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.