Sentences with phrase «of academic events»

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It is a one - of - a-kind event, a mixture of unalloyed commerce, high - minded do - gooderism, and brass - tacks policy discussions, attended by corporate bigwigs, journalists, academics, non-governmental organizations, and top government officials.

Following are some of the ideas discussed at the event, attended by more than 250 chief executives, academics, directors, entrepreneurs, and investors.

A series of events, being co-hosted by the World Bank and WHO on 13 - 14 April, as part of the World Bank Group - International Monetary Fund Spring Meetings in Washington DC, is bringing ministers of finance, development agencies, academic experts and practitioners together to discuss how to put mental health at the centre of the health and development agenda globally and in countries.

The day - long event brought together 150 invited guests, including Knight News Challenge grantees along with leading journalists, technologists, campaign organizers, academics and thought leaders for a series of curated panel discussions.

The event will feature 250 + speakers and 4,000 + attendees from the leading industry startups, investors, financial institutions, enterprise tech leaders, and academic and policy groups who are building the foundations of the blockchain and digital currency economy.

JDC West is a three - day competition that challenges students in the areas of academics, athletics, debate and social events.

The competition is a three - day event that showcases academics, athletics, debate, and an out - of - the - box social competition.

Academic forum On October 18 and 19, MFS will join fellow DCIIA members in New York at this annual event that brings together leading academics and innovative plan sponsors and practitioners for a series of panels on how to improve outcomes in defined contribution plans.

Throughout the academic year, CSIMA hosts a variety of professional, educational, and social events centered around the investing community.

The event will bring together a broad range of stakeholders including consumers, business leaders, financial specialists, academics, economists, non-governmental organizations and government representatives to examine real solutions to help Canadian families tackle their financial challenges.

Founders Lab is executed through a series of activities that invites serial entrepreneurs, alumni, mentors and academics to run workshops or events with the focus of promoting learning and providing tools for success.

I hope you realize anything that is quoted «Spoken by Jesus» is questionable at best as in the academic world (Biblical scholars) most of what was written by anonymous scribe 200 - 300 years after the event are consider Pseudepigraphic and if nescessary I can supply historical reference.

Most Revd Justin Welby reaffirmed the United Nations goal while speaking to business leaders, clergy and academics at an event organised by the University of Derby.

It can memorialize a person or event, as in a virtual archive of snapshots of tattoos showing names and faces of deceased loved ones (I attended a presentation of the archive by two academics in Toronto last year).

The third book focuses on Jane and Mark Studdock, an academic couple who end up falling on opposite sides of a conflict involving the dystopian events surrounding Bracton College, a sinister corporation, and a mysterious figure dug up from the bottom of a well.

Our interest in the events of his life, and above all in the cross, is more than an academic concern with the history of the past.

The hotly debated question as to whether this implies that the Kingdom is to be regarded as present, inbreaking, dawning, casting its shadows before it, or whatever, becomes academic when we realize that the claim of the saying is that certain events in the ministry of Jesus are nothing less than an experience of the Kingdom of God.

These events will probably have little more than academic interest to non-believers, and the latter will often cast doubt on the objective historicity of some occurrences such as the Exodus or the resurrection of Christ.

Another reason was the metamorphosis of the Holocaust event into an academic subject, which I followed with uneasiness and distrust.

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The reality of the Easter event is not established by academic scholarship performing autopsies on those Gospel narratives that bear witness to the Easter event but rather by engaging in those activities prescribed by them, that is, identifying with the hungry and the poor, obeying the teaching of Jesus, and devoting oneself to liturgy.

I deliberately speak of it as an event of more than theological or academic significance: it is an ecclesiastical event.

If the Vanderbilt transition from Methodist to neuter exhibits a typical pattern of academic secularization, what we will find at the root of these events is a sponsoring church that is nonchalant about its burden: one that wishes to be the patron of a college or university without being its benefactor.

And like Genesis, it is a story told not out of academic interest in recovering the distant past and retelling that past for its own sake alone, but because the subsequent scenes of that history, including every «present» scene, are given sense and meaning only when viewed against this formative, exciting, and in every way remarkable first scene of the Exodus events.

«The Boys & Girls Clubs of Greater San Diego serves kids ages 5 - to 18 - years old with academic success, character development and healthy lifestyle programs at 17 community - based sites county - wide,» notes an event spokesperson.

With academics at its core, Bay Area Equestrian Club provides equestrian - focused activities and events; volunteer and community service opportunities; rescue horse programs; leadership training for young people; and educational experiences for people interested in the field of veterinary medicine.

Under Title IX, to achieve gender parity between men's and women's sports, universities and colleges have to meet one of three different requirements: 1) equity in participation opportunities for both men and women; 2) scholarships offered proportionally based on the number of male and female athletes; and 3) comparable overall treatment of women's and men's sports (including but not limited to quality and maintenance of locker rooms and facilities, equipment and supplies, access to practice fields, publicity of teams and events, the quality of coaching, academic tutoring, traveling budgets, etc.).

