Sentences with phrase «prominent state universities»

A number of prominent state universities have launched programs to prepare students for the legal cannabis industry.

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«Since its completion, the book has been endorsed by prominent scientists including Philip Skell, a member of the National Academy of Sciences; Scott Turner, an evolutionary biologist at the State University of New York; and Professor Norman Nevin, one of Britain's leading geneticists.»

Researchers at the Center for the Study of Women in Television and Film at San Diego State University looked at the top 700 highest - grossing movies of 2014 — which make up almost all of the year's major theatrical releases — to see how many featured women in prominent production roles.

Also, as the Dean of the Faculty of Social Sciences at the Lagos State University, LASU and member of Executive of the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), Prof. Momoh was prominent for his doggedness in maintaining high level integrity and professionalism, and selfless defence of staff and students» welfares, as well as strictly adherence to ethical standard on addressing issues that affected staff and students.

Until he was recently fired, Mr. Howe worked for Whiteman Osterman & Hanna, a prominent Albany law firm; among its clients was the State University of New York Polytechnic Institute, which, as a linchpin of the Cuomo administration's efforts to stimulate economic growth upstate, has received and helped distribute hundreds of millions of dollars in state fState University of New York Polytechnic Institute, which, as a linchpin of the Cuomo administration's efforts to stimulate economic growth upstate, has received and helped distribute hundreds of millions of dollars in state fstate funds.

Aare Afe Babalola, SAN, founder of Afe Babalola University, Ado Ekiti and prominent traditional rulers in Ondo and Ekiti states have endorsed Chief Gani Adams as...

Democrat Colleen Deacon, an Syracuse University alumna running against Rep. John Katko in New York state's 24th Congressional District race, spoke with other prominent politicians about the upcoming election at a Syracuse rally on Friday.

«In addition, more than 30 of New York State's most prominent and influential business, labor, community and university groups support the UB 2020 initiative as the region's best strategy for economic development and job creation.»

Describing cultism as the mother of all crimes in the state, the police boss identified Imo State University, Owerri, and Federal Polytechnic, Nekede, as the most prominent hotbeds in the sstate, the police boss identified Imo State University, Owerri, and Federal Polytechnic, Nekede, as the most prominent hotbeds in the sState University, Owerri, and Federal Polytechnic, Nekede, as the most prominent hotbeds in the statestate.

Numerous scientists I interviewed — from entomologist John Tooker at Penn State University, to Galen Dively and prominent entomologist Dennis vanEngelsdorp at the University of Maryland, to Pettis and others — said the number of chemicals in our environment is so vast that assessing all of their possible interactions is virtually impossible.

Meanwhile, two American panels examined the integrity of Michael Mann, a prominent climate researcher at Pennsylvania State University.

Hunt and his colleagues drew on large collections of ostracod fossils from the Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History, the University of Southern Mississippi, and Louisiana State University, as well as additional fossils they collected themselves, to investigate whether species in which this male / female distinction was most prominent had been more vulnerable than others to changes in their environments.

In an editorial also published in the July 1 issue of Annals of Internal Medicine, Dr. George Sawaya and Dr. Vanessa Jacoby of the Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology and Reproductive Sciences at the University of California, San Francisco write, «The pelvic examination has held a prominent place in women's health for many decades and has come to be more of a ritual than an evidence - based practice... With the current state of evidence, clinicians who continue to offer the examination should at least be cognizant about the uncertainty of its benefits and its potential to cause harm through false - positive testing and the cascade of events it prompts.»

A creationist conference set for a major research campus — Michigan State University in East Lansing — is creating unease among some of the school's students and faculty, which includes several prominent evolutionary biologists.

As one of the benefits stated in the brochure of the University of Portsmouth goes, «because the programme is developed in close consultation with prominent employers, the syllabus is highly relevant and useful in the real world».

Other prominent astronomers, such as San Francisco State University astronomer Geoff Marcy who has helped to discover many extrasolar planets, note that there may in fact be many different physical processes that lead to the formation of planets.

The Kavli Foundation was established in December 2000 by its founder and benefactor, Fred Kavli, a prominent California business leader and noted philanthropist whose foundation is currently actively involved in establishing major research institutes at leading universities throughout the United States and in Europe and Asia.

Theater of War Productions, supported by a generous grant from the Stavros Niarchos Foundation in collaboration with the United Service Organizations (USO), is partnering with ten prominent theaters and universities across the United States to present â $ œTheater of Warâ $ for mixed audiences comprised of military service members and civilians.

«Accountability for student performance is one of the two or three - if not the most - prominent issues in policy at the state and local levels right now,» says Richard F. Elmore, a professor at Harvard University's Graduate School of Education (Quality Counts, 1999)

At the same time business has become an influential advocate for school reform, Robert B. Reich, a prominent political economist at Harvard University's John F. Kennedy School of Government, argues in The Work of Nations, it has quietly worked to procure subsidies and tax breaks from state and local governments.

