Sentences with phrase «to academia»

Chris Bildfell graduated in 2013 with a PhD in astronomy and astrophysics from the University of Victoria and had his heart set on staying in academia.

In 2008, Qualtrics moved beyond academia, selling its software to companies as a tool for surveys of customers and employees.

Holding a Ph.D. in information systems, Smith's mother worked in academia before starting a paper - craft company, which she later sold to a private equity firm.

«In academia, you can end up doing research for years.»

He announced on June 18 that he had decided to return to academia when his term ends in September rather than seek an extension.

A common complaint about academia is its lack of real - world application.

He seemed destined for academia.

On October 4 in Boston, the Cambridge Cyber Summit will bring together top leaders from business, government and academia to determine how they can best collaborate to combat urgent cyberthreats and secure America's future.

Those of us in academia might say the same things, but I think it's when the community at large, when the business community is saying, «Hold on.

In some ways, events like these have been filling a gap that many see existing in traditional academia.

Firms are looking to higher education in an attempt to minimize their financial exposure, according to Rob Annan, interim CEO of Mitacs, a non-profit that links industry and academia with similar research interests.

And with more and more businesses seeking collaborations with academia to produce new ideas, the answer to Canada's innovation problem may just be more funding for university research, not less.

The following day, one of the trainers, a bright, young, new - to - his - role superstar, gave me some powerful feedback: «Despite your experience in business and academia, you were open to changing your work and not just telling us «I'm an expert, this is what you need, now go train it.»

Ottawa's big bet on government - designated superclusters was designed to encourage academia, not - for - profit organizations and companies of all sizes to work together on strategies to boost high - growth sectors.

I would tend to give more credence to the competency of their views than those of housing bears who post analyses and charts at the click of a mouse, all the while unconstrained by due - diligence standards or even such things as the peer - review process that serves academia so well.

«A lot of academia and national labs are great at fundamental science but don't know how to turn it into a product,» she says.

This year — with some of the more influential minds within the industry, state and federal government, and academia all gathered on his back patio — Jenkins wants to do more than just talk about what can be done.

In honor of Father's Day, Fortune spoke with experts in the advertising field and in academia, and got their take on the best examples of «Dadvertising.»

In less than 90 days, most seniors will be crossing the stage and leaving the safe world of academia and diving into their first career.

«Most people who go through a Ph.D program in chemical engineering, around 70 % go into industry, I think, and then around 30 % will go into academia,» she said.

Cavallo, who is Argentine and who started an online - payments company in Buenos Aires before entering academia, pegs the rate at 25 percent.

But when we started turning it from having computers that were procured by the military and academia to something very personalized, we immediately started marketing them towards boys, not girls.

Academia will preach that core values are important.

But if you're in marketing, training, or academia, you have a wider choice.

I've spent my life in innovation, eight startups in 21 years, and the last 15 years in academia teaching it.

«Very few people deeply understand» driverless car technology, said Chris Urmson, the self - driving car pioneer lured from academia who now leads Google's project.

If you're an individual contemplating jumping to a start - up from academia or a big corporation, the takeaway is probably simpler but scarier — you need to think really carefully about whether you can handle the kind of environment where there is no pre-scripted path to success.

As a product of academia with a PhD and an MBA as well as a media columnist, I suggest avoiding letting these sources sidetrack you.

A broken nose led this former college offensive lineman to a career in academia rather than football.

Lathan is enjoying the diversity of projects she's pursuing outside academia.

It alludes to research showed that some actions «made them more psychologically successful and less prone to depression,» but those are small indications where people outside academia show huge results.

On a fundamental level, scientists in both academia and industry must change some of our attitudes about data.

Academia doesn't have that motivation and it ends up researching forever.

A lot of the people in academia were like «No, you have to finish, there's all these bad things that happen if you don't finish.»

The project, which will name up to five government - designated superclusters, was designed to encourage academia and businesses to work together on strategies to boost fast - growing sectors.

Lest you think I'm sharing this glimpse of academia's innards out of some long - standing bitterness from my own graduate experience, I hate to disappoint you.

But it's worth taking a long, hard look at academia's daddy issues — to examine the simple structural bit of skeevyness at the heart of any academic's ability (or inability) to form a scholarly identity and relate to others.

The group consists of representatives from academia, the advertising industry, and London City Hall.

Before Gupta was appointed University of British Columbia president in July, he was CEO and scientific director of Mitacs, a not - for - profit founded in 1999 that's aimed at spurring partnerships between academia and the private sector.

I am certainly not the poster child for academia.

The study, «Gender Stereotyping in Academia: Evidence from Economics Job Market Rumors Forum» was conducted by Alice H. Wu, a recent graduate of the University of California, Berkeley.

What is the value of affirmative action in academia?

Still, Hampton Creek has raised more than $ 200 million in venture capital and has a team of 60 working on R&D, including top cell biologists from academia and industry.

The clash of commerce and academia is tilting the field in one direction, however, as Ian Sample, science editor at The Guardian, investigates.

In the last several years, a cyber-security synergy has formed between startups, multinational tech giants, academia, the military and government.

This alarms many in academia, as business majors have «the weakest gains during the first two years of college on a national test of writing and reasoning skills.»

Levin, a 20 - year veteran of academia who stepped down as president of Yale in 2013, is exactly the type of person who you might think would be quick to cast aspersions on MOOCs.

Of all the research assistants I've worked with during my 30 years in academia, the ones who stand out hold one thing in common: each approached me within two weeks of starting to ask how they were honestly doing.

After all, this is how intellectual giants are made — not by following the rules of dusty academia, but by following the most tantalizing, counterintuitive ideas to their delightful conclusions.

The software giant wants HoloLens to be more than an entertainment device, and it's turning to academia to help researchers show how the device can be used for business - related applications, Microsoft detailed on Monday.