Sentences with phrase «with academic awards»

Completion of the Frederick County Adult Detention Center Correctional Academy with an academic award

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Family needs «and my boredom with epistemology prompted me to forswear graduate study and the academic career to which it pointed,» he said.10 (Although he never earned a Ph.D. degree, he was awarded eighteen honorary doctorates, including one from Oxford.)
Every year an interdisciplinary jury, featuring some of the world's most influential chefs, academics and experts, chooses the candidate who best embodies the mission of this unique global award created by the Basque Culinary Center (BCC) with the support of the Basque Government as part of the Euskadi - Basque Country Strategy.
For the award men as a group, tuition, board and room that year averaged $ 700 over-all; nine of the men pieced this out with athletic - scholarship help, seven with academic scholarships.
I concentrated on my studies and, with an average of 93.4, I applied for an academic scholarship at the University of Chicago and I was awarded one on the basis of my scholastic record.
The award recognizes the school in the Big East with the best performances by their student athletes in academics and citizenship in addition to success on the various fields of play.
At that moment, I realized that among the hundreds of recruited athletes sitting alongside me — some graduating with prestigious academic honors, some with illustrious athletic awards, and some in both arenas — most have felt the same desire to identify and categorize themselves by their particular strengths.
Recipient of: Superintendent's Key Scholar Award, Honor Roll, Georgia Scholar, Optimist Club Essay Contest — First Place, National Latin Exam — Gold (Latin I, II, and III), Spirit of Learning Award, Academic Excellence Certificate, Academic Letter, Lamp of Knowledge, Georgia Certificate of Merit, Governor's Honors Program Nominee, Student of the Month, National AP Scholar, AP Scholar with Distinction, GHSA State Literary Competition Essay Writing — First Place Divisional, Hugh O'Brien Youth Leadership Conference and Leadership 56, Mock Trial Lawyer Award, Daughters of the American Revolution Youth Citizenship Award
He was also recognized at the conference with the Unidad Latina Legacy Award for his contributions to academic excellence.
He said that in keeping with the championship goal of ensuring healthy interest in football and education, SPDC introduced a scholarship award to a fully paid four - week education programme for either of the two best players who fulfils the required academic qualifications to the 2018 Sussex International Summer School, with possibility for participation in youth and footballing activities of the newly - promoted English Premier League team, Brighton and Hove FC.
With two tenured academic appointments, many widely cited papers, and five European young researcher awards, Helleday could probably sit back and enjoy life a little more.
The Wallace H. Coulter Foundation was another source of support for Berkland: The foundation awarded him a 2 - year Early Career Translational Research Award in Biomedical Engineering, which is offered to academic research with commercial potential.
Twitter has begun awarding grants to academics seeking to drink from its daily fire hose of more than half a billion tweets, and this week it teamed up with IBM so the company can glean customer attitudes toward its products.
Industrial CASE awards are a variation of the longer - established CASE awards; in the former case, the industrial partner seeks an academic group to collaborate with and then applies to the research councils to fund a 3 - year studentship.
Funded by MacArthur, Oak and Open Society Foundations, SITU has undertaken collaborations with a diverse range of partners, including the International Criminal Court, the United Nations, Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch, B'tselem, International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH), as well as projects with international legal teams, award - winning journalists and leading academic institutions such as Carnegie Mellon and Princeton Universities.
For Pancer, the award enabled his return to academic research in the United States after holding a position with a biotech company in Israel.
Gage captured her experience receiving the award in a Feb. 27, 2017, Research Councils UK blog post, «How engaging the public with science saw UK early career academic win renowned AAAS award
SBIR awards are made to small businesses, often in collaboration with academic labs.
Q: The translational awards to academic medical centers make up most of the NCATS budget, but a lot of what they do doesn't seem to fit with the mission of NCATS.
The awards provide the recipients with the possibility to kick - start their projects and advance their academic careers.
Offered by the Johns Hopkins Center for Global Health, the Global Health Scholarship Program awards full - tuition scholarships to Master of Public Health or Master of Health Science students with extraordinary academic achievements and potential to contribute to the field of global health.
The College of Dental Medicine was awarded the ADEA / ADEAGies Foundation Dental Research Scholarship, given every two years by the American Dental Education Association to an academic institution with an exceptional commitment to promoting student dental research.
