Sentences with phrase «university system heads»

Her current effort to attract more university system heads to the PSM network is funded by the Sloan Foundation, where she previously served as PSM outreach coordinator.

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Ahern earned an electrical engineering degree from University of Vermont and with help from an unnamed angel investor who «bet on people heading in the right direction» started a company in 2002 — Industrial Defender, a cybersecurity firm that protects industrial control systems for the electrical grid, oil and gas, and chemical companies — which Lockheed Martin acquired in 2014.

Mark Lloyd, Professor of Communication, University of Southern California — Annenberg School Luther Lowe, VP of Public Policy, Yelp Nancy Lublin, Founder / CEO, Crisis Text Line Kanyi Maqubela, Partner, Collaborative Fund Jonathan Matus, Founder / CEO, Zendrive Josh McFarland, Vice President of Product, Twitter Andrew McLaughlin, Head of New Business, Medium; Venture Partner, betaworks Shishir Mehrotra, Entrepreneur & former VP of Product & Engineering, YouTube Apoorva Mehta, Founder / CEO, Instacart Doug Merritt, CEO, Splunk Dinesh Moorjani, Founder / CEO, Hatch Labs; Co-Founder, Tinder Brit Morin, Founder / CEO, Brit + Co Dave Morin, Entrepreneur; Partner, Slow Ventures Dustin Moskovitz, Co-Founder, Asana; Co-Founder, Facebook Amanda Moskowitz, Founder / CEO, Stacklist Alex Nogales, President / CEO, National Hispanic Media Coalition Alexis Ohanian, Co-Founder, Reddit Mike Olson, Founder / Chairman / CSO, Cloudera Pierre Omidyar, Founder, eBay Felix W. Ortiz III, Founder / Chairman / CEO, Viridis; Board Member of The NYC Technology Development Corporation Jen Pahlka, Founder / Executive Director, Code for America Barney Pell, Founder Powerset, MoonExpress, Locomobi; Founding Trustee, Singularity University Mark Pincus, Executive Chairman and Founder, Zynga Shervin Pishevar, Co - Founder / Managing Director, Sherpa Capital and Co - Founder / Executive Chairman of Hyperloop One Brandon Pollack, Director of Global Affairs, 1776 Amy Rao, Founder / CEO, Integrated Archive Systems, Inc..

Erin Fox, who tracks nationwide drug shortages and heads the University of Utah health system's drug information and support services, said saline supply issues remain.

«It certainly was frustrating,» says Poole, who last week presented the commission's findings to C.D. Spangler Jr., head of the North Carolina university system.

The improbable head of the Computer Group got his medical degree from the University of Manitoba in 1955 and eventually joined the faculty at Monmouth Medical Center in Long Branch, N.J. Monmouth was the first hospital in the country to have an IBM computerized record - keeping system.

Dr. Julian Bailes, head of neurosurgery at the NorthShore University Health System in Chicago, told a Toronto news conference Wednesday the human brain is tethered but floating in about seven millimetres of cerebral spinal fluid.

Writing about head impact sensors in the March 2013 issue of the British Journal of Sports Medicine, [13] Jeffrey S. Kutcher, MD, of the Department of Neurology and Michigan Neurosport at the University of Michigan, concurs that the «development of easily deployable sport equipment - based accelerometer systems... provide [s][a] potentially useful, clinical information.»

Foreman is the head athletic trainer and an assistant professor at Manchester University, a Division III school in Indiana that's been using the InSite system for several years.

A top - level commission headed by the former president of the University at Buffalo embraced the concept of regionalism, while other proposals centered on combining police services or water systems.

The support of leaders in education and in government, including Gov. Andrew Cuomo, Elia, state Board of Regents Chancellor Betty Rosa and the heads of both the State and City University systems, sends a strong message both to the federal government and the affected students, Worona said.

Zimpher spoke to public radio and television as she ends an eight - year term as the head of one the nation's largest university systems next month.

The commission, headed by Lord Plant, professor of politics at Southampton University, voted by 10 to 6 against keeping the present scheme for electing MPs - while, as predicted by the Independent, a narrower 9 - 7 majority decided it should be replaced with a «supplementary vote» (SV) system that would retain constituency links.

