Sentences with phrase «other leading universities»

To address this gap, the Sutton Trust has run Teacher Summer Schools at Oxford and Cambridge this year, free courses that aim to dispel common myths about Oxbridge and other leading universities and to provide support to state school teachers to help bright students to apply.

Using research capabilities from MIT and other leading universities, the effectiveness of the learning apps is measured to ensure the continuous improvement of every child's learning and to reach their aim of spreading literacy on a global scale.

Patten's comments suggest that Oxford, and perhaps other leading universities, will campaign to be allowed to charge more.

David Willetts complains that Oxbridge and other leading universities aren't doing enough to expand their undergraduate numbers

Our internal teams are complemented by a network of professional institutions such as Monell and other leading universities and our Technical Expert Advisory Council, which is composed of sensory and consumer science experts who provide an external lens into the challenges that affect the food and beverage industry.

Not exact matches

He also earned his master's in English lit from Yale University, but abandoned his Ph.D. studies there after booking a beer commercial in»87 led to other auditions.

With courses from Harvard University, MIT, The University of California Berkeley, and other universities, edX is the only leading Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) provider that is both nonprofit and open source.

In July, Eli Bartov, a professor at New York University Stern School of Business and two other researchers found that «aggregate opinion» from tweets before earnings announcements could predict earnings surprises as well as market reactions for individual stocks, leading to outperformance of 5 % to 10 % per year.

«This kind of deception is common in our society, but it is so difficult to prove that any other animal does it,» said lead researcher Aliza le Roux, a behavioral ecologist at the University of the Free State in South Africa.

In other words, exercising after a long period of not eating could set us up for a longer, more intense fat burn, noted Eric Doucet, the lead author on the study and a professor of kinesiology at the University of Ottowa.

A series of cancer research projects led by the University of Western Australia has been awarded $ 18 million from the Cancer Research Trust and other partner organisations.

In the evenings they left work, joining other young Turkish people protesting in the streets, which have been led mainly by university students.

That study, led by William Bozeman, M.D., of Wake Forest University School of Medicine, found that Tasers «appear to be very safe, especially when compared to other options police have for subduing violent or combative suspects... [though] that is not to say that injuries and deaths are impossible.»

Other universities are watching carefully and will likely follow Stanford's lead, says Chris Lesmes, former director of the Big Red Venture Fund, a student - run $ 2 million investment fund targeting startups at Cornell University and financed by alumni, not the school.

FLS Energy has developed solar energy systems for leading industrial and technology companies such as SAS Institute, Prestage Foods, and Kimberly Clark; universities and colleges such as Wake Forest University, Guilford College, and Appalachian State University; and a number of governmental institutions, hotels, and other commercial enterprises throughout the Southeast.

But other studies found just the opposite: Behaving ethically leads people to more good deeds later, said study co-author, Gert Cornelissen, a psychologist at the University Pompeu Fabra in Spain.

A remarkable «grandparent» generation of theologians such as Cornelius Ernst, OP., Herbert McCabe, OP., Fergus Kerr, OP., and Nicholas Lash, together with others in history, philosophy and literature, have led the way into widespread participation in university life.

And if others should see our service and summon us to lead them — first within the church, then possibly in the university, in Congress, or in the corporation — we may trust the call of Christ and follow that path to greatness.

My interest in other faiths led me, after university, to study for a year at Madras Christian College, where I tried to learn something about Hinduism and Indian philosophy.

How long will it take for distinctive Christian perspectives, other than those provided by voluntary campus organizations, to disappear entirely from America's leading universities?

For some, that bridge led back to new chapters of old liberal theology, but for others it led to the repair of ecclesial division, and the renewal of theology in the university.

Kimball brings to our attention such paintings as Courbet's The Quarry, Sargent's The Daughters of Edward Darley Boit, Rubens» Drunken Silenus, Homer's The Gulf Stream, and others, and examines the interpretations of them offered, or rather perpetrated, by some leading art historians, such as David Lubin of Wake Forest University and Albert Boime of the University of California at Los Angeles.

We also partner with other research organisations to ensure the best capability is brought to bear on a problem, such as leading a Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation funded project involving institutions around the world to develop self - reproducing hybrid crops for African farmers or working with the University of Queensland and Queensland State Government researchers to solve challenges faced by the Northern Australian beef industry.

Philadelphia Convention & Visitors Bureau Executive Vice President Hometown: Wilmington, Delaware College: Johnson & Wales University, Providence, Rhode Island There's a responsibility you have to take the lead down the path others want to follow.

In light of a few things that happened of late — the Supreme Court's ruling on marriage for same - sex couples, the addition of the word cisgender into the Oxford English Dictionary, the rise of the transgender movement, with Germany leading the way for parents to register their baby as something other than just boy or girl, the increase in stay - at home dads and egalitarian marriages, universities recognizing a third gender, the desire by some to be called they versus he or she, the declaration that 2015 is the year of the gender - neutral baby, it's clear we are moving toward a society that is busting up traditional views of gender and what men and women, husbands and wives, fathers and mothers look and act like.

They could be explained, said lead author, John O'Kane, MD, of the University of Washington Sports Medicine Clinic, by differences in methodology (prospective data collection with weekly interviews in the current study versus data reported by athletic trainers in the other studies), and under - reporting in previous studies that captured concussions only in athletes seeking medical attention.

«It's just a reality check that in itself, promoting breastfeeding, while a good thing and will have other health benefits, is unlikely to have any effects on stemming the obesity epidemic,» said the study's lead author, Richard Martin, from the University of Bristol, UK.

