Sentences with phrase «sabbatical at»

«There are many natural cycles that rely on severe weather and the precipitation it brings,» said Qinghong Zhang, professor of atmospheric and oceanic sciences, Peking University, lead author of the study, who conducted this research while on sabbatical at Penn State.

I wrote this paper in Spring 2007 during my sabbatical at the Carnegie Dept. of Global Ecology at Stanford and at UCSC Environmental Studies (with Steve Gliessman), and I can say with confidence that this paper was more fun to write than any other in my career so far.

Late in my stay at Georgia, I took a research sabbatical at the University of California at Davis and studied the applied animal behavior of livestock with Edward Price, one of the foremost researchers in the field.

To find out more, Lillian, a professor at a university in Maryland, decides to take a spring sabbatical at the Beijing Teachers College.

He took a sabbatical at a boarding school in Carmel, in the shadow of Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca.

A sabbatical at IBM Yorktown Heights crystallized the ideas for his first book, a monograph on Magnetic Glasses, written with Kishin Moorjani, which included a classification of the varieties of magnetic order that occur in amorphous solids.

Those experiments, on a Z - pinch inertial confinement machine, showed turbulence that contained a surprising amount of energy, which caught Fisch's attention during a recent sabbatical at Weizmann.

Dr. Roberts spent a one year sabbatical at the FDA and subsequently became a member of the FDA's Circulatory System Devices Panel.

Dr. Gentine is currently on sabbatical at ETH Zürich University in Switzerland.

During this time he became the spokesperson for the H1 experiment (an international collaboration which developed and built the H1 detector at the ep - collider HERA at DESY), and later — after a sabbatical at the BaBar experiment at Stanford — project manager for the International Linear Collider (ILC) project team at DESY — when Elsen continued his relationship with CERN.

Setubal joined the project unexpectedly while on sabbatical at the University of Washington.

Beckage was a short - term visitor conducting research at NIMBioS in 2009 and will be on sabbatical at NIMBioS in 2010.

To this end, during his research sabbatical at ETH Zurich, corresponding author Silvio Ionta (now lecturer at the University of Lausanne) developed a task in which participants were shown pictures of foreign body parts, such as a foot or a hand, or even of the entire body.

Possingham began developing this unconventional way of thinking in 1994, when he was on sabbatical at Imperial College London and watched biologists scrambling to try to figure out what to save.

During a sabbatical at an information technology firm in 1999, Leiserson saw how a brief, intense workshop turned what he calls a dysfunctional group of engineers into a well - oiled machine.

The study team also includes lead author Rupert Seidl of the University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences in Vienna (who spent his sabbatical at UW - Madison in 2015) and Daniel Donato at the Washington State Department of Natural Resources, a former postdoctoral researcher in Turner's lab.

During that time, he took a six - month sabbatical at the Center for Molecular Orthopaedics, Harvard Medical School / Brigham and Women's Hospital, in Boston to learn viral gene transfer techniques.

Rothman and his wife Molly took two children, ages 8 and 14, along on their French sabbatical at the Institut Jacques Monod, and they acknowledge the move was initially stressful for the kids.

«If indeed funding gets tighter in the U.S., India might be more attractive, but it would be a great leap for the typical American postdoc to move to India,» observes Ronald Vale of the University of California, San Francisco who spent a 9 - month sabbatical at the NCBS in 2007 - 08 and co-organized the Young Investigator Meeting, now in its 6th year.

Luckily, Turner took a sabbatical at the University of Colorado, and down the hall was another young scientist, a Polish researcher by the name of Ryszard Kierzek, who was using organic chemistry to produce four oligonucleotides at a time, and as many as two sets of four in a day.

When Shechtman made his discovery in 1982, while on sabbatical at what was then the U.S. National Bureau of Standards, many colleagues denounced his findings.

A one - year sabbatical at NASA turned into two years funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG), at the end of which awaits another accolade: Dr Moreno - Villanueva's idea for developing an automated diagnostic procedure for the detection of DNA damage in space has been awarded a $ 10,000 funding grant by NASA's Johnson Space Center.

«At the temperature of the universe now, the chance that something like this would happen is zero, basically,» says Yuval Grossman, a theoretical physicist from the Technion in Israel who is on sabbatical at the Stanford Linear Accelerator.

