Sentences with phrase «recently leading efforts»

«She has tirelessly devoted herself to helping those in need for many years, most recently leading efforts to help rebuild the town of Goderich after it was devastated by a tornado in 2011.»

Morgan recently lead the effort to help integrate 3 - D immersion home tours, powered by Matterport, into the Gabriels platform, enabling Sotheby's International Realty to be the first national franchise to offer its offices the hottest technology in real estate.

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Viome recently hired Guruduth Banavar, the former head of cognitive computing at IBM Research who spent years working on Watson, to lead its A.I. efforts.

He has extensive experience leading marketing efforts for major e-commerce and retail brands, most recently as Chief Marketing Officer of Dollar Shave Club, which was acquired by Unilever for $ 1 billion in 2016.

And David Plouffe, Obama's 2008 campaign manager in 2008, recently joined the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative to lead its policy and advocacy effort.

The recently retired head of Cox Communications in San Diego, Geppert has joined with businessman and civic benefactor Malin Burnham, who has led an effort to buy the U-T and form a community nonprofit to run it.

In an effort to bring some added focus and momentum to the issue, we've recently joined forces with Women in Capital Markets and the Women's Executive Network — two leading advocacy groups in Canada — to promote and support gender diversity in investment management.»

In the meantime, is it too much to ask Sojourners and Wallis to tell us whether or not they agree or disagree with the recently released letter to Congress authored by the three Catholic bishops leading the Church's efforts on health care?

As part of this effort, the company reduced recently the weights on its bottles, leading to less materials being used in production.

In his new role, Bryant leads all food and beverage efforts for six.one.six restaurant, which includes the menus for Mixology Lounge and the jdek — the hotel's waterfront patio that recently launched a new outdoor bar.

«Now, more than ever, we have an important opportunity to unite and support each other, together we can improve lives and help those that need it around the world by dining out at one of these amazing restaurants,» commented Chef José Andrés, who founded World Central Kitchen in 2010 after the devastating earthquake in Haiti, and continues to lead relief efforts alongside the World Central Kitchen chef team in hard - hit areas including most recently in Houston and Puerto Rico.

SI's least - lonely long - distance runner, Hal Higdon, noted that «it is harder to explain a marathon than to run one,» but he has done both with unflinching verve, and Ron Delany, now a businessman in his native Dublin, recently recalled the years of effort that led to his glory at Melbourne.

The Regal Fritillary was recently designated a priority species by the Chicago Wilderness Council with the Peggy Notebaert Nature Museum as the lead partner to coordinate regional efforts to conserve this species.

As part of these efforts, the ruling coalition has struck a bargain with parts of the opposition, mainly the Socialist Party led until recently by the current president Igor Dodon.

He most recently led voter contact efforts for the North Carolina and Mississippi Republican takeovers of their respective House of Representatives, and assisted in Philip Gunn's successful campaign for Speaker of the Mississippi House.

PLATTSBURGH — New York State Assemblyman Billy Jones (D - Chateaugay) recently announced the start of this year's Summer Reading Challenge, an annual state - led effort to inspire children to read throughout the summertime.

In Auburbn, Gov. Andrew Cuomo praised retiring Sen. Michael Nozzolio, who had most recently led the GOP conference's redistricting efforts, as a «truly extraordinary public servant.»

The second - term governor has made no secret of his interest in becoming a candidate for the Republican nomination, and he has recently made key additions to his political team, including the hiring of Rick Wiley, a former Republican National Committee political director, to lead the organizing effort.

Led by the efforts of Linda, John and Jackie Romano and Rob Esche, more than $ 100,000 was also raised recently to support the clinic's important work of providing free legal services to Oneida County veterans and their families, training local attorneys, and educating the next generation of veterans advocates at the College of Law.

Recognizing the need to address that challenge, several leading Latin American conservation organizations working in the Amazon basin recently met in Quito, Ecuador, to review regional jaguar conservation efforts and outline priorities to maintain healthy jaguar populations in the Amazon in perpetuity.

Two countries — the United Kingdom and the Netherlands — seem to be leading the way in their efforts to promote women and, more recently, ethnic minority scientists, the NEWS report indicates.

Habib leads the «Computing the Sky at Extreme Scales» project or «ExaSky,» one of the first projects funded by the recently established Exascale Computing Project (ECP), a collaborative effort between DOE's Office of Science and its National Nuclear Security Administration.

In addition to IURTC, IU leads a number of efforts to encourage faculty innovation and women's success in STEM, including the recently established IU Center for Excellence for Women in Technology.

In an effort to reign in the hype surrounding stem cell research that has led to a proliferation of unapproved and potentially dangerous stem cell therapies, the International Society for Stem Cell Research (ISSCR) recently released updated guidelines outlining conduct for stem cell researchers that, for the first time, included communications activities.

* Dr. Lee was recently named to lead the scientific effort at The Jackson Laboratory for Genomic Medicine in Farmington, Conn., beginning Aug. 1, 2013.

Gail recently retired as Vice President, Scientific Affairs and Distinguished Lilly Research Scholar for Infectious Diseases at Eli Lilly and Company in Indianapolis where she was responsible for launching the Lilly MDR - TB philanthropic effort and establishing and leading the Lilly TB Drug Discovery Initiative, a nonprofit launched in 2007.

