executive director of the Kansas City Startup Foundation, a startup ecosystem incubator with a number of programs including Startland News.

After a series of difficult relationships with women (including four divorces), a number of children and a range of careers — from being a radio station program director to a newspaper reporter to owning his own public relations and marketing firm — Walsch became sick, jobless and homeless.

Likewise, in her practice, Elizabeth Pieroth, Ph.D., Associate Director of North Shore University Health System's Sports Concussion Program, says she has seen a number of youth patients (athletes and non-athletes) who have sustained a concussion and believe they now have or are going to develop CTE.

Statistics are sobering: drowning is the number one cause of accidental death for children ages 1 to 4, and the second leading cause of accidental death for children ages 5 to 14, says Kyle Kamman, senior director of program strategy and implementation of aquatics at the YMCA of Metropolitan Chicago.

According to Donald Russoniello, director of the Joint - Base McGuire Dix Lakehurst Youth Sports & Fitness Program, one benefit they have realized from being a tri-service joint base is being able to expand the number of programs offered to reach each youth.

All of us involved in youth sports - from parents, to coaches, from athletic trainers to school athletic directors to the athletes themselves - have a responsibility to do what we can to make contact and collision sports safer, whether it by reducing the number of hits to the head a player receives over the course of a season (such as N.F.L. and the Ivy League are doing in limiting full - contact practices, and the Sports Legacy Institute recently proposed be considered at the youth and high school level in its Hit Count program), teaching football players how to tackle without using their head (as former pro football player Bobby Hosea has long advocated), changing the rules (as the governing body for high school hockey in Minnesota did in the aftermath of the Jack Jablonski injury or USA Hockey did in banning body checks at the Pee Wee level), or giving serious consideration to whether athletes below a certain age should be playing tackle football at all (as the American Academy of Pediatrics recommend).

The incumbents said they have upgraded fields at North Park, developed Maggie Rogers Park, installed an outdoor ice rink, increased the number of programs to more than 100 and hired Park Director Scott Piwowarczyk.

A growing number of cities, school districts and non-profit groups are offering meals over school breaks, said Crystal FitzSimmons, director of school programs for the Food Research & Action Center, another national group that works to fight hunger.

In an email to supporters, WFP State Director Bill Lipton points out there's a number of things the party is behind in the new budget, including a renters tax credit, funding for pre-Kindergarten programs and increased support for child care.

However, Musegaas, the Hudson River Program Director and an attorney for Westchester - based Riverkeeper, says his group has submitted a number of concerns to the DEC..

Giruzzi has served in a number of capacities with the County, including youth program director where he coordinated a variety of aspects concerned with direct service programs and participated on community committees and task forces concerned with providing services to youth in the community.

«I'm surprised at how bad and how high that number is,» said Arthur Wheaton, the director of Western New York Labor and Environmental Programs for The Worker Institute at Cornell University.

«These findings suggest limiting the visibility of tobacco displays in retail stores may reduce the number of young people who try cigarettes,» said William Shadel, associate director of RAND Population Health Program and senior behavioral scientist at RAND, a nonprofit research organization.

Russell Marx, director of Adolescent Eating Disorders Program at the University of California, San Diego, and chief science officer of the National Eating Disorders Association, expects to see big changes in diagnosis and treatment with the addition of binge eating disorder but less impact on anorexia diagnoses as the number of patients with ED - NOS is reduced.

«The link between obesity and vitamin D deficiency can be explained a number ways, one of which is that obese individuals are less likely to be physically active, thereby limiting their sun exposure,» said senior investigator Ken Kunisaki, MD, MS, Medical Director of the Sleep Apnea Program at the Minneapolis VA and Associate Professor of Medicine at the University of Minnesota.

«There is a very small number of people that control a huge amount of water,» said Douglas Kenney, director of the Western Water Policy Program at the University of Colorado Law School in Boulder.

«Knowing that immune cytokines can change pigment production in melanocytes, while also knowing that chronic inflammation has the potential to increase the number of melanocytes, has clear implications for the design of future therapies to address a set of common skin disorders,» says Dr. Krueger, director of Milstein Research Program and D. Martin Carter Professor in Clinical Investigation.

