Sentences with phrase «pioneering efforts of»

Play Therapy International together with (IBECPT), mainly through the pioneering efforts of Dr Mark Barnes, set the world's first standards for training and practice back in the 1980s.

Modern photographic art (1870 - 1970) is indebted to the pioneering efforts of Alfred Stieglitz (1864 - 1946) and Edward Steichen (1879 - 1973).

Known somewhat confusingly by several different names - such as, «non-figurative», «non-objective art», «non-representational», or «concrete art» - abstract art blossomed in the 20th century, thanks to the pioneering efforts of artists like Wassily Kandinsky (1866 - 1944), Kasimir Malevich (1878 - 1935), Pablo Picasso (1881 - 1973), Georges Braque (1882 - 1963), Theo Van Doesburg (1883 - 1931), Piet Mondrian (1872 - 1944) and Joan Miro (1893 - 1983).

«Interestingly, it was inspired by the pioneering efforts of A. E. Gallatin, who had founded the Gallery (later Museum) of Living Art.

The NYU Art Collection itself was inspired by the pioneering efforts of A. E. Gallatin, who had founded the Gallery (later Museum) of Living Art.

Their work carries forward the pioneering efforts of Martin and Barbara Packard who initially began capturing health information on Bernese Mountain Dogs in the 1980's.

And much of that has to do with being given the opportunity to celebrate the life and pioneering efforts of Billie Jean King, on every level, for all her varied achievements.

«We are very optimistic that, by building on the pioneering efforts of PTC Therapeutics, Roche can help us realise what we have been working so hard to achieve.»

The proposed CRISPR trial builds off the pioneering efforts of Carl June and others at University of Pennsylvania (UPenn) to genetically modify a cancer patient's own immune cells, specifically a class known as T cells, to treat leukemia and other cancers.

AGU will profile and acknowledge the pioneering efforts of its minority members, and encourage their leadership in advancing the visibility and success of underrepresented scientists.

He said with the pioneering efforts of the Aregbesola in Osun on youths advancements, the Aregbesola government has inadvertently motivated youths in Osun and elsewhere to critically examine the youths advancement contents of political parties and candidates seeking elective positions before they support them.

A pioneering effort of the Hudson School District and the Concord Consortium of Massachusetts allows students from around the world to schedule classes at their convenience in subjects not offered at their local school.

Not exact matches

According to a recent article in the New York Times, the coalition, called the Center for Humane Technology, has brought together an impressive group of social media pioneers, leaders in tech, F500 partners, and media in an effort to educate and lobby against what they call «tech - addiction» among youth.

She became one of the pioneers of Salesforce's equal pay efforts, resulting in the company spending $ 6 million to address any unexplained differences in pay.

But despite its best efforts, VMware itself is not a big player in the brave new world of public cloud computing, the shared data center infrastructure pioneered by Amazon Web Services (amzn), which is now facing heated competition from Microsoft (msft) and Google (googl).

Just days ago, Uber CEO Travis Kalanick announced that Anthony Levandowski, one of the pioneers of Google's self - driving car project and co-founder of self - driving trucking company Otto, would be leading all of Uber's autonomous car efforts as part of the company's acquisition of Otto.

Otto cofounder Anthony Levandowski, a former Google Car pioneer, is now leading all of Uber's self - driving efforts.

In a blog post on Medium Friday, chief technology officer Chris Urmson announced that effective immediately he was leaving the team after shepherding Google's pioneering effort through seven years and 1.8 million miles of road testing.

A pilot program is being pioneered in Boston as a result of the efforts of Dr. Gerald Caplan, Director of Harvard Community Mental Health Program.

Tesla electric car pioneer Elon Musk has also warned of the danger posed by efforts to create thinking machines.

1Elliot Carter: «The authors of Sonic Design have made a pioneering effort to view the large field of music we live in today as a whole and to derive general concepts and principles that describe and explain methods of each style, age, and people.

Given the more than forty - year history of clinical pastoral training in North America, this was hardly a pioneering effort.

However, as in the seventeenth century the various later theories were not produced independently of each other but came to be developed by working through, and in divergence from, the first great attempt at a philosophical structure built upon a profound insight into the problems at issue, namely, that of Descartes, so in our time the new efforts which are required in the philosophy of nature will need to come to terms with the pioneering work of Whitehead.

Beginning with a definition of the Christian idea of responsibility they proceed to examine the erroneous or heretical forms of church responsibility and conclude with an effort to understand the positive content of the Church's social obligation by considering its functions as apostle, pastor and pioneer of humanity.

Protestant pioneers include the Shalom Institute in Washington, D.C., under the direction of Tilden Edwards; the Institute of Advanced Pastoral Studies in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, directed by Jack Biersdorf; and the Journal Workshops and Process Meditation efforts of Ira Progoff.