The head of CUNY's faculty and staff union criticized Gov. Andrew Cuomo for excluding the NYC university system from his decision to raise the minimum wage in the SUNY system to $ 15 an hour.

In the second article, Grégory Batt, head of the InBio unit and co-last author with Pascal Hersen (CNRS) of the Laboratoire Matière et systèmes complexes (CNRS / Paris Diderot University), explains how they managed to place a cellular system in an unstable configuration: «We designed a computer program which aims to force the cells to take binary decisions randomly.

Not only microbes protect against asthma evidently, but also farm animals: Petting cats and cows and drinking farm milk can also prevent asthma, as the team of researchers headed up by Remo Frei of the Swiss Institute of Allergy and Asthma Research from the University of Zurich in cooperation with the Center for Allergy Research and Education (CK - CARE) in Davos and the Children's Hospital of Eastern Switzerland in St. Gallen: «Early childhood contact with animals and the consumption of food of animal origin seems to regulate the inflammatory reactions of the immune system,» says immunologist Frei.

Researchers first discovered the metabolic switch in 2005, when a team headed by Oklahoma State University's Michael Davis — who has been investigating the metabolic, gastrointestinal, respiratory and blood systems of sled dogs for 10 years — did a controlled study at a professional racing kennel in Alaska.

Liverpool volcanologist, Dr Janine Kavanagh, who heads up the University's specialist MAGMA laboratory, said «For the first time, using innovative laboratory experiments that combined our knowledge of volcanic plumbing systems with engineering expertise, we have managed to see how magma flows through Earth's crust to the surface through dykes.

«This means that electrons in these systems can only move in two - dimensional planes,» explains Prof. Dr Selim Jochim of Heidelberg University's Institute for Physics, who heads the project.

A prevailing concern in France is the difficulty that early career scientists have in achieving independence in a hierarchical system dominated by experienced heads of labs and departments, particularly in the universities.

Peter Hills, head of the Transport Operations Research Group at the University of Newcastle upon Tyne and an adviser on toll systems to the British Department of Transport, believes «read - write» toll systems like the Austrian one will be a common feature on many major highways within ten years.

Participating in the conversation were Russlynn Ali, assistant secretary for civil rights at the Department of Education; Joan Steitz, a molecular biophysicist at Yale University who studies RNA; Shirley Malcom, head of the directorate for education and human resources at AAAS; and Sara Seager, a planetary scientist and physicist at MIT who studies the atmospheres of planets beyond the solar system.

Alan Stern of SwRI, a member of the discovery team headed by Hal Weaver of Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, says he is surprised by how compact Pluto's satellite system is.

«Since conventional methods, such as X-ray crystallography, capture only averaged frozen structures, it is not possible to investigate how the dynamic of the protein could be involved in key aspects of their function,» explains physicist Alipasha Vaziri, a joint group leader at the Max F. Perutz Laboratories (MFPL) and the Institute of Molecular Pathology (IMP) and head of the research platform «Quantum Phenomena & Nanoscale Biological Systems» (QuNaBioS) of the University of Vienna.

«One reason autophagy has become so important is the realization that it is a highly regulated process, not just some automatic breakdown,» says Peter - Michael Kloetzel, head of the Laboratory for Proteolytic Systems at the Charité university medical center in Berlin.

«We've long thought of these molecules as little more than middle men participating in the process of translating proteins,» explains Sohail Tavazoie, Leon Hess Associate Professor and head Rockefeller University's Elizabeth and Vincent Meyer Laboratory of Systems Cancer Biology.

«Action is urgently needed to understand risks better, improve the resilience of the global food system to weather - related shocks and to mitigate their impact on people,» said Tim Benton, a population ecologist at the University of Leeds in the United Kingdom, who heads the GFS program, in a statement.

STEFAN THURNER is head of the complex systems research group at the Medical University of Vienna and an external professor at the Santa Fe Institute.