The number of Somali children in the city's autism programs jumped from zero in 1999 to 43 in 2007, says Ann Fox, director of special education programs for Minneapolis schools.

This study was supported by Norma C. and Albert I. Geller via the Gynecological Cancer Translation Research Program at the Case Comprehensive Cancer Center, and grants from The Mary Kay Foundation (to A.D. and R.X.), the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute Of Child Health & Human Development of the National Institutes of Health under the NIH Director's New Innovator award number DP2HD084068 (to R.X.), The National Cancer Institute award number R011CA197780 - 01A1 (to A.D.), and The Young Scientist Foundation (A.D.Of Child Health & Human Development of the National Institutes of Health under the NIH Director's New Innovator award number DP2HD084068 (to R.X.), The National Cancer Institute award number R011CA197780 - 01A1 (to A.D.), and The Young Scientist Foundation (A.D.of the National Institutes of Health under the NIH Director's New Innovator award number DP2HD084068 (to R.X.), The National Cancer Institute award number R011CA197780 - 01A1 (to A.D.), and The Young Scientist Foundation (A.D.of Health under the NIH Director's New Innovator award number DP2HD084068 (to R.X.), The National Cancer Institute award number R011CA197780 - 01A1 (to A.D.), and The Young Scientist Foundation (A.D.).

In addition to offering vehicles powered by a number of alternatives (fuel, battery or both), car companies are going to win customers in the future based on the networked services they offer drivers and passengers and how well these services are delivered, says Nancy Gioia, Ford Motor Co.'s director of Sustainable Mobility Technologies and Hybrid Vehicle Programs.

«Understanding the flow of sediment in rivers is important to the large number of people around the world who live near these waterways,» said Judy Skog, a program director for the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Coastal SEES (Science, Engineering and Education for Sustainability) program, which funded the research.

CubeSats offer a number of challenges, says Brian Weeden, a former officer in the U.S. Air Force with a focus on space security and current director of program planning for the Secure World Foundation.

Research shows that 60 percent of Americans are living paycheck to paycheck, and a record number are living below poverty level, says program director Julie Kalkowski of Creighton's Heider College of Business.

Only a few thousand French researchers work in the United States for the moment, but the number has accelerated recently and is «worrying,» says Ioanna Kohler, policy programs director at the French - American Foundation in New York City and author of the report.

Ami Radunskaya — a professor of mathematics at Pomona College, president - elect of the Association for Women in Mathematics, and director of the national Enhancing Diversity in Graduate Education (EDGE) Program — was chosen as the winner of the 2016 AAAS Mentor Award for launching «dramatic education and research changes leading to an increase in the number of female doctorates in the field of mathematics.»

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contacts: Sarina Jepsen, Endangered Species Program Director, The Xerces Society for Invertebrate Conservation, [phone], [email protected] Emma Pelton, Conservation Biologist, Endangered Species Program, The Xerces Society for Invertebrate Conservation, [phone], [email protected] Western Monarch Butterflies Continue to Decline Annual census of monarchs overwintering on the California coast reveals the lowest number of Read more...

«This grant enables us to bring our bench - to - bedside treatment program to larger numbers of people recovering from right brain stroke, and produce systematic information supporting its impact,» said A.M. Barrett, MD, director of Stroke Rehabilitation Research at Kessler Foundation.

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Although the researchers controlled for body mass index and a number of dietary factors that have been linked to gout (such as alcohol, meat, seafood, and dairy intake), fructose consumption is difficult to untangle from other factors that can contribute to the disease, says Karen Congro, RN, director of the Wellness for Life Program at the Brooklyn Hospital Center, in New York City.

«The DASH Diet can lower the top number — systolic pressure — anywhere from 8 to 14 points,» says cardiologist Nieca Goldberg, MD, medical director of the Women's Heart Program at NYU Langone Medical Center in New York City.

AMH is proportional to the number of viable eggs left in the ovaries, which produce the hormone, says James A. Grifo, MD, PhD, program director of the NYU Langone Fertility Center, in New York City.

Dr. Caldwell Esselstyn Jr., director of the Cleveland Clinic's cardiovascular prevention and reversal program is quoted as saying heart disease is a «completely preventable foodborne illness,» arguing that an optimal diet could eliminate our number one killer.

