"To spearhead the project" means to take the lead or play a key role in initiating or driving forward a particular project or initiative.
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«We had to figure out how to dissociate the tissue into single cells without completely obliterating everything,» said Anastasia Gromova, the study's first author, now a graduate student at the University of California, San Diego,
who spearheaded the project while interning at TSRI during her undergraduate years.
There are plenty of brilliant, hard - driving engineering types in the electronics and photography worlds who would have seemed well suited
for spearheading the project.
Team Leaders
spearhead the project from start to finish working together remotely with a team made up of 3 students and 3 mentors (professionals) from around the globe to ensure that team delivers on the five steps that are essential to creating a solution, prototype, business plan, and final dynamic presentation.
If the CEO of a Fortune 500 company or successful startup can pick up a book
while spearheading projects, building new businesses, and managing an entire team, there's no excuse for any of us not to read.
«Until we did this map, we didn't really see our ward as a whole as green,» says Mariko Uda, one of the five residents who
helped spearhead the project.
Rabbi Yisroel Bernath (co-director of Chabad NDG and Loyota Campus)
spearheaded this project after his success in making many matches in his community, resulting in 18 marriages to date.
The Four Horsemen's name, which speaks to the four
teammates spearheading the project — but also to a metal band and a hypothetical British pub, could've been confused for an «apocalyptic wine bar,» as Murphy put it.
The district is
spearheading the project in partnership with eight other agencies: the Elmhurst Park District, the Village of Oak Brook, the Village of Addison, the Addison Park District, the Village of Lyons, the Cook County Forest Preserve District, the Village of Brookfield and Brookfield Zoo.
Scientists at UNC's Frank Porter Graham Child Development
Institute spearheaded the project, screening 29,000 articles about autism spectrum disorders (ASD) to locate the soundest research on interventions for children from birth to age 22.
Derrida had been brought on by the company to
spearhead a project which would create the ultimate Neogen, and the fruit of his efforts, an artificial organism dubbed D / Generation, was ultimately the source of the disturbances within the building.
Florida East Coast Industries, the
company spearheading the project, has announced that the trains — which will top out at 100 mph and won't quite qualify as high speed — should be running by 2014.
This film is the story about a group of doers, the elegantly simple inventions they have made to change the lives of billions of people, and the unconventional
billionaire spearheading the project.»
Administrative assistants often need a college degree, and are giving more responsibilities,
including spearheading projects and sometimes even managing teams.
Spearheaded project streamlining former magazine subscriptions and selecting new subscriptions that best fit the current needs of the teachers and students, saving the library $ 1,0000 annually.
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Spearheaded a project with the quantitative team to change the inputs of the parametric VAR model that existed since 1999.
This position will work directly with various department
managers spearheading projects from conception to completion and play a key role in improving and developing best practices for the organization.
Instead, the $ 126 billion telecom titan opted for a third strategy involving at least some of that square footage:
spearhead projects featuring retail shops, condos and, most notably, co-working spaces.
Using complex computational algorithms based on repeated sampling, a University of Arkansas graduate student
helped spearhead a project to develop a computer simulator that provides customized electron beam tunings for radiation therapy.
Rabbi Mayshe Schwartz is
spearheading this project after his success in organizing numerous successful parties, smaller gatherings and personally helping singles during their dating experience.
Describe in detail instances where you supervised or
spearheaded a project from inception to completion and detail how you overcame the associated challenges.
In Southern California, a company called Advanced Microgrid Solutions is
spearheading a project that involves replacing the energy that was once provided by a large (now decommissioned) nuclear power plant with a series of solar arrays and batteries that AMS can turn on and off based on when the prices for conventional energy are low and when there's the most demand.
Heinsman and her team are
spearheading a project to 3 - D print an entire house in Amsterdam.
The ex-director of mission operations for Space X, Marco Villa, and Patricial Galloway, former president of the American Society of Civil Engineers are
spearheading the project.
She spearheaded the project of creating a thriving community of Internet entrepreneurs called the Dynamite Circle.
Spearheading the project is young entrepreneur PJ Goupil of A5 Hospitality, which has quickly gained notoriety with an impressive portfolio of successes in Montreal and Toronto including Kampai Garden, Mayfair, Fitzroy and Flyjin.
Women in Need, or Win, a network providing shelter and supportive housing to families in the city, will
spearhead the project.
According to the University of Gottingen's Interdisciplinary Centre for Sustainable Development — the group that
spearheaded the project — the households that participate now receive 100 percent of their heat from the hot water grid.
A Disease Database Han is
spearheading a project to sequence, or analyze, the immune repertoires of 10,000 people, representing 100 different diseases.
Meyer and his team, including Chris Dares, who
spearheaded the project, have found a way to remove the radioactive element without encountering downstream problems that have hindered progress.
For the new project, the team rechristened Paraswift as C2D2 (Climbing Corrosion Detecting Device) and modified it for use as a corrosion detector: «We made the casing and wheels more robust and incorporated the corrosion - identification technology,» explains Elsener, who is
spearheading the project.
«We need to make sure offshore wind energy is successful the first time around,» said Rochelle Worsnop, doctoral candidate at the University of Colorado Boulder, who
spearheaded the project.
Singh and his experimental team, including Peter Laslo, who
spearheaded the project, are at the University of Chicago.
I set up a meeting with the guy who
spearheaded this project, and a few weeks later (October 2012), Pink Champagne Problems was born.
Noted romantic comedy fan Mindy Kaling is
spearheading the project, with...
Rumors are swirling that Disney - owned Avalanche Software is
spearheading the project.
We were fortunate to nab two of Public Impact's veteran analysts, Daniela Doyle and Gillian Locke, to
spearhead this project.