Sentences with phrase «of academic initiatives»

Prior to his appointment, Dr. McLendon, a native Floridian, was appointed the first Curator of Academic Initiatives at The George D. and Harriet W. Cornell Fine Arts Museum, Rollins College.

To discuss the possibilities for your classes or research, contact Ellen C. Raimond, Ph.D., Assistant Curator of Academic Initiatives, at [email protected] or 919-684-8067.

Ex officio (Nasher Museum staff): Sarah Schroth, Mary D.B.T. and James H. Semans Director Trevor Schoonmaker, Chief Curator and Patsy R. and Raymond D. Nasher Curator of Contemporary Art Marshall Price, Nancy Hanks Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art Molly Boarati, assistant curator of exhibitions Ellen C. Raimond, Ph.D., Assistant Curator of Academic Initiatives

Iva Olah (University of Chicago PhD 2013), Mellon Foundation Curatorial Intern at the Smart Museum, in consultation with Anne Leonard, Smart Museum Curator and Associate Director of Academic Initiatives.

Michael Rossi, Assistant Professor, Department of History and the College, The University of Chicago, in consultation with Berit Ness, Assistant Curator of Academic Initiatives.

Objects and Voices micro-exhibitions are coordinated by Anne Leonard, Smart Museum Curator and Associate Director of Academic Initiatives.

Alice Kain (Assistant Registrar and Coordinator of Academic Initiatives at the Smart Museum of Art) discusses the relationship between British and American design

This exhibition is organized by Richard Neer, the William B. Ogden Distinguished Service Professor of Art History, Cinema and Media Studies, and the College at The University of Chicago, in consultation with Berit Ness, Assistant Curator of Academic Initiatives.

Ellen C. Raimond, Ph.D., Assistant Curator of Academic Initiatives, speaks with Duke students from the course Beyond Andy Warhol: Art and Music in NYC as they tour the museum's study storage area.

To discuss College or University tours, contact Ellen Raimond, Assistant Curator of Academic Initiatives, at [email protected] or 919-684-8067.

For more information about using the Academic Focus Gallery, contact Ellen C. Raimond, Ph.D., Assistant Curator of Academic Initiatives, at [email protected].

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

Not exact matches

While Canada has emphasized unbridled academic research, some other countries have adopted more «applied» research programs in direct support of strategic industrial initiatives.

The pilot program for the 2015 - 2016 and 2016 - 2017 academic years seeks to support enhanced confidence with technology integration, facilitate the adoption of campus - wide technologies, such as Adobe Connect and Desire2Learn, while also encouraging exploration of learning technology solutions to classroom and department initiatives.

In August, Mr. Flaherty met with his advisory panel as well as selected business representatives and academics to discuss key issues facing Canada and «to shape the policies and initiatives of the next phase of Canada's Economic Action Plan».

The State Department should begin by supporting three initiatives: the development of an academic sub-discipline of international religious freedom studies, the engagement of big business, and the building of partnerships with other, like - minded governments.

Complicating even the academic terrain are a number of initiatives reasserting the importance of individual actions, even when undertaken by elite Caucasian males.

Based out of Nomacorc's enology headquarters in Nimes, France, he is responsible for coordinating research initiatives and overseeing academic research partnerships.

The initiative follows on he heels of another report by Oxford academics, which last year found that levying a tax on animal products — pricing them to reflect more accurately their harmful impact — could reduce meat eating to the extent that 1 billion tonnes of carbon a year would be saved... and 500,000 lives.

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).

Officials describe the dinner initiative as having three goals: hedging against childhood hunger, reducing alarming rates of obesity and drawing more students to after - school programs, where extra academic help is available.

UNICEF has facilitated partnerships with all stakeholders including the State Government, State Nutrition Mission, the Integrated Child Development Services (ICDS), Public Health Department, BPNI (Breastfeeding Promotion Network of India), NGOs, Community Based Organisations (CBOs) and several academic institutions, for this major initiative.

«In Singapore, it's now been standardized as part of the curriculum there,» said Mary Utne O'Brien, vice president of strategic initiatives for the non-profit Collaborative for Academic Social and Emotional Learning (CASEL).

Touching on the initiatives undertaken by his government, he stated that the Free Senior High School policy has resulted in an increase of over 90,000 children who have entered secondary school this academic year, who would otherwise have dropped out at this stage.

