Sentences with phrase «other research universities»

In this case, MIT's approach to the fossil fuel divestment question offers several valuable lessons for other research universities as they weigh similar choices.

During that time, Muntadas not only researched the history of «academia» as an institution in the Western world — tracing its historical development from its inception in ancient Greece to its scholastic rebirth in medieval times, its re-foundation during the Enlightenment, its establishment in the New World, to its present challenges — but also interviewed a dozen renowned faculty members at Harvard, MIT and other research universities across the United States.

Not exact matches

Comprehensive new research from scientists at Harvard, Yale, Northeastern, and the University of Maryland shows we have a clear tendency to assign certain characteristics to others based on how much (or how little) they leave to the imagination (via Wired).

«The future of business is pure chaos,» declared Fast Company this week, elaborating with a quote from DJ Patil who, among other pursuits, researches weather patterns at the University of Maryland.

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 organiresearch projects led by the University of Western Australia has been awarded $ 18 million from the Cancer Research Trust and other partner organiResearch Trust and other partner organisations.

That's according to a report released this week by a team of academics and researchers from Oxford University, Cambridge University, Stanford University, the Electronic Frontier Foundation, artificial intelligence research group OpenAI, and others institutes.

Echoing other critics, Frank von Hippel, a Princeton University professor who researches nuclear arms control and policymaking, said weak oversight continues.

The investigation accused an Adidas executive and several other defendants of giving $ 100,000 to a potential recruit's family to entice him to commit to an unnamed public research university in Kentucky.

But there's plenty of other research that suggests tidiness has a downside: a University of Minnesota study suggests that people with clean desks make more conventional decisions.

While Raleigh is part of the Research Triangle Park — home to Duke University, University of North Carolina, and other institutions — it still has a relatively small workforce and would have to draw in lots of new people, according to rResearch Triangle Park — home to Duke University, University of North Carolina, and other institutions — it still has a relatively small workforce and would have to draw in lots of new people, according to researchresearch.

In a 2010 study, researchers at Washington State University and the Desert Research Institute had college students play a computer game with four other players, who were really manipulations by the researchers.

However, a researcher at the Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics at Harvard University, Brooke Williams, uncovered that Pfizer, among other companies like General Motors and ExxonMobil, had given between $ 10,000 and $ 25,000 to the National Bureau of Economic Research.

Universities receive funding through the Joint Fire Science Program, which is jointly funded by the Interior Department and the Forest Service, and indirectly through other agencies such as the National Science Foundation, the Defense Department's environmental research programs and NASA.

But according to interesting new research out of Duke University, all these tricks probably won't do you much good if you don't have one other essential ingredient of sensible decision making — intellectual humility.

It probably won't surprise you to hear that Boulder has become a hub for tech startups, given the way the University of Colorado and other national research labs located in the area attract funding and talent.

«Things as simple as putting your feet on the table, throwing down your bag and arriving late all give others the impression that you are more powerful,» PsyBlog recently reported, citing research out of the University of Amsterdam.

«If you're working through the Internet — just as when seeking financing through any other sources — it's absolutely essential to check people's references,» advises Bill Wetzel, director emeritus of the Center for Venture Research at the University of New Hampshire.

Research from Birmingham University suggests that lastborns tend to venture into traditional business roles only if other family members have chosen different career paths.

Reading can boost your intelligence, increase your brainpower (for up to five days, according to research conducted by Emory University), and even strengthen your ability to empathize with other people.

Throughout the years, the Bobsts donated millions to cancer research, education and other causes, including New York University, NYU Langone Medical Center, Princeton University, the Animal Medical Center, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center and the American Cancer Society.

Millenials» unique media habits show up in other ways: Nowadays, for example, high schoolers do their initial research into potential colleges and universities on the Internet rather than during an actual trip to a campus; and young media users rely on YouTube videos to learn everything from magic tricks and hair and makeup tips, to cooking secrets.

The peer - reviewed paper — titled «Safely Interruptible Agents [PDF]» and published on the website of the Machine Intelligence Research Institute (MIRI)-- was written by Laurent Orseau, a research scientist at Google DeepMind, Stuart Armstrong at Oxford University's Future of Humanity Institute, and severalResearch Institute (MIRI)-- was written by Laurent Orseau, a research scientist at Google DeepMind, Stuart Armstrong at Oxford University's Future of Humanity Institute, and severalresearch scientist at Google DeepMind, Stuart Armstrong at Oxford University's Future of Humanity Institute, and several others.

Artificial intelligence academics have noted the difficulty of keeping up with other Asian countries: Mitsuru Ishizuka, professor emeritus in AI at the University of Tokyo, noted that Japanese research has fallen behind the work «that is being done in China.»

There are other cities that have focused on replacing disappearing industries such as steel or autos with technology, but they have big research universities or hospitals that naturally feed students and startups, Lang said.

Universities such as the Harvard Business School, The London School of Economics and MIT have researched the effects of Start - Up Chile as an economic development strategy among others.

Unfortunately for the Japanese labour markets, as with many other countries, many young intellectuals seek further study elsewhere in countries like the UK that have renowned Universities and research facilities, taking a large portion of the skilled labour force the Japanese markets need, into other areas of work such as research and academia, a less hands on field that benefits the computer science industry on the whole but does not help specific firms achieve their targets directly.

