Sentences with phrase «schools and universities often»

Governments, public schools and universities often lead the way on issues of social and environmental responsibility.

Not exact matches

The oldest law school in Canada, McGill, ranks just under U of T. Its highly regarded law journal is cited by The Supreme Court of Canada more often than any other university - affiliated journal, and McGill law graduates regularly make up a quarter of The Supreme Court's annual clerkships.

For instance, a new study led by a professor of marketing at Stanford University's Graduate School of Business finds that when hiring managers are given a choice between proven ability and apparent potential, they often opt for the excitement of the untested but promising candidate.

Malehorn noted that engineering graduates from the University of Illinois often leave to work for companies on the East and West coasts, despite the fact that the school churns out more engineers each year than many other top programs combined.

Student Loan Hero collected data for 670 private colleges and universities and listed the top - ranked schools where grads end up with less than $ 20,000 in debt — and often a lot less:

Northwestern University's Kellogg School of Management professor Lauren Rivera's research found that relatively untrained interviewers often look for «potential friends and «playmates» rather than those with the best work experience or job - relevant skills.»

You will often find such false statements issued by analysts and economists that graduated from, or are employed by «elite» top - shelf schools, like Ben Bernanke and Paul Krugman, both of Princeton University.

But the economic benefit of loss harvesting is often modest, says Kent Smetters, a tax expert and professor at the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School.

Scholasticism Theology moved from the monastery to the university Western theology is an intellectual discipline rather than a mystical pursuit Western theology is over-systematized Western Theology is systematized, based on a legal model rather than a philosophical model Western theologians debate like lawyers, not like rabbis Reformation Catholic reformers were excommunicated and formed Protestant churches Western churches become guarantors of theological schools of thought Western church membership is often contingent on fine points of doctrine Some western Christians believe that definite beliefs are incompatible with tolerance The atmosphere arose in which anyone could start a church The legal model for western theology intensifies despite the rediscovery of the East

I saw sensitivity in the way he treated students, and I believe that his legal opinions — even those with which I disagree — often betray the same,» said University of Colorado Law School's Dayna Bowen Matthew, who hired Gorsuch as an adjunct professor.

As Don Browning, director of the Religion, Culture and Family Project at the University of Chicago Divinity School, has argued, churches that have articulated a normative theology of the family, tempered by a strong emphasis on human fallibility, are often better equipped to speak frankly about departures from their ideals and to offer services to members who have fallen short of those ideals.

At some university divinity schools and a few independent institutions the quality of resources and students is much higher (though there one often can worry about how few of their students are headed toward ministry).

Teachers in Ecuador's public schools often must contend with overcrowding (60 students per class), a dearth of books — even at the university level — and students fainting from hunger (according to the government's own figures, half the nation's children suffer from malnutrition)

I'm no education expert, but I've jumped through enough higher - education hoops to know the practical advantages and disadvantages of graduate school that are often left out of university welcome brochures.

In his essay «A New Humanism for Europe: The Role of the Universities», to which Franchi and Davis refer, Benedict XVI puts it like this: «How urgent is the need to rediscover the unity of knowledge and to counter the tendency to fragmentation and lack of communicability that is all too often the case in our schools!»

Kim looks at SGKAs who are students at one highly selective public university and asks why, given their proficiency in English, impressive educational credentials earned in interracial high schools, and rosy occupational prospects — the attributes that make them «whiz kids» or a «model minority» in the eyes of some — they so often prefer to worship with their own kind.

The Work became active in North America about twenty years ago, and now has approximately three thousand members and runs sixty - four centers (often residences near major universities), five high schools, and several retreats.

Learning and teaching are activities that any good community requires, and while they often take place in schools and universities, they also occur in construction trades and farms.

Please note that while we are affiliated with Stanford University's Graduate School of Education, we receive no direct funding from Stanford, and the education reform efforts that we promote are often overlooked by common funding mechanisms such as foundation grants.

