Sentences with phrase «of young faculty»

The University of Alberta's Moin Yahya noted that his Faculty's blog is also a collective effort, and has an intentionally freestyle format, which facilitates the engagement of young faculty and students / alumni.
The open and experimental atmosphere at Davis, with its roster of young faculty, aided in crystallization of a new type of art making and was the basis of the «Funk» movement.
«The old model of the young faculty member who goes out and establishes his or her name with a theory and publishes a bunch of papers,... a person just can't do that without jettisoning their quality of life.»
Almost a decade, ago, we reported on the dynamics of the star system as it operates in the hiring of young faculty members at research institutions.
«I have seen some terrific graduate students in the labs of young faculty members, and the faculty members benefited dramatically,» he says.
At this point, one of our youngest faculty members spoke up: «You guys are too old.

Not exact matches

He was vice president and chief enterprise risk management officer at Heritage Bank in St. George, Utah, and he is also a sole tax practitioner, an adjunct faculty member at Brigham Young University, and Chair of the Tax Executive Committee of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (AICPA).
Srilata Zaheer, dean of the University of Minnesota's Carlson School of Management, tells the story of a young and highly promising Chinese scholar who decided not to join the Carlson faculty because her mother implored her to take an offer from a higher ranked school — even though her discipline — management information systems — is a major strength at Carlson.
Twenty children, all 7 years old or younger, and six members of the school's faculty died in the attack.
For eight months, these young entrepreneurs are mentored by successful Canadian entrepreneurs and business leaders, taught by some of the world's top faculty, and seek funding from top investors to build their venture.
Nassar, a former faculty member and physician at an on - campus clinic at Michigan State University was sentenced in February to up to 125 years in prison after some 200 young women testified about decades of abuse at his hands.
At the time, the majority of the science faculty espoused young earth creationism, so I learned about evolution in the context of Christian apologetics courses, with the presupposition that evolution was incompatible with the Christian faith.
Readers may recall that the «Baxter controversy» has to do with Father Michael Baxter, a young theologian who is a disciple of Stanley Hauerwas of Duke University and was appointed to the theology department of the University of Notre Dame against the wishes of most of the faculty.
Imagination, Iris Young tells us, «is the faculty of transforming the experience of what is into a projection of what could be, the faculty that frees thought to form ideals and norms.»
Yet for all the conservatism — political and ecclesiastical — which I found among the full professors of both faculties, it was heartening to find a substantial number of younger scholars, both Protestant and Catholic, who both personally and professionally are committed to keeping lines of communication open.
But in Troeltschian fashion, fundamentalism prospered and evolved to the point that during the 1940s and 1950s some of its young men began to earn theological degrees from some of the most prestigious faculties in America and, in some cases, Europe.
The more young, orthodox Catholics we can get on the faculties of parish or private schools — heck, even public schools — the better prepared our children will be for life as faithful and thoughtful Catholics.
In and out of the classroom, these students are in conversation with faculty and younger students, widening our horizons to the realities of the marketplace.
It is also represented on almost every faculty, even the most discouraged, by one or two young men or perennially youthful veterans, and in every corps of students, even the most somber assortment of theological - student stereotypes.
Wendy is also on the faculty of the Cognitive Therapy Center and Schema Therapy Institute of New York, where she has trained and worked with Dr. Jeffrey Young since 1989.
But, as study co-author Schaffer, quoted by Basken, observes, «there is no evidence that there is a shortage of young, well - trained biomedical researchers to take their place on faculties in schools of higher education or as principal investigators on NIH research grants.»
The goal is to give universities an added incentive to recruit young investigators and provide newly hired faculty members with some breathing room before applying for their first major grant, says Story Landis, director of the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke in Bethesda, Maryland.
Even though I was initially drawn to the more prominent members of an institution's faculty — the ones I was most likely to have heard of before joining the institution — I quickly found myself paying more attention to younger investigators and their new perspectives on larger research problems.
Having recently written about how contingent faculty, especially those who are no longer young, almost never get to move onto the tenure track, we were thrilled when we recalled — or were reminded of — a dazzling exception.
The major impediment to young researchers finding good, long - term jobs is, of course, the perennial lack of faculty positions.
For example at the Nanyang Technological University (NTU), recruitment of international faculty is occurring across a wide range of subject areas, including engineering and science, with special emphasis on its Nanyang Assistant Professorship scheme, awarding 10 to 12 distinguished young faculty each year with a competitive salary and up to $ 1 million startup funds over the first three years.