Safe transportation for students to and from school, transports special education students in / out of district schools and transports students to athletic and academic events.

Fathers Direct would like to invite you to attend «Searching for Dad: Exploring Muslim Fatherhood» a unique event which brings together academics and practitioners from the UK and the USA to explore the nature of fatherhood in contemporary Muslim Culture.

GLSEN also manages a number of programs / events to engage school communities of all grades throughout the academic year, including Ally Week, ThinkB4YouSpeak, the Day of Silence, No Name - Calling Week, and the Safe Space Kit.

Thinking the Twentieth Century is a dense but invigorating tome, suggestive at times of a college academic bowl, replete with references to picayune events, facts, statistics, and thinkers off the historical map of even the most polymathic intellectual.

On Tuesday 25 February, the Department of Politics and International Relations hosted an event on the subject of «Academic Blogging: Political Analysis in the Digital Age».

The findings are to be discussed at an event bringing together academics, policymakers, journalists and local campaigners as part of the Economic and Social Research Council's (ESRC) Festival of Social Science.

... Last week, the New York City Human Rights Commission partnered with the Office of the First Lady Chirlane McCray and the Mayor's Office of Special Projects and Community Events to host a panel discussion at New York's historic Gracie Mansion with over 130 advocates, community leaders, academics, and City officials.

Speaking at the event, Vice Chancellor, KWASU, Prof. Abdulrasheed Na'Allah said «KWASU Council and Management have complemented the investment of Government in this building by ensuring that superior academic staff where recruited from around the world into the Engineering College.

He said: «As well as her own extensive and wide - ranging consultations with senior figures from the armed forces, the defence industry, the unions, academic experts and others, Emily is hosting a series of round table events for MPs to inform the defence review, focusing on issues such as intelligence, international relations, cyber-security, terrorism, and the role of special forces, as well as the future of the nuclear deterrent.

These events follow on a letter providing detailed recommendations on protecting junior researchers that the union for postdocs — the United Automobile, Aerospace and Agricultural Implement Workers of America, UAW Local 5810 — sent in January to the office of the president of the University of California and the chair of the University of California Academic Senate.

Gadêlha and the Oxford SIAM committee planned the agenda of the events they will hold this academic year, including an induction day for newcomers, student seminars, scientific talks by professors, networking events, visits to industry campuses, and an annual conference.

From the looks of the program, it appears that this event was a positive step forward in creating a better environment for women of color who choose to dedicate their time and talent to academic careers.

Clearly, however, any number of such unfortunate events constitute yet another painful form of abuse perpetrated by the academic establishment against vulnerable young scientists.

AAAS and several academic researchers are joining forces to collect information to guide scientists on how best to engage with policymakers, filling a much - needed fact - finding gap, experts gathered at a National Academy of Sciences event agreed.

When he spoke of a «Field of Dishonor» in a speech at an event of the German Peace Society at the tenth anniversary of the beginning of World War I, this triggered a chorus of outrage among national conservative academics and a disciplinary procedure.

The primary endpoint was 30 - day net adverse clinical events (NACE), a composite of major adverse cardiac and cerebral events (MACCE; all - cause death, reinfarction, ischemia - driven target vessel revascularization, or stroke) or any bleeding as defined by the Bleeding Academic Research Consortium (BARC) definition.

«I used this event to get an idea of how academics should present their ideas to business groups — for example, the need to provide an exit strategy for investors so they can see where and when they will get their money back,» he says.

To cite a recent example, speaking at an event organized by the pressure group Save British Science, Astronomer Royal Professor Sir Martin Rees this week voiced his concern that the lack of a long - term view from successive governments means there is a serious danger that the cohort of young academic researchers needed to replace the older generation will fail to materialize.

The timing of family needs may cause postdocs to miss important events on the academic calendar.

The main event is an annual meeting, bringing together companies and academics with an interest in skin research but the Skin Forum also makes sure that it keeps abreast of current thinking and that research is aimed at something applicable and useful: «We commissioned a survey that was sent out to both pharmaceutical and cosmetic industries to see what areas of skin research were thought to be most relevant and should be covered in grant applications,» says Professor Hadgraft.

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(Phys.org)-- A team of researchers from several academic institutions in the U.S. has found that contrary to popular belief, conifers have experienced at least two complete genome duplication events over the course of their evolutionary history.

This special event is shared between Phacilitate Cell & Gene Therapy World and World Stem Cell Summit agendas, ensuring a unique audience made up of both industry and academic stakeholders as well as investors, big pharma, regulators and, of course, the world's leading cell and tissue banks.