While Vance may see personal behavior rather than policy as exerting a greater influence on life outcomes, public institutions — the Marine Corps and Ohio State University most particularly — played a prominent role in arresting his otherwise inevitable march down the road to nowhere.

Prominent universities like Yale, the University of North Carolina and Notre Dame have been the subject of investigations by the Department of Education; the alleged involvement of football players in sexual assaults has intensified the spotlight on incidents at Vanderbilt University, the U.S. Naval Academy, Florida State University and the University of Montana.

William H. Schmidt and Richard T. Houang of Michigan State University, found that the Common Core math standards were very similar to the standards of the highest - achieving nations on one prominent international assessment, Third International Mathematics and Science Study.

It will tour to at least five prominent museums throughout the United States, beginning this fall at the Ogden Museum of Southern Art and making stops at the Baltimore Museum of Art and the museums of Duke and Notre Dame universities.

Over the years, Ottersbach has held a number of prominent visiting professor positions, including with the Centro de Arte e Communicaçao Visual, Lisboa, Portugal from 1992 to 1993, and in 2003 with the California State University in Los Angeles.

The prints, drawings and book document a history of Gego's involvement with prominent printmaking workshops in North America including Iowa State University; Pratt Institute, New York; and Tamarind Lithography Workshop, Los Angeles.

Gallery owner Jorg Grimm said he was very pleased with the booth's prominent placement near the entrance to the fair, and noted he had made connections with prominent curators, including Steven Bridges from Michigan State University's Broad Museum, where one of his artists, the Chicago - based artist Daniel G. Baird, is currently being exhibited.

His work is represented in several prominent public collections including the Los Angeles County Museum of Art; Museo de Artes Visuales Alejandro Otero, Caracas, Venezuela; Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, Connecticut; Winston - Salem State University, North Carolina; and in New York, the Museum of Modern Art, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, and the Studio Museum in Harlem.

Her work is included in prominent collections including the George Eastman House and the Johnson Museum of Fine Art at Cornell University, and she has exhibited throughout the United States.

Helen Lundeberg's paintings have been exhibited widely in prominent museums, including the J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles, Whitney Museum of American Art in New York, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the Brooklyn Museum, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Nora Eccles Harrison Museum of Art at Utah State University and the National Museum of American Art in Washington D.C..

Weiser's work is additionally held in the collections of prominent institutions, including San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco; Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas; The Hammer Museum, Los Angeles; The Whitworth, University of Manchester, Manchester, England; Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum: Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan; Albright - Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo; Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago.

Weiser's work is additionally held in the collections of prominent institutions, including San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA; Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, TX; The Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA; The Whitworth, University of Manchester, Manchester, UK; Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum: Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI; Albright - Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY; Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL.

Pennsylvania State University has found no evidence of research misconduct on the part of Michael Mann, the prominent climatologist who is a leader in efforts to chart Earth's past temperature patterns and has been a longstanding target of groups and individuals fighting restrictions on greenhouse gases.

That's why I see little merit in descriptions of the reinstatement as an exoneration — a word used by Michael E. Mann, a Pennsylvania State University * climate scientist who, like Gleick, has become a prominent campaigner for action on curbing greenhouse gases.

Here are some highlights from particularly interesting non-anonymous comments (a perk aimed at fostering constructive discourse), along with thoughts sent to me by two prominent analysts of the intersection of science and human affairs, Brad Allenby, the professor of engineering and ethics at Arizona State University and co-author of one of my favorite books of 2011, «The Techno - Human Condition,» and Steve Fuller, a professor of sociology at the University of Warwick in Britain and author of «Humanity 2.0: The Past, Present and Future of What it Means to be Human,» which I look forward to reading over the holidays.

Nonetheless, the stakes - and the opportunities - could hardly be higher, says Rattan Lal, a prominent soil scientist at Ohio State University.

And in this case the tale spinner is a teacher, at a prominent American state university school no less: The Arizona State honors colstate university school no less: The Arizona State honors colState honors college.

The current issue of Discover has a couple of interesting interviews with prominent climate scientists Judy Curry of Georgia Tech and Michael Mann of Pennsylvania State University.

With the stage set for New York Lt. Gov. David Paterson to become only the third black governor in the United States since Reconstruction, the nation's first and second black governors were at Howard University in Washington, D.C., last weekend for a special ceremony in which three prominent black lawyers received honors.

Members of the firm have held notable positions serving on the boards of prominent institutions, such as the State University System of Florida and the Florida State Board of Education, and holding high - ranking offices, including President of the 60,000 - member American Association for Justice; President of the International Academy of Trial Lawyers; President of the Dade County Bar Association; President of the Miami - Dade Florida Association of Women Lawyers; United States Attorney for the Southern District of Florida; and Chairman of the Florida Federal Judicial Nominating Commission.

So good he was given a scholarship to play football at a prominent four - year university in our state.

The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, or just UNC, is arguably the most prominent of the 17 schools in the state system, and it has long been considered one of the eight original «Public Ivy League» schools with a reputation for excellence.