Sentences with phrase «of academia at»

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Those of us in academia might say the same things, but I think it's when the community at large, when the business community is saying, «Hold on.

I would tend to give more credence to the competency of their views than those of housing bears who post analyses and charts at the click of a mouse, all the while unconstrained by due - diligence standards or even such things as the peer - review process that serves academia so well.

«A lot of academia and national labs are great at fundamental science but don't know how to turn it into a product,» she says.

But it's worth taking a long, hard look at academia's daddy issues — to examine the simple structural bit of skeevyness at the heart of any academic's ability (or inability) to form a scholarly identity and relate to others.

Before Gupta was appointed University of British Columbia president in July, he was CEO and scientific director of Mitacs, a not - for - profit founded in 1999 that's aimed at spurring partnerships between academia and the private sector.

The clash of commerce and academia is tilting the field in one direction, however, as Ian Sample, science editor at The Guardian, investigates.

About 20 years ago when he was working at Bell Labs (now AT&T's Image Processing Research Department), he happened upon a way of thinking about teaching computers to see that wasn't really used outside of academia until about three years ago.

A former top leader in academia, Rodin has put the idea of «resilience» at the center of the Rockefeller Foundation's work in recent years, helping communities worldwide prepare for and recover from major environmental and man - made shocks.

The main event of the day - long series of meetings was «Energy for Defense II» at the TCF Bank Stadium on the University of Minnesota campus — a Defense Alliance information and networking event that attracted 165 individuals representing industry, academia and government.

We are located at the MaRS Discovery District in downtown Toronto, part of a dynamic and vibrant community of research, academia, health science and commerce, near the University of Toronto.

If anyone in academia is puzzled as to why higher education is seen as spoiled by much of the rest of the public sector (and indeed the public - at - large), this graph is the answer.

A big part of the organization's role is building and sustaining networks of partners and stakeholders from private industry, academia and governments, at home and abroad.

19th century, archaeological finds (e.g. earth and timber fortifications and towns, the use of a plaster - like cement, ancient roads, metal points and implements, copper breastplates, head - plates, textiles, pearls, native North American inscriptions, North American elephant remains etc.) is not interpreted by mainstream academia as proving the historicity or divinity of the Book of Mormon.This evidence is viewed by mainstream scholars as a work of fiction that parallels others within the 19th century «Mound - builder» genre that were pervasive at the time.

But since the rich powers and their academia and media condition the cultural framework of thinking on such issues, the just interests of the poor are not taken into account in the discussion of the rich as at the summit conferences of the G 8, but is not highlighted even in the discourse among the governments of the poor peoples as in the Non - Aligned Movement.

But since the rich powers and their academia and media condition the cultural framework of thinking on such issues, the just interests of the poor are not taken into account in the discussion among the rich as at the summit conferences of the G 8.

Peterson has emerged as a divisive figure in both academia and pop - culture, and whilst he certainly has many antagonists, the popularity of the interview video seems to show that he also has a large number of supporters, many of whom are uncomfortable with the relativist media and grateful to find someone who is at least challenging this poisonous aspect of our culture.

But seeking the truth exacts a price, as Kenneth Maxwell, the Latin America specialist at the Council of Foreign Relations for the past 15 years, recently discovered in a dispute that caused a stir at the highest levels of academia and the policymaking elite.

The event, from May 7 - 10 at the Donald Stephens Convention Center in suburban Chicago, includes certification courses; a trade show with exhibitors from industry, academia and government; an extensive list of seminars and panel discussions; and a... Continue Reading

Jason C G Halford at the Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Liverpool discusses the EU project SATIN - the phases, goals, and collaboration between SMEs, industry and academia which underpin the project.

There was jubilation at Highbury, but the professionalism of Graham never allowed his side to let the academia of the evening's match affect the result.

She spent a decade in academia — during which time she was awarded prestigious fellowships from the National Institutes of Health to fund her Ph.D. research at Queen's University and joint - appointment postdoctoral fellowship at Massachusetts General Hospital / Harvard Medical School / Massachusetts Institutes of Technology.

Brooke and more than 30 leaders from the realms of medicine, education, academia, media, the military, and the football industry, will look at when children should begin playing tackle football, public health concerns, and the role of the National Football League and its players» association.

When I told my Mom I was going to leave academia and see if I could make things happen in the unknown (to me at the time) world of freelancing, she said, «All I want for you is happiness.»

Aimed at an international audience of practitioners and policymakers, it tackles contemporary themes in early childhood, with contributions from both foundation - supported projects and outside experts drawn from the fields of practice, policy, and academia.

