Sentences with phrase «on academic committees»

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She has been meeting with a 19 - member committee made up of business people and academics to find ways to put more heat on B.C..

Facebook will give a committee of senior academics independent access to its data, allowing researchers to study the social network's effect on democracy and elections.

Brittney Kaiser, a former employee for Cambridge Analytica — who left the company in January and is today giving evidence in front of a UK parliament committee that's investigating online misinformation — has suggested that data on far more Facebook users may have found its way into the consultancy's hands than the up to 87M people Facebook has so far suggested had personal data compromised as a result of a personality quiz app running on its platform which was developed by an academic working with CA.

- Just announced committee of academics to commission independent research on social media on democracy.

His article is based on his convocation address in 1996 inaugurating a new academic year in which YDS, under the leadership of its new dean, Richard Wood, set out to develop new curriculum and programs recommended by a review committee, which was chaired by Kelsey.

In the NCAA Division I Committee on Infractions» decision, the panel found a former Notre Dame athletic training student violated NCAA ethical conduct rules when she committed academic misconduct for two football student - athletes and provided six other football student - athletes with impermissible academic extra benefits.

We are deeply disappointed by and strongly disagree with the denial of the University's appeal, announced today by the NCAA, of an earlier decision by the NCAA's Committee on Infractions to vacate Notre Dame's 2012 and 2013 football victories due to academic misconduct by several student - athletes.

The NCAA's Committee on Infractions «could not conclude» academic violations at North Carolina, it announced Friday, after a years - long investigation:

A Division I Committee on Infractions hearing panel could not conclude that the University of North Carolina violated NCAA academic rules when it made available deficient Department of African and Afro - American Studies «paper courses» to the general student body, including student - athletes.

Dr. Bergeron also serves on the academic advisory board for the International Olympic Committee's postgraduate diploma program in sports medicine, and he recently co-chaired the IOC Consensus Meeting on youth athletic development which will be highlighted in a special edition of the British Journal of Sports Medicine in July 2015.

He is a past trustee of ACSM and currently a member of the Medical Advisory Committee for Pop Warner Little Scholars, Inc. that provides youth football and cheer and dance programs with an emphasis on maintaining academic standards.

«I'm a much better chairman of the committee because I not only have a political and academic network, but also a range of business connections that would not be available to me if I was not active in the business world,» he told Politics.co.uk on Wednesday.

The same could be surmised from the conduct and discourse of the Committee Chair himself, who recently chose to start up a «lively and passionate public debate» on codification on the academic blog of the United Kingdom Constitutional Law Association — hardly likely to be read by any «public» other than public law academics.

Prof. Vann will join the other Academic Board members: John Avery Jones Retired Philip Baker Grays Inn Chambers Malcolm Gammie Chambers of Anthony Grabiner QC Kees van Raad International Tax Center Leiden Jefferson VanderWolk US Senate Committee on Finance

After detailed research, the Committee on Climate Change — the government's independent panel of climate advisors made up of economists, academics, businesses representatives and scientists — found that the cheapest way to meet the UK's climate change targets is to have almost entirely carbon free electricity by 2030.

Let me make a point here; the Academic Staff Union of Universities is on strike and the government has set up a committee to engage in a dialogue with ASUU.

UFT Vice President for Academic High Schools Janella Hinds testified before the New York State Assembly Committee on Education regarding Gov. Cuomo's proposal to implement state takeovers of public schools.

Well, I am a Liberal Democrat parliamentary candidate, vice-chair of the party's national policy committee, and a former Director of Policy of the party, as well as having written as an academic on aspects of liberalism.

The Joint Action Committee of the non teaching staff made up of National Association of Academic Technologists, NAAT, Non-Academic Staff Union of Educational and Associated, NASU and Senior Staff Association of Nigerian Universities, SSANU said they believed government would keep to the promise on the agreement the parties entered into.

The academic system makes you so dependent on it that you get used to being treated poorly by people, like your advisor, committee members, and even other postdocs and graduate students.

Beyond Bias and Barriers: Fulfilling the Potential of Women in Academic Science and Engineering (Committee on Maximizing the Potential of Women in Academic Science and Engineering, National Academy of Sciences, National Academy of Engineering, and Institute of Medicine, National Academies Press, 2007).

Hadassa Degani, a female scientist who had been sitting on her Ph.D. committee, noticed «her hesitations whether to pursue an academic career,» Degani writes in an e-mail.

As chair of the PSA, I served as the postdoc representative on the UC Davis Graduate Council, the academic faculty committee responsible for postdocs.

My first duty as chair was to seek contact with and recognition by the Office of the President and two UC - wide committees responsible for postdoc policy and practices: the Coordinating Committee on Graduate Affairs (CCGA), which handles academic affairs, and the Council of Graduate Deans (CoGD), which deals with administrative affairs.

With a flourishing research and academic career and experience on hiring committees under his belt, Crowdy is now in a position to advise early career mathematicians.

Defense labs will pick up on promising results, Suzuki said at a November 2016 meeting of a new SCJ committee on security and academic studies.

Two Australian academics serving on a government climate panel have publicly criticized their own committee's latest report as «untrue and dangerous,» stoking a long - running debate over the country's carbon emissions reduction strategies.

A report released by the House of Commons Science and Technology Committee of the U.K. Parliament on Thursday calls on universities and the government to review academic career paths and find ways to level the playing field for women.