«Almost all our PhD students and postdocs receive support from the NIH, as members of training grant programs, as recipients of individual awards, and as participants in research by UCSF faculty, a majority of whom are affiliated with one or more of our graduate training programs,» said Elizabeth Watkins, PhD, dean of the UCSF Graduate Division and vice chancellor of student academic affairs.
Awarded by Google with the Google Europe Scholarship for Computer Science Students, based on academic excellence, leadership skills and demonstrated passion for Computer Science, 2015
Highest G.P.A. Award for graduating with the highest G.P.A in the School of Pure and Applied Sciences, University of Cyprus, during the academic year, 1995 - 1996
Key players in the United States» medical research enterprise, particularly the NIH, have responded impressively to these calls.17, 18 In 1998, the NIH established new career development awards for young physicians being trained to carry out clinical research (K23), awards for established clinical investigators (K24), and awards for academic institutions with programs supporting clinical research training and infrastructure (K30).
The Woodrow Wilson School awarded 83 graduate students and 144 undergraduate students with degrees at its May 31 Commencement and through the 2015 - 16 academic year.
The Applicant will be a researcher with between 3 - 15 years» experience beyond the award of their PhD or equivalent qualification, who at the time of application will be either in a permanent, full - time academic position (either within the institution at which they wish to base their CDA - funded research or another elsewhere in Ireland or overseas), or employed on a temporary (fixed - term) contract.
July 1, 2011 Pritzker School of Medicine, Medical Center announce 2011 Teaching Awards The end of the 2010 - 2011 academic year for the Pritzker School of Medicine was celebrated with the announcement of several teaching awards voted on by medical students and faAwards The end of the 2010 - 2011 academic year for the Pritzker School of Medicine was celebrated with the announcement of several teaching awards voted on by medical students and faawards voted on by medical students and faculty.
The Hackathon will be held at the CSNE in Seattle, Washington, April 6 - 9, 2018, with final projects being presented to a panel of industry and academic judges and awards given out Monday, April 9.
Qualifi has recognized the quality of IIN's Health Coach Training Program (HCTP) and, through their accreditation status, has awarded HCTP with the equivalent of 120 UK credits and 30 U.S. academic credits.
The National Board of Review, a collection of film enthusiasts and academics founded in 1909, is better known for packing its annual awards dinner (to be hosted by Willie Geist on January 9) with big names than for predicting Oscars.
The National Board of Review, a group of New York - based academics and film enthusiasts, may have little overlap with the Hollywood industry members who choose the Academy Awards — but they also have an established track record for sussing out top Oscar contenders, and being the first to do it.
We've partnered with the finest academic and filmmaking institutions, including the Sundance Institute, AFI, IFP, Women in Film, Tribeca Film Institute, Nantucket Film Festival, Boston University, Columbia University and Rooftop Films, to provide scholarships, production grants, finishing funds and living stipends, and have granted over fifty awards to - date.
It also goes further to suggest that in time the «artificial divide at 16 between academic and technical education» must be removed and replaced with a new «overarching award» that combines GCSEs, A-Levels and technical qualifications as a new measure of success.
Funds raised during the 2007 - 08 academic year will go directly to Room to Read's local - language publishing program, with awards for «most funds raised,» «most creative,» and «a little goes a long way» to be presented to contributors in summer 2008.
«The WT Grant Scholars Award provides me with a tremendous opportunity and honor, early in my career, to advance the field's knowledge on promoting English - language learners» academic achievement,» Lesaux said.
Lauren, who is currently studying Psychology Bsc (Hons) at Durham University, was commended during the awards for her academic potential and positive relationships with her peers.
Five awards of # 10,000 have been announced for the academic year 2017 - 18, with successful bidders being supported by a researcher within the university who is an expert in the project's field.
06, Ed.D.» 11, was presented with the Palmer O. Johnson Memorial Award, which recognizes the highest quality of academic scholarship published in one of the following AERA publications: American Educational Researcher or Journal of Educational and Behavioral Statistics.
The award recognizes «the character and achievement of a Harvard graduate with a strong academic performance who has used or is preparing to use the Harvard experience for the advancement of women and society, and who has grown personally and professionally as a result.»