The collaborative project ACCESS (Advanced E Band Satellite Link Studies) was carried out by a research group headed by Professor Ingmar Kallfass from the Institute of Robust Power Semiconductor Systems (ILH) from the University of Stuttgart, the Institut für Hochfrequenztechnik und Elektronik (IHE) from KIT, Radiometer Physics GmbH, and the Fraunhofer Institute for Applied Solid State Physics IAF.

ubliAn international team of scientists, involving Professor Rodrigo Quian Quiroga, director of the Centre for Systems Neuroscience and Head of Bioengineering at the University of Leicester, has shown how individual neurons in the human brain react to ambiguous morphed faces.

A newly devised tumor - specific fluorescent agent and imaging system guided surgeons in real time to remove additional tumors in ovarian cancer patients that were not visible without fluorescence or could not be felt during surgery, reports Alexander L. Vahrmeijer MD, PhD, head of the Image - guided Surgery group in the Department of Surgery at Leiden University Medical Center in the Netherlands.

Christopher Monroe, a physicist who heads a leading quantum information group at the University of Maryland, College Park, believes that the speed of practical quantum systems will obviate most ESD concerns.

Most people with Alzheimer's disease and other memory - affecting conditions also get aggressive, agitated, depressed, anxious, or delusional from time to time, says senior author Helen C. Kales, M.D., head of the U-M Program for Positive Aging and Geriatric Psychiatry at the University of Michigan Health System and investigator at the VA Center for Clinical Management Research.

Stamatios «Tom» Krimigis, the former head of the space department at Johns Hopkins University's Applied Physics Laboratory in Laurel, Maryland, had a hand in both missions, as well as in visits to all the other worlds in the solar system.

BrainGate, the most sophisticated brain - computer interface yet tested in humans, is being developed by John Donoghue, head of the Brain Science Program at Brown University, through a company he cofounded: Cyberkinetics Neurotechnology Systems.

Stuart Lindsay, Ph.D., Arizona State University, Tempe, Ariz. $ 550,000 (3 years) «Molecular Reading Head for Single - Molecule DNA Sequencing» Building on the concept of threading DNA through a molecular pore, this group is developing a system in which a chemical ring, acting as a reading head, is used to measure differences in friction as DNA passes through the rHead for Single - Molecule DNA Sequencing» Building on the concept of threading DNA through a molecular pore, this group is developing a system in which a chemical ring, acting as a reading head, is used to measure differences in friction as DNA passes through the rhead, is used to measure differences in friction as DNA passes through the ring.

Alain Destexhe, Research Director of Unité de Neurosciences CNRS, Gif - sur - Yvette, France Bruno Weber, Professor of Multimodal Experimental Imaging, Universitaet Zuerich, Switzerland Carmen Gruber Traub, Fraunhofer, Germany Costas Kiparissides, Certh, Greece Cyril Poupon, Head of the Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Imaging and Spectroscopy unit of NeuroSpin, University Paris Saclay, Gif - sur - Yvette, France David Boas, Professor of Radiology at Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, University of Pennsylvania Hanchuan Peng, Associate Investigator at Allen Brain Institute, Seattle, US Huib Manswelder, Head of Department of Integrative Neurophysiology Center for Neurogenomics and Cognitive Research, VU University, Amsterdam Jan G. Bjaalie, Head of Neuroinformatics division, Institute of Basic Medical Sciences, University of Oslo, Norway Jean - François Mangin, Research Director Neuroimaging at CEA, Gif - sur - Yvette, France Jordi Mones, Institut de la Macula y la Retina, Barcelona, Spain Jurgen Popp, Scientific Director of the Leibniz Institute of Photonic Technology, Jena, Germany Katharina Zimmermann, Hochshule, Germany Katrin Amunts, Director of the Institute Structural and functional organisation of the brain, Forschungszentrum Juelich, Germany Leslie M. Loew, Professor at University of Connecticut Health Center, Connecticut, US Marc - Oliver Gewaltig, Section Manager of Neurorobotics, Simulation Neuroscience Division - Ecole Polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Geneve, Switzerland Markus Axer, Head of Fiber architecture group, Institute of Neuroscience and Medicine (INM - 1) at Forschungszentrum Juelich, Germany Mickey Scheinowitz, Head of Regenerative Therapy Department of Biomedical Engineering and Neufeld Cardiac Research Institute, Tel - Aviv University, Israel Pablo Loza, Institute of Photonic Sciences, Castelldefels, Spain Patrick Hof, Mount Sinai Hospital, New York, US Paul Tiesinga, Professor at Faculty of Science, Radboud University, Nijmegen, Netherlands Silvestro Micera, Director of the Translational Neural Engineering (TNE) Laboratory, and Associate Professor at the EPFL School of Engineering and the Centre for Neuroprosthetics Timo Dicksheid, Group Leader of Big Data Analytics, Institute Structural and functional organisation of the brain, Forschungszentrum Juelich, Germany Trygve Leergaard, Professor of Neural Systems, Institute of Basic Medical Sciences, University of Oslo, Norway Viktor Jirsa, Director of the Institute de Neurosciences des Systèmes and Director of Research at the CNRS, Marseille, France