We have brought together the best of science and academia to build an evidence - based organization at the Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy to examine how to stop the escalation of this epidemic and ultimately to eliminate it.

It might be noted that outside of academia, there is only one significant union of engineers in the US at Boeing.

There is no doubt that there should be more women in Parliament, at the highest level of business, in academia and in the professions, and the paucity of women across all workplaces is disturbing.

In order to ameliorate this problem of academia and industry variation and the unemployment trend, our educational sector needs to undergo a rigorous structural reform to improve the quality of graduates we produce at every educational level.

Hochul was joined at the Hillside Family of Agencies by a host of local leaders from government, academia and area non-profit organizations to talk about the new task force.

In the book I trace a parallel between over-coddled children - pre-loaded with therapeutic concepts, encouraged to complain at discomfort - and the growing number of over-sensitive, offended young adults in academia.

This Award is in recognition of the importance of research undertaken at any stage throughout higher education either within industry or in academia.

Attended by a good number of media, industry, academia and military representatives, the conference was also notable in that it not only looked at Raytheon's wares (see below)-- but also facilitated high - level debate on the coming Strategic Defence & Security Review (SDSR) in 2015, UK defence in general and C4ISR (Command, Control, Communications, Computers, Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance) spending priorities.

I bulldoze through the barriers of academia in another language and graduate with a masters degree at distinction level in my pocket.

Ricardo Mireles, Executive Director of Academia Avance said, «It is an honor to be invited by Hoosick Falls Central School to participate in the water conference at Bennington College.»

Saratoga County has been at the forefront of industry - academia partnerships with the result being several industry sanctioned programs with specific curriculums geared toward semiconductor manufacturing.One such program was developed by the State University of New York's Hudson Valley Community College, called Training and Education Center for Semiconductor Manufacturing and Alternative and Renewable Technologies (TEC - SMART).

He was lifted out of academia by Berlusconi in 1995 to work at the Europe Commission, first in internal markets and then on competition.

Labour politicians are just no good at running things — most have even less real - world experience of anything other than politics or academia than even the Tories.

«So I wanted to take the time to draw some parallels between what I see as women in a rather male dominated field and how we have to break down these barriers, empower each other, because the voices of women are so desperately needed in equal numbers, whether it is in business, academia or in politics and so sometimes it's an internal barrier and if you break through that then we will deal with societal barriers, but right now, you have to at least say I've got something to offer,» Hochul noted.

Bronx State Sen. Gustavo Rivera goes back to his roots in academia to teach a series of civics classes that start tonight at 6 p.m. at the Bronx Library Center.

Speaking at the opening of the 2017 executive doctoral research conference on the theme applying evidence - based research to effective management in Accra, Mr. Ibrahim said government believes academia is a strong back bone to businesses.

In academia, educating students should be at the top of your priority list.

Whether you are thinking about starting a career in academia, you have just started, or you have been at it for a long time, here are the 10 best pieces of advice that were given to me — in no specific order — to have a truly enjoyable, fulfilling, and successful academic life.

If I had to guess at the correlation between Student A's and Student B's chances of success outside of Academia, I'd have to say there's absolutely no correlation.

Life at the Bottleneck by Ruth Müller, 26 October 2012 Upon realizing, as a scholar of science and technology studies, that success and failure in academia depend on more than personal effort, Ruth Müller made it a point to identify other potential interests and fields of occupation to increase her resilience to career anxieties.

After their stints in Washington, D.C., scientists and engineers head in one of three directions, says Cynthia Robinson, director of Science and Technology Policy Fellowships at the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS, the publisher of Science and Science Careers) in Washington, D.C.: They go back to academia, they stay in the policy world, or they decide to do something completely different.

He also decided to switch fields to pursue electronics — another of his interests at school — to create intelligent LED technology for academia and industry.

From my perspective, the only downsides to this career path are (1) you're expected to be mobile during your early (Grade A) training period, and (2) at this point, the salary is not equal to that of a researcher in academia.

The author group included individuals from a large spread of nationalities and scientific and institutional backgrounds, but consensus was easy to reach, says declaration co-author Charoula Tzanakou, a research fellow at the University of Warwick in the United Kingdom who investigates gender balance in academia.

At last year's American Association of Pharmaceutical Scientists annual meeting held in Toronto, a panel of scientists from industry and academia discussed the pros and cons of pursuing a postdoc in either environment.

Graduate school may prepare students fairly well for a career in academia, but it's not great training for the jobs at private companies that at least 75 % of all graduate students eventually take.