Sentences with phrase «university leaders in»

Known as the Education Roundtable, the effort aims to involve college and university leaders in the school - reform movement on the broadest scale possible.

Since June, research and university leaders in Berlin, the state of Baden - Wurttemberg, and the influential Robert Koch Institute have all said they won't renew their Elsevier subscriptions after they end in December.

State university leaders in Syracuse made a commitment in 2007 to convey 10 acres of state - owned land to a private developer without competitive bidding.

Chen, a former Oppenheimer Fellow at the Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico, says: «This high ratio of professors with [training from] foreign universities makes South University a leader in Chinese academic and scientific communities in terms of the level of globalization.»

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«The major benefit from having a clear mission with well - specified ends and means is that confusion, uncertainty and contradiction are eliminated,» wrote Christopher Bart, a McMaster University professor and leader in the field.

Broadbent's university had previously delivered course content using Blackboard Learn, the world leader in what are known as learning management systems.

Researchers from the National University of Singapore and Arizona State University looked specifically at humility in leaders and found that humble CEOs foster more effective, profitable teams.

A similar initiative, the U.A.E. 3 - D Printing Innovation Alliance, brings together local universities, 3 - D - printer companies, and regional entrepreneurs in an attempt to cement Dubai's status as the leader in an industry that's still searching for its killer app.

After talking about their idea for a company with academic leaders, they were connected to Gordon Keller, a senior scientist at the University Health Network in Toronto.

«In our celebrity focused culture, a young star like Emma Watson has the power to amplify important social messages,» says Katie Hood, a senior fellow at Duke University who teaches a «Women as Leaders» course and who recently became executive director of the anti-domestic violence One Love Foundation.

To that end, we have teamed up with the University of North Carolina's Kenan - Flagler Business School — a recognized leader in online business education — to create an innovative executive certificate program called: Change the World: Leading with Purpose.

Such leaders «are invited because they have played a major role in shaping American history,» says Mary C. Kelly, a history professor at Franklin Pierce University.

It's something of a West Michigan trademark — in Grand Rapids, the names of philanthropic business leaders are imprinted on the civic landscape through the buildings they commissioned, among them the Fred M. Keller Engineering Laboratories at Grand Valley State University.

A recent study from the University of Aveiro in Portugal reveals that humble leaders actually make their teams more creative.

The establishment of trust between South Korean President Moon Jae - in and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un will be the most important result from today's summit, says Jasper Kim of Ewha Womans University.

So she enrolled in the Global Supply Chain Leaders Program, a dual - degree executive MBA program at the Kenan - Flagler Business School at the University of North Carolina and Tsinghua University in Beijing.

In the midst of a week where Rob Ford, the Mayor of Toronto, admitted driving while drunk, was censured by his colleagues, and defended himself against accusations of sexual misconduct in the crudest possible terms, the author and university professor Richard Florida noted «Toronto's business leaders lie silent,» as the chaos continueIn the midst of a week where Rob Ford, the Mayor of Toronto, admitted driving while drunk, was censured by his colleagues, and defended himself against accusations of sexual misconduct in the crudest possible terms, the author and university professor Richard Florida noted «Toronto's business leaders lie silent,» as the chaos continuein the crudest possible terms, the author and university professor Richard Florida noted «Toronto's business leaders lie silent,» as the chaos continued.

Under Silagadze's leadership and vision, Top Hat has become the market leader in student engagement software, and is used by millions of students at three - quarters of the top 1,000 colleges and universities in North America.

Dr Brad Tucker, a Research Fellow and Outreach Manager at Mt Stromlo Observatory at the Australian National University, said: «Stephen Hawking not only was a leader in cosmology and astrophysics, but also pushed us all — to challenge ourselves and the unknown.

Entrepreneurs who are ready to throw themselves into technology transfer and IP sourcing can look to attend conferences, like the University - Industry Interaction Conference that brings together academics, governments, and business leaders to discuss advances in the field.

Florida Gov. Rick Scott declared a state of emergency in Alachua County on Tuesday three days before a scheduled speech by white nationalist leader Richard Spencer at the University of Florida, which is located in the county's capital of Gainesville.

Consider inviting local lawmakers, university sociology or economics professors, or business leaders for a forum discussion on paving a way forward in the midst of discrimination in the workplace.

Mariah Jones, a 29 - year - old resident of the District who studies political science at George Washington University, said she thought Obama should have waited until after the final votes were cast in the primary contests to endorse — though she thought endorsements from top Democratic leaders were predictable.

While teaching organizational behavior at Cornell University for more than 35 years, I've had the privilege of training numerous young people who have now moved on to be leaders in the private and public sector.

In his 2010 book Born Entrepreneurs, Born Leaders, Scott Shane, professor of entrepreneurial studies at Cleveland's Case Western Reserve University, suggests that genes don't just influence whether a person will start a business; they may even determine how much money a person will earn.

As Robert Blecker, an economist at American University, notes, «Contrary to the promises of the leaders who promoted it, NAFTA did not make Mexico converge to the United States in per capita income, nor did it solve Mexico's employment problems or stem the flow of migration.»

Passionate about the University of Calgary, Schmidt and Laricina Energy Ltd. both played pivotal roles in the Engineering Leaders Campaign at the Schulich School of Engineering, funding a five - year scholarship program, a chemical and petroleum engineering graduate student space, a boardroom in the new engineering building expansion, and a portion of the Canada Research Chair in Energy and Imaging.