Bjorn Stevens has a lot going on: scientific member of the Max Planck Society, director of the Max Planck Institute for Meteorology, head of the department Atmosphere and the Earth System, professor at the University of Hamburg, lead author of an IPCC AR 5 Chapter 7, co-lead of a WCRP Grand Challenge on Clouds, Circulation and Climate Sensitivity.

Jan G. Bjaalie, Head of Neuroinformatics division, Institute of Basic Medical Sciences, University of Oslo, Norway Trygve Leergaard, Professor of Neural Systems, Institute of Basic Medical Sciences, University of Oslo, Norway Hanchuan Peng, Hanchuan Peng, Associate Investigator at Allen Brain Institute, Seattle, US Bruno Weber, Professor of Multimodal Experimental Imaging, Universitaet Zuerich, Switzerland

She's on to something: The more energy you have moving through your system, the better your metabolism functions, says Holly Wyatt, MD, head of the metabolism and obesity clinic at the University of Colorado's Anschutz Health and Wellness Center.

Professor Jari Lavonen, Head of the Department of Teacher Education at the University of Helsinki, and Paula Mattila, Counsellor of Education at the Finnish National Board of Education, also gave us firsthand insight into the reasons for the success of the Finnish education system.

In this week's Harvard EdCast, Lambert examines the challenges plaguing present - day public universities and reflects on the direction this increasingly privatized system is heading.

Olivia Roberts, Head of Student Services and Systems at Queen's University Belfast, said, «It is not an exaggeration to say that Canvas has the potential to fundamentally change how we deliver teaching and learning.

She has taught literature, literacy, systems redesign, and leadership in a range of educational settings, including Head Start, ESL, ABE, elementary and high school, and the university level.

The review board - which includes head teachers, college principals, a university vice chancellor and business people - is asking to what extent the Welsh qualifications system should diverge from the rest of the UK.

A commission made up of college of education deans, state legislators, university presidents, heads of postsecondary systems, state and district superintendents, and leaders of nationwide organizations has released a report presenting recommendations for state policy related to teacher preparation data systems.

«Some of the low performing schools are in places that are very rural,» said Hank Bounds, who heads Mississippi's university system and formerly served as state superintendent.

By a unanimous vote, the Board of Regents selected MaryEllen Elia, the recently fired superintendent of Hillsborough County, Florida, to head the New York State Education Department (NYSED) and serve as President of USNY which, in addition to overseeing the entire public K - 12 education system of 7000 schools, oversees more than 240 public and private universities, 7000 libraries, the state archives, special schools for the hearing and visually impaired, over 750,000 licensed professionals, and over 200,000 certified public school teachers.

David Berliner Regents» Professor Emeritus, Arizona State University «The Mismeasure of Education is a magnificent work, an elegantly written, brilliantly argued and erudite exposition on why the «what,» «how» and «why» of effective teaching can not be adequately demonstrated by sets of algorithms spawned in the ideological laboratories of scientific management at the behest of billionaire investors... This book will serve as a sword of Damocles, hanging over the head of the nation's educational tribunals and their adsentatores, ingratiators and sycophants in the business community... The Mismeasure of Education will have a profound resonance with those who are fed up with the hijacking of our nation's education system.

The National Association of System Heads, the State Higher Education Executive Officers Association, and a new coalition of college and university leaders called Higher Ed for Higher Standards recently released recommendations making a compelling case for higher education's seat at the table as states rework K - 12 standards and assessments.