Sentences with phrase «of endowed professorships»

This enabled a tripling of the number of endowed professorships and earmarked $ 11,000,000 for student financial aid.

Murphy also led the School's record - breaking capital campaign, which tripled the number of endowed professorships, and raised $ 111 million dollars, the largest sum ever raised by a school of education.

The popularity of the Apple Watch, along with its high - quality heart - rate sensor, makes it an attractive tool for large - scale AF screening, said Marcus, holder of the Endowed Professorship of AF research in the UCSF School of Medicine.

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Shleifer eventually was stripped of his endowed chair but retained his professorship, and faculty dean Knowles sealed the Committee on Professional Conduct thorough and painstaking report.

Naming an endowed Chair or Professorship at the Rotman School will help recruit and retain the world's leading teachers and researchers, enhance our curriculum, foster research and advance the academic performance of tomorrow's business leaders.

Ironically, while black theology theoretically relies heavily upon expressions of the people, such as freedom and sorrow songs and sermons, the more academic elites of black theology — those who have the luxury of tenure and endowed professorships in prestigious white seminaries and universities — seem to have little respect for the modern black church.

Our effort to endow a professorship in evangelical studies is intended both to nourish and recruit more of these students, as well as to study a major American religious movement.

He has served as an Associate Professor, Assistant Professor and Extension Specialist at the University of Florida, held the Rodger B. Jensen Endowed Professorship in Pistachio Physiology and Pomology at California State University and is the current Research Program Director for CAC.

For example, donors can decide to use a portion of an endowment's scheduled income to provide funding for endowed professorships, which are used to attract world - class lecturers.

The Foundation's mission is implemented through an international program of research institutes in the fields of astrophysics, nanoscience, neuroscience, and theoretical physics, and through the support of conferences, symposia, endowed professorships, and other activities, including the Kavli Science Journalism Workshops at the Knight Science Journalism Fellowships at MIT.

«Margery's experiments showed that the NS1 protein can alter expression of Hedgehog target genes on its own, without other viral proteins,» said Bier, professor and newly named holder of the Tata Chancellor's Endowed Professorship in Cell and Developmental Biology.

The MacLean Center is currently the largest clinical medical ethics program in the world, having trained more than 300 physicians and other health professionals — many of whom hold professorships, endowed chairs and directorships of ethics programs in the U.S., Canada and Europe.

A fellowship program in clinical medical ethics that started in 1981 and has graduated 320 fellows, many of whom now hold endowed university professorships and direct clinical ethics programs in the U.S., Canada, Europe and China.

The Carneys, of Houston, are long - time supporters of Brown, including as the donors of two endowed professorships — the Robert J. and Nancy D. Carney University Professor of Economics and the Robert J. and Nancy D. Carney Assistant Professor of Neuroscience.

The Institute has named Ooguri as its first Fred Kavli Professor of Theoretical Physics, a new professorship endowed by The Kavli Foundation.

In addition, he held the endowed Chancellor's Associates Chair of Physics professorship from 1997 until his retirement last March.

July 21, 2015 Central Illinois physician donates $ 3.5 million for cancer research Anjuli Nayak, a renowned allergist and immunologist from Bloomington who received cancer treatment at the University of Chicago Medicine, is endowing a $ 3.5 million professorship at the medical center for leukemia research.

Bulik, who holds the first endowed professorship in the field of eating disorders in the country, is currently leading a global research initiative called The Anorexia Nervosa Genetics Initiative — or ANGI — to analyze 26,000 genetic samples and isolate genes that play important roles in the underlying biology of eating disorders.

As a result of his work on brain tumours an endowed professorship in perpetuity, the James D. Murray Chair in Applied Mathematics and Neuropatholgy, was established in the University of Washington in 2007.

The Visiting Professorship was initially endowed by Metzler Bank and Edmond de Rothschild Group in 2014 on the occasion of Goethe University's centennial.

The professorship was endowed by New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg, a graduate of Harvard Business School, in memory of his late father, and supports a series of scholars and practitioners who teach and conduct research in the fields of philanthropic policy and practice, public service...

In March 1998, she was the recipient of the Emily Hargroves Fisher professorship, which, upon her retirement, will become the Sara Lawrence - Lightfoot professorship, making her the first African American woman in Harvard's history to have an endowed professorship named in her honor.

In 1993, the Sara Lawrence - Lightfoot Chair, an endowed professorship, was established at Swarthmore College; and in 1998 she was the recipient of the Emily Hargroves Fisher Endowed Chair at Harvard Univendowed professorship, was established at Swarthmore College; and in 1998 she was the recipient of the Emily Hargroves Fisher Endowed Chair at Harvard UnivEndowed Chair at Harvard University.

The professorship was named the Teresa M. Fischer Endowed Professor of Citizenship Education.

A measure of the University's strong commitment to the mission of CECH is that one of the institution's first four endowed professorships funded a position in citizenship education.

A member of ASCD's Differentiated Instruction Cadre, Kristina Doubet is a professor in the Department of Middle, Secondary, and Mathematics Education at James Madison University, where she received the College of Education's Distinguished Teaching Award, Madison Scholar Award, and Sarah M. Luck Endowed Professorship for Excellence in Education.

Kristina J. Doubet is a professor in the College of Education at James Madison University in Harrisonburg, Virginia, where she has received the Distinguished Teacher Award, the Madison Scholar Award, and the Sarah Miller Luck Endowed Professorship for Excellence in Education.

Endowing a professorship in Shelter Medicine is one of the most meaningful contributions to the health and welfare of companion animals possible.

One of the most notable contributions is an endowed professorship and Dr. Seaks explained the decision to create the professorship in a 2008 Commentary column he wrote for the CVM Magazine.

The gift will also endow professorships, fund equipment purchases and assist in the construction of new and renovated facilities.

In 2009, they endowed the Emily R. and Gerald S. Leischuck Endowed Professorship for Educational Leadership, which enables the College of Education to recruit and retain educational leadership fendowed the Emily R. and Gerald S. Leischuck Endowed Professorship for Educational Leadership, which enables the College of Education to recruit and retain educational leadership fEndowed Professorship for Educational Leadership, which enables the College of Education to recruit and retain educational leadership faculty.

«The College of Veterinary Medicine is deeply grateful for the support provided by Dr. Gerald Leischuck in establishing the Emily Reaves Leischuck Endowed Distinguished Professorship,» Johnson said.

While a member of the board, Terry happened to hear then - dean of the College, now provost the the University, Warwick Arden, report that there were no endowed professorships on the faculty of the CVM.

A leading figure in the field of user research, Dr. Dennis Wixon holds the Microsoft Endowed Professorship in User Experience.

He also created endowed professorships in Cooper Union's Irwin S. Chanin School of Architecture, School of Art and Albert Nerken School of Engineering.

From left, Nick Cave's professorship at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago has been endowed with a significant gift; Rodney McMillian received a significant art prize and promised exhibition at The Contemporary Austin museum; and Theaster Gates's expansive practice now includes an artisan training and employment program.

Nick Cave «s professorship at The School of the Art Institute of Chicago has been endowed with a gift of $ 2 million from Chicago - area arts patrons Stephanie and Bill Sick, longtime friends of artists.

In 1996, Bucksbaum and her family endowed a chair in the Graduate School of Design, Harvard University: the Martin Bucksbaum Professorship in Urban Planning and Design.

Darby Dickerson is the Dean of Texas Tech University School of Law, and she holds the W. Frank Newton Endowed Professorship.

Most committees, boards of directors and academic departments all have a «chairman» and many endowed professorships are referred to as chairs.