Sentences with phrase «university leaders who»

The effort is spearheaded by the Michigan Higher Education Partnership Council, which includes a unique panel of business, government, college and university leaders who are collaborating to improve educational attainment in Michigan.

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«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.

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.

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.

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.»

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.

Meet Kevin Kühnert, the university student who could take down not only his party leader but also the German chancellor.

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.

After speaking at Liberty University last week, Trump scored an important endorsement from Jerry Falwell Jr., a prominent leader of the Religious Right who, to the applause of thousands, compared Trump to Jesus and Martin Luther King, Jr..

«Tufts» decision demonstrates that universities willing to engage in a conversation will recognize that any religious group must have freedom to choose leaders who affirm those standards,» said InterVarsity Christian Fellowship national field director Greg Jao.

I went to a Christian university that had a course titled «World Changers» and a «World - Changer Hall of Fame» which recognized Christian leaders who had an influence in mainstream culture — football coaches, authors, artists.

Pei surmises the fragility of the CCP in light of «the potential pool of opposition leaders,» especially university graduates who are facing difficulty in finding employment (p. 109).

«After 30 years of the so - called conservative leaders who have been elected by evangelicals, none of them thought to advocate for the repeal of the Johnson amendment, giving evangelical leaders political free speech,» Jerry Falwell Jr., Liberty University president and early Trump endorser, toldTime magazine.

Several of those planning to attend the Wheaton gathering said they are tired of seeing leaders who regularly praise Trump — such as evangelist Franklin Graham, Liberty University president Jerry Falwell Jr. and Texas megachurch pastor Robert Jeffress — representing all evangelicals.

Kasper, who had earlier criticized the Christology and method of Küng's On Being a Christian but who most persons close to the scene felt would be supportive on the issue of the boundaries of theological inquiry, has become one of the primary leaders of Küng's opposition in Germany (the other being Karl Lehmann of the University of Freiburg) and has now emerged as the major theological adviser to the German Bishops» Conference,

Rajan Gurukkal of the Social Sciences department of the Mahatma Gandhi University in Kerala gives his reasons why the leaders of counter-culture who are anticipating «a total breakdown of the market - friendly dimension of development in the wake of micro-movements which they see as part of the process of global transformation» are too optimistic and are likely to be disappointed.

I agree with you Tim, the premise of the article leads one to believe that because LDS has a big accredited university with deep theological minds and some leader of a big Christian seminary, again a deep theological mind, head knowledge not heart knowledge, that Mormonism should be recognized as a stream of Christianity.How Mormons differ is how they relate to Christ and the Holy Spirit.Only people who have encountered Jesus and thus a changed life, can be called an evangelical.Mormnism is man made religion.The Holy Spirit always points people to Jesus, not another man - Joseph Smith.Great moral people, who do lots of good and build beautiful tabernacles, but then again the Pharisees did too.

According to Professor John Crossan of Biblical Studies at DePaul University the Roman Emperor Constantine the Great (274 - 337 CE), (a bust of Constantine is pictured below) who was the first Roman Emperor to convert to Christianity, needed a single canon to be agreed upon by the Christian leaders to help him unify the remains of the Roman Empire.

Co-founded and jointly led by Stanford University and The Culinary Institute of America, the Menus of Change University Research Collaborative is a working group of leading scholars, foodservice business leaders, and executive chefs from invited colleges and universities who are accelerating efforts to move Americans toward healthier, more sustainable, plant - forward diets.

We might believe and predict the same thing, if you weren't sounding less and less like the leader of a university that you once proclaimed would become «this generation's Stanford» and more and more like one of those flight attendants who says, «We'd like to be the first to welcome you to Cleveland,» but never actually welcomes you to Cleveland.

When we were doing the tour, at the University of Albany, this young man, who actually I saw when we went to Cuba [on tour with other state leaders], he was a SUNY Albany student who was studying abroad in Cuba, he handed me a bag with a bunch of thank you cards in it.

A longtime State University at New York leader, who is familiar with leading colleges in trouble, has been appointed Interim President of Niagara County Community College.

Political leaders who have attended and taught at the university include Millard Fillmore, who served as the 12th Vice President and 13th President of the United States; Mohamed Abdullahi Mohamed, the 9th President, 21st Prime Minister, and leader of the Tayo Party of Somalia; and Zhou Ji, the former Mayor of Wuhan and Minister of Education of the People's Republic of China.

The next leader of the state's sprawling public university system is an engineer and inventor who, in addition to serving as and undersecretary of the U.S. Department of Energy, helped develop technology that aided the 3 - D glasses used in films like «Avatar.»

A temporary budget to keep money flowing to universities and providers who care for the state's vulnerable is set to expire in one week, and Republican Gov. Bruce Rauner and Democratic legislative leaders still have no plans to resume their talks.

The incumbent Vice Chancellor, Prof. Eyitope Ogunbodede, and leaders of workers» unions are in court in solidarity with Elujoba, who they said restored peace and sanity to the university when the tenure of Prof. Bamitale Omole expired amidst protests by workers.