In a paper published in the journal Behavioral Sciences and the Law, scientists at the University of Colorado School Medicine note that, all too often, the «sensational media attention» surrounding CTE «divorce discussion of CTE from the well - established natural history and typically favorable prognosis of mTBI,» while, at the same time, such reports - and the scientific reports about CTE to which they are connected - imply direct connections between complex, multi-determined behaviors such as murder and / or suicide and mTBIs occurring in the remote past of individuals engaging in those behaviors.»

a review of 20 years of research on fatherhood, by Charlie Lewis, Professor of Psychology at Lancaster University and published in June 2001 by Fathers Direct, NFPI and other parenting charities: · Involvement of dads with children aged 7 - 11 predicts success in exams at 16 · Where dads are involved before the age of 11, children are less likely to have a criminal record by the age of 21 · Pre-schoolers who spend more time playing with their dads are often more sociable when they enter nursery school · Nine out of ten dads attend the birth

A study by Robin Wilson of the Washington and Lee University School of Law reports that women with MBAs get divorced or separated more often than those who have only a bachelor's degree, while women with law or medical degrees are more likely to divorce or separate than their male counterparts.

«Whilst they are faced with a barrage of information about terrorism on the internet or through the media, all too often they feel they hit a wall of silence when it comes to discussing the issue openly in schools, universities and with the police.»

The divide between subjects taught in the school classroom and university - level research is often exaggerated.

Two - party partnerships pop up in London because of the pluralism and diversity of the metropolis, and also because ties among the chattering classes often go back to school or university and cross party political boundaries.

The hostilities between the mayor and the governor have only escalated in the last year over a variety of concerns, including mayoral control of New York City schools and proposed cuts in funding to the City University of New York, tumbling into public view with a rare intensity, even for two jobs that are often in conlfict.

Diagnosing depression among medical or doctoral students is often difficult because they «are all so tough and high - functioning,» says Christine Moutier, a practicing psychiatrist and assistant dean for student affairs at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD), School of Medicine.

Regardless of how Planck expressed his belief that senior scientific stars are often loath to accept ideas that threaten their views, the paper's «results lend credence» to the notion, write Pierre Azoulay of the Sloan School of Management at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge; Christian Fons - Rosen of the Barcelona Graduate School of Economics in Spain; and Joshua S. Graff Zivin of the University of California, San Diego, in their National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) working paper.

Graduate schools generally concentrate so exclusively on university - based grant - funded research that exposure to the skills and knowledge needed outside academe is often scarce to nonexistent.

Most groups have focused on detecting proteins released from dying brain cells, but those proteins are not always abundant after injury and often require exotic or proprietary antibodies to measure, said study corresponding author Adam Chodobski, associate professor (research) of emergency medicine in the Alpert Medical School of Brown University.

«More often than not, the risk of the medication is less than the risk of the uncontrolled disorder,» said senior author Dr. Katherine Wisner, the Norman and Helen Asher Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences and Obstetrics and Gynecology at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine and a Northwestern Medicine psychiatrist.

«When he takes a break from research, which is not often, he's outside and he's either fishing or hiking,» says Brown - Borg, now at the University of North Dakota School of Medicine & Health Sciences in Grand Forks.

In an effort to find out, Stephen P. Juraschek, M.D., Ph.D., research and clinical fellow in general internal medicine at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, and his colleagues used data from the DASH (Dietary Approaches to Stop Hypertension) clinical trial, a widely popular and often - cited study whose results were first published in 1997.

«We had a hunch that nudging, and especially digital nudging, would be very cost effective, but I was truly surprised to see that the cost effectiveness of nudging is often 100, and even 1,000, times greater than more traditional interventions,» says co-author Shlomo Benartzi, a professor at the Anderson School of Management at the University of California, Los Angeles.

They're often older, more mature, and more committed to their education than students who enter the university right out of high school, says Derek Dunn - Rankin, faculty director for California's statewide CAMP program and a professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering at UC Irvine.