Each year, an independent, multidisciplinary committee of academic policy researchers evaluate the approximately 100 applicants based on the quality of analysis of the research, policy relevance, communication, and the applicant's accomplishments and research potential.

Pielke is a target of an investigation by «Representative Raul Grijalva (D — AZ), the top Democrat on the Natural Resources Committee of the U.S. House of Representatives... into the funding sources of seven academics who have studied climate change or testified before Congress on the matter, often to criticize research findings or policy proposals.»

Senior academics are less concerned about the alleged influence of job - rumor Web sites on search committee decisions.

They also prompted Representative Raul Grijalva (D — AZ), the top Democrat on the Natural Resources Committee of the U.S. House of Representatives, to launch an investigation last week into the funding sources of seven academics who have studied climate change or testified before Congress on the matter, often to criticize research findings or policy proposals.

A broad consensus on the need to enable public access to all U.S. federal research emerged in a report published in January by the Scholarly Publishing Roundtable, a panel of librarians, academic leaders and publishers convened last June by the OSTP and the House Committee on Science and Technology.

A demand from Democrats for recorded votes on most of the 28 amendments before the committee prevented Smith from completing work on a bill that has provoked strong opposition from academic leaders, professional societies, and university - industry coalitions that advocate for science.

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William Waldegrave's attempts to build a new partnership between academic scientists, industry and government «could do more harm than good», the House of Lords Select Committee on Science and Technology warned this week.

Such offices shall engage in cooperative research, development, and demonstration projects with the academic community, State Climate Offices, Regional Climate Offices, and other users and stakeholders on climate products, technologies, models, and other tools to improve understanding and forecasting of regional and local climate variability and change and the effects on economic activities, natural resources, and water availability, and other effects on communities, to facilitate development of regional and local adaptation plans to respond to climate variability and change, and any other needed research identified by the Under Secretary or the Advisory Committee.

A committee made up of representatives from GTC and Astra will decide whether to make selected data available to academics, and on what terms.

In these roles, she has helped advocate for the implementation of NPA's recommended policies and practices for research fellows across various academic institutions, participated in fundraising, built strategic partnerships, and served on committee leader search panels.

Chris is on a number of national and international committees, working groups and initiatives related to the academic, clinical translation and commercialization of cell and gene therapies including; Founder and CEO of the London Regenerative Medicine Network (LRMN), Founding Member of the UK - Israel Science Council, Scientific Advisory Board of the UK Cell and Gene Therapy Catapult, Strategic Advisory Board of the Canadian Centre for the Commercialization of Regenerative Medicine (CCRM), and Scientific Advisory Board of the Canadian Stem Cell Network.

A. SURPAS has a voting seat on the Faculty Senate Committee on Library (C - LIB), Faculty Senate Committee on Academic Computing and Information Systems (C - ACIS), and Faculty Senate Committee on Research (C - RES).

She has over 90 academic publications and has held several leadership and advisory positions, including Chair of the Gordon Conference on Science and Technology Policy, Secretary and Council Member of the Society for Risk Analysis, the European Commission Expert Group for Science in Society and the EU's «SYNTH - ETHICS» project, the FDA Blood Products Advisory Committee, and the UN WHO - FAO Expert Group for Agrifood Nanotechnology.

In a Jan. 3 letter the organization's Committee on Academic Freedom asked Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Supreme Leader of the Islamic Republic of Iran, for Kokabee's «immediate release.»

He serves on several scientific committees for academic institutions and he is a member of the Science Advisory Boards of Genentech, GlaxoSmithKline, FivePrime, and ARMGO, and is a former consultant to Merck, Schering Plough and Amgen.

Alongside her academic work, Rich has been International Curator for the 2002 Toronto International Film Festival; has served on juries at the Sundance, Toronto, San Francisco, Oberhausen, Havana, Sydney, and Guadalajara film festivals; and is a member of the advisory board of the Provincetown Film Festival and previously of the Sundance Selection Committee.

So, in response to this we pulled together a debate between an eclectic panel of education experts including: chair of the Education Select Committee Neil Carmichael MP; a head teacher who turned her own school's performance and ability to recruit and retain its staff around 180 degrees; an ex-tutor from an FE institution who left teaching due to work load issues; and an academic completing a PhD on the topic of work strain in the sector.

Shawn Mahoney Technology, Innovation, and Education City: Columbus, Ohio Current job: Chief Academic Officer, McGraw - Hill Education Career highlights: Completing Ph.D. in Educational Technology; leading a world - class product design and development team; serving on the revision committee for iNACOL National Standards for Quality Online Courses; co-presenting at SXSW with Robert Atkinson, Chris Hoadley, and Jeff Bergin on LX Design

Almost 50 years and many professional achievements later — including serving as the first principal of the first postsecondary institution in southeastern Nigeria and founding the International Conference on Thinking — Maxwell's academy in which both athletics and academics are emphasized is becoming a reality thanks to an invitation from the National Olympic Committee of Albania, a country that is among the 100 nations that have never won an Olympic medal.

With $ 650,000 in hand, NRC staff formed the 14 - member, largely academic Committee on the Independent Evaluation of DC Public Schools, consisting of a variety of professors and researchers.

23 - 26 — Education reform: National conference on Kentucky's education - reform efforts, sponsored by the Kentucky Department of Education, the Prichard Committee for Academic Excellence, and the Partnership for Kentucky School Reform, to be held in Lexington, Ky..