Ellis refined his new theory of reality, in which time exists and the future remains unwritten, while on sabbatical at the University of Cambridge, the institution that during the 17th century boasted Isaac Newton, first as a student and later a professor.

More than a year later, when Prasher finished cloning the gene, he called Chalfie's lab only to learn that the researcher was on sabbatical at the University of Utah.

In 2003, he spent a year's sabbatical at Harvard University, to study and lecture at Harvard's Centre for European Studies, before becoming an MP for the safe seat of Doncaster North in 2005.

Ed, meanwhile, continued working for Brown at the Treasury - aside from a brief sabbatical at Harvard in 2003 - until he won a seat for himself in parliament in 2005.

Then, on sabbatical at Harvard University from July 2002 to February 2004, he lectured in politics and governance before returning to the Treasury as chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers.

So a seminary professor was invited to spend his sabbatical at our church.

He spent a sabbatical at Claremont, and arranged what he describes as «a weekly tutorial» with John Cobb.

During my sabbatical at First Things in 2009, I suggested during one editorial meeting that Christians may have to take a step or two back from the public square, specifically citing the use of clergy as state marriage registrars.

In 1968, a Fellowship from the American Association of Theological Schools made possible a sabbatical at the University of Tübingen, Germany where the resources of the Institute for Hermeneutic contributed greatly to the orientation and content of this book.

Together with my response at the first Women's Ordination Conference in 1975 they also caused professional - political difficulties after my return as a tenured professor from my sabbatical at Union.

Books, Television, DVDs, Theatre, Pantomime, whatever, everyone needs a sabbatical at times to allow our bodies to relax, detox and recharge.

Stover's research culminated in a sabbatical at Cambridge University in the laboratory of S. D. Garrett during which he wrote the monograph «Fusarial Wilt (Panama Disease) of Bananas and other Musa Species» (32).

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At the beginning of 1992, he told Hollender that he would be taking a six - month sabbatical.

It's a big promise, and to shepherd her game into the healthcare arena, McGonigal has taken an «entrepreneurial sabbatical» of undetermined length from her role as director of games research and development at Palo Alto, Calif.'s Institute for the Future.

He spent his sabbatical working at the daily Arkansas Democrat - Gazette in Little Rock.

Our family is spending a year in Melbourne, Australia, courtesy of my wife's sabbatical from her post as a professor at Wilfrid Laurier University in Waterloo, Ont.

Work exchanges, university sabbaticals and intra-company transfers provide people in some occupations — school teachers, professors and employees at international corporations — with a simple way to slide into another job in another country for a year or two.

Wing's first leader was famed MIT robotics scientist Nick Roy, who worked there during a two - year sabbatical and then went back to his tenured job at MIT.

We are heavily involved in local community activities around the globe, including many social sabbaticals that donate weeks at a time from our experts in different areas.

But another Hudl benefit might: Every five years, employees are given a budget of $ 4,000 — after taxes — to take a sabbatical of at least two weeks in another country.

There Daniel was told explicitly that Messiah would come 69 «sabbaths» (that is, 69 sabbatical years — a total of 483 years) after the decree was given to rebuild Jerusalem, which at that time lay in ruins after Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon, had destroyed it.

When others began to take Tony to task for this all - too - familiar behavior on his part, Tony became increasingly defensive and condescending, and so others began to join in the discussion to wonder at Tony's rapid return to his old form after what was meant to be something of a restorative sabbatical from the internet.

The result of a sabbatical grant from the Templeton Foundation to Celia Deane - Drummond, Professor of Theology and Biological Sciences at Chester University, Wonder and Wisdom takes several steps back from the rather narrow philosophyof ID to examine the relationship between these two ancient concepts.

My fascination with Ukraine began in 1984, during a sabbatical year at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars.

Colleagues at foundations that fund pastor sabbaticals comment with bemusement on the popularity of Iona and Taizé as project destinations.

During the inquest at Dorset County Hall (pictured), his wife Jean had explained how the trip was something he was determined to complete and only had a limited time to finish due to a sabbatical.

In 1987 - 88, he spent 6 months of a sabbatical leave in Zimbabwe and 6 months at Claremont School of Theology.