Sentences with phrase «of an academic career at»

The new proposal doesn't necessarily threaten to change the «shape» of an academic career at the university as much as it affects the time it takes to get there.

He spent most of his academic career at Georgia State University where he is now Professor Emeritus of English Education.

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After finishing three degrees at the University of Toronto, she co-founded Insight Data Science, a Silicon Valley education startup that helped PhDs transition from academic research to careers in industry.

Two new deputy governors made their debut at the latest BOJ meeting, according to Reuters — Masayoshi Amamiya, a career central banker, and former academic Masazumi Wakatabe, a vocal advocate of aggressive easing.

«The education I received at Haskayne through professors with strong academic and business credentials, combined with work experience during my studies meant I was well placed to pursue a range of interesting career opportunities,» says Wesley.

Keri Damen Keri Damen is a program leader, intrapreneur and instructor who manages the academic and business success of a growing portfolio of cutting edge, market - driven business programs designed to advance the careers of learners at U of T's School of Continuing Studies.

By centering on Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts, and Math [STEAM], the program underscores the importance of bringing diverse women from various academic interests together at the developmental stages of their career to build a support network for future women business owners and leaders.

He spent most of his distinguished academic career at Duke Divinity School, where he was the Ragan Kerns Distinguished Professor Emeritus of the History of....

A. N. Whitehead (1861 — 1947) retired in 1924 from an academic career in England in the fields of mathematics and education and promptly accepted an invitation to join the faculty in philosophy at Harvard University, where his work took off in a totally unexpected direction.

Fox tells the story from beginning to end: childhood in the German - American parsonage; nine grades of school followed by three years in a denominational «college» that was not yet a college and three year's in Eden Seminary, with graduation at 21; a five - month pastorate due to his father's death; Yale Divinity School, where despite academic probation because he had no accredited degree, he earned the B.D. and M.A.; the Detroit pastorate (1915 - 1918) in which he encountered industrial America and the race problem; his growing reputation as lecturer and writer (especially for The Christian Century); the teaching career at Union Theological Seminary (1928 - 1960); marriage and family; the landmark books Moral Man and Immoral Society and The Nature and Destiny of Man; the founding of the Fellowship of Socialist Christians and its journal Radical Religion; the gradual move from Socialist to liberal Democratic politics, and from leader of the Fellowship of Reconciliation to critic of pacifism; the break with Charles Clayton Morrison's Christian Century and the inauguration of Christianity and Crisis; the founding of the Union for Democratic Action, then later of Americans for Democratic Action; participation in the ecumenical movement, especially the Oxford Conference and the Amsterdam Assembly; increasing friendship with government officials and service with George Kennan's policy - planning group in the State Department; the first stroke in 1952 and the subsequent struggles with ill health; retirement from Union in 1960, followed by short appointments at Harvard, at the Center for the Study of Democratic Institutions, and at Columbia's Institute of War and Peace Studies; intense suffering from ill health; and death in Stockbridge, Massachusetts, in 1971.

Currently the Academic Dean at the University of Illinois in Chicago (where he cops an annual salary approaching a quarter of a million dollars, making him the highest paid dean in the country), he began his career as a scholar of seventeenth - century English literature at the University of California, Berkeley.

The Boys & Girls Club of Southwest County provides academic support, sports, arts, S.T.E.M., career readiness, and leadership programs through before and after - school programs and day camps at its three site locations in Temecula, Murrieta, and Lake Elsinore.

Even at the most academic - minded schools like Stanford, Duke and Northwestern, many players go to school for football with the dream of making it a career.

Truly blessed to say that I will be continuing my academic and athletic career at The University of Michigan!

And the same progression of learning before taking center stage is at the root of her academic and career goals.

Michaela «Dr. Cheyney is one of the best professors I've had in my entire academic career at Oregon State»

Dr. Cheyney is one of the best professors I've had in my entire academic career at Oregon State.

To achieve this, we are now working with groups from across the teaching, training and academic spheres, to identify what additional provisions may be required for teachers at all stages of career development; from initial teacher training, to continuous professional development and emerging senior leaders.

Cooper started his academic career at Theil College, but transferred to the University of Pittsburgh when he realized he wanted to major in athletic training.

Before she joined City Tech's administration, Dr. Gall served as assistant to the vice president of academic affairs at the Fashion Institute of Technology from January 1991 to January 1994, as assistant to the provost at Brooklyn College from January 1985 to January 1991, and as director of career development for the Yale School of Organization and Management from January 1982 to January 1985.

