Sentences with phrase «projects with more substance»

Amanda Bynes seems to be taking her career development very seriously, picking projects with more substance (and often more edge) than those of many young actors.

Not exact matches

But when the offer to visit the Beautiful Creatures set came in earlier this year, I admit to being intrigued: after all, the production had attracted some seriously impressive talent (from acting legends like Jeremy Irons and Margo Martindale to relative newcomers like Emmy Rossum), and that seems to indicate that LaGravenese is building something with a little more substance and pedigree than the average teen supernatural - romance project.

No doubt these people and organizations will have more to say as we proceed with the substance of the project, as will others.

This research project invited 23 people with substance use and mental health issues to speak about their experiences of youth alcohol and other drugs (AOD) and mental health services, and to share their ideas about how to make these services more effective.

He also served as co-investigator with OSLC scientist Dr. Charles R. Martinez, Jr. (now director of the Center for Equity Promotion in the College of Education at the University of Oregon) on a variety of projects through the Oregon Social Learning Center Latino Research Team, including the Latino Youth and Family Empowerment Project I and II, which developed and tested a culturally specific parent training intervention for Latino families with youngsters at risk for substance use and related problems; the Adolescent Latino Acculturation Study, which was designed to learn more about how Latino families and their middle school youth who have immigrated to the U.S. adapt to life in this country; and PREVENIR, which developed and refined a culturally specific parent and teacher training program in four countries in Central America.