Sentences with phrase «special initiatives in»

Previously, he was director of special initiatives in the U.S. Department of Education's Office of Innovation and Improvement, where he was responsible for designing and executing the Investing in Innovation (i3) program, as well as advising on research and development - related policy.

Pestronk, who most recently served as director of special initiatives in the Office of Innovation and Improvement (OII) at the U.S. Department of Education (ED), has observed that in education, the R&D cycle too often is slow and uncoordinated, leaving the sector starved for critical innovation.

Innovations in Biomedical Computational Science and Technology (R01) Innovations in Biomedical Computational Science and Technology (R21) These funding programs emerged in 1999 from an NIH working group that recommended a special initiative in biomedical information science and technology.

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It will still hold forum discussions, co-produce special sections in USA Today and put more stores in minority communities as part of the Race Together initiative, according to a company memo from Schultz.

SPECIAL REPORT: Hundreds of oil and gas fields to be decommissioned in the next decade across the Asia - Pacific region will create billions of dollars of opportunities for contractors, with a number of initiatives already under way.

Schindler revealed the company's initiative will adjust algorithms and use new services to make users see links from publications they pay for higher up in their search results in a special carousel.

This special consolidation initiative would keep the terms and conditions of the loans the same, and most importantly, beginning in January 2012, allow borrowers to make only one monthly payment, as opposed to two or more payments, greatly simplifying the repayment process.

The Rix Awards are a special initiative of The Vancouver Board of Trade, presented in honour of the late Dr. Don Rix, who served as the 2008 - 09 Chair of The Vancouver Board of Trade.

The Rix Awards are a special initiative of the Greater Vancouver Board of Trade, presented in honour of the late Dr. Don Rix, who served as the 2008 - 09 Chair of The Vancouver Board of Trade.

He has also led restructuring, merger and integration and other HR transformation initiatives in special situations across his career.

Our First Program offers 18 - to 22 - year - olds in entrepreneurial business families the opportunity to discover their personal assets and interests; find out how to implement and complete a corporate initiative; get an introduction into the special characteristics associated with their family businesses; and explore their strengths, weaknesses and business potential.

Adams's warning has gone unheeded, and McKinley's appeal to a long - standing national belief that America enjoys a special or «exceptionalist» destiny in the history of nations continues to lurk around the edges of many current foreign policy initiatives.

Since his appointment, the inspector general's report claimed that Kmiec has «devoted considerable time to writing articles for publication in the United States as well as in Malta,» given his belief that he had a «special mandate» to promote Obama's interfaith initiatives.

In A Process Christology, David R. Griffin notes the same difficulties we have raised about these proposals: «They have not made use of the notion that the content of God's ideal aims for men varies... If this notion of Whitehead's is not used, the resulting Christology has a somewhat Pelagian quality, suggesting that Jesus» specialness is due solely to human initiative — if Jesus was God's decisive revelation, this did not result even partially from any special activity on God's part in any sensIn A Process Christology, David R. Griffin notes the same difficulties we have raised about these proposals: «They have not made use of the notion that the content of God's ideal aims for men varies... If this notion of Whitehead's is not used, the resulting Christology has a somewhat Pelagian quality, suggesting that Jesus» specialness is due solely to human initiative — if Jesus was God's decisive revelation, this did not result even partially from any special activity on God's part in any sensin any sense.

He is currently employed on the Electronic Culture Research Project, a special initiative of the Uniting Church's Commission in Victoria to explore the impact of electronic media on global cultures and the implications of this cultural change on religious institutions and on the social experience and expression of religious faith.

Special thanks to Organic Valley and The Agriculture Science Cluster for their generous financial support and partnership in this initiative.

The hotel will also support the initiative by offering guests a special room rate to enjoy its ultra-chic hotel accommodations June 1 - 5, to run in conjunction with the dinners.

Not only will he be happy with your initiative, but you will too as you see the positive changes it creates in this special bond.

A special initiative, called Sesame Street in Communities, offers free materials, including videos, books and games to help parents and caregivers, in turn, help young children cope with traumatic experiences.

A case in point was when the Special Development Initiatives Ministry GH cents 800,000 website issue came up, he was all over trying to do damage control, insisting against all the available evidence that, it was rather GH cents 80,000.

Clever again, and in this case the money goes to a 2011 State Battles Fund, «a special initiative focused on the struggles of working people across the country....

In this regard, the Ministry of Special Development Initiatives (MSDI) was created to provide oversight and strategic direction for the implementation of IPEP.

Inspired by his daughter, he launched the «ThinkDIFFERENTLY» initiative in Dutchess County, which encourages local governments to prioritize those with special needs.

The Special Investigations Division immediately applied this funding to expand the parameters used in addressing fraud by implementing a multi-faceted anti-fraud initiative, tasking a three - person team with scrutinizing subsidies for both child care providers and clients in order to identify inappropriate payments.

«With today's action by the NYSAC Board of Directors, I'm sure counties throughout our state will «Think DIFFERENTLY» and embrace our initiative in their unique ways — all to benefit our friends with special needs.»

