Sentences with phrase «support of our public universities»

«I am deeply honored by this appointment to the Board of Higher Education and look forward with enthusiasm to work with Chairman Desmond, Commissioner Freeland, Secretary Reville and my new colleagues on the Board in support of our public universities and community colleges as they provide a greater proportion of our youth access to a world class higher education that supports an innovation and inclusive economy in Massachusetts,» said Reimers.

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Consulting groups Integral Development and Nous Group have won contracts to support development of independent public schools, as part of a range of programs that also include 20 principals per year attending a training program at Harvard University.

Grant Opportunities OSPRA (The U of I Office of Sponsored Programs & Research Administration) OSPRA interacts with faculty, department business staff, University administration, and external sponsor program officers and award negotiators to provide service and support to the University's missions of instruction, research, public service, and economic development.

Like almost all institutions of higher education, these schools, whether university - related or denominational, are buffeted by inflation, a decrease of public support, and a drop in student enrollment.

Perusing the index of Origins, the weekly publication of representative documents and speeches compiled by Catholic News Service, our imaginary historian will note, for example, the following initiatives undertaken at the national, diocesan and parish levels in 1994 - 95: providing alternatives to abortion; staffing adoption agencies; conducting adult education courses; addressing African American Catholics» pastoral needs; funding programs to prevent alcohol abuse; implementing a new policy on altar servers and guidelines for the Anointing of the Sick; lobbying for arms control; eliminating asbestos in public housing; supporting the activities of the Association of Catholic Colleges and Universities (227 strong); challenging atheism in American society; establishing base communities (also known as small faith communities); providing aid to war victims in Bosnia; conducting Catholic research in bioethics; publicizing the new Catechism of the Catholic Church; battling child abuse; strengthening the relationship between church and labor unions; and deepening the structures and expressions of collegiality in the local and diocesan church.

We thank the North American Registry of Midwives Board for helping facilitate the study; Tim Putt for help with layout of the data forms; Jennesse Oakhurst, Shannon Salisbury, and a team of five others for data entry; Adam Slade for computer programming support; Amelia Johnson, Phaedra Muirhead, Shannon Salisbury, Tanya Stotsky, Carrie Whelan, and Kim Yates for office support; Kelly Klick and Sheena Jardin for the satisfaction survey; members of our advisory council (Eugene Declerq (Boston University School of Public Health), Susan Hodges (Citizens for Midwifery and consumer panel of the Cochrane Collaboration's Pregnancy and Childbirth Group), Jonathan Kotch (University of North Carolina Department of Maternal and Child Health), Patricia Aikins Murphy (University of Utah College of Nursing), and Lawrence Oppenheimer (University of Ottawa Division of Maternal Fetal Medicine); and the midwives and mothers who agreed to participate in the study.