A team of 18 University of California San Diego School of Medicine and Moores Cancer Center researchers has developed a new tool to analyze an often overlooked aspect of cancer genetics — an alteration that results in the loss or gain in a copy of a gene.

«When you interview patients about triggers for drinking, they often say holidays and family events,» says David Rosenbloom, a specialist in substance abuse at Boston University School of Public Health.

Co-author Professor Daniel Mills of the School of Life Sciences at the University of Lincoln, said: «Humans are known to be very visual in both intra and inter-specific interactions, and because the vision of dogs is much poorer than humans, we often tend to think of them using their other senses to make sense of the world.

Patients who go to the emergency room (ER) with chest pain often receive unnecessary tests to evaluate whether they are having a heart attack, a practice that provides no clinical benefit and adds hundreds of dollars in health - care costs, according to a new study from researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis.

«For a patient with insufficient platelets due to bleeding or an inherited disorder, physicians often have to resort to platelet transfusions, which can be difficult to obtain,» said Dr. Wilbur Lam, another of the paper's co-authors and a physician in the Aflac Cancer and Blood Disorders Center at Children's Healthcare of Atlanta and the Department of Pediatrics at the Emory University School of Medicine.

Seizures, strokes, neuromuscular disorders and encephalopathy (brain disease) are among the complications that often escape necessary investigation, «largely due to other ongoing systemic derangements requiring much attention,» report neurologists Rochelle Sweis, DO, Jorge Ortiz, MD, and José Biller, MD, of Loyola University Medical Center and Loyola University Chicago Stritch School of Medicine.

«Current antiretroviral drugs target HIV's proteins,» says James Stivers, Ph.D., a professor of pharmacology and molecular sciences at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, «but those proteins are moving targets because they are often altered by mutations.

By competing and succeeding in a truly challenging course at a real university, students who have no other connection with higher education — because they often are the first in their families to complete high school, let alone consider college — receive an emotional boost and a realization that college is possible for them.

Researchers at University of California San Diego School of Medicine and Moores Cancer Center have identified RNA - based biomarkers that distinguish between normal, aging hematopoietic stem cells and leukemia stem cells associated with secondary acute myeloid leukemia (sAML), a particularly problematic disease that typically afflicts older patients who have often already experienced a bout with cancer.

Christopher Doughty, faculty member in the School of Informatics, Computing and Cyber Systems at Northern Arizona University, asks that question often.

«Recombination at the centromere doesn't have to happen frequently, it just has to happen often enough that it punctuates the evolution of the organism,» said Joseph Heitman, MD, PhD, senior study author and professor and chair of molecular genetics and microbiology at Duke University School of Medicine.

«Our collective research has shown that horses can often develop this disease earlier in life, yet earlier clinical signs don't always translate into positive test results,» said Nicholas Frank, D.V.M, DACVIM, professor and chair of the Department of Clinical Sciences at the Cummings School of Veterinary Medicine at Tufts University and group coordinator for the Equine Endocrinology Group.

To investigate why checkpoint inhibitors so often stop working, Velculescu; Valsamo Anagnostou, M.D., Ph.D., instructor of oncology at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine; Kellie N. Smith, Ph.D., a cancer immunology research associate at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine; and their colleagues at the Bloomberg ~ Kimmel Institute for Cancer Immunotherapy studied tumors of four patients with non-small cell lung cancer and one patient with head and neck cancer who developed resistance to two different checkpoint inhibitors: a drug called nivolumab that uses an antibody called anti-PD-1, or nivolumab used alone or in combination with a second drug called ipilimumab, which uses an antibody called anti-CTLA4.

At academic medical centers, research informatics offices often operate in a service role, says physician and informatics professor Atul Butte of Stanford University School of Medicine in Palo Alto, California.

«Individuals often don't realize it, but in the aggregate, you can have a real impact on the environment,» said Alberto Salvo, formerly with Northwestern's Kellogg School of Management and now an associate professor of economics at the National University of Singapore.