Other countries like the UK and the US that have good environments for research through their university systems have pools of engineers well versed in the developing technologies and see no immediate shortage.»

NASA has awarded a grant to the University of Akron for research into data analysis and other topics related to space exploration.

Calls on the University of Kentucky Agricultural Experiment Station, as well as other Kentucky public universities, to conduct research on hemp planting, cultivation, and analysis on demonstration plots.

Some investors actually seek out «pump and dump» ploys in the penny - stock market in search of lottery - like returns, according to research on German stocks by Christian Leuz of the University of Chicago's Booth School of Business and four other economists.

A delegation of close to 20 Canadian university presidents travelled to India in late 2010 to encourage this trend, as well as to build research and other partnerships with Indian counterparts.

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Stover's research culminated in a sabbatical at Cambridge University in the laboratory of S. D. Garrett during which he wrote the monograph «Fusarial Wilt (Panama Disease) of Bananas and other Musa Species» (32).

I've written before about attempts in Canada to create more separation between university teaching, on the one hand, and university research, on the other.

It is striking that neither this new centre at St. Mary's, nor the university's other research «centres», seem to have any element concerned with this important aspect of human thought.

The other model of excellence in schooling is the modern research university, for which we may let the founding of the University of Berlin in 1810 serve as tuniversity, for which we may let the founding of the University of Berlin in 1810 serve as tUniversity of Berlin in 1810 serve as the emblem.

On the other hand, Erwin Chargaff, retired biochemist at Columbia University and an outspoken opponent of the research, says that «anyone affirming immediate disaster is a charlatan, but anyone denying the possibility of its occurring is an even greater one» (quoted in «Recombinant DNA: The Argument Shifts,» by Tabith M. Powledge, the Hastings Center Retort [April 1977], p. 19).

By the time I had graduated, the field had become «one that maintains its interest in literary texts but explores all forms of aesthetic speech and that views performance as an art and recognizes its communicative potential and function» There were three challenges to those of us graduating with doctoral degrees in this discipline: 1) to locate which performances within art and / or culture we would focus our attention on as scholars and performers; 2) to interpret the core concepts generating from the cultural turn in our discipline to other studies of culture and human communication and 3) to develop «performance - centered» methods of research and instruction in whatever parts of the university we found ourselves.

Besides Sowell, a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution on War, Revolution and Peace at Stanford University, other prominent figures in the black conservative movement are Glenn C. Loury, a professor at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government; Walter E. Williams, a professor of economics at George Mason University; I A. Parker, president of the Lincoln Institute for Research and Education, Inc.; Robert Woodson, president of the National Association of Neighborhood Enterprises; and Joseph Perkins, editorial writer for the Wall Street Journal.

A geophysicist at the University of Washington and director of the Joint Institute for the Study of the Atmosphere and Ocean, he is at the forefront of research on geoengineering, a science that focuses on manipulating the environment to, among other ends, combat climate change.

Other surveys — such as the General Social Surveys, conducted by the National Opinion Research Center at the University of Chicago since 1972 — find that the Catholic share of the U.S. adult population has held fairly steady in recent decades at around 25 %.

I would dedicate this small book to my research - students and others in this University, whose interest in «process - theology» has been for me both a joy and an inspiration.

«We all know that if you engage in certain kinds of exercise on a regular basis you can strengthen certain muscle groups in predictable ways,» Davidson says in his office at the University of Wisconsin, where his research team has hosted scores of Buddhist monks and other meditators for brain scans.

No, because UCLA, along with any number of other large research - oriented universities, embodies in its practices and its language a Weberian conception of the academic vocation.

Other signatories include Liberty University President Jerry Falwell Jr., Family Research Council President Tony Perkins, Faith & Freedom Coalition President Ralph Reed and Maryland pastor Bishop Harry Jackson.

And my reason for thinking this includes, among other things, the fact that my scientific friends in a great college of a great university (among them many agnostics and self - identified «atheists») are the very people who often seem to me most aware of mystery in the world, even in the scientific research that they carry on with such devotion and yet with such humility.

The other organizing principle of the new universities was specialized research.

The standards associated with the research university are imposed, if in no other way, by the decision to meet the accepted standards for accreditation of graduate professional schools.

It may be an arrangement that factors out different aspects of the school's common life to the reign of each model of excellent schooling: the research university model may reign for faculty, for example, or for faculty in certain fields (say, church history, or biblical studies) but not in others (say, practical theology), while paideia reigns as the model for students, or only for students with a declared vocation to ordained ministry (so that other students aspiring to graduate school are free to attempt to meet standards set by the research university model); or research university values may be celebrated in relation to the school's official «academic» program, including both classroom expectations and the selection and rewarding of faculty, while the school's extracurricular life is shaped by commitments coming from the model provided by paideia so that, for example, common worship is made central to their common life and a high premium is placed on the school being a residential community.

In other words, no insight, whether generated in the worshiping life of the churches or in the research life of university professors, can be automatically dismissed; for in the words of Milton's own manifesto attacking government oversight of the press, «If it come to prohibiting, there is not ought more likely to be prohibited than truth itself; whose first appearance to your eyes, bleared and dimmed with prejudice and custom, is more unsightly and unplausible than many errors.»