* Day 1 Monday, February 22, 2016 4:00 PM -5:00 PM Registration & Networking 5:00 PM — 6:00 PM Welcome Reception & Opening Remarks Kevin de Leon, President pro Tem, California State Senate Debra McMannis, Director of Early Education & Support Division, California Department of Education (invited) Karen Stapf Walters, Executive Director, California State Board of Education (invited) 6:00 PM — 7:00 PM Keynote Address & Dinner Dr. Patricia K. Kuhl, Co-Director, Institute for Learning & Brain Sciences * Day 2 Tuesday February 23, 2016 8:00 AM — 9:00 AM Registration, Continental Breakfast, & Networking 9:00 AM — 9:15 AM Opening Remarks John Kim, Executive Director, Advancement Project Camille Maben, Executive Director, First 5 California Tom Torlakson, State Superintendent of Public Instruction, California Department of Education 9:15 AM — 10:00 AM Morning Keynote David B. Grusky, Executive Director, Stanford's Center on Poverty & Inequality 10:00 AM — 11:00 AM Educating California's Young Children: The Recent Developments in Transitional Kindergarten & Expanded Transitional Kindergarten (Panel Discussion) Deborah Kong, Executive Director, Early Edge California Heather Quick, Principal Research Scientist, American Institutes for Research Dean Tagawa, Administrator for Early Education, Los Angeles Unified School District Moderator: Erin Gabel, Deputy Director, First 5 California (Invited) 11:00 AM — 12:00 PM «Political Will & Prioritizing ECE» (Panel Discussion) Eric Heins, President, California Teachers Association Senator Hannah - Beth Jackson, Chair of the Women's Legislative Committee, California State Senate David Kirp, James D. Marver Professor of Public Policy, University of California, Berkeley Assemblyman Kevin McCarty, Chairman of Subcommittee No. 2 of Education Finance, California State Assembly Moderator: Kim Pattillo Brownson, Managing Director, Policy & Advocacy, Advancement Project 12:00 PM — 12:45 PM Lunch 12:45 PM — 1:45 PM Lunch Keynote - «How Children Succeed: Grit, Curiosity, and the Hidden Power of Character» Paul Tough, New York Times Magazine Writer, Author 1:45 PM — 1:55 PM Break 2:00 PM — 3:05 PM Elevating ECE Through Meaningful Community Partnerships (Panel Discussion) Sandra Guiterrez, National Director, Abriendo Purtas / Opening Doors Mary Ignatius, Statewide Organize of Parent Voices, California Child Care Resource & Referral Network Jacquelyn McCroskey, John Mile Professor of Child Welfare, University of Southern California School of Social Work Jolene Smith, Chief Executive Officer, First 5 Santa Clara County Moderator: Rafael González, Director of Best Start, First 5 LA 3:05 PM — 3:20 PM Closing Remarks Camille Maben, Executive Director, First 5 California * Agenda Subject to Change

Comprised of health professionals from hospitals, clinics, state - level public health departments, and universities, concerned parents and citizens, and volunteers from community organizations, each member contributes time, energy, and expertise to activities that support breastfeeding in Pennsylvania.

At noon, Rep. Adriano Espaillat and Columbia University's Mailman School of Public Health announce $ 25 million in federal grant funding to the school to support the implementation of quality malaria diagnosis and treatment services in Ethiopia, Hess Auditorium, 722 West 168th St., Manhattan.

New Construction, Capital Upgrades to Enhance the Student Experience QUEENS, NY — Borough President Melinda Katz announced an allocation of $ 5 million of her Fiscal Year 2016 discretionary capital funds to support capital projects at all five City University of New York (CUNY) public institutions of higher learning in Queens.

At the same time, the governor's office was working behind the scenes to whip up support for the governor's headline - generating proposal, reaching out to members of the public universities and dispatching staffers to campuses to sell presidents on the measure.

He has pushed for in - state tuition at public universities for undocumented children, called for a repeal of exorbitant tax breaks for expensive apartment buildings and has strongly supported immigrants» rights.

Thus the public have come to expect a certain standard of comfort in hospitals or a certain level of support if they are unemployed and parents expect that children who achieve a certain scholastic standard will be able to enter a university.

Noting that the Assembly delivered to Cuomo on Monday «maintenance - of - effort» legislation that would boost support for public colleges and universities, the Professional Staff Congress of CUNY, the union that represents CUNY faculty, is urging the governor to sign it.

Science and Technology — Subject: Clinical trials Witness (es): Professor Karol Sikora, Medical Director of Cancer Partners UK and Dean, University of Buckingham Medical School and Simon Denegri, NIHR National Director for Public Participation and Engagement in Research and Chair, INVOLVE; Tracey Brown, Managing Director, Sense About Science and Dr Helen Jamison, Deputy Director, Science Media Centre; Sir Kent Woods, Chief Executive,, Dr Janet Wisely, Chief Executive, Health Research Authority, Bill Davidson, Acting Deputy Director and Head of Research Standards and Support, Department of Health and Peter Knight, Deputy Director, Head of Research Information and Intelligence, Department of Health Location: Room 8, Palace of Westminster

It supports mental health outreach efforts to young people with a peer - to - peer component and was developed with the help of a funded graduate student internship through the University at Albany's School of Public Health.

