Sentences with phrase «spent researching universities»

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Canadian companies are funnelling a growing chunk of their research and development spending through the country's universities and colleges, with the total coming in at just under a billion dollars in 2013:

He's spent his career lecturing to and on the aerospace industry, having taught for several semesters at George Washington University while publishing countless papers and research reports as well as one book on the industry.

Now, new research conducted by Moran Cerf, a neuroscientist at Northwestern University, suggests that one of the best ways to reduce stress and feel happier is to spend time with people who make better decisions.

According to research conducted by economist Alicia Robb, founder and CEO of Next Wave Ventures, and University of Hartford finance professor Susan Coleman, men and women differ in the forms they adopt to raise capital, how much capital they seek, how much of that capital they procure, how much of it they spend and the ways they choose to spend it.

In a world of digital transactions, however, you have «no real feel for what you're spending,» says Bloch, who did research in behavioral finance at the University of Florida before embarking on a career that has included turns as a corporate accountant, personal finance video - blogger and founder of a social media marketing company.

A research fellow at the Faraday Institute of Science and Religion at the University of Cambridge's St. Edmund's College, Dutton has spent most of his career studying the science of social influence.

The Solution: The MBA team from Columbia University spent a week at Headframe this past July, dedicating its first few days to intensive market research.

The best way to understand why she was drawn to it, she says, is to look at everything she was doing before it came along: She spent time organizing the 2012 SOPA protests against internet censorship; her graduate work at Harvard University included research on the spontaneous organization on the Internet; and she's taught classes at Stanford on the Internet copyright wars.

Lynch, who has a doctorate in immunology and microbiology from Ohio State University, spent two years there before joining DuPont as a research scientist working on tests for the AIDS virus.

(A recent study by three Boston University researchers found that patent trolls have cost publicly traded companies an average of $ 83 - billion annually over the past four years, more than a quarter of all U.S. industrial research and development spending during that period.)

George Washington University will name its public health school for Michael Milken, the 1980s king of Wall Street «junk» bonds who spent 22 months in prison but later devoted himself to philanthropy and advocated for medical research.

Jonah Berger, professor of marketing at the Wharton School of Business, University of Pennsylvania, spent years researching why things go viral.

A Columbia University expert who has spent two years researching politics - related activity on social media said people prone to extremist views are feeding the cyberspace debate.

Dr Alan Whanger, a retired professor at Duke University, North Carolina, has spent decades researching the shroud.

This defect, in turn, tends to deprive many of those who spend their lives in the universities of the American Church of the admirable industry and unremitting labor in research and publication which characterize a far greater proportion of their colleagues on the faculties of the secular universities.»

Dr. George Comstock, Professor of Communication at the Newhouse School of Communication, Syracuse University, had spent several years reviewing and analyzing all of the research having to do with violence and television from l962 to 1984.

She spent a decade in academia — during which time she was awarded prestigious fellowships from the National Institutes of Health to fund her Ph.D. research at Queen's University and joint - appointment postdoctoral fellowship at Massachusetts General Hospital / Harvard Medical School / Massachusetts Institutes of Technology.

I studied abroad for a semester in Ghana during university, spent two summers doing research in Singapore, undertook my honours thesis research in Papua... -LCB- read more -RCB-

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

According to research by Dr. Travis Dorsch at the Utah State University Family Sports Lab, parents are spending up to 10.5 percent of their gross income on their child's sports.

After receiving her master's degree in Nutrition from the University of California Davis, she spent 18 years working with hundreds of mother - infant dyads as a research associate at UC Davis.

He spent one year for research work in Liege University (Belgium), with professors Jacques Senterre and Jacques Rigo.

Dr. James McKenna of the University of Notre Dame has spent 30 years researching infant sleep.

Citing research from the University of California and the Pew Research Center, she writes that time spent with children has actually increased for both mothers and fathers since the mid 1990's (with mothers still doing the bulk of parresearch from the University of California and the Pew Research Center, she writes that time spent with children has actually increased for both mothers and fathers since the mid 1990's (with mothers still doing the bulk of parResearch Center, she writes that time spent with children has actually increased for both mothers and fathers since the mid 1990's (with mothers still doing the bulk of parenting).

After university I spent a summer exploring Mayan pyramid sites in Central America - another much under researched civilisation who developed one of the most accurate calendars and astronomical charts until the modern computer age and built palaces and pyramids on a par with the European classical period.

A recent survey carried out by You Gov for the Sheffield University Political Economy Research Institute (SPERI) demonstrated that voters in Britain now prioritise growth over deficit reduction (47 - 34 %), deeming current spending cuts to be hasty and excessive.

The vetoes include striking out spending for onion research at Cornell University, a grant to the Putnam County Fish and Game Association and a re-appropriation for the Lindenhurts Robotics Club.