At this year's Television Critics Association, NBC formally launched their «Female Forward Initiative,» increasing the number of female directors on the popular network's list of programs slated for Fall.

I definitely have colleagues who are women who are directors of programming or executive directors, but I bet are percentages aren't that much better than the number of women filmmakers getting into film festivals.

Every year, film fanatics — «film addicts» may be a more accurate phrase — head to Utah to see what Robert Redford, Sundance festival director John Cooper and his eclectic team of programmers, the alumni of the Sundance Institute's workshops / programs, returning veteran filmmakers and any number of fresh new voices have concocted in the name of «independent» movies.

Peterkin, director of the Urban Superintendents Program (USP) at HGSE for 15 years, has mentored a number of USP graduates who are currently in high - profile urban school systems.

Natasha Patterson School Leadership Program Current City: Chicago Current job: Assistant principal, Chicago Public Schools Career highlights: Serving as school director / principal of UCSN — Rogers Park for the 2013 - 2014 academic year and earning a Level 1 + on the SQRP; securing a partnership with the David Lynch Foundation and the University of Chicago Crime Lab to bring Transcendental Meditation and the Quiet Time program to the students and staff of Gage Park High School, a valuable tool in helping teachers and staff deal with stress and trauma; increased the number of 2016 Gage Park High School graduates earning early college and career credeProgram Current City: Chicago Current job: Assistant principal, Chicago Public Schools Career highlights: Serving as school director / principal of UCSN — Rogers Park for the 2013 - 2014 academic year and earning a Level 1 + on the SQRP; securing a partnership with the David Lynch Foundation and the University of Chicago Crime Lab to bring Transcendental Meditation and the Quiet Time program to the students and staff of Gage Park High School, a valuable tool in helping teachers and staff deal with stress and trauma; increased the number of 2016 Gage Park High School graduates earning early college and career credeprogram to the students and staff of Gage Park High School, a valuable tool in helping teachers and staff deal with stress and trauma; increased the number of 2016 Gage Park High School graduates earning early college and career credentials.

Jacqueline P. Danzberger, the director of governance programs at the Institute for Educational Leadership, says most state mandates are «very, very minimal,» requiring board members to spend a certain number of hours passively receiving information on such matters as school law, communications, and finance.

The number one, biggest surprise of the last year was... Being recognized by my classmates and program director for the Intellectual Contribution Award was an amazing surprise.

State Study Cites Racial, Income Disparities in Special Education The Herald News, April 24, 2012» «Poor kids are being served in special education at relatively high numbers, almost at about twice the rate you would expect in the population in general,» said Thomas Hehir, a Harvard School of Education professor and former director of special education programs for the U.S. Education Department.»

An Oakland resident, Nicole has served as a program director and fundraising professional for a number of youth serving agencies in Oakland, Richmond, and San Francisco, California.

Each affiliate member is entitled to the number of representatives determined by the Board of Directors based on the number of faculty in the articulated Education program or programs.

Kim Olesker, regional director of United Way Success by 6 program, said organizers are impressed with the number of providers that have stepped up to accept preschool children in Lake County.

Ralph Smith, managing director of the Campaign for Grade - Level Reading, a collaborative effort of political, education, business and advocacy leaders to close the nation's literacy gap, said «We shouldn't be at all surprised by the NAEP scores... we can point to nothing substantial in terms of interventions or programs that would have made that number different.»

Dr. Scannella, a former principal, assistant principal, director of curriculum and psychotherapist, is the author of a number of notable projects and texts including Sending the Right Signals, a program to eliminate sexual harassment; co-author of The Children We Share, a program for parents and principals, and the author of Changing Student Behavior: Comprehensive Learning and Interventions for Correcting Kids and Successful Interventions for Today's Exceptional Kids: Cultivating a Passion for Compassion (Rowman & Littlefield, publishers).

In her role as Louisiana Implementation Director, Maigan Francis works closely with school administrators, community leaders and the Louisiana Department of Education to increase the number of high - quality schools participating in the Louisiana Scholarship Program.

Dan Becker, director of the Sierra Club's global warming and energy program, says the EPA numbers demonstrate domestic manufacturers have little interest in fuel economy.