The filing supports the Arizona Board of Regents and the University of Arizona's custodian of public records in their efforts to deflect the legal challenge of a group seeking the public release of 13 years of the two Arizona scientists» emailed correspondence with other scientists and organizations about their research.

According to Series lead Professor Boyd Swinburn from the University of Auckland, New Zealand, «The key to meeting WHO's target to achieve no further increase in obesity rates by 2025 will be strengthening accountability systems to support government leadership, constraining the role of the food industry in the formation of public policy, and encouraging civil society to create a demand for healthy food environments.»

... I fully support her career and often use her as an example in teaching courses at the University of Minnesota on careers and the role (s) scientist [s] can play in affecting public policy and development.

Moreover, the entire article is gainsaid by a massive meta - analysis study by Northwestern University psychologist Michael Bailey and his colleagues published in the September issue of the peer - reviewed journal Psychological Science in the Public Interest, showing that «there is considerably more evidence supporting nonsocial causes of sexual orientation than social causes.»

«I have a lot of confidence that [Price] understands and supports the research mission and I hope that he will continue to do so,» says Michael M.E. Johns, an ear, nose, and throat surgeon who was the dean of the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine in Baltimore, Maryland, and the chancellor of Emory University in Atlanta, and who is now a professor in Emory's schools of medicine and public health.

Institutional change focuses on building understanding about, capacity for and support of public engagement within the various institutions researchers are affiliated with, including universities, government agencies, professional societies and private industry.

What's more, says Hughes, now a professor of public health at Emory University in Atlanta, the fund was intended to launch innovative prevention initiatives, «not to replace core public - health capacity support».

Besides, it is not sufficient to simply take passing notice of the steadily declining state support for U.S. public universities; one must consider just how these vital universities are supposed to sustain their quality in such an environment.

Dr. Julia Painter, an assistant professor in Mason's Department of Global and Community Health (GCH) led the study with support from assistant professor Dr. Michael von Fricken; graduate student Suyane Viana de O. Mesquita (now an alumna of the Master of Public Health program); and professor Dr. Ralph J. DiClemente from Emory University.

Research involving the University of Southampton has shown that male public sector workers receive a short, positive boost to their job satisfaction when a political party which they support takes control after an election.

The dysfunction stems from a Spanish peculiarity: In the national science budget, the government not only includes lump sums to public research institutes and competitive grants to research teams, but also a pot of money aimed at supporting companies, universities, and public research institutions with loans.

The various public initiatives enjoy wide support among leaders of research agencies, universities, libraries and research charities.

«These new studies support previous findings that reducing sodium from very high intake levels to moderate levels improves health,» said committee chair Brian Strom, George S. Pepper Professor of Public Health and Preventive Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine.

Dr Søren Brage (MRC Epidemiology Unit, University of Cambridge), joint senior author on the study says: «Providing quantitative estimates regarding the dose - response relationship is essential for approximating how changes in levels of physical activity in the general population would impact disease incidence, and would support more nuanced guidance to the public and evidence - based dialogue in clinical settings.»

Biologist Elizabeth Hadly of Stanford University in Palo Alto, California, who presented at the session, said her experience supports the idea that public engagement provides little career benefit.

«The study supports the emerging recognition that the understanding and managing of emotions play a significant role in the work of public service providers alongside the so - called «rational» aspects of their work,» said Zehavit Shabtay Levitats, a doctoral student at the School of Political Science at the University of Haifa who conducted the research.

According to Brooks, the decline in public support for government solutions to social problems during the Great Recession (2008 - 2010) was among the largest two - year changes during the 26 - year - period (1984 - 2010) he and co-author Jeff Manza, a Professor of Sociology at New York University, considered in their study.

«These old studies support the idea of a continuing «dementia epidemic», but are now out of date because of changes in life expectancy, living conditions, and improvements in health care and lifestyle,» says Carol Brayne, lead author and Professor of Public Health Medicine at the Cambridge Institute of Public Health (CIPH), University of Cambridge in the UK.