«If instead of doing 30 math problems, you just do 15, what that does is it creates stress for the parent that other kids are getting more instruction,» says Harris Cooper, a psychologist at Duke University and leading researcher in the area of homework.

The other study, led by Kate Grimshaw, CFNP, of the University of Southampton in the U.K., analyzed data from a cohort of 1,170 women recruited during pregnancy and followed, along with their infants, for two years after birth.

«Success leads to feeling good about yourself, not the other way around,» explains Roy Baumeister, Ph.D., a psychologist at Florida State University, in Tallahassee.

«It's just a reality check that in itself, promoting breastfeeding, while a good thing that will have other health benefits, is unlikely to have any effects on stemming the obesity epidemic,» said lead author Richard Martin, from the University of Bristol, UK.

We are delighted that the letter has been signed by midwives, health visitors, lactation consultants, infant feeding leads, GPs, paediatricians, breastfeeding counsellors, peer supporters, university researchers, and others working in the area of baby feeding and health.

«Depression can lead to other problems,» agrees Constance Ahrons, PhD, professor emeritus of sociology at the University of Southern California, Los Angeles, and an author and speaker based in San Diego who has researched and written about divorce.

«When a mother came into the office complaining about colic, fussiness, excessive spitting, constipation — you name it — and attributing it to the infant's cow milk formula, the first thing I did was change the infant to a soy formula,» said Dr. Frank Greer, a professor of pediatrics at the University of Wisconsin and the other lead author of the report.

In an accompanying Comment, Frances Mason from Save the Children UK, Alison McFadden from the University of Dundee, UK, and other leading experts in the field write, «The omission of breastfeeding from the Millennium Development Goals, and the resultant lost opportunities to improve child survival, must not be repeated in the Sustainable Development Goals, for which the indicators will be decided in early 2016.

If the bottle contains anything other than water, what you have is an acidic solution that is washing over the teeth and decalcifying them, which can lead to cavities, says Art Nowak, MD, a professor in the departments of pediatric dentistry and pediatrics at the University of Iowa.

Through the work of four playwrights, Matt Charman, Moira Buffini, Penelope Skinner and Jack Thorne, the play follows several intertwining stories: a couple in a therapy session discuss the impact that the strong environmental beliefs of one, and the indifference of the other, is having on their relationship, a young woman, against her parents» advice, drops out of university to become a climate change activist, two birdwatchers who, for 40 years, have noted the recession of the ice through tracking the numbers of guillemots, and Ed Miliband's special adviser (SpAd) in the lead up to the Copenhagen Climate Conference.

He claimed it leads to unfair advantages for other national universities offering Hungarian - valid degrees only.

There are several Gas Pipelines, which will transport Hydrofracked Gas from the Marcellus Shale region and other states, despite the fact that many of the wells especially in PA are already showing signs of being exhausted, and that is why there is much attention on the Southern Tier and Lower Western portion of NYS; the Delaware Valley and Catskill region south to New Jersey, where the «Industry» is slated to construct 100,000 new wells; an estimated 8.9 % of which will leak and contaminate our water resources according to the «Solutions Project» led by Dr. Mark Jacobson of Stanford University and other noted scholars from other institutions, (Cornell University and Pepacton Institute).

«If the Nana Addo led administration establish the proposed University Campus here in Donkorkrom and did not do any other developmental projects in his entire four years, we will be okay with it,» the Chiefs stated at a press conference in Donkorkrom on Monday this week.

Like former Senator Adetunmbi, the other lead speakers, Prof. Mobolaji Aluko, famed public intellectual and founding vice-chancellor of the Federal University Otuoke, Bayelsa State (the South West critique) and Dr. Charles Akinola (who as director - general, Osun Office of Economic Development and Partnerships, is the policy wonk strutting the Osun safety - net programmes), discharged themselves creditably.

«Let me emphasize that this government led by Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo Addo is not interested in building Universities simply for votes or for that matter thanking supportive constituencies with Universities, and conversely denying constituencies of facilities and institutions, as sanctions for votes that have been thrown away to other parties,» he said.

Australia - based RMIT University has been awarded first place in the Chartered Institute of Building's Global Student Challenge competition, fending off opposition from five other teams from leading international universities.

Thom Brooks, an academic at Newcastle University who has led the campaign, told politics.co.uk: «The next step is to call on others to join us in resigning from the Peer Review College.

The frontrunner, David Miliband, may not have been to private school (he went to a north west London comprehensive, as befits his impeccable left - wing credentials), but he was at Oxford University at the same time as David Cameron, and Education Secretary Michael Gove, not to mention the other leading contenders for Labour's top job.

«There's been no other report like this for space weather,» says lead study author Daniel Baker, a space physicist at the University of Colorado at Boulder's Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics (LASP).

According to Mather and other leading astronomers now working on a report to be released this summer by the Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy (AURA), that quest and others require an even bigger space telescope that would observe, as Hubble does, at optical, ultraviolet and near - infrared wavelengths.

«The applications for this thing are kind of endless,» says chemist Christopher Cahill of George Washington University in Washington, D.C. Choosing the right linker molecule between subunits could lead to even roomier crystals or give them other useful chemical properties, he says.

Professor Jose Valderas, one of the lead researchers from the University of Exeter Medical School, said: «When you're trying to diagnose cancer, other illnesses can be a distraction either because they also require attention or because they can mask what would otherwise be flagged as a possible sign of cancer.

Lead author, Dr Penny Spikins, senior lecturer in the Archaeology of Human Origin at the University of York, said: «Our findings suggest Neanderthals didn't think in terms of whether others might repay their efforts, they just responded to their feelings about seeing their loved ones suffering.»