They include Emily Callahan and Amber Jackson, who are using their skills and intellect to turn oil rigs into coral reefs; Nate Parker, the activist filmmaker, writer, humanitarian and director of The Birth of a Nation; Scott Harrison, the founder of Charity Water, whose projects are delivering clean water to over 6 million people; Anthony D. Romero, the executive director of the ACLU, who has dedicated his life to protecting the liberties of Americans; Louise Psihoyos, the award - winning filmmaker and executive director of the Oceanic Preservation Society; Jennifer Jacquet, an environmental social scientist who focuses on large - scale cooperation dilemmas and is the author of «Is Shame Necessary»; Brent Stapelkamp, whose work promotes ways to mitigate the conflict between lions and livestock owners and who is the last researcher to have tracked famed Cecil the Lion; Fabio Zaffagnini, creator of Rockin» 1000, co-founder of Trail Me Up, and an expert in crowd funding and social innovation; Alan Eustace, who worked with the StratEx team responsible for the highest exit altitude skydive; Renaud Laplanche, founder and CEO of the Lending Club — the world's largest online credit marketplace working to make loans more affordable and returns more solid; the Suskind Family, who developed the «affinity therapy» that's showing broad success in addressing the core social communication deficits of autism; Jenna Arnold and Greg Segal, whose goal is to flip supply and demand for organ transplants and build the country's first central organ donor registry, creating more culturally relevant ways for people to share their donor wishes; Adam Foss, founder of SCDAO, a reading project designed to bridge the achievement gap of area elementary school students, Hilde Kate Lysiak (age 9) and sister Isabel Rose (age 12), Publishers of the Orange Street News that has received widespread acclaim for its reporting, and Max Kenner, the man responsible for the Bard Prison Initiative which enrolls incarcerated individuals in academic programs culminating ultimately in college degrees.
; Scott Harrison, the founder of Charity Water, whose projects are delivering clean water to over 6 million people; Anthony D. Romero, the executive director of the ACLU, who has dedicated his life to protecting the liberties of Americans; Louise Psihoyos, the award - winning filmmaker and executive director of the Oceanic Preservation Society; Jennifer Jacquet, an environmental social scientist who focuses on large - scale cooperation dilemmas and is the author of «Is Shame Necessary»; Brent Stapelkamp, whose work promotes ways to mitigate the conflict between lions and livestock owners and who is the last researcher to have tracked famed Cecil the Lion; Fabio Zaffagnini, creator of Rockin» 1000, co-founder of Trail Me Up, and an expert in crowd funding and social innovation; Alan Eustace, who worked with the StratEx team responsible for the highest exit altitude skydive; Renaud Laplanche, founder and CEO of the Lending Club — the world's largest online credit marketplace working to make loans more affordable and returns more solid; the Suskind Family, who developed the «affinity therapy» that's showing broad success in addressing the core social communication deficits of autism; Jenna Arnold and Greg Segal, whose goal is to flip supply and demand for organ transplants and build the country's first central organ donor registry, creating more culturally relevant ways for people to share their donor wishes; Adam Foss, founder of SCDAO, a reading project designed to bridge the achievement gap of area elementary school students, Hilde Kate Lysiak (age 9) and sister Isabel Rose (age 12), Publishers of the Orange Street News that has received widespread acclaim for its reporting, and Max Kenner, the man responsible for the Bard Prison Initiative which enrolls incarcerated individuals in academic programs culminating ultimately in college degrees.
Corwin, a global provider of PreK - 12 professional learning products and services has announced a partnership with award - winning educator and academic Jim Knight to deliver four professional learning events throughout Australia.
She is the recipient of the 2017 Jason Kinsey Friend of NAPDS Award (National Association for Professional Development Schools) as well as the 2017 recipient of the Edward C. Pomeroy Award for Outstanding Contributions to Teacher Education by the American Association of Colleges for Teacher Education (AACTE) and currently serves as Board Chair of AACTE, and is an Executive Committee member at - large with the Council of Academic Deans from Research Education Institutes (CADREI).
Camino Nuevo schools have also been recognized with the Title 1 Academic Achievement award, the California Association of Bilingual Education Seal of Excellence, and the California Distinguished Schools award.
Badges can easily be aligned to academic goals or associated with existing school awards.
Accordingly, they place high value on priorities such as staffing their faculty with doctorate - level researchers, giving their professors academic freedom regarding how they structure their courses, expanding their course offerings, and awarding degrees based on students» completion of seat - time - based credit hours.
The percentage of Blue Ribbon Schools with lackluster academic records, based on state test scores from schools in seven states, fell from 24 percent during the 1999 award cycle to 9 percent in 2003, the study concludes.
Nonetheless, absent a more perfect method for identifying teacher excellence (e.g., teacher effectiveness indices as measured by teachers» effects on student academic growth), the research team chose to accept the risk of equating national teacher awards with teacher excellence.
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