Sentences with phrase «university leaders whose»

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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.

I suspect that missing from the tribute video will be any acknowledgement of the fact that the founder of Liberty University, Jerry Falwell, vehemently opposed the work of Martin Luther King Jr, publicly condemned him as a communist, and delivered an impassioned sermon the day after King's march to Selma opposing civil rights marchers as «left wing leaders» whose only aim was to stir up racial tensions and violence.

Syracuse University Chancellor Kent Syverud, whose first official day on the job was Monday, issued a statement Tuesday asking the community to be patient while SU and community leaders weigh various options for repairing the Carrier Dome or building a new stadium.

The photo of the members of the Bullingdon Club - which Newsnight describes as «the elitist Oxford University dining club whose public school members have become notorious over the years for vandalising restaurants and trashing students» rooms» - had embarrassed the Tory leader and there was speculation that Labour or, more likely, surrogates for Labour would use the photo for an anti-Cameron YouTube campaign.

«Down the road, we hope to be able to treat pregnant women whose babies are at risk for this type of neurologic damage and prevent it from happening,» says study leader Irina Burd, M.D., Ph.D., an assistant professor of gynecology and obstetrics and neurology at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and director of the Integrated Research Center for Fetal Medicine.

Llinás is the leader of an international team of scientists whose paper describing their research will be published in the journal Nature on the Advance Online Publication website, www.nature.com on 23 February 2014 along with a second paper, which describes related work led by Andy Waters (University of Glasgow) and Oliver Billker (Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute).

Much of the material included in the toolkit sprang from the labs of Robert J. Wood, Charles River Professor of Engineering and Applied Sciences at SEAS, and chemist George M. Whitesides, Woodford L. and Ann A. Flowers University Professor, two researchers whose work has helped establish Harvard as a leader in soft robotics.

The Kavli Foundation was established in December 2000 by its founder and benefactor, Fred Kavli, a prominent California business leader and noted philanthropist whose foundation is currently actively involved in establishing major research institutes at leading universities throughout the United States and in Europe and Asia.

Two of the videos profile exemplary preparation programs at the University of Illinois at Chicago and New Leaders Chicago, which helped to inspire the higher standards and whose graduates effectively lead Chicago public schools.

Dr. Shaun R. Harper, whose groundbreaking research on campus climate and racial equity has made him a leader in the field of education, is leaving the University of Pennsylvania and will join the Rossier School of Education at the University of South...

2003 — Womble received the Thurgood Marshall College Fund's highest honor given to businesses — the Corporate Leadership Award — given to organizations whose record of commitment to public historically black colleges and universities, education, and diversity has advanced the overall mission of developing a new generation of leaders.