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.

Bridge and politics continued to dominate much of my life, alongside an academic career that by the late 1990s had seen me progress from history lecturer to Dean of Arts and Humanities at Lancaster University.

Conway - Turner's bio states she has had a 28 - year academic career has served in various leadership and administrative positions and as a professor of psychology at five universities.

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.

Identifying ways to address inequalities like those presented at the briefing, including evidence of a persistent gender - based wage gap and bias in NIH R01 grant proposal evaluation, is crucial for supporting female academics» career aspirations.

As dual - career academics and parents of a 2 - year - old, Zermarie Deacon and her husband negotiate in advance which conferences each will attend, so that the other can stay at home and take care of the child.

For all but a small percentage of aspiring researchers, doing a postdoc at a university is a lousy idea because it will neither result in an academic job nor otherwise advance one's career.

Most postdocs I know agree that, in terms of lack of pressure, they are at the best stage of their academic careers, with no thesis or grant deadlines.

As his academic career at Trent evolved over the following 2 decades, Adams became increasingly engaged with the local community: «I became involved in public affairs, like sports and a program called Energy Savers in Peterborough, and I was chair for the United Way — all of those things that you could do in a small community.»

More recently, as part of its response to the Roberts Review, the Government has proposed the introduction of new Academic Fellowships that will offer a more stable environment in which researchers can build their expertise and reputation, providing career - related training and, importantly, a permanent position at the end of the 5 - year awards.

Many postgraduates in astronomy have a long - term career goal of acquiring a teaching and / or research position in an academic setting and, traditionally, the astronomy curricula and training at the graduate level has reflected that objective.

Brian Kay, head of the department of biological sciences at the University of Illinois, Chicago, says that academics can benefit from mentoring all the way up the career ladder.

Such experiments to shorten the academic career path deserve broader attention, because under the current system many of the brightest people are lost due to delays at all stages.

Ian completed his postdoctoral research in Biochemistry at Cornell University and the State University of New York in Albany before an academic career at the University of Southampton.

Joan M. Lakoski, Ph.D., is the associate vice chancellor for academic career development at the University of Pittsburgh Health Sciences in Pennsylvania.

Having had my medical training and early academic career at the University of Pennsylvania, then working to establish myself in the Harvard environment, I found considerable truth in Baltzell's analysis.

Today's science system puts Ph.D. candidates at the bottom of the academic career ladder with no clear or unified legal and social status.

We'll still create new content, we'll still provide news (though at a less frenetic pace), and we'll be ever vigilant in looking out for new developments, new ideas, and new ways of approaching old challenges that can help you succeed in your academic science career.

Dated 1966 and titled «Properties of expanding universes», it lays out the thoughts of Stephen Hawking at the start of his academic career.

More than two - thirds of IRACDA graduates end up in academic careers, most of them at teaching - focused and minority - serving institutions.

Academic careers pose tripartite demands of research, teaching, and service; at many institutions — perhaps the majority — professors find that campus time is taken up mostly by the latter two, leaving research and writing for evenings and weekends — time that women need to keep up their homes and raise their families.

Hockfield officially began her career as an academic leader in 1998, serving as the dean of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences at Yale University.

But, «academics who champion causes may be gambling with their careers,» Audrey Williams June reported last week in an article at The Chronicle of Higher Education (subscription required).

In the process, it will take a stab — again, a small one — at the deep, underlying problem in the academic labor market: the severe, perennial imbalance between the number of would - be researchers coming out of the nation's universities and the number of career positions available to them.

Cathy Ann Trower, Ph.D., is the research director of Collaborative on Academic Careers in Higher Education (COACHE) at the Harvard Graduate School of Education.

Interestingly, if you had asked me at that time if social media was useful to help grow your academic career, I would have told you that these were a waste of time.

This latest report documents career destinations of graduates who earned a first degree at the end of the 2012 - 2013 academic year.

Greater emphasis is also being put on transferable skills that serve not only academic scholars but also professionals who «may have research careers in other parts of society,» says David Crosier, education system analyst at Eurydice, the E.U. organization that provides information on European education systems and policies.

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.

The fact that Israeli scientists must spend time abroad before successfully launching an academic career at home provides a particularly stark illustration of a problem that appears to exist in the United States as well, if less obviously: Women with husbands and children often find it far harder than comparable men to move in pursuit of career opportunities.