He worked between October 2009 and September 2013 as a senior research fellow with Media and Democracy in Central and Eastern Europe, a European Research Council project based at the Department of Politics and International Relations at the University of Oxford, and spent five months in 2003 on a Fulbright Research Grant at the School of Journalism and Mass Communication at the University of North Carolina studying the history and standards of political journalism in the Unitedresearch fellow with Media and Democracy in Central and Eastern Europe, a European Research Council project based at the Department of Politics and International Relations at the University of Oxford, and spent five months in 2003 on a Fulbright Research Grant at the School of Journalism and Mass Communication at the University of North Carolina studying the history and standards of political journalism in the UnitedResearch Council project based at the Department of Politics and International Relations at the University of Oxford, and spent five months in 2003 on a Fulbright Research Grant at the School of Journalism and Mass Communication at the University of North Carolina studying the history and standards of political journalism in the UnitedResearch Grant at the School of Journalism and Mass Communication at the University of North Carolina studying the history and standards of political journalism in the United States.

Dr. Marc Stears, a lecturer at University College, Oxford, and fellow at the Institute for Public Policy Research spends a lot of time thinking about this kind of stuff.

July - December 2011 Nicole spent at the University of Cologne (Germany) as an Alexander von Humboldt research fellow to work on her second monograph «New Parties in Old Party Systems» which came out with Oxford University Press in 2013.

Last year the ESRC spent # 212 million on research and training to support over 5,700 researchers and students, funding excellent independent social science research in universities and research institutions across the UK and with 62 countries around the world.

[7] He then spent two years as Kobler Research Fellow at the University of Surrey, where he completed an MPhil.

«He has spent the past two decades building the nano facility as the most advanced research complex of its kind at any university in the world,» according to the Albany Times Union

The Innovation Hot Spots Competition is designed to make New York State a leader in attracting venture capital and industry - sponsored research spending: Currently, New York's universities rank 2nd nationally (California is 1st) in total research dollars spent.

He then spent another 6 months at the Microsoft Research - University of Trento Centre for Computational and Systems Biology in Italy.

Cori Bargmann, a neuroscientist and geneticist at Rockefeller University, said the Institute founded by Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg and pediatrician Priscilla Chan is an unusual «hybrid» in the world of philanthropy because it will spend its $ 3 billion, ten - year endowment to provide financial support to others while simultaneously conducting its own research.

Next, she spent a year researching tobacco use prevention and control at the University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, where it occurred to her that she could use her mathematics background to help people.

After spending approximately 2 decades completing a master's degree, stints as a research assistant and research associate at WHOI in Massachusetts, a Ph.D. in biological oceanography at Oregon State University, and returning to WHOI for a postdoc and various other roles, Baumgartner is now an associate scientist with tenure, a title he earned in 2014.

The team, funded by the National Science Foundation's rapid response research program, spent two weeks aboard the F.G. Walton Smith, the University of Miami (UM) Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science's research vessel.

I spent the next decade completing rigorous basic science research training: completing a high school summer internship, attending the University of Maryland, Baltimore County as a Meyerhoff Scholar, and completing my Ph.D. in the Stanford immunology program, where my work focused on the mechanisms regulating hematopoietic and leukemic stem cells.

The USGA has spent about $ 35 million since the mid -»80s on scientific research for improved and more resilient turf grass, working with dozens of state universities like Rutgers, said Michael Kenna, director of the USGA's Green Section.

I completed a residency in neurology at the University of Chicago and spent a fellowship period pursuing neuroscience bench research.

But DOE's Office of Science will spend only half its budget on work by university researchers, with much of the rest going to its ten national laboratories and research facilities, from Brookhaven in New York state to the Pacific Northwest National Lab in Washington state.

Northwestern's TTO team gave him advice, guidance, access to resources, and a sweetheart deal — they arranged for him to do a postdoc in which he would spend half his time in the lab to continue his research and half his time at the university's incubator to bring his startup plans to fruition.

I spent the following year as a postgraduate fellow under contract with the physics department of the local university, continuing my research project at INFM - TASC.

Under current rules, «We spend a lot of time documenting,» says Sally Thompson - Iritani, who oversees animal research at the University of Washington in Seattle and took part in a workshop that led to the report.

Both chambers also rejected the call for the $ 100 million mandatory spending on university research.

KTPs are funded by research councils, and the post-doc spends time in the sponsoring company and university department working on a project of potential commercial importance.

Magdalena Bak - Maier spent 10 years as a researcher working in neuroscience, a multidisciplinary research area, and is presently working as a training and development manager for research staff at the University of Bristol (U.K.).

At the same time, the RSC preference for defense spending might bode well for the defense science and technology enterprise, which among other things is a major funder of university research.