The University of Missouri, St. Louis, is a leader in promoting entrepreneurship whose mentor program will support these entrepreneurs as they build their businesses around St. Louis.

His biography contains elements of an epic novel: growing up the son of a jailed Trotskyist labor leader in whose Chicago home he met Rosa Luxembourg's and Karl Liebknecht's colleagues; serving as a young balance of payments analyst for David Rockefeller whose Chase Manhattan Bank was calculating how much interest the bank could extract on loans to South American countries; touring America on Vatican - sponsored economics lectures; turning after a riot at a UN Third World debt meeting in Mexico to the study of ancient debt cancellation practices through Harvard's Babylonian Archeology department; authoring many books about finance from Super Imperialism: The Economic Strategy of American Empire [1972] to J is For Junk Economics: A Guide to Reality in an Age of Deception [2017]; and lately, among many other ventures, commuting from his Queens home to lecture at Peking University in Beijing where he hopes to convince the Chinese to avoid the debt - fuelled economic model off which Western big bankers feast and apply lessons he and his colleagues have learned about the debt relief practices of the ancient civilizations of Mesopotamia.

MaRS is a leader in the trend toward urban innovation districts, which allow entrepreneurs access to corporations, investors, mentors, university institutions and labs to test their concepts.

In 1994, he received the Canadian Business Leader Award from the Faculty of Business at the University of Alberta and subsequently, an honorary Doctorate of Laws.

For example, our Institute for Sustainable Investing helps develop the next generation of long - term - oriented business leaders, in partnership with INSEAD and the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University, challenging teams of graduate students from around the world to demonstrate how investing can go hand - in - hand with positive social impact.

The expansive network of supporters, sponsors and universities helps diverse individuals attain their business PhD and be in a position to mentor the next generation of leaders.

The 2015 Rix Award for Engaged Community Citizenship will be presented to Carole Taylor, a community leader who is well - known for her years of service in municipal and provincial politics (including her role as B.C.'s Minister of Finance), her 20 - year career as a journalist with CTV and CBC, and, most recently, her role as Chancellor of Simon Fraser University until June 2014.

Schwarzman Scholars is a highly selective, one - year master's program at Tsinghua University in Beijing that is designed to prepare the next generation of global leaders for the challenges of the future.

A committed leader with an interest in both business and education, Cardenas is a board member of several organizations including Discover The Palm Beaches, the Florida Atlantic University College of Education and the bi-partisan Council of Community Leaders, which seeks to shape public policy.

The full day program showcased women leaders in the fields of robotics, space exploration, energy and sustainability from the University of California and Lockheed Martin.

Name: Kelly Blackett Title: Executive Vice President, Human Resources and Corporate Communications Areas of responsibility: Human resources, learning and development, corporate communications Years with CWB Financial Group: 3 Career history: 17 years with General Electric in Canada holding a series of progressively responsible human resources leadership roles at GE Capital and GE Corporate, supporting businesses within Canada as well as globally Education: Bachelor of Commerce with Distinction from the University of Alberta Community involvement: Sits on the Board of Trustees for the Stollery Children's Hospital Foundation, member of the MacEwan Business School Advisory Board, and past mentor with MORE, a program providing cross-business mentorship to female leaders in Edmonton's business community

The FDS team also includes education thought - leader Sandra Nagy, formerly of Pearson Canada, who has a Master's Degree in Education from Harvard University and will serve as the school's director of learning.

«Had Howard followed the example of previous political leaders in their dealings with gun massacres, he could have dropped the matter into the abyss of the parliamentary committee process,» Simon Chapman, a professor emeritus at the University of Sydney, writes in his book Over Our Dead Bodies.

He has a Ph.D. from the University of British Columbia in Electrical and Computer Engineering and has received the Entrepreneur of the Year Award, Canada Awards Silver Medal in Entrepreneurship, BC Science and Engineering Gold Medal and Business Leader of the Year Award.

Leaders from Michigan's universities unite to highlight engineering, supply chain expertise and other skills in race for Amazon's second headquarters.

We bought a tiny Ford Fusion and drove it all over the country, sleeping in our car and sneaking into college gyms to shower in the morning, as we tracked down university career service center leaders and spoke to students and employers.

«Our investment in Indiana is possible because of the positive business climate created by current and past leaders, access to amazing talent created by our leading universities, and a vibrant, innovative culture,» McCorkle said.

The University of Washington's CSE program plays a vital role in our region's technology ecosystem and is a recognized leader in education, as well as diversity in tech.

September 16, 2016 A recognized leader in health policy and management at the University of Toronto's Rotman School of Management has been named a Fellow of the Canadian Academy of Health Sciences.

Account - Based Marketing University (ABMU) students will have access to an online, self - paced course taught by some of the top thought - leaders and practitioners in ABM.

I am one of the RCIA team leaders in my church and there are strong conversions among the young University students that desire to enter the Catholic fold.

According to the report «The American Mosque 2011» by University of Kentucky professor Ihsan Bagby, half of all mosques in the U.S. have no full - time staff, and only 44 percent of imams work as paid, full - time leaders.

«It would be a step backwards if California, a state that has long been a leader in diversity, inclusion and pluralism, could not find a way to value and honor the religious freedom of Christian universities like Biola while at the same time respecting the dignity of our students,» Corey said.