«After all of this effort and trying to go through the proper channels, Berkeley has ultimately come up with no response,» said Joan Schmelz, who until recently led the American Astronomical Society's Committee on the Status of Women in Astronomy.

Recently, iBET became the coordinator of a research unit funded by FCT, iNOVA4Health, a translational medicine program organising the efforts of biomedical researchers involved in biological understanding of disease, lead compounds and biopharmaceuticals «pre-discovery», technological scientists involved in «preclinical development», and clinicians involved in «early clinical and first in man clinical trials» from institutions within NOVA University of Lisbon.

He proposes that vitamin D's toxic effect is primarily the result of higher levels leading to a deficiency of vitamin K and postulates that patients can be given higher doses of vitamin D, potentially offering greater therapeutic value, by administering vitamins A, D and K simultaneously.41 It is hoped that future studies will evaluate their interactions, in order to better treat patients, and support public health efforts, as recently proposed by the Weston A. Price Foundation to the National Institutes of Health43 as the agency considers the Strategic Nutrition Research Agenda.

Mr Ong has held various leadership roles within Match.com's International business, primarily in the areas of product and technology, and most recently has led Match.com's effort to transition its European business to Meetic in connection with its sale last year.

«After a span of more than a decade in a series of senior administrative roles at NYU, the Spencer Foundation, and most recently HGSE, Ellen has indicated her desire to devote her full - time efforts once again to her academic work as a leading historian of American education,» Summers added.

The Views of Education Professors Circa 2010, as well as by the recently announced effort, led by NCATE, to overhaul the teacher preparation system.

More recently, he has led regional and state efforts to promote best practices, provide necessary resources and ensure accountability.

The First Lady recently visited a Minneapolis high school following a targeted effort led by E4E - Minnesota member Crystal Ballard to support the school's 76...

That's according to a recently released report from New America Foundation policy analyst Anne Hyslop, who compared accountability under NCLB to state - led efforts the next school year.

As Idaho marks 20 years since its first charter schools opened, the recently released Shackled Education Pioneers looks back at how the public charter school movement started in the Gem State — and how that effort has strayed from its original intent of allowing significant space for education innovation, a progression that led the alliance to downgrade Idaho's charter school law from 20th to 21st nationwide this year.

Working in partnership with state associations, for example, NSBA recently launched two initiatives to support school boards: an update of its school governance guide, the «Key Work of School Boards,» and a «Leading the Change Toolkit» to guide school boards» efforts to turn around chronically low - performing schools.

As with the Common Core State Standards and the recently released draft of the Next Generation Science Standards, the Common Career Technical Core (CCTC) is the result of a state - led effort to develop rigorous standards that states can adopt voluntarily.

NAESP's recently released, «Leading Pre-K-3 Learning Communities: Competencies for Effective Practice» offers principals, teachers, family members, and others best practices, relevant resources, and indicators to guide new efforts to align early care and education with early elementary grades.

Guidera most recently was the Founder, President, and CEO of the Data Quality Campaign (DQC), a national, nonprofit organization leading the effort to empower educators, students, parents, and policymakers with the information they need to make the best decisions to improve student outcomes.

Kia seems to be leading the way in this effort, as news recently surfaced that a turbocharged all - wheel - drive version of the Kia Soul could soon join the standard gasoline and battery - powered Soul EV variants.

Kathryn M Meurs, DVM, PhD, Diplomate ACVIM (Cardiology), who led the effort to find the recently discovered HCM gene in the Maine Coon, has now found an HCM gene in Ragdolls.

From helping animals displaced by Hurricane Sandy to leading efforts to establish community cat programs and high - quality, high - volume spay / neuter clinics, Dr. Sarah Kirk is an animal welfare and shelter medicine leader, and has worked her entire career as a shelter veterinarian, consultant, and emergency responder, most recently as the Medical Director of the ASPCA Field Investigation and Response emergency team.

Those efforts recently helped lead to industry - supported measures becoming law in Virginia, as well as forward movement on animal shelter regulations in Connecticut.

He is currently a Sound Design Manager at Facebook where he oversees Interaction Sound Design and most recently lead the sound design efforts for the 360 releases of Story Studio's «Lost» and «Henry» productions.

With all of our campus engagement efforts in mind, we were excited to strike up a collaboration with the International Sustainable Campus Network, who recently shared exemplary campus sustainability case studies provided by 25 of the world's leading universities at the World Economic Forum.

Brooke Beadle, Novelis Sustainability Lead, headed up the effort and recently shared employee feedback with NWEI.

Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI): Spearheaded the formation of the successful RGGI cap - and - trade program among northeast and mid-Atlantic states, led effort to reduce RGGI's carbon emission cap by 45 percent in 2014, and recently called for an additional cap reduction of at least 30 percent between 2020 and 2030.

Ron Arnold, Executive Vice President of the Center for the Defense of Free Enterprise, recently cited a report by the Virginia - based Science and PublicPolicy Institute — a leading opponent of global warming — regarding the complete futility of any effort by the U.S. to reduce CO2 emissions.

Noble was until recently a consultant for the Arizona Public Service utility company, and has led efforts in Arizona to kill solar - friendly legislation.