Around 19 board members, along with a handful of guests and community members, convened at the Koffman Southern Tier Incubator in Downtown Binghamton to discuss ongoing initiatives and present proposals for the 2018 - 19 academic year.

Syracuse University is planning a $ 5,060 tuition increase in the fall of 2018 as part of a plan to fund $ 100 million in academic initiatives, which will likely bring tuition at the university up to more than $ 50,000 a year.

Beyond his academic credentials, he has a wealth of experience in urban economics thanks to his stints with the college's Center for Entrepreneurship and the Office of Urban Initiatives.

The Renewal initiative, with its added social services and academic supports, will be fully implemented this fall, meaning the program's deadline for turning around schools will roughly coincide with the the end of the three - year extension proposal.

Battle of the Books is part of the overall Summer Reading initiative run by the 37 - site Buffalo & Erie County Public Library System where school age children are encouraged to read during the summer months in an effort to advance their academic performance.

Notably, this includes a range of initiatives aimed at school - age students, the establishment of the university Academic Centre of Excellence, and a number of schemes designed to allow individuals to transition into a career in cyber security.

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».

Professor James Ketterer, the director of International Academic Initiatives at Bard College, says there are many moving parts to the agreement.

Began this academic year, the FSHS initiative aims to provide Senior High School education to every qualified Ghanaian child who completes the Basic level of education at no cost to parents in order to remove the barrier of finance which has undoubtedly deprived Ghana of many potential leaders.

ALBANY — Gov. Andrew Cuomo is offering schools millions of dollars for academic initiatives that are overwhelmingly supported by education experts, and for the second time, districts aren't interested in the money.

«Spontaneous development has been recorded since the intervention of this technological initiative of our administration as our students results have improved through the academic tools being given to them, while their performance has been on the increase.

«This initiative should serve as a reminder that the needs of all students deserve to be met — in the absence of a distractive bathroom experience that can impede academic achievement,» she said.

«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.

The initiative empowers community, business, and academic leaders, as well as members of the public in each region of the state, to develop strategic plans specifically tailored to their region's unique strengths and resources in order to create jobs, improve quality of life and grow the economy.

► «[T] he process of offering admission at selective Ph.D. programs is chock - full of assumptions that are seldom made explicit or challenged,» wrote Sian Beilock, vice provost for academic initiatives at the University of Chicago in Illinois, in her review of the book Inside Graduate Admissions: Merit, Diversity, and Faculty Gatekeeping, by Julie Posselt.

Women must take the initiative to clearly evaluate their academic institutions and to offer constructive criticism to pave the way for the next generation of female physician - scientists.

The agency supports network science through individual institutes (for example, the National Institute of General Medical Sciences funds nine National Centers for Systems Biology, academic centers that emphasize network biology) and through agencywide initiatives (such as the National Technology Centers for Networks and Pathways, funded by the NIH Roadmap for Medical Research and the recently announced Human Connectome Project, which aims to map the connections among the human brain's 100 billion neurons).

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.

Other targets of the initiative have focused on instituting ways to build collaboration among academic, nonprofit and private sector efforts, including international groups and to increase federal funding, an effort that spurred Congress to pass in December 2016 the 21st Century Cures Act that authorized $ 1.8 billion for the National Cancer Institute.

«Business leaders as well as academics have been trying to promote the adoption of quality flexible work initiatives for the past three decades.

Although professionals and academics understand the typical attributes of entrepreneurs — risk - taking, innovativeness, initiative, and decisiveness — they have struggled to understand what makes a successful entrepreneur.

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.

Thanks to a succession of government initiatives to bring Chinese academics working abroad back home, the scientific environment in China is increasingly bilingual.

In short, it is evident that hypercompetition is inconsistent with «affording the prepared mind complete freedom for the exercise of initiative,» which Vannevar Bush, who devised our system of academic research funding in the 1940s, considered to be of «supreme importance.»

A group of people at Osaka University (Eiji Umemoto [Associate Professor, Laboratory of Immune Regulation, Osaka University Graduate School of Medicine] and Masayuki Miyasaka [Specially Appointed Professor, Institute for Academic Initiatives]-RRB- and University of Turku, Finland (Akira Takeda, Postdoctoral researcher at MediCity Research Laboratory) has found for the first time that a lipid called lysophosphatidic acid (LPA) plays a vital role in regulating lymphocyte motility within lymph nodes.

The reviewer is Vice Provost for Academic Initiatives at the University of Chicago, Chicago, IL 60637, USA.