During his tenure as chair of the immunology department, he proffered the same advice to the department's young faculty hires.
«It's a lot of fun to teach in an interactive classroom — and especially the younger faculty agree.»
Despite such incentives, Ball's essay argues, faculty members should put a high premium on the future welfare of the young people passing through their labs on the way to their own professional lives.
To reduce the surplus of young scientists seeking faculty posts and thus help to ease the crisis, the article proposed creating ««nonreplicating» staff scientist positions... as part of a legitimate career track.»
If left unchecked, wrote Susan Gerbi of Brown University; Howard Garrison of the Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology (FASEB); and John P. Perkins, now deceased, of the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, the «perception that the postdoctoral period is a holding pattern» and not the route to a faculty career could drive young scientists away from academe and threaten a crucial source of skilled personnel for the academic research enterprise.
As a young faculty member, Yellowlees was able to organize a mix of paid and family child care that she was completely happy with.
Experienced investigators support the use of PM techniques in the laboratory far more than younger scientists — postdocs and new faculty — who often express intense skepticism.
«The fact of the matter is that while many young scientists want to perform research and join the faculty of large universities, there are not enough of those positions to go around,» said Blaser.
The limiting factor on young scientists» abilities to start academic research careers is thus the number of available faculty positions, which over recent decades has fallen farther and farther behind the number of scientists the system is producing.
She teaches two courses, directs the research of three graduate students and one postdoc, serves on numerous faculty committees, and is raising a young son.
From the institution's viewpoint, the program affords a way of evaluating young scientists» suitability for its faculty without the high - stakes risk of dedicated lab space and 4 or 5 years of start - up costs for an untried new assistant professor.
Competition for science faculty positions is still keen, but the situation has improved somewhat for young scientists, with the number of applications for science jobs typically numbering in the low hundreds or less.
At the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, BIRCWH principal investigator Eugene Orringer says: «During the initial 2 years of this award, we have been able to recruit 11 truly exceptional young people to our faculty, all of whom are committed to the conduct of research in the area of women's health... and many of them have already been successful in competing for their own individual research grants.»
And finally, Michael Young was born in Miami and did his work at Rockefeller University in New York where he also remains on the faculty... ever since the emergence of life on Earth about four billion years ago, evolving life forms had to adapt to the rotation of our planet... but how is this possible?
Dulay points out the upsides of her job: She is part of a premier research team, has few funding worries because Zare's grant covers her salary, and gets to spend more time with her young daughter than she would as a faculty member.
He tells of «senior professors whose partners had cancer and no health insurance; researchers who left the commonwealth, taking major grants with them; faculty who, unlike their straight colleagues, are paying out of their pockets for costly individual policies for their partners and who resent the discrimination; young professors and administrators who are looking to leave the state; and so forth.»
Many of Iran's science policy leaders and university faculty members were educated in the United States or Europe, and 5600 young Iranian scientists last year had student visas to live in the United States while studying in non-sensitive fields.
Though the appointment of these young scientists to HMC's tenure - track faculty marks the end of one long and trying process that began with their first undergraduate science class, it marks the beginning of another ordeal: the pursuit of tenure.
After 29 years of fulfilling the responsibilities of a science faculty member, administrator, and mentor to younger scientists, Johnson describes his experiences, from his early days as an assistant professor to his transition to administration, and offers advice to academic scientists who are just starting out.
In 1997, at the strikingly young age of 28, he landed his first faculty job in a competitive labor market as an assistant professor at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas.
May be out of touch with demographic issues facing younger faculty and students.
He retains an impish fascination with fireworks — an enthusiasm that cost him part of a finger when he was young — and has on occasion lit Roman candles in the corridors of Princeton, where he became a faculty member in 1938 and where he still keeps an office.
In the next sections, I outline the advantages and disadvantages for three main groups of faculty advisor: young, mid-career, and senior faculty members.
The Jahnigen Scholars program offers two - year career development awards to support young faculty in the specialties of anesthesiology, emergency medicine, general surgery, gynecology, ophthalmology, orthopaedic surgery, otolaryngology, physical medicine and rehabilitation, thoracic surgery, and urology.
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