Falling state support for public universities has created «perverse incentives» to admit foreign students who pay full out - of - state tuition and don't receive financial aid, Teitelbaum said.

Matthew Hickman, Professor in Public Health and Epidemiology at the University of Bristol's School of Social and Community Medicine and lead author of the study, said: «Scaling up HCV treatment is critical to the prevention of HCV in the population to support and enhance traditional harm reduction measures — opiate substitution treatment and needle exchange.

The study was supported by grants from the National Science and Technology Pillar Program (2013BAD20B03), Key Project from the Government of Shaanxi Province (2013KTZB02 -03-1), a Public Welfare Project from the Ministry of Forestry (201304110), the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities (2014YB074), the National Natural Science Foundation of China (31372019), Talents Supporting Plan of Shaanxi Province, a special fund from the Key laboratory of Shaanxi Province (2015SZS - 10), a special fund from NWAFU for the jujube experimental station (XTG2015002), and the United States National Science Foundation (IOS - 1539831).

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In states, for example, that have some of the best public universities in the country, the amount of money that can be used to support research activities has declined precipitously.»

The University of Chicago Medicine announced the next phase of its public engagement campaign in support of its plans to increase access to emergency, trauma and specialty care and create a dedicated cancer hospital.

April 14, 2016 UChicago Medicine to Hold Community Forum on Proposal to Expand Emergency, Trauma and Specialty Care and Create a Cancer Hospital on South Side The University of Chicago Medicine announced the next phase of its public engagement campaign in support of its plans to increase access to emergency, trauma and specialty care and create a dedicated cancer hospital.

A unique app, iWitnessed, is launched today by leading forensic psychologists at the University of Sydney and UNSW - supported by NSW Police and former Director of Public Prosecutions Nicholas Cowdery QC - to assist victims and witnesses record Read more about iWitnessed app launched by memory experts, police, QC - Scimex

Although three out of four primary care doctors support the use of financial rewards as an incentive for better medical care, most of these physicians oppose public reporting of such quality assessments at the individual or group level, report researchers from the University of Chicago in the March / April issue of Health Affairs.

The Research Communications subcommittee ensures that the research mission of the Medical University of South Carolina is highly integrated into brand strategy and communications, increases awareness and recognition of scope and nature of MUSC research internally and externally, increases growth in research initiatives that resonate with diverse publics, and supports the MUSC Imagine 20/20 Strategic Plan.

We created this remarkable program together, and the support from both the hospital and the medical school has been terrific,» said Maureen G. Phipps, MD, MPH, chair and Chace - Joukowsky Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology and assistant dean for Teaching and Research in Women's Health at the Warren Alpert Medical School, professor of epidemiology at the Brown University School of Public Health, and chief of obstetrics and gynecology at Women & Infants Hospital and Care New England Health System.

The University of California - Berkeley Space Sciences Laboratory also will build instruments for the mission and support education and public outreach efforts.

February 11, 2011 Research funding to accelerate South Side health and wellness community - mapping project The University of Chicago Medical Center announced $ 500,000 in new public and private - sector support that will help researchers, in partnership with South Side residents, take the next steps in a groundbreaking effort to compile and publish maps of all of the area's health, wellness and commercial resources.

These seminars, held at the University of Washington, are supported by a generous donation from The Kavli Foundation, which is dedicated to the goals of advancing science for the benefit of humanity and promoting increased public understanding and support for scientists and their work.

«Scientific data continue to support the premise that small to moderate amounts of alcohol on a regular basis are consistent with a healthy lifestyle for middle - aged and older adults,» said Dr. R. Curtis Ellison, professor of medicine and public health at Boston University School of Medicine.

To strengthen protection of the public by providing support and services to the social work regulatory community to advance safe, competent and College dating is the set of behaviors and phenomena centered on the seeking out and the maintenance of romantic relationships in a university setting.