Earlier in his remarks, the Special Adviser to the Governor on Education, Mr Obafela Bank - Olemoh said part of the innovation of the present administration was the introduction of «library initiative» whereby private organisations can adopt a library and improve it.

The government has announced a special initiative called the «Akufo - Addo Program for Economic Transformation (AAPET)», as a major intervention for job creation, infrastructure development and accelerated investment in Agriculture.

The Polar Plunges are the largest fundraising initiative for Special Olympics New York, raising almost $ 1.5 million in 2015, including over $ 135,000 in Fishkill.

Mayor de Blasio has also invested in numerous initiatives to support our DAs» essential efforts — including an additional $ 2 million per year to the Special Narcotics Prosecutor and $ 10 million to the Anti-Violence Innovation challenge — and launched expansive initiatives aimed at reducing opioid misuse and overdose deaths across the City, in close partnership with local elected officials.»

He is currently embroiled in an all - out campaign to pass four ballot initiatives in a special election on Nov. 8 — none of which is ahead in the polls at the moment.

While Cuomo has pitched the initiative as a special help for upstate, companies that are working with college campuses in New York City and Long Island are eligible as well.

The national identification scheme and the national digital address system are part of the special policy initiatives by the government to formalize the economy, broaden the tax base, in order to rake in more revenue to make up for the abolishment of several «nuisance» taxes.

Again, in December 2017, it emerged that the Ministry for Special Development and Initiatives had budgeted GH cents 800,000 of taxpayers» money to build a new website.

R03s are confusing because the institutes that use this mechanism for investigator - initiated grants — 14 that I'm aware of — use it in a variety of ways; some other institutes use the R03 mechanism only for «special initiatives,» special - purpose programs publicized through requests for applications (RFAs).

It's no secret to Scientific American readers that we feel a special obligation to support the next generation of science enthusiasts, whom we hope to inspire both with our science coverage and our education initiatives, including the Scientific American Science in Action Award, powered by the Google Science Fair.

Initially I worked in a division that funded regional innovation initiatives, with a special focus on the former eastern Germany.

Already a number of interesting initiatives exist, for instance programs run completely in English, special aid programs for foreigners, new internationally recognized degrees, and programs for guest lecturers.

The DFG has also launched the Sonderforschungsbereich programs, which bring together researchers from universities and elsewhere to work on special projects — from a cell biology initiative in Cologne to a study of autoimmune reactions in Munich.

For one, the Smithsonian already has quite a diverse collection: hundreds of thousands of museum specimens and thousands of blood samples in 30 special freezers, part of an initiative to freeze 50 % of the diversity of life in the next 5 years.

Furthering that hope is the fact that running in parallel to the ministerial gathering, a special high - level group set up by U.N. Secretary - General Ban Ki - moon to promote his Sustainable Energy for All initiative is also meeting in London, with the two groups coming together today.

New practices in China's ocean and lake farms are intended to raise healthier seafood while polluting the water less Photography and reporting were supported by a grant from the Mongabay Special Reporting Initiatives program

The study is published in a special issue of Annals of Internal Medicine featuring research from Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) clinical scholars on innovative high - quality and high - value health care initiatives.

Representing the AAS in a number of science and technology coalitions, including taking on occasional leadership roles for special events or initiatives

In addition to the regular and special technical sessions it sponsors, TC - SP (and previously ITG - SP) has sponsored various technical initiatives, including

This Volume 16 of series Sharing Innovative Experiences is a joint initiative of the Special Unit for South - South Cooperation, hosted by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP SS) and the International Ocean Institute (IOI), Headquartered in Malta.

Project Blue is a space initiative to find other Earth - like planets in the Alpha Centauri system by launching a special - purpose telescope that can identify «blue» planets that may have oceans and can support life.

In the report, entitled, «Social Enterprise Businesses: A Strategy for Creating Good Jobs for People with Disabilities,» authors Elaine Katz, Vice President of Grant Programs and Special Initiatives at Kessler Foundation, and Ronnie Kauder, Senior Practitioner in Residence at the Heldrich Center, discussed the strategies that lead to a successful social enterprisIn the report, entitled, «Social Enterprise Businesses: A Strategy for Creating Good Jobs for People with Disabilities,» authors Elaine Katz, Vice President of Grant Programs and Special Initiatives at Kessler Foundation, and Ronnie Kauder, Senior Practitioner in Residence at the Heldrich Center, discussed the strategies that lead to a successful social enterprisin Residence at the Heldrich Center, discussed the strategies that lead to a successful social enterprise.

«Today, 110 of the 169 countries that declared in 2013 that they are affected by land degradation or drought have expressed interest in recovering large areas of degraded over the next 12 years, under a special global initiative, the Land Degradation Neutrality Target Setting Programme,» she observed.

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In a move mirroring last month's Golden Globes initiative, actresses Tessa Thompson, Andrea Riseborough, Gemma Arterton, Gemma Chan and Naomie Harris will be joined by special guests at the event.