In an effort to remove the causes of famine, the outstanding pioneer school of forestry and agriculture in China has been developed in connection with a Christian university.

«Value - added is when we're able to take a product and change the form and shape of it to add some value to it by making it a product — maybe crab - stuffed salmon fillet, salmon roll or any number of things you'd see on the counter,» Milobar explains.He is proud of his company's pioneering efforts in seafood sustainability.

In addition to being a leader in permeate production volumes, the U.S. dairy industry has also been a pioneer in investing significant research and development efforts revealing the sensory, functional and nutritional benefits of whey and milk permeate as cost - saving, flavor - enhancing and sodium - reducing food and beverage ingredients.

Essentia, the pioneer of ionized alkaline bottled water in the U.S., today unveiled striking new packaging and multi-pack designs as part of its next phase in their brand evolution efforts.

Licensed as a parent educator and early childhood teacher, she has pioneered efforts to bring topics such as temperament, neurobiology, the importance of sleep, and emotion coaching into homes, schools, medical practices, and businesses.

As the pioneer in concussion education for sports parents, MomsTeam and I are thrilled to have Impakt on our team as we continue to dedicate our efforts to do everything possible to keep the kids of America playing sports as safe as science, technology and equipment make possible.»

The effort has won the support of chef Alice Waters, a pioneer of «California cuisine» and a leading proponent of organic cooking.

And it is why Britain is leading the way in pioneering international efforts to crack down on modern slavery - one of the great scourges of our world - wherever it is found.

Given their history as the pioneers of grass - roots get - out - the - vote efforts, Republicans claim not to be particularly impressed by the Obama operation, including its estimated army of 8 million volunteers.

The State of New York's pioneering efforts to make health data publicly available and to facilitate the data's use in apps, tools, and services is bringing the data to life in meaningful and innovative ways.

The Labour leader stated that the congress had made serious efforts to ensure reconciliation with aggrieved Labour leaders after the division in the congress caused by the outcome of the 2015 Delegates Congress of the NLC, especially the intervention of veteran Labour leaders led by the Pioneer President of the Congress, Alhaji Hassan Sunmonu.

The appointment, according to AMA, is an essential step of Accra's resilience - building efforts, and its partnership with 100 Resilient Cities — Pioneered by The Rockefeller Foundation.

«I am sure when the history of the party would be written; these pioneering efforts, these robust contributions would be acknowledged.

SETI pioneer Jill Tarter and Berkeley researcher Dan Werthimer talk about how the discovery of nearby exoplanets is inspiring new efforts to gain info about these galactic neighbors.

Last week, genomics pioneer Craig Venter announced that his team has passed an important milestone in its efforts to create a bacterial cell whose genome is entirely synthetic — constructed chemically from the building blocks of DNA.

Cairncross pioneered the use of computer mapping systems to track progress — and to show governments and donors that their efforts are paying off.

Contributing to this global effort, the NUS team has successfully pioneered the development of aerogels using cotton fibres harvested from textile waste.

Career - centered efforts At Vandenberg, the pioneers of the mission, such as Tom Schmugge, a retired NASA engineer who first came up with the idea of a soil moisture mission, and other scientists who have dedicated their lives to the mission, erupted with cheers, hugs and handshakes.

UT Southwestern has been a pioneer in identifying opportunities for minimally invasive surgery in several other areas, including efforts to develop magnetically controlled surgical instruments to reduce the number of entry ports into abdominal cavities.

«They tend to be people who are highly motivated health - seekers and science geeks,» says Barbara Bernhardt of the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, who has conducted detailed interviews with 60 volunteers in the Coriell Personalized Medicine Collaborative, a pioneering effort to study the medical value of genetic information.

First came the pioneering years of 1993 - 99, during which most open - access journals were, he says, «home - brew» efforts, set up by individuals and hosted on university servers.

The work is the fruit of the Innovative Genomics Initiative, a joint effort between UC Berkeley and UCSF that aims to correct DNA mutations that underlie human disease using CRISPR - Cas9, a pioneering technology co-developed by scientists at UC Berkeley that has made genome editing easier and more efficient than ever before.

There is Sir Roger the physicist, knighted in 1994 for his contributions to science, among them pioneering efforts to reconcile Albert Einstein's general theory of relativity with quantum mechanics.

«It's one of the most valuable data sets you can have,» says Michael Snyder of Yale University, who pioneered a similar large - scale effort to localize proteins in yeast.

Today Friedman is a leading proponent of the seasteading movement, an effort to create permanent floating communities in international waters that would allow «the next generation of pioneers to peacefully test new ideas of government,» he says.