Sentences with phrase «recent public profile»

Murdoch University's recent public profile announcements have included a WA Citizen of the Year award for chancellor Geoffrey Bolton, a high national ranking in the latest round of Australian Research Council grants, and new accreditation for the veterinary school.

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Before Comey tapped him to lead the Richmond office in 2014, he was section chief of the Public Corruption and Civil Rights Section, investigating some of the highest profile cases against government officials and civil rights violations in recent years.
Related: Delta and LinkedIn Team Up For In - Flight Networking Project With its most recent iOS and Android update this week, the app now has a social check - in function, allowing passengers to use Facebook to see who else is on their flight, provided they have downloaded app and have a profile that is public.
Facebook's data collection practices, the core of its ad - based business model, have come under broad scrutiny in recent weeks as the company has been forced to raise its estimates of how much user information was leaked and to admit that «most» of its more than two billion users may have had their public profile data scraped by outside harvesters.
However, in light of recent high - profile food scandals — such as exploding watermelons and melamine - tainted infant formula — there is understandably a lot of public opposition and mistrust towards «freaky» GM foods and China's agri - chem / agricultural technology sectors in general.
The petition, to the Justice Secretary, says: «Several recent high profile cases have evidenced how the general public has fixed preconceived ideas of what constitutes rape, a victim and a perpetrator of sexual violence.
This significant development, along with the recent announcement by Australia's largest piggery to voluntarily phase out sow stalls, could never have happened without Animals Australia's investigations, media exposés, and high profile public awareness campaigns.
Peterson and Kekich have kept low public profiles in recent years, and both declined to speak to SI.
The recent downfalls of multiple high - profile men began in April 2017, when Bill O'Reilly lost his job at Fox News in after several allegations of sexual harassment against the top - rated cable TV host were made public.
Federal investigators have determined that the engineers in two recent, high - profile derailments involving the LIRR and NJ Transit suffered from a sleep disorder, according to newly released public documents.
Recent high - profile failures at Al - Madinah School and Kings Science Academy demonstrate the DfE and the EFA's oversight arrangements for free schools are not yet working effectively to ensure public money is used properly.
Cuomo's comments seemed to signal that public campaign finance is unlikely to be tackled in 2016 despite recent high - profile convictions of elected officials.
In a recent attempt, oncologist Todd Golub of the Dana - Farber Cancer Institute in Boston, Massachusetts, and his colleagues collected gene expression profiles, taken from public databases, from 76 tumors.
High - profile drug - safety incidents in recent years have chiseled away at the public perception of industry.
Yamanaka was referring to a recent string of public apologies by stem cell scientists in Japan, triggered by two high - profile papers published earlier this year that claim to have found an alternate way to reprogram adult cells into embryolike ones — called STAP (stimulus - triggered acquisition of pluripotency) cells.
But in a way that calls to mind the recent Jon McGregor novel Reservoir 13, it is pricklingly attuned to the bleak commonalities of all high - profile British crime cases: the tearful press conferences in village halls, the straggly lines of volunteers scouring scrubland for clues, the bouquets of dead flowers sellotaped to telegraph poles and fence posts, and most of all the public hunger for answers.
However, as we have all become more aware since the recent high - profile security issues faced by public organisations and large companies, e-safety isn't just about having anti-virus software in place; it is vital to ensure a school's complete internet infrastructure is appropriate and secure.
In addition, for the first time, the 2018 school profiles include a «High Academic Growth» indicator for 54 public district and charter schools that have significantly exceeded the norm for academic growth over the most recent three - year period in both math and English language arts (ELA) on the Pennsylvania Value Added Assessment System (PVAAS).
Author and consultant Monica Martinez profiled eight innovative public schools involved in deeper learning in her recent book, with the same title.
Peter will also deconstruct some recent high - profile media reports, and answer your questions about TNR, wildlife, science and public policy.
In recent months the issue of health problems in short - faced or brachycephalic dogs has been highlighted to the public, in the media and following high profile events like this year's Crufts.
(Other high - profile scandals in Austria's public arts sector in recent years were discussed by Matthias Dusini in frieze.)
It was largely protected in the recent government spending review, which speaks not only to its economic value, but also to its increasing public profile.
David Evans QC has very considerable experience in Public Inquiries and has worked on some of the highest profile Inquiries in recent years.
As we have seen from the media attention it has garnered in recent months, data breaches in the computer systems of a number of high profile companies and government agencies has resulted in financial losses, a lack of public trust and confidence and damage to their brands.
A recent US decision held that a person's browsing history on web dating sites — not just his profiles, which were clearly intended for public use — could be disclosed to police because the person had authorized the administrators of the sites to know what he was looking at.
Given the Sixth Circuit's public dissension in recent years, including several sharply worded opinions and allegations of improprieties in death penalty cases, I suspect this case would have received more attention had it not been overshadowed by the close of the Supreme Court's term and several high - profile decisions.»
While public opinion was far from sympathetic to Castro's situation, the incident — probably the most high profile prison suicide in recent history — raised the question of what safeguards are in place to prevent or at least reduce self - harm incidents in prison.
Tim has acted in several high profile and leading procurement cases in recent years, and regularly advises both contracting authorities and economic operators in relation to challenges following breaches of the Public Contract Regulations.
He has appeared in some of the most high - profile recent public law cases, including the Article 50 and junior doctors contract challenges.
Members have over recent years advised and represented a wide range of private clients and central and local government bodies on a number of high profile state aid cases including cases arising out of the banking crisis, challenges to public funding of broadcasters, and public support for major infrastructure projects.
But as of Monday afternoon, the most recent public post on Zuckerberg's profile is from two weeks ago, when he and his wife Priscilla Chan celebrated Purim.
Mr Halstead thinks a recent change in Facebook's rules for external developers which made it harder for them to simply scrape data from users» public profiles, may be a sign that the company knows there is a problem.
Facebook's data collection practices, the core of its ad - based business model, have come under broad scrutiny in recent weeks as the company has been forced to raise its estimates of how much user information was leaked and to admit that «most» of its more than two billion users may have had their public profile data scraped by outside harvesters.
The recent high - profile accidents involving Uber and Tesla are a serious setback for the autonomous - car industry as it seeks to win the hearts and minds of a skeptical public.
Priest has welcomed the recent public outcry in Australia condemning very high profile incidents of racism, such as on public transport or the sporting field, but says there's also a risk that people are tempted to see them as «isolated».
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