The Governing Council of the University, therefore saw it as befitting to honor the Founder of IPS and the leader who transformed IPS into the current UPSA.

While addressing students at Harvard University on Tuesday, Cuomo was asked why five legislative leaders in a row were indicted on corruption charges — including former Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver and Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos, who are currently on trial in federal courts.

Colombia I've got a real passion to work against Colombia's appalling human rights conditions, where the government will just publically declare that the opposition leaders or trade unionists must be terrorists... literally thousands of people — human rights activists, lawyers, journalists, university lecturers, peasant farmers, anybody who speaks out about the regime — find themselves assassinated.

In his State of the State speech, Cuomo called his $ 100 billion in capital projects «a development initiative that would make Gov. Rockefeller jealous,» referring to the leader who built Albany's Empire State Plaza, constructed thousands of miles of highways and expanded the state university system.

House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, D - Calif., who visited Slaughter at George Washington University Hospital on Thursday, called her «a trailblazer.»

«I think this seals the end of the era of the strong political leader who had tremendous sway over the [legislative] members,» said Lawrence Levy, executive dean of Hofstra University's Center for Suburban Studies.

It was none other than Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan who tried to dissuade Sheila Abdus - Salaam from continuing her law studies at Columbia University.

Comrade Olafare in the statement also confirmed the arrival of ex Super Eagles players like Peter Rufai, Ike Sorounmu, Garba Lawal, Mutiu Adepoju, Taribo West, Ifeanyi Udese, Waheed Akanni, Gbenga Okunnowo, Oladimeji Lawal and others at Ile - Ife received on behalf of the Arole Oodua by the national team's former coach who is a prominent indigene of Ifeland and Balogun of Modakeke, Highchief Festus Onigbinde for the novelty match to be played 3 pm on Saturday at the sport complex of Obafemi Awolowo University organized by House of Oduduwa Foundation in honour of the African foremost monarch who is the Spiritual leader of the Yoruba race worldwide.

The APC leader, who is also the Chairman, Management Board of the University of Ilorin Teaching Hospital, expressed his confidence that Keyamo would deliver on his duty having earned the respect and trust of most Nigerians whom he had fought for as a social crusader.

The first Vice-Chancellor of the University for Professional Studies (UPSA), has argued that students who make the best grades, often do not end up as leaders.

Charging the students to prepare themselves before their set time to be leaders, Prof Alabi, who was accompanied by his wife, Prof. Gloski Alabi said, although they had no money at the time, they had time, so they utilized it to get the university work done.

Jonathan FickesUFT President Michael Mulgrew is flanked by Alicia Schwartz (left) of the Visiting Nurse Service of New York, who used vacation time to help out in Puerto Rico in the wake of Hurricane Maria, and Nancy Barth - Miller, the chapter leader at Staten Island University Hospital.

Stressing that the university had ushered in a paradigm shift in tertiary education, he said, «This school will always produce leaders who will be entrepreneurs and wealth creators.

Before I became Speaker of the House in 2007, we listened to the experts who contributed to the National Academies of Science's report Rising Above the Gathering Storm, and we heard from scientific leaders at universities and innovative entrepreneurs across the country.

Research leaders say that waiting a few months for stronger evidence — such as quantitative proof of a drop in UK — EU collaborations, or an exodus of non-British EU academics (who make up 15 % of UK university staff)-- could be too late.

«At the moment there is hiring going on at all levels — from people who are just leaving university, up to the new leaders and vice-presidents in the organisation,» says Ingrid Kraaijbeek, talent acquisition leader at GSK Vaccines.

As if to illustrate that point, Representative George Miller (D — CA), who chaired the 30 April hearing and represents the congressional district just north of Berkeley, commented that «as chairman of the [House] Education [and Labor] Committee and chair of the Democratic Policy Committee, I meet all of the time with leaders from the research - university community.»

«She possesses a skill set that will make her a leader in this field for many years to come,» explained Nadkarni, who served on Varner's dissertation thesis committee at the University of Utah.

After interviewing for a position as a Ph.D. candidate at one of the top ancient DNA labs, she was offered a spot — but in the meantime she had also received an invitation from Thomas Gilbert, who was just starting out at the time and has since become a leader in the field, to work with him at the University of Copenhagen.

«If we had just done traditional risk factor assessments, we would have missed each one of those firefighters who we discovered were at risk for a cardiovascular event,» says study leader Elizabeth V. Ratchford, M.D., an assistant professor of medicine at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and director of the Johns Hopkins Center for Vascular Medicine.

«Dermal papilla cells give rise to hair follicles, and the notion of cloning hair follicles using inductive dermal papilla cells has been around for 40 years or so,» said co-study leader Colin Jahoda, PhD, professor of stem cell sciences at Durham University, England, and co-director of North East England Stem Cell Institute, who is one of the early founders of the field.

«[N] euroscientist Cornelia Bargmann of Rockefeller University in New York City, who led the advisory group to» the NIH part of BRAIN, says, ««Some are just a couple of years out of their Ph.D. s,» while others are distinguished leaders of the field.»

The agency will also review the scientific merits of the study, which was pitched by